The film talked about the disintegrating relationship between the couple of an upper-middle class family. Bill was a self-confident, handsome doctor who had his own private practice. Alice was a beautiful, car housewife who lost the passion for her husband, after marrying him. She only wanted to stay with Bill because of the wealth and stability that Bill provided her. Those two were skeptical at each other's faithfulness during a party held by Bill's multimillionaire patient, who is an elite of the society. When the couple was separated and were both flirted by other party guests. After going home, the couple was arguing about their troubled relationship and Alice told Bill that she had an affair with a soldier a year ago. Bill was very troubled by the affair (though not shown in front of other people) and tried to ch
ill himself out by hanging out in with his old friend Nick and a hooker on the street named Domino. Bill restrained himself from an affair with a hooker after Alice had called him. The story ended at the end, when they took their daughter to a Christmas shopping. Those two agreed to stay together as a couple and settle the difference. Alice suggested that by having sex can save their marriage and make them stay together.What this film lacked was the emotional change of Alice's mind. Even toward the end of the film, Alice could not restore the passion that she once had with Bill. She still stayed with Bill for the same reason: for the child, for the wealth and stability that Bill had. Though it was never talked about, she might have another affair with a man that she would feel passion on.
The theme of the movie was "faith", after being confessed that Alice had an affair, Tom had the choice to "take his revenge" by having his own affair, and to lower his ego and forgive Alice. Alice had a choice to make: either having passionate love and face the consequences of living in poverty, or to stay with faithful man that she lost her passion in. Both of them were suffered from the affair and Tom showed that he was a great man, despite that fact that he had some moments of having his "revenge" by trying to have an affair with an HIV-positive hooker. The cult-party parted was pretty hilarious, it might be that those powerful people were really boring and had nothing else better to entertain themselves. Maybe Kubrick wanted to show his audience how dirty those so called "elites" really were. Some parts of the films were remained as mystery, such as Mandy's death and whereabouts of Nick, after he left the hotel. This film is needed to be watched more than once, in order to absorb want Kubrick's message is. Here we should give our final salute to the great Kubrick. 8.3/10
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