President Donald Trump’s signing of legislation requiring his administration to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has refocused attention on Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut. Though met with lukewarm reviews in 1999, the film—exploring the secretive and scandalous lives of the wealthy—has since been reassessed as a masterpiece and sparked extensive online theorising.

Eyes Wide Shut stars Tom Cruise as Dr Bill Harford, a doctor to the elite, who faces an existential crisis after his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), confesses a sexual fantasy. Bill later infiltrates a masked ball that descends into a potential orgy, encountering high-profile financier Victor Ziegler (Sydney Pollack).

Ziegler’s character is central to online discussions. Internet sleuths and

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