Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut blankly points out what truly disgusting creatures women are. Early on, the wife in the movie, Alice, is doing a math problem with her daughter explaining the differences between two men based on how much money each has. When the husband, Bill, doesn’t remember where his wallet is, she knows its precise location. A stranger, while dancing with Alice, states that the only reason, historically, that a woman would get married was to lose her virginity so she could be free to sleep with as many men as she liked, and she doesn’t refute it. After Bill shares his delusion that Alice would never cheat on him, she tells him in no uncertain terms that she “had a dream” about being taken by a young naval officer. This is important later. Repeatedly in the story, women are all sexual degenerates, prostitutes, and gold diggers, even the “virtuous” ones. Bill attempts to revel in his white knight fantasies, but it all comes crashing down. Even at the end, when the daughter, only six or seven, while walking through a toy store with her parents, shares her desire to have a stroller and play the role of mommy, Alice tells her it’s “old fashioned.” Moments later, Alice affirms the girl’s selection of a Barbie doll dressed in fantasy clothes; Barbie itself originally being based on a sex doll. Alice then subtly motions for her daughter to run on ahead and follow an older, wealthy looking man while Alice has a discussion with Bill. In it, she tells him to just be grateful that his “adventure” was “only one night,” and he hints that he understands how her “dream” may or may not have been a dream. She asserts, calculatingly, that on balance there was plenty else they had together. When Alice says they will hopefully be together “for a long time to come,” Bill tries to say they have “forever” to be together. She answers that the word “frightens” her, before dropping sentimentality entirely and asserting the one thing they have to do as soon as possible is “fuck.” Cut to black. Kubrick had no delusions about women, just as he had no delusions about the wealthy, the powerful, the “philanthropists,” and the “guardians” and “moralizers” who hold public office. He didn’t lens films to show us how the world should be; he showed how they were and are, opening the keyhole so the naive could view things they hadn’t considered.