Point

Experiments reveal something about the subject. Among other things these three definetly have the viewer as their subject too: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut. Also those movies are talked about more broadly than understood, so this makes for some interesting social experiment.

My observations at this point:

• people use different strategies and faculties for solving these movies and it is very contextual
• there is almost a protection mechanism around the “truth”, that is “understood” by all parties, in part because “high” is realized in executing those strategies, not in completing the search

Context

I’m lately thinking about the idea of shadow archetype-wise very abstractly. Looking into these dynamics is in a way that shadow area for me.

I consider interpretations of Eyes Wide Shut to be more degenerate than the content at it’s deepest. But the real sewer of interest is the dynamics that produces them.