Kent Daniel Bentkowski - Eyes Wide Shut: Occult Symbolism

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Kent Daniel Bentkowski - Eyes Wide Shut

Kent Daniel Bentkowski joins us for an excellent program analyzing Stanley Kubric's movie "Eyes Wide Shut". Kent wrote an article entitled "Eyes Wide Shut: Occult Symbolism" back in March 2006 and this piece has become the single most popular article on his site. We kick things off talking about Kent, his background, writing and research. Then we dive right into it and talk about Kubrick and his very "timely" death after this movie was released. We get into the symbolism in some of the scenes. We talk about the use of Colors, the rainbow theme running throughout the movie and how this connects with "The Wizard of Oz". We also talk about mind control techniques and triggers, MK-Ultra and how trauma based mind control works. We discuss the disturbing ritual scene, the music and we speculate on why Stanley made this move, and much more. Also tune into our subscriber interview with Kent.

Radio interview here

Bentkowski's site here

[solar]

Quote:Kent Daniel Bentkowski joins us for an excellent program analyzing Stanley Kubric[k]'s movie "Eyes Wide Shut" ...

<span style="color:#000099">Synchronicity ...

<span style="color:#000099">... there are no accidents.

For the last two weeks, I have been thinking about re-visiting EYES WIDE SHUT.

Devoured Bentkowski's terrific blog last night.

Immediately sprinted to the local public library.

Slipped through the doors just as they were closing (their last customer).

Grabbed EWS on DVD. The young librarian was kind enough to reboot the Library computer in order for me to charge it out (she thought it was Kubrick's most worthy film).

<span style="color:#000099">A very appreciative "tip of the hat" for initiating this thread, "Phil"! The links and interview are great!

Let's keep this thread alive, people. Post your observations and links!

I copied Uri Dowbenko's EWS review below.

Be forewarned, SPOILERS follow in both the Bentkowski and Dowbenko reviews.

If you haven't seen EWS yet, you may consider obtaining it to <span style="color:#000099">watch it first.

<span style="color:#6600CC">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

<span style="color:#003300">Eyes Wide Shut: Occult Entertainment

by Uri Dowbenko (article from this link)

After crashing an Illuminati satanic ritual and sex orgy, Dr. Harford (Tom Cruise) is told by his millionaire friend Victor Ziegler (Sydney Pollack), "You've been way out of your depth for the last twenty-four hours."

"I know what happened last night," he continues. "I don't think you realize what kind of trouble you're in ... If I told you their names, I don't think you'd sleep so well."

The implication? <span style="color:#000099">The Power Elite are actively performing these rituals on a regular basis.

Having wheedled the password to the party from his piano-player friend Nick Nightingale (Todd Field), Harford, dressed in tuxedo, mask, hood and cloak, enters a Gothic-style mansion.

In the central room, he encounters a large gathering -- a circle of twelve black cloaked hooded figures who disrobing reveal themselves to be naked women wearing nothing but masks, high heels, and G-strings. A red-cloaked and hooded man with a mask stands in the middle of the circle. He stamps the ground with a large staff, while holding a censer which spills out clouds of smoky incense.

Surrounding the scene are spectators also clothed in black robes and golden masks. Harford's friend plays the organ blindfolded, while an otherworldly chanting emanates in the background.

A woman approaches Harford and says, "I'm not sure you know what you're doing, but you don't belong here." Even in a mask, he has no disguise.

"You are in great danger and you must get away while you can," she continues.

Finally, the trespassing doctor is called before the inquisition-like council. He is unmasked, revealed and then condemned. The naked masked woman who tries to warn him tells the council, "Take me. I can redeem him."

"Are you sure you understand what you're taking upon yourself?" the man in the red robe asks her. She nods, and the doctor is told, "You are free."

The next day Harford discovers that Nightingale, accompanied by two thugs, has mysteriously disappeared from his hotel. The woman has died, her drug overdose reported in the newspaper.

And the doctor realizes that he himself has narrowly escaped death -- being sacrificed at the Illuminati ritual.

Moral of the story? <span style="color:#000099">Even though Tom Cruise as a doctor considers himself one of the elite, there are much more powerful forces behind the scenes who are really running the show.

Eyes Wide Shut, set in the world of upper class Manhattan society, opens with Dr. Harford and his wife Alice (Nicole Kidman) attending a party in their millionaire friend's luxurious home. They are each tempted by the seductions of wealth, power, and lust.

At home, after the party, Bill and Alice get stoned. Alice tells her husband about her sexual fantasy. Bill can't stand the thought of her with another man, and thinking he'll get even, he leaves, caught in a jealous web of confusion.

<span style="color:#000099">If you've been puzzled by the title Eyes Wide Shut, you're not alone. According to ritual abuse and mind control survivor Arizona Wilder, <span style="color:#000099">it's a satanic cult term which means that whatever you've seen here is not to be revealed to anyone ... or else.

"Monarch [mind control] programmers use this term," says Wilder in a recent interview. "It was so cult [like]," she continues. "Put him [the Tom Cruise character] in a double bind."

The movie was also reminiscent of her ritual experiences.

"In one of my journals from 1990, I talk about a ritual where they all have golden masks and hooded robes," she says. "It has to do with the sun god. They use these masks in Egyptian-type ceremony rituals. The masks mean 'we are not individuals, but we have one purpose in mind.' One thing they did is they never unmask."

Wilder also finds a deep significance in the sign for Rennes Street and the name of the pianist whose name Nightingale means messenger from the dark. "The name of the costume shop was representative of getting to the ritual by going 'Over the Rainbow,'" she says.

"The movie was making a statement. <span style="color:#000099">We [the Illuminati] are here. What are you going to do about it?" she concludes.

Wilder thinks the end of the film is also significant. "They'll leave us alone [the Nicole Kidman character says]. We'll keep our mouths shut, and that's why evil goes on ... This happened with these people and he [Tom Cruise] couldn't prove it."

The occult meaning of the film? It's another signal to the world that everything -- including the governance of Planet Earth -- is under Illuminati control.

The Illuminati, also called "Olympians" and "Moriah Conquering Wind," are a "network" of interconnected "bloodlines" who call themselves "The Family" or "The Circle." Intergenerational satanism, or more accurately Luciferianism, is their primary belief structure. They consider themselves a tribe set apart, a proud super race who trace their genealogical origin back to Nimrod.

<span style="color:#000099">By the way, they also believe that they are the designated rulers of Planet Earth.

It may also be significant that the film's director Stanley Kubrick died suddenly.

<span style="color:#003300">Mozart, a mason, died soon after revealing masonic mysteries in his opera, <span style="color:#000099">The Magic Flute.

Author <span style="color:#003300">Stephen Knight, whose book, <span style="color:#000099">Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution (1975) revealed Victorian London's Whitechapel Murders as the work of ritual masonic killers, also died mysteriously.

And <span style="color:#003300">William Morgan, author of <span style="color:#000099">Freemasonry Exposed (1836) was kidnapped and allegedly murdered by masons.

Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick was well known for his mystifying movies, his notorious control-freak mentality, and his consistently mechanistic world-view. With his trademark horror-show porno touch, Kubrick's obsession with Illuminati iconography has served his masters well.

<span style="color:#000099">2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) was about evolution and the diddling of mankind from behind-the-scenes.

<span style="color:#000099">A Clockwork Orange (1971) was the prototype of trauma-based mind control for programming violence.

<span style="color:#000099">Barry Lyndon (1975) explored the occult politics of the ruling classes in 18th century British society.

<span style="color:#000099">Lolita (1962) singlehandedly promoted Pedophilia Chic.

<span style="color:#000099">Full Metal Jacket (1987) was an iconic depiction of the Military S&M Cult, showing the brutality of the Vietnam War preceded by US Marine Brainwashing, i.e. basic training.

Eyes Wide Shut was Kubrick's last film. In the end, after an oddly unemotional, almost lifeless performance, Tom Cruise tells his wife, "No dream is just a dream."

He still wonders if stumbling into the masquerade ball-sex orgy-ritual of the Illuminati was "real" or some hypnotic dream state. His wife reassures him "We're awake now," but it's another double bind since she's completely in denial.

<span style="color:#000099">Eyes Wide Shut will be remembered as the film that dares to ask: Planet Earth. Who's The Boss?

[Shinobi]

solar, excellent.

and thats all I have to say.

[ephilution]

To satisfy your appetite for more symbology here's a google video of Bentkowski:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=12...man+perspective

[azpar]

Nice links, when tom cruise enters his house after the orgy is over you can see the eye of horus flash across his back I never noticed that til I read Bentkowski's article.

[Phil999]

at last, it makes sense. I will have to watch this film, I thought that it was nonsense. A friend of mine was watching it on TV, while I was working in the other room. I'm not interested in Hollywood, not interested in actors like Cruise/Kidman, cheap erotism, etc., even when it comes from a "master", so I was condemned to hear the soundtrack only. And the soundtrack was remarkable, there are certain repetitions, and other details I don't recall clearly, and I thought that the sound engineers were absolute aware and in control of the sound, because it has a sort of hypnotic effect.

I also profoundly disliked the title, because it is those contradictional words that can heavily disturb and frighten a child. I remember suffering heavily under the contradictions I was feeling and observing among the adults. It gave me a creepy feeling of absurdity that lead to a deep mistrust and desperation. Or, to wrap it in one word, I felt the unholyness of the adults.

[azpar]

I had to watch it again also.