I like what you wrote. I would suggest, though, that there is no pressing need to analyze his work. We can make a lot out of it — that’s the nature of art. But nobody analyzes a film while they are watching it. They just experience it. And I think the film is enough. It is enough to be experienced. To be ambiguous, and suggestive, without meaning to suggest anything specific. Ultimately, it’s about feeling. The themes you highlight are all big themes — as you would expect from a Leo. They are huge. They are archetypal (and wasn’t it a Leo, Carl Jung, who coined the term?). This is not to discourage anyone from subjecting the films to scrutiny. That is another way to enjoy them. But we should remember that Plutonians tend to be magnets for projections. The same is true of archetypes. It is precisely because they are BIG, that we are able to break them down and get so much meat out of them. But we should remember that feeling is paramount. And, really, there isn’t very much to say. As I see it, the essential idea of “Eyes” is that some things are too difficult to talk about, to look at, or pursue. Some fish are too big to drag out of the water. There is no resolution, and there can never be. The dark truth peeks out from the darker recesses, we look away in horror, and it slips back into the great big empty. It continues to work on us in secret. And that’s how it has to be, because some things would obliterate us if we had to remain with them, face to face. What happens to Alex in “Clockwork”? His eyes are clamped open, he is forced to look, to see, and to feel it in his guts. And it breaks him. It doesn’t turn him off to violence, it just makes his sadism go underground, and he becomes the victim.

Well, I said we perhaps should refrain from analyzing, and here I’ve done my share of analyzing. But I won’t do more than that. For me, it’s best to feel the movies, and to understand them in my guts, and in my subconscious, where the daemon watches with keener eyes than my own. Maybe that’s another way to interpret the title, “Eyes Wide Shut”?

Also, I want to say, your article reminded me of how great Nicholson was in ‘The Shining” (my favorite!). Some strong Pluto aspects in his chart, too. I stumbled on this article when I googled: “Scorpio Nietzsche Pluto” I was reminiscing about psychedelics — mushrooms in particular, and a vision I had of Nietzsche (Sun op Pluto, Scorpio Ascendant) as the great shaman of Western Civilization. Rattling his chains, stomping up the dust, swirling dust and heavy chains around him until he danced.. chains on his wrists like bracelets, with skulls and masks hanging from them.. I was looking for a fix. A Pluto fix. You gave me Kubrick. Thank you.

Valus
Sun/Venus/MC/Uranus in Scorpio

http://uranianheart.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html

Most of the self-declared awakened are still fast asleep, anyway…