![]() ![]() It’s a damning situation for Ziegler regardless, and I doubt anyone would argue he’s above ordering someone’s death, especially someone as low on the socioeconomic ladder as Mandy. I’d add that Kubrick conspicuously shows us Ziegler zipping up his pants as Bill walks into the room, even though Mandy has at that point been unconscious for “five, six minutes.” Was Ziegler still having sex with Mandy while she was passed out? Ziegler, a married man of tremendous wealth, has a drugged, naked prostitute lying unconscious in his own bathroom while he throws a house party. Although Kubrick films the bathroom scene in a low-key, casual tone, the situation is horrific. Once we ask this, we arrive at an almost too-simple answer: Mandy is killed to protect Ziegler’s reputation following the incident in his bathroom. ![]() What we should be asking is: What does Mandy do at the Ziegler party that would lead her to be killed, and how is that projected by Bill into the orgy scene? The key is that this line of questioning is misguided, because it assumes that the events of the orgy scene are their own unique events, rather than taking into account what we established in Part 1, which is that the orgy is Bill’s dreamlike reflection of the party at Victor Ziegler’s house. Ziegler denies foul play in her death, but is extremely unconvincing in doing so he merely discredits her as a “hooker” and even exclaims at one point, “her door was locked from the inside, police are happy, end of story!” It’s pretty clear to Bill-and us-that Mandy was killed.īut the big, unresolved question here is: Why would Mandy’s act of redemption at the orgy lead to her having been killed? What does “redeem” even mean? Amanda Curran, who has three appearances: first she overdoses in Ziegler’s bathroom later, she “redeems” Bill at the orgy finally, she’s found dead in the morgue. This is because only through an understanding of the symbolism can we piece together the disjointed plot.įirst we’ll focus on the mystery of Mandy the prostitute, a.k.a. I’m aware that my analysis in Part 1 only explained the movie’s symbolism and didn’t fill any of its frustrating plot holes. This is Part 2 of my analysis of Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. ![]()
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