Because I'm curious.
Let's make a list of all those movies where the first time you watch them you just can't help thinking (at intervals) "Wha....? Who's that? WTF is going on?" Even if they are good movies (some, anyway).
Nyanchan starts.
Gosford Park
Syriana
Watership Down
Melinda & Melinda
Reign of Fire
What movie have I watched that confused me the most? Easy answer: That awful Tom Cruse movie "Eyes Wide Shut."
Worst movie EVER.
Oh, wait. It wasn't all that confusing. What was really happening? Everyone was SUCKING, that's what!
Seriously, someone needs to be shot for letting that thing be Kubrick’s last film.
I was going to stop short of calling it a total waste of time, since there was that scene with the naked girl lying on a slab in the morgue. You canNOT see her breathing! She really held her breathe well. Never saw her chest move. And I looked really hard.
Perhaps she was really dead. It would have made her one of the more expressive actors on the set.
Otherwise, the movie was more of a “non-motion” picture. Not only were all the acting parts – especially the lead parts – apparently typed into the script in 4 point type and read by the newly-deceased, but the plot was clearly in need of defibrillation as well.
Here’s the plot (***SPOILER***): Guy gets sad because his wife imagined having sex with another guy. He wanders around at some parties where weird rich people dress like Kubrick is giving the party. Apparently they’re bored too; most just walk around looking like they might be willing to mess around a bit – next Thursday, perhaps. Some of them get grumpy and tell him to bugger off. He has trouble returning his costume. Meets some sleazy people. Then he goes shopping with his wife. Maybe they have sex after the movie is over. (It sure put ME off the idea!)
Perhaps this is an example of where Aspies can’t see some of the subtleties that typical people see. Maybe there’s a whole lot of exciting subtext, or drama, or allusion, or literary symbolism that simply escapes us. I thought I was pretty good at seeing that kind of stuff, but Aspies are so bad at non-verbal communication, right?
On the other hand, I think it’s more likely that it was just a very expensive chance to see Tom Cruise, a bunch of naked boobies, and something Kubrick touched just before he died. For better or worse, it gives you those. And that’s ALL it gives you.
I’m an Aspie. I could be wrong, but I don’t think so ;-)