#bill harford

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happy eyes wide shut (1999) christmas 🎄

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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

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Kubrick Queened Hardest

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) dir. Stanley Kubrick

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eyes wide shut enjoyers hello

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sorry but they were in love!!!!!!

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I watched Eyes Wide Shut last night and then I wrote a fic about Bill and Alice, because of course I did 🤦‍♀️

These two were just too compelling not to write about

Summary:

When Alice said they needed to fuck, this wasn’t what Bill expected.

Hope someone enjoys it if they read it 🩷

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So called free thinkers asking for Christmas gifts…

[mossquitoman]

okay the only nicole kidman movie ive watched is eyes wide shut and i need to know if she's that annoying in everything or if she was Like That on purpose in that movie in which case she's an amazing actress

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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

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Tom Cruise and Rade Serbedzija as Bill Harford and Milich in Eyes Wide Shut (1999), and as Ethan Hunt and Dr. Nerkhovich in Mission: Impossible 2 (2000).

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the very gay hotel concierge in eyes wide shut getting flustered in the presence of bill harford (a man who was previously called fag on the streets of new york) ... well ... i shan't say

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Kubrick

An ordinary story told in an extraordinary way. “Eyes Wide Shut” is the story of a marriage. Love, lust, jealousy, temptation, lies, confession, and forgiveness. Playing with the danger of flirting, or watching your partner do the same, provides a break from the daily grind of married life. Eroticism with a safety harness. Like a carnival ride.

A well-off couple prepares for a night out, babysitter and all. Alice’s (Nicole Kidman) loveliness is ignored by her husband, and they’re off. At Victor Ziegler’s (Sydney Pollack) holiday party, where they know nobody, Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) sees an old buddy from medical school playing the piano. The couple separate. Alice dances with a Hungarian vampire (Sky du Mont). It is sexy and thrilling. She leaves her glass. He drinks her blood. Each time they lean in, so close, it’s unnerving and arousing.

“Eyes Wide Shut” is a rich, open text. It’s a dream, it’s a trip under the rainbow, it’s through the looking glass, it’s a Christmas tale. Or, something more mundane. Alice gives it away in the film’s conclusion: we just need to fuck. This is the story of a young, beautiful, busy couple who can’t find the time for intimacy — the punch line to countless sitcom jokes.

Read literally, the text of the film is absurd. A most elaborate male fantasy is the backdrop for a mystery, a thriller, a conspiracy tale. For Bill Harford, flirtation is small talk: a Sam Spade misdirection.

He spends much of the holiday party in a walking threesome. Later, he interrogates Domino’s (Vinessa Shaw) roommate about Domino’s whereabouts while fondling her breast, as if he’s discussing the weather. Harford is a charming doctor who attracts attention from women and men alike — a smitten hotel desk clerk (Alan Cumming) — in nearly every scene.

Reading the film as a dream helps navigate these surreal moments. So does reading it as satire. Bill Harford flashes his medical credentials so often that it becomes a running joke: the bourgeois doctor scratching at the doggie door of privilege. In fact, some of the more disturbing, sexually-charged moments of the film become more palatable because they are satirically funny: the costume shop owner’s daughter (Leelee Sobieski) being chased around by two cross-dressing Asian men; Marion confessing her secret love for Bill while her father lies on his deathbed and her fiance waits in the hall; even Mandy’s (Julienne Davis) overdose at the holiday party is rendered somewhat ridiculous as she slouches naked in a chair. Our sophisticated, sexualized society is ultimately a farcical collection of sloppy spit and sagging breasts. Even the notorious masked orgy can feel a bit campy and hilarious.

Don’t get me wrong, the secret, masked party is a tour de force of pacing, images, and sound. The monotonous musical piece, “Masked Ball” by Jocelyn Pook, is haunting and mesmerizing. A masked priest performs a circular ritual, slamming a scepter to the floor and uncloaking beautiful women one at a time: the black mass spinning a prurient promenade. Like the lighting, colors, wide-angle steadicam shots, and score, it’s a new vision of filmmaking that will be imitated for years to come.

Throughout the film, an exquisite palate of color and light paint nearly every space. The teal and orange technique is prominent. Each frame is a visual feast. Those long dissolves between scenes, carried over from “The Shining,” add to the dreamy buzz. Kubrick famously focuses on every detail. During Marion’s confessional scene to Bill, light seems to be streaming from their mouths.

Let’s not, however, let ourselves completely off the hook. Declaring satire is an easy way to detach from other meaning. Act III is a remorseful murder mystery. Dr. Bill realizes that his actions may have led to Mandy’s death, and he courts danger to himself and his family as he attempts to uncover the source of this transgression. The resistance he encounters isn’t fantastic, only a step or two from the way rich and powerful people in the real world have access to a different brand of justice or a different set of tax rules.

There’s a Zen koan that asks of your experience, What is this? Am I dreaming? It shakes you awake from your assumptions and routine. In “Eyes Wide Shut,” it’s a brilliant storytelling tactic. Bill comes home early in the morning after his adventure at the secret ceremony. A masked woman, who we later discover was Mandy, saved him from utter shame. She sacrificed herself for him. Alice is in bed, sleeping and laughing. He wakes her up, and she tells him her disturbing dream, where she is essentially one of the sexual acolytes at the orgy. Is her dream a connection to reality? Is this entire story a dream? Is there a difference between dreaming and reality? This injection of ambiguous story content is a refreshing departure from typical cinematic realism. For Bill, it is at the very least a trigger for his feelings of guilt and remorse. Alice continues to be the locus of inquiry into the nature of the reality of these experiences. In the film’s conclusion, she forgives Bill, in part, by suggesting all of these recent events were a dream.

On some level, a film is a reverie, a series of events for a voyeuristic audience. “Eyes Wide Shut” focuses on that voyeurism. In Alice’s dream, she has sex with many men while people watch. After yet another easy encounter with a beautiful woman, a group of college boys gay-bash Dr. Harford; it’s like an audience mocking him for all these women throwing themselves at him. At Bill’s low point, Victor Ziegler confronts Bill and exposes his transgressions. But, he tries to give him a way out: what if I told you that all the events at the masked ritual were a kind of play? We were humiliating you for our entertainment.

Reality is a gentle plaything for Stanley Kubrick. Establishing shots of the East Village, borough bridges, and taxi rides confirm we are in New York City. The street scenes are designed to feel like downtown Manhattan, but they aren’t quite right. We are very clearly at the corner of Wren and Miller streets, but no such intersection or streets exist in Manhattan.

The film’s climax is a confession. A husband tells the truth and returns to the marriage. A wife finds forgiveness. One interpretation is that Alice’s earlier confession about her secret longing for the naval officer destroys Bill’s illusion of the marriage. But, that kind of marriage isn’t real. Alice understands the truth of marriage. It’s Bill who lives in a fantasy. Early on, we see that his flaw is keeping up the illusion of the perfect relationship with all his talk of absolute trust and loyalty.

Fidelio, indeed.

Is “Eyes Wide Shut” a horror movie? We have a vampire and a coven. Harpies and sirens. Right under the nose of Christmas. Marriage is conflict and Christmas is a longing. “Don’t you want to go where the rainbow ends?” Just like when you were a kid. “Eyes Wide Shut” sends us into a place of unsure reality and perhaps the supernatural.

After an opening of lust and lies, magical forces tear the couple apart. In the end, Dr. Bill comes clean. The spell is broken. The truth will set you free. That, and a good fuck.

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As juvenile justice takes center stage this General Assembly session, a Republican-sponsored bill aims to bar students who have been convicted or adjudicated of rape and other sex offenses from attending school in person.

State Sen. Johnny Salling and state Del. Nino Mangione cross-filed the bills after they met with two mothers last month who say their toddlers were sexually abused in Harford and Baltimore counties by a teenager who attends a Baltimore City high school.

One mother joined Salling at a Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee hearing Wednesday morning. Salling said he was first introduced to the family after Fox 45 reported that the victim’s abuser was going to a Baltimore high school.

“These are serious incidents of incest and rape, and these sexual offenses, there should be some type of accountability,” Salling said in an interview. “And you shouldn’t allow the students to go back in school because you don’t know the mindset of the individual.”

Under Senate Bill 1145, a child would be prohibited from attending a state-funded public or nonpublic school in person if they are convicted or adjudicated of rape or a sex offense that would be considered a felony in adult court. Each school system would have to provide an alternative education for those students, such as virtual programs. The bill doesn’t outline how long those students would be banned from in-person learning.

Maryland law already bars students who are registered on the adult sex offender registry, which is only for those who are 18 or older, from entering school property or attending public schools. School districts must educate those students in alternative locations until they are no longer on the sex offender registry.

Mangione and Salling’s bill seeks to close what they call a loophole for children who commit sex offenses but aren’t on the adult registry. Maryland does have a juvenile offender registry, but it’s accessible only by law enforcement personnel for law enforcement purposes.

“That’s what’s trying to be addressed here,” Mangione said. “How many others have been walking the halls of these schools?”

Registration is often requested by a prosecutor or negotiated in a deal, said Levi Bradford, an education attorney with Public Justice Center, a nonprofit law firm that is part of a coalition opposing the bill. Some kids can avoid registering if the prosecutor says they don’t have to, he said, but this bill would rope in those kids who are not required to register.

Local superintendents, principals and security officers are notified when students are arrested and adjudicated. But it’s up to a judge in that child’s case to determine if they should return to their community.

Students have a constitutional right to an education, and a 2022 law restricted removal to instances in which a student poses an “imminent threat of serious harm to other students or staff.” In-person school removal can be appealed.

Last year, the state Department of Education found Baltimore County Public Schools violated the law when the district banned a student who allegedly committed a sex offense from in-person instruction.

Democratic and Republican lawmakers have a month left to hash out differences in the two chamber’s massive juvenile justice bills. The main House bill would expand the charges that 10- to 12-year-olds can face to include animal mutilation, firearms charges and third-degree sex offenses.

Sherry Christian, a Baltimore City schools spokesperson, said the school system legally can’t discuss individual student matters, sealed judicial proceeding or comment on the legislators’ and Fox 45’s report that a convicted sex offender attends a Baltimore high school.

“We can share, more generally, that Maryland law requires City Schools to provide an education to all students legally enrolled in our school system, including students found responsible for juvenile criminal offenses,” Christian said in a statement.

The city’s school system can only remove a student “if they follow specific legal protocols and there is specific evidence of an imminent threat of serious harm,” Christian continued. “When making this determination, we review all available documents and work closely with the proper authorities to ensure we are meeting the appropriate standards.”

The state Office of the Public Defender, as part of a Coalition to Reform School Discipline, strongly opposes the legislation, which they say would violate federal law. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act says student who have disabilities, even student offenders, have to be educated in the “least restrictive environment,” or districts could risk losing federal funds.

“Prohibiting in-person education based solely on a conviction or adjudication is counter-productive, strips individuals of an important problem-solving tool and will more likely result in greater harm to children and communities,” Natasha Dartigue, the Maryland Public Defender, said in a statement.

The coronavirus pandemic revealed that virtual school is an inferior form of education, Dartigue said, especially for youth with learning disabilities or other educational deficits. Denying education based solely on past convictions also perpetuates cycles of poverty, unemployment and criminal behavior, she said.

As a mother of Baltimore City school students, Annette Anderson wants to know if juvenile sex offenders go to her kids’ schools. Anderson, the deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, a research center, said she doesn’t need to know those students’ identifies.

“I think having a blinded sex registry in a school or a district might be helpful so parents at a minimum are aware,” she said.

Anderson said she’s encouraged by the juvenile justice legislation being constructed in a thoughtful way this session and not in “knee-jerk reaction.” But more work is needed, she said, especially around balancing protecting children and the community’s right to know about juvenile offenders.