Encounter 5 - Eyes Open Closed

The modern character of Kubrick's cinema can also be found, renewed, in his last films: The Shining (1981), a variation on horror consisting of spatial and temporal labyrinths, in which it is the architecture (of the mind) that shapes the narrative; Full Metal Jacket (1987) in which war is shown as an abstract and symbolic space-time; Eyes Wide Shut (1999), an extraordinary parable on the deceptive seductions of the 20th century and a film-heading on cinema as ‘grand illusion’.