Eyes Wide Shut and Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey

led away. Meanwhile, a smooth-talking Hungarian named Szandor Savos strike!
             s up a conversation and a slow dance with Alice. He asks her about her marriage and her husband, and she rejects his implied sexual offers in a tipsy stupor. Bill runs into two young women who blatantly seduce him, offering to take him to "where the Rainbow ends". Both Bill and Alice have the opportunity for sex, then and there, behind their lovers' backs.
             Alice finally slips away from the sleazy Hungarian, and Bill is called upstairs to help the host, Mr. Ziegler. It is obvious at this point that sexual temptation floats in and out of the couple's lives, but neither act upon any offers, and both are completely committed to one another, without question. Eyes Wide Shut.
             In the next scene, Bill and Alice kiss and embrace in front of a mirror, naked (I will take this time to point out that Tom Cruise is one lucky bastard, but again that's another essay entirely. J ). Alice watches her husband in the reflection as he, eyes closed, worships her body. This one scene c
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