The eye-opening opening scene determines the entire movie. Alice was sitting on the toilet. Bill looked at himself in the mirror. His wife asked him, Do I look beautiful? How does my hair look? He answered without looking back. "Very good." Alice said, "You didn't even look at me." This scene in the opening bathroom reflects the truth about their relationship...Bill ignored his wife. Alice and Bill go to Victor Ziegler's Christmas party, and Ziegler asks the doctor Bill to go over because of an emergency. We saw an unconscious naked woman sitting on a red chair, while Ziegler was pulling the zipper of her pants. Bill checked the woman, tried to wake her up, and warned her of the potential dangers of drug use. We noticed that Ziegler didn't care about this woman's situation at all, he just wanted to end all this as soon as possible so that he could return to the party. Before that, he realized that he needed to make compromises and made sure that Bill would not speak out. "Only the two of us know about this." Ziegler said to Bill, and Bill responded indifferently "of course." Without asking any questions, he walked out of the bathroom. The bathroom scene released Bill's longing, he longed to enter a circle out of his reach. This is because Bill, like many men in Kubrick’s works, doesn’t care how the upper-class social circle works and the real cost of entering the upper-class social circle. Moreover, he also forgot his own deepest motives. His indifferent behavior hid his urgent desires, and he was willing to hurt all the close people around him in an attempt to climb another social ladder.
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