By Aleksander Rybczynski ——Bio and Archives--October 14, 2024

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When Stanley Kubrick made "Eyes Wide Shut", we left the movie theater a bit dazed, a bit disgusted by the director's fantasy, who presented viewers with a vision of an unreal world in which eccentric, degenerate elites met for strange rituals, resembling a party, imperceptibly transforming into a black mass and plunging into the dark underworld of crime.

It seemed that we had watched yet another of those unreal, interesting films that had little to do with reality. We did not expect that the last work of the cult director would probably become the cause of his mysterious death.

All the more, no one predicted that the plot of Kubrick's artistic film would turn out to be a grim document of our times, in which evil is rampant everywhere, is glorified at the expense of good and normality, pushed into the catacombs of the followers of fringe minority with the unacceptable views.

History is carefully hidden in thick volumes that manipulate facts and truth to present a false image of history. Censorship is beginning to work backwards, and the digital documentation of humanity is held in check by artificial intelligence, defenseless against the reformatting of event files that are systematically erased from memory. The past is crushed to meet the needs of immediate........

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