Fantasy, lust, envy, nighttime wanderings, masks, and the most boring male-gaze-y orgy of all time. That’s right! It’s time for Jennifer and Kaylia to talk sex, love, and dreams aka Dream Story (1926) and its film adaptation Eyes Wide Shut (1999).
Rhapsody: A Dream Novel, also known as Dream Story (German: Traumnovelle), is a 1926 novella by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler. The book deals with the thoughts and psychological transformations of Doctor Fridolin over a two-day period after his wife confesses having had sexual fantasies involving another man. In this short time, he meets many people who give clues to the world Schnitzler creates. This culminates in the masquerade ball, a wondrous event of masked individualism, sex, and danger for Fridolin as the outsider.
Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic mystery psychological drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. The movie transfers the story from early 20th-century Vienna to 1990s New York City and follows the sexually charged adventures of Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise), who is shocked when his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), reveals that she had contemplated having an affair a year earlier. He then embarks on a night-long adventure, during which he infiltrates a masked orgy of an unnamed secret society.
This Pages and Popcorn Podcast episode was produced by Kaylia Metcalfe and featured “Pages and Popcorn Podcast Theme” / M.D. Arms
Book and movie recap runs from 3.50 – 17.44
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Show Notes / Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_Wide_Shut
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/eyes-wide-shut-1999
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/07/eyes-wide-shut-tom-cruise-nicole-kidman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schnitzler
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/09/09/the-dream-master
https://www.nyrb.com/collections/arthur-
schnitzlerhttps://theculturetrip.com/europe/italy/articles/a-guide-to-the-masks-of-venice/
https://www.camacana.com/en-UK/plague-doctor-mask-
https://www.artforum.com/print/196303/viennese-expressionism-38106
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/sep/22/arts.highereducation3
https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/your-brain-klimt
https://victorianweb.org/painting/dgr/paintings/simmons4.html
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