Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some 50 years before he finally put it into production. Using the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts, London, and interviews with participants in the production, the authors create an archeology of the film that traces the progress of the film from its origins to its completion, reception, and afterlife. The book is also an appreciation of this enigmatic work and its equally enigmatic creator.

斯坦利-库布里克的《大开眼界》上映20年后，仍然是一部关于家庭生活、性骚扰和梦想的复杂的、视觉上引人注目的电影。在导演最终将其投入制作之前，他已经想了大约50年。作者利用伦敦艺术大学的斯坦利-库布里克档案以及对制作参与者的采访，创建了一个电影考古学，追溯了这部电影从起源到完成、接受和后世的进展。这本书也是对这部神秘的作品及其同样神秘的创作者的一种赞赏。