Just finished Eyes Wide Shut for the first time. Why didn’t Alice cheat with the man at the party in the beginning of the film?
Obv Spoilers. From what I can tell, the cult was pulling the strings the entire time, with Alice in on it as well. She lied about going to the bathroom at the beginning and instead downs drinks; she tells bill what she knows is a heavy, relationship straining fantasy and doesn’t apologize or try to work with him through it and just leaves him to his thoughts; she tells him of a “nightmare” she was having where she was having an orgy and laughing in bills face, including doing it with the same guy she told him she fantasized about earlier; she (I’m guessing here) was the one who took his mask and put it on his pillow; and at the toy store she was calm and collected and all too eager to give the cult their daughter.
Question is, if she was in on it the whole time, why didn’t she sleep with the guy she danced with at the party? She’s already part of the sex cult and I assume the party was full of sex cult members; was she just not feeling it? Was it to establish that she’s a bit unfaithful to Bill without giving away too much to the audience? Every other scene she’s in, she’s specifically manipulating Bill, so it just doesn’t make sense that she’d keep it up while he’s out of the room. Maybe they’re friends from the sex cult and were just having fun role playing lol.
Anyway those are my thoughts. Love to hear yours!