Five years ago, we embarked on a journey with you about one of the most sensational films in history, perhaps the most sensational . So much has changed in our lives from those days, from those years, to today . But there was one thing that remained unchanged. Your loyalty has remained constant even from the day those videos disappeared . Even after 5 years, the comments I get when I tweet, share a video, or post something are the same old story. Where are the Iy Shot videos ? I'm not even mentioning the messages. You can probably guess. In this film, the password to enter the ritual was fidelio. In other words, loyalty. Thank you so much for keeping your loyalty alive, for truly giving this word its meaning and doing it justice . I will humbly express my gratitude, at least once again, through this video series . Those videos disappeared, even from me, but I sat down and made them again. This video series is not suitable for viewers under 18 years of age . And it would probably be better if you watched it with headphones. Prepare yourself. Because you were the ones who produced the most striking content about this film in this country . Stanley Kubrick is the greatest director in film history . I can say this with confidence because even directors we consider the greatest today can admit it without hesitation . The fact that some people are still searching for new kubriks among the directors of their generation today is proof of these statements. A film was released on July 16, 1999, exactly 2627 years before this video was filmed . Their eyes were completely closed. Hey White Shot. Although the production of this film received great acclaim, there was little publicity about the filming process . Because filming continued non-stop for almost 3.5 years and was done in a rather secretive manner, the existence of this film was forgotten. But the film came out and the whole world was shocked. Watch Shot wasn't a typical film, but one detail made it even more striking. Because director Kubrick was no longer alive when the film was released. Austrian author Arthur Chinitler wrote a work called trum novel, or The Book of Dreams . He even became sensitive to cinema in 1969 . Roughly speaking, we can say that these works are the ancestors of this film and book . The first half of the story is very similar to the book. But as the film progresses, the game Kubri is playing with us starts to become obvious. This video is the first in this series, and we're going to embark on a journey to where the rainbow ends. If you're ready, let's begin. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who were married at the time, signed a timeless contract for this film. But the names Kubrick had in mind were a little different. Kubrick insisted on casting Harrison Ford in this film, but Ford declined the role because he couldn't make time for a film whose shooting duration he didn't know . Kubrick, however, chose the surname Harford for the film's main character as a reference to Harrison Ford, combining Ford's first and last names . Alice and Bill are getting ready to go to their friends' party . We first see Alice changing between two columns . The first detail here is that the wardrobe door is ajar, and Alice's wedding dress and Bil's groom's suit are visible from inside. This is the first sign of the trials these houses will face throughout the film. Just like in this scene, we will see two columns again at another point in the film. The two columns we see in this first scene mark the beginning of the first half of the film, while the second columns we will see will mark the beginning of the second half, which is the film's main focus. In Masonic teachings, the two pillars represent entry into a new world, a new realm, or a temple. But this is not just a representation found in Masonic teachings. It's something that also has traces in the Ottoman era, most notably in the Topkapi Palace. The source of all this is the Temple of Solomon located in Jerusalem . It was built centuries before Christ and has two columns at its main entrance . Indeed, twin minarets are quite common in the Islamic world . Yes, we may not be able to draw the same conclusion for all of them, but in Islam, the two minarets, or two pillars, are generally there to emphasize the balance of opposites. They represent truth and falsehood, this world and the hereafter, the ego and the heart, and light and darkness. Similarly, in Sufi teachings, the perfect human being is the one who embodies the opposites represented by these two pillars and establishes a balance between them. William Harford is a doctor. Although his name is William, he's called Bill, a shortened version of William. The word "bill" means invoice or payment. Considering that Bill pays the price for everything he does throughout the film, we understand why this name was chosen. Of course, this is also an ironic reference to the idea that one can solve everything with money . He's offering her money to open the costume shop when it's time for the party . The taxi driver tears up the money in front of the man, telling him to wait for half and take the rest when he gets there. Goods. Do you even remember the first line of the movie? He was asking where his wallet was. He pays the prostitute he meets even though they don't do anything together . All of this might be perceived as chivalrous behavior, but it's nothing more than the gentleman's ego gratification . Bill Harford is actually Jewish in the book. Although the film's co-writer Frederick Rafael wanted to stay true to the book, Kubrick objected, insisting on a white, upper-class American family and, of course, Alice. We constantly see Alice in mirrors. So why are there so many mirrors in this movie? Mirrors are used as one of the most powerful cinematic tools, reflecting a character's inner world, subconscious, and truth. But mirrors also have some psychological implications . The person in the mirror isn't you. The mirror alienates you from yourself, and in essence, you see someone you don't know at all. Perhaps that's the real you. Because we carry another version of ourselves within us . Why, for example, do some people with such strange habits place mirrors here and there in their bedrooms? Because if you become estranged from yourself, the other side of you begins to emerge, and the mirror provides the easiest way for this to happen. And mirrors, along with rainbows, represent mind control in cinema . The rainbow motif is used to describe characters whose minds are controlled and who are made to do what is desired under duress . Kubrick is setting the film's timeline to coincide with the Christmas season. Because at Christmas time, everywhere is covered with colorful lights and rainbows. In the film, the entire city is covered in rainbows. Bill and Alice's house, the prostitute's house, Victor's house, Holly—everywhere. So, we just did some reading on the name Bil. Why is this woman's name Alice? This name is a direct reference to the Alice in Wonderland fairy tale . There are many overlapping similarities between Alice in the book Alice in Wonderland, which represents the school of thought on mind control and other worlds, and Alice in the film . In the story, little Alice was very bored with pictureless books and with her life. He could then also pass through a rabbit hole and through mirrors to get to Wonderland . In the film, Alice has an art gallery. But they've closed it down now. There are no paintings in her life, and Alice is bored with her life. She's completely exhausted from sitting at home, taking care of the children, and doing housework . She constantly observes herself in mirrors , becoming more beautiful, and through the substance she hides behind the mirror, she somehow enters Wonderland. However, in the book Alice in Wonderland, everything was just a dream of Alice's . In the film, Alice's dreams shatter reality. Bill and Alice are going to a friend's party, and there's a symbol hanging everywhere in the party house . No, this is not the Star of David. This symbol is the Star of David. The ancient Babylonian people would offer food to the people they worshipped on Saturday nights. They would then perform various rituals and ceremonies, culminating in sexual intercourse on Saturday evenings . They believed that this would bring them abundance and prosperity in their work. Just like in this movie . Rituals, sex, and ceremonies play an important role in this film as well. Alice and Bill start dancing. Sometime later, Bill sees Nick Knightingel, a friend from medical school, playing the piano. Perhaps it's being made clear. After that, the couple disperse to different parts of the party. Bill meets two young women and they walk arm in arm. One of the women says she worked with Noel Winsor. How do we know the surname Winsor? Winsor is the surname of the British royal family. In simpler terms, you know the British royal family. The conversation then gets even more interesting, and the girls say they work at Rockefeller Plaza. The Rockefeller family is one of the world's most prominent families, and today it is the subject of many conspiracy theories. Even as they pass right in front of the tree covered in a colorful rainbow, they utter a sentence that we can't make sense of. Would you like to go to where the rainbow ends? Moreover, this dialogue doesn't happen just once, it's repeated three times. Then Bil calls the landlord Victor and asks him to treat his drug-influenced girlfriend . The woman's name is Mendy. Mandy is one of the most important characters in this film . Perhaps most importantly. So keep Mandy in mind . But wait a minute. As you head straight up towards Bill Victor, pay attention to the old men sitting by the stairs. Then we'll encounter these men again, and you'll be horrified . Meanwhile, Alice is having a drink at the party. A mature and charismatic man is sipping the drink he placed on the table. In Ovvi's book, "The Art of Love," it says, "If you want to impress a woman, you should drink her drink from the spot where her lips have touched. This sends a message to her subconscious that you want to be with her." Alice is seemingly asleep while talking to the man here. Because, as I said before, dreams, reality, and mind manipulation are important concepts for her. Then, suddenly waking up, she says, "I must find my husband," and walks away from the man. Upstairs, while the examination continues, Victor calls the woman he was just with "my child." This is a reference to the master- slave relationship among the wealthy, or even more frighteningly, to pedophilia. Keep this scene in mind because we will return to it when we talk about the end of the film. A missing detail here tells us everything. At home that night, Alice and Bill begin to be intimate in front of the mirror, and Alice watches herself in the mirror without taking her eyes off it. Let me tell you about Lakan. Who is Lakan? He is someone with different approaches to psychoanalysis . According to Lakan, from the 6th month of infancy, a person begins to form a self in the mirror. This view is that a person reflects their desires and feelings of incompleteness in the mirror. It's a secret world where you hide your things. The mirror is a gateway, and perhaps the world you create within it is where you truly are. Like how you look in the mirror when you're experiencing certain emotions. Alice watches herself there from the outside, enjoying it . Mirrors are places where you hide your desires. Laka has a saying: "Those who give up on their desires feel only guilt." Just like Alice. The next day, we see Bill's daily life . By the way, this mother and child are Kubri's daughter and granddaughter. A night full of confessions unfolds at home. What happens that night, and Alice's growing guilt, puts the pieces together in Laka's words. This means the collapse of the American dream. Alice says she almost cheated , that she was very fond of a naval officer, and that if he had accepted her, she could have easily destroyed her marriage, even without considering her children . This is exactly when Bill's self-confidence is constantly attacked, almost through every character. Bill is so sure of Alice's fidelity that he doesn't even consider the possibility that she might have sexual desires . This confession is Bill's... It shatters the male ego and power. Bill realizes that his wife is not just his wife, but a dangerous woman with autonomy . This is the uncanny in the Froden sense. It's what's called an unkenny. It's when the person you know best in your life, your spouse, suddenly becomes a stranger. Unable to bear this confession , Bill gets a phone call and goes out that night. Although Bill's journey begins as a search for physical retaliation against his wife's mental infidelity, it evolves into a terrifying discovery. It turns into an adventure where the impotence and dissatisfaction of the modern man are solidified, and his male ego is shattered with every person he encounters . Because Bill, who thought he was the chosen one, suddenly faces the reality that he is only an alternative. Afterwards, he tries to experience the feeling of being the desired person. Alice doesn't deny her desires, but she knows very well the destruction these desires can cause . No repressed fantasy ever disappears; it only returns in the form of anxiety and obsession . The psychological breakdown Bill experiences is fueled not by the fantasy itself, but by its denial. Alice's confession touches upon a topic often left unspoken in marriage. It reveals a space. Potential desires. This desire hasn't been experienced, hasn't been fulfilled. But its very existence is enough to threaten the belief that marriage is a closed system . In the first half of the film, Kubrick confronts us with the fact that marriage is often not a mutual agreement of transparency, but a mutual agreement of silence. Bill's psychological trauma is n't a classic jealousy narrative. Nor is his crisis a betrayed man's crisis . It's the crisis of a subject who has fallen from the center . Bill had positioned himself at the center of his wife's world of desire. Alice's confession shows that this central position is actually an illusion . Marriage is a game played with eyes completely closed. Waking up is both painful and inevitable. Alice's confession dismantles the male-centered narrative of marriage. It declares that female sexuality is not passive and shatters the male possessive fantasy. This, through Alice, places the female figure not as an object of desire, but as an observer and critic of the male-dominated system . From this point on, everything in the film is simply an earthquake that a woman's desire achieves in the male mind. Alice is the point where the male gaze fails . Now let's get to Kubrick's dishonor. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman They were actually married during the filming of this movie . Kubrick forbade Tom Cruise from entering the set while Nicole Kidman and the Navy SEAL were filming their scenes . He also forbade Nico from talking about these scenes at home . They were filming for days on end like this. Of course, it was forbidden to say anything to Tom Cruise. His aim was to make Tom Cruise truly jealous so that the tension between the couple would fuel their characters. Are you the Antichrist, man? The phone rings, and a patient's daughter urgently asks him to come. In that scene, we see an alternate Bill and Alice . Shaken by his wife's confessions, Bill kisses the married woman as she arrives, further shaking his thoughts on marriage. Then, as he walks down the street, a group of young men in New Year's University uniforms knock Bill to the ground and humiliate him. Because Bill's power has been shattered. He begins to feel genuinely insecure and like a loser . A group of delinquent men also confirm this by humiliating him with homophobic remarks. But one of the reasons these young men were specifically wearing New Year's University uniforms was because of the events of those years. The gay abuse scandals that erupted at Yeel University. What does Bill need? Something to remind him of his masculinity and stroke his ego . He meets a prostitute on the street and they go to her house. There's a rainbow in the house, but Bill doesn't sleep with her. He gives her money and leaves. But I want you to keep this scene in mind . Because this prostitute represents another character in the film in a very, very painful way . Bill goes to a club covered in rainbows. There, his old friend Nick Knightingel takes the stage, and as they sit at their table, we see Stanley Kubrick himself in the background . During the conversation, Nick says he's going to a place with interesting women and interesting things . Although he says they'll ruin him if he gives details, Bill's need to rebuild himself and satisfy his ego is so great that he insists. Nick gives him a code to enter this place: Fidelio. Fidelio means loyalty. However, the code for the place where the greatest infidelity occurs is loyalty, and to enter, a special outfit and mask are required. He comes to a costume shop called Rainbow and has it opened... He gets a costume. He arrives at the given address, puts on his mask, and says the password. Fidelio and Bill, as we saw at the beginning of the film, pass between two columns and enter. They enter a new realm they've never known before, and for us, the real second half of the film begins. This is where the rainbow ends. Up until here, we've seen rainbows everywhere in the film, in every location. But this is where mind control ends, secrets are revealed, and the rainbow ends. Hayya alasam e