So cash strapped is seemingly the company line and Wenger is being forced to scrape the barrel in order to bring reinforcements to a club that has
seemingly shut up shop already this season and whose greatest challenge this year is to merely retain our status as a Top - 4 club.
From there, Eyes Wide
Shut progresses into a strangely episodic midsection revolving around William's nighttime exploits in New York City - with Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Frederic Raphael, offering
up a number of
seemingly pointless, palpably comedic interludes (eg William's encounters with an oddball costume -
shop owner).