Eyes Wide Shut is Kubrick's only mystery film, it involves crucial archetypes and symbols from our collective (religions, political power and commerce) and arrays them into what appear to be simple and absurd gestures, but underlying the entire film is a question that no on ever seems to ask on film: why. The mystery of EWS is offered to the audience in name only. The title is our only identification that the film is hiding something from us and from its characters.  Here are other examples of films that break patterns.

"...analogy always bears the typical features of allegory: for no religious understanding of reality flows from itself; in it the reality must be related [changed] to something else, through which its meaning becomes known.

All allegorical-tropological interpretation relates to the basic problem of redemption, and thus to the historical reality of the redeemer as its fixed center. All temporal change, all natural events and human action, obtain their light from its center; they become an ordered meaningful cosmos by appearing as necessary links in the religious plan of salvation by taking a significant place in it. And from this one spiritual center the circle of interpretation gradually broadens.

It [Christian doctrine] dissolved the temporal uniqueness in eternity, divesting the religious process of all mere historical content. The process of redemption is restored to the I, to the abyss of the soul [the opposite of Buddhism - ed.], where it is enacted free from all outside mediation in an immediate correlation of I and God, God and I. True revelation no longer occurs in any particular but only in the whole: the world as a whole and the entirety of the human soul."

Ernst Cassirer