vanilla sky has some strong idea's but its a slog to experience does idea's.
a man grappling with his trauma, its weird 3rd act and normal drama 1rst act. its all fun and games yet......it also isn't. there is something great underneath.....all the filler, it feels like it goes on and on, the characters are either one note or not interesting in anyway.
david is not a fun character, i don't want to follow him.tom cruise gives a pretty good performance and the score help evoke this weird dream like state. its cinematography is pretty good even when imo, the very soft light looked very annoying(i don't know why, it looked very angelic which makes a little bit of sense because of its ending)
Vanilla Sky
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Rating
1.7 (3)
Release Date
12/14/2001Runtime
136 minsOverview
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$68,000,000Revenue
$203,388,341Homepage
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How It Feels
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A dizzying descent into a man's fractured psyche that blurs reality and nightmare, using a catastrophic accident as the trigger for increasingly disorienting psychological horror. What feels like a romantic drama cracks open to reveal something far more unsettling about consciousness, loss, and the nature of existence itself.
Mood
UnsettlingDread-soakedMelancholicParanoid
Themes
GriefLoveIdentityObsessionMortality
Tone
Operatic
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
High-contrastStylized genre
Structure
Unreliable narrator
Heads up
Graphic violenceSexual contentBody horror
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