Jerry stayed up late last night to reminisce about an old movie, and as a result, he couldn't sleep for a long time (after watching it, it was 5 o'clock, how do you say to sleep?). Decided to talk to everyone.
Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky
The name sounds fantastic, right, but it's actually a sci-fi suspense film. Unlike the picture style of other films of the same type, the large use of warm colors in the film, coupled with such a poetic film title, is really a clear stream in science fiction suspense films.
It is a remake of the Spanish film Open Your Eyes. In the film, there are dreams in dreams, and reality and dreams are intertwined. Simply put, it is the story of David struggling in dreams and reality, experiencing the bittersweet and bittersweet of life, and finally finding himself and finding the true meaning of life.
The film begins with a nightmare and ends with a complete awakening.
There is one of the most obvious structural elements in the whole dream, and the low female voice calling "OPEN YOUR EYES" appears four times, each time a twist, pulling reality and dreams back and forth.
The call was made at the beginning of the film, which led him into a nightmare.
As usual, David got up and drove out confidently, only to find that there was no trace of people on the road. Huge billboards kept flashing, cars on the side of the road were closely parked, but all the streets were empty, and he was alone.
Feeling extremely panicked, he abandoned the car and fled, running all the way to a desperate cry, which looked so small. But no amount of running and roaring could vent his inner fear.
In fact, this is quite strange, in the famous Times Square, there should be a bustling crowd and traffic, but in the face of an empty situation, to know that people are social animals, can you imagine how desperate you should be?
The call took him out of his dreams and into real life.
At this time he was not alone, and beside him lay a blonde beauty, Julie. He was unimpressed by nature, but by this time Julie was deeply obsessed with David.
David's birthday party Julie came uninvited. Watching him fall in love with another woman, Sophia, Julie was furious, and hatred slowly grew from love in her heart. Eventually, he drove david down the bridge, causing his own death, the result of David's disfigurement and disability.
This time, Julie took him into a nightmare forever.
The call was made in one morning. It is also from here that the film begins to gradually reach a climax.
He collapsed on the side of the street and woke up from a hangover. It was Sophia who woke him up, and she was willing to start over with him. Later, David also changed back to his former appearance through high-tech surgery, and life began to become perfect again.
But this is just a dream, a dream made by technology companies that perfectly fit David's ideas.
His subconscious lurked the nightmare element deep within him. After a while, David's life begins to go wrong, and he finds that his appearance is still disfigured, and he wakes up from a nightmare to find that Sophia next to him has become Julie. Terrified, he killed those around him and went to jail himself.
At this point, this dream finally ended in a nightmare way.
In fact, when he woke up alone on the side of the street with a hangover that day, he never saw Sophia again. Suffering from both mental and physical torture all day long.
By chance, a technology company called "Life Extension" contacted him and said that after death, the body can be preserved at extremely low temperatures. One day after signing the frozen agreement, David committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. Then he gave his body to LE and began a long dream.
When the call came, David was faced with a choice.
Fragments of reality and dreams continued to overlap and contradict, and eventually all his past came to mind, and he understood everything.
In the end, he was faced with two choices: one was to start the perfect dream over; the other was to return to the real life. He finally decided to wake up from his dream and live an authentic life.
At this time, the sky behind David is so brilliant, which is also the painting of Monet in David's room at the beginning of the film. The landscape of this Impressionist school is full of warm colors, and the sky, riverbank, reflection, and flowing water are harmoniously unified in the picture.
Write at the end
After watching this movie, my reaction to this piece of real cow *
Complete story structure, wonderful ending, fragmented presentation. The soundtrack is also a major feature of the film, and the film uses a lot of wordless humming music, and words are better than words.
Undoubtedly, David's life was a tragedy.
What the film ultimately conveys to us is the contradiction between reality and ideals, and the courage we need to face life head-on.
And the philosophical ideas thrown out in the film are really thought-provoking.
Every minute can change a person's life.
Dreams are the way for human beings to understand what their hearts desire most.
What is happiness for you?
I want to say: live in the moment. What about you?
Author/Jerry Jr
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Image / Screenshot of Vanilla Sky