watched it last night for the first time and both my husband and i cant figure it out, are we dense? lol. was he dreaming the whole time? if so did he die in the car accident or did he take an overdose or did he jump of the roof? please some one explain! lol
its driving me mad.
2007-01-06 00:13:37 · 16 answers · asked by horrified 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
i know its not by tom cruise what i meant was he is in it with penelope cruz and cameron diaz
2007-01-06 00:14:20 · update #1
I don't think you're supposed to know for sure, at least myself and 10 others who watched it couldn't figure it out. You're 'sposed to decide for yourself (i think)
2007-01-06 00:20:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
One of my all time faves: Tom Cruise is an uber rich thirty something who has inherited a publishing magazine empire in New York. Hes a bit of a player with the ladies and has everything he wants. Hes having sex with Cameron Diaz , as well as starting romantic intentions with Penelope Cruz. Well Cameran Diaz goes mad one morning after seeing Cruise leave Penelope's apartment, and the two go for a drive and she drives off a bridge, putting Cruise into a coma. He recovers but is in loads of mental and physical pain. Rather than continuing in this fashion with his life (he tries to continue in the 'real world' for some time), he opts for cryogenic freezing and a 'virtual reality' life where he lives inside a false imagination created by LE foundation. So he kills himself and the LE foundation restart his life from a point he was happy. It all turns into a nightmare for him,hence the bad dreams, Times Square with no people, the blurred realities and the film climaxes with him on the the roof of a skyscraper with a technician from the LE foundation where he must decide between having his virtual life repaired and continuing with the illusion. Instead he opts to jump from the building, a metaphor for leaping into the abyss and not being a control freak. Imagine a Matrix for rich people where they can continue their lives.
2007-01-06 00:31:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
no he's not dreaming all of it. he's dreaming from a certain point where he got the life extension thing to take over. he was disfigured in the car accident and took an overdose after sorting out the life extension / chryogenic thing. if you want to read some more indepth ideas about it, go to www.imdb.com and check out the message boards for this film. also, try watching the original spanish version 'abre los ojos'. it's much better.
2007-01-06 00:21:05 · answer #3 · answered by AJ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that has to be one of the best films cruise ever did, but i had to watch it twice to understand it completely...from the point where he wakes up on the sidewalk on is his dream...he has had his body frozen until such time as a way is found to fix his deformity...but now the induced dream has become a nightmare and he is offered the choice of reenterring the dream or enterring life, poor, alone, but alive....by jumping off the roof he chooses real life again...if cruise made more good films like this and less dreck like war of the freakin' worlds he'd be a lot better off!
2007-01-06 00:27:42 · answer #4 · answered by mrjones502003 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Vanilla Sky was a waste of time. Watch the original.."Open Your Eyes" (title is actually in Spanish, but I can't remember what it is). It features Penelope Cruz, and it is so much better.
2007-01-06 01:24:14 · answer #5 · answered by Paul H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no he didn't die in the car accident. he actually killed him self later by taking pills.
after he died the company that provides the service Life Extention or LE took him and started his life from that night were he passed out alone on the side walk.... in reality, he woke up alone and never saw penelope cruz again. But with LE, they started his extended life from that night were he passed out on the side walk but he was woken up by penelope and from there started a relationship with her
anyway..... in the end some complications happend, tech support came and gave him the choice to wake up and live in the real world or continue to live in a made up world.....he chose to wake up.
That's the gist.
2007-01-06 00:27:06 · answer #6 · answered by Money 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I went to bed about 2 thirds of the way through! My husband sat and watched the end but still had no clue. Too cerebral for me that night. Might have another go sometime.
2007-01-06 05:46:45 · answer #7 · answered by glitter girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he didn't dream everything.he had the accident and then went into the life extension program.of course the surgery and sofia falling in love wit him was a dream.projected by his own thoughts,wishes and desires.and then he went mad and killed her.that was just the dream gone bad.i had 2 see it more than once 2 understand it but when u finally get it its not that bad a movie
2007-01-06 00:54:24 · answer #8 · answered by Ella 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he did crash in the car ... like it said last nite up untill he fell asleep drunk in the road thats when he got his memory wiped by that l.a. dream thing he brought and thats when his dreams began from but as the film showed at the end he really took an over dose and died, so then they preserved his body for 150 years till he wanted to be brought back to life !!!
2007-01-06 00:22:05 · answer #9 · answered by gilz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-06-01 05:44:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋