What happens in Vanilla Sky ?

Question

Ive watched like 3 times and i still dont know what happens

Answer 1

he is frozen and dreaming. dont watch it again. it sucks.

Answer 2

You mean in the end??

he basically killed himself and paid a company to freeze his body till technology got really good to bring people back from the dead.

He picked the "lucid dream" where somehow is brain still performs dreams that happen from his past. They took his last memory of Sofia and instead of her disappearing she returned and they lived happiliy ever after. UNTIL something went wrong and he thought he killed Sofia. It was like a dream that turned into a nightmare.

It was all put together with his mind. In the end, he realizes what happens and comes back to life in the future.

Email me if you are still lost.

Answer 3

In the end, technical support reveals that they have updated the software for their lucid dream and David can be reinserted into the dream with no memory of the nightmare portion, or he can be awakened 150 years after he was frozen and live in the real world with a restored, healthy body. David chooses to be awakened in the future after weighing his options. After imagining himself with Sofia one last time, he jumps off of a skyscraper, ending his Lucid Dream and waking up.

Answer 4

If I remember rightly he's completely screwed up over what happened so chooses to go into some sort of cryo-sleep where you dream that you're in real life. But reality starts to pop into his head and he ends up talking to a psychiatrist - who's imaginary.

Or something like that.

Answer 5

at the end? He asks to be taken out of the coma and to stop living his dream life. The only way he can do that is to jump off the top of the building.

Answer 6

what happens is I get pi ssed for spending $7 to see that piece of trash in the theater

Answer 7

The film opens with David Aames waking up in bed. He is an affluent, handsome young man. As he drives to work, he finds the streets of New York strangely deserted at rush hour. With growing unease he drives to Times Square and finds the entire city abandoned.

We then learn that David is in a jail cell describing a dream to Dr. McCabe, a psychologist that has been assigned to him. David has been charged with a murder he has no recollection of, and wears a mysterious pale mask. He and Dr. McCabe discuss the events that led to his eventual incarceration.

Following the death of David's father, he was given 51% ownership of his father's publishing company. The rest of the company is owned by a board of directors that David disparagingly calls the "Seven Dwarves." Each of them believed that they were next in line to take over the company after David's father died. It is clear that David can have anything his heart desires, and that nothing is beyond him. Then, on the night of his birthday party, his best friend, Brian, brings with him a girl named Sofia that he just met at the library. Almost instantly, David and Sofia flirt with each other, almost completely ignoring Brian. However, Julianna Gianni, a woman that David regularly sleeps with but has no deep feelings for, decides to crash his party. She stays distant but keeps a close eye on him the entire night. Once David realizes Julianna is there, he asks Sofia to pretend to engage in a deep conversation with him so that Julianna won't come near him. David and Sofia end up hitting it off. He walks her back to her place and they stay up all night talking. The next morning as David is getting ready to drive to work, Julianna drives up beside him asking how his night with Sofia was. Julianna makes David feel guilty about ignoring her and convinces him to get into her car. It quickly becomes apparent that she is obsessed with David as she starts speeding through busy city streets, asking intimate questions of him. When he finally caves in and tells her that he loves her, she drives the car off of a bridge.

We are told that Julianna was killed. David survives but is horribly scarred and mentally unstable. He spends a long time in isolation before deciding to take back control of his company and see Sofia again. She appears hesitant to be around him, and when they go on a date she brings Brian along. The date is a disaster as David makes Sofia increasingly uneasy around him. The three part ways at the end of the night, but David decides to chase after Sofia yet ends up passing out on a sidewalk. He is woken up the next morning by Sofia who tells him that she will stay with him if he can get his act together. From that moment, David's life is turned around. His team of plastic surgeons are able to perfectly restore his face and he finds his soul mate in Sofia.

David converses with "Tech Support" for the first time.This does not last long. He grows paranoid that his face will go back to being scarred again, and finds himself followed by a mysterious man who tells him he has the power to control the world. One night he goes to bed with Sofia and wakes up to find himself with Julianna, who insists she really is Sofia. He is arrested and told that he severely beat Sofia, but the people from his company convince her to drop the charges and make the case go away. He is shown photos of Julianna with a bruised face, but everybody, including his best friend Brian, tells him that it's Sofia. David breaks into Sofia's apartment and finds that every photo that was once of Sofia is now of Julianna. Julianna attacks him, thinking he's an intruder but apologizes when she sees its him, still insisting she is Sofia. She leaves the room, and the actual Sofia returns in her place as if nothing was wrong. They begin to make love, but while they are in the middle of the act, he finds that he is making love to Julianna. In a fit of panic, he suffocates her then realizes he has just killed Sofia.

When David is done telling Dr. McCabe his story, he still can't bring himself to believe that he killed anybody. Dr. McCabe tells him that he can no longer help David and will try to argue for temporary insanity. After Dr. McCabe leaves, David sees the mysterious man who was following him on a TV screen. The man appears in an infomercial for a cryogenics company called Life Extension that David had seen many times before going to jail.

Escorted by Dr. McCabe, David goes Life Extension and realizes that he had signed on as a client, and had opted for an extra feature called the Lucid Dream, which allows the client to be revived after death and live in a perpetual coma where they live in eternal youth enjoying their ideal lifestyle, and their death erased from their memory.

David finally realizes that he is now living in the Lucid Dream and that the mysterious man is his technical support. The Tech Support explains to David that he had committed suicide and had opted for his Lucid Dream to begin the morning after his night out with Sofia and Brian following the accident. Nothing after that moment was real. He never murdered anybody and he realizes that Dr. McCabe was just a character he created in his dream to be the father figure he always wanted. In reality, David woke up alone in the street. The constant pain he suffered from his disfigurement drove him to suicide. While in the Lucid Dream, the guilt he felt for ignoring Julianna caused his subconscious to merge Julianna and Sofia.

In the end, technical support reveals that they have updated the software for their lucid dream and David can be reinserted into the dream with no memory of the nightmare portion, or he can be awakened 150 years after he was frozen and live in the real world with a restored, healthy body. David chooses to be awakened in the future after weighing his options. After imagining himself with Sofia one last time, he jumps off of a skyscraper, ending his Lucid Dream and waking up.

According to Cameron Crowe's commentary, there are four different interpretations of the ending:

"Tech support" is telling the truth; 150 years have passed since David Aames killed himself, and everything after his passing out on the sidewalk was a lucid dream.

The entire movie is a dream, as evidenced by the sticker on David's car that reads '2/30/01'.

The movie takes place within David's coma sustained after the car crash.

The movie is actually a novel that Brian is working on.