Vanilla Sky is adapted from the Spanish movie "Open Your Eyes", so it cannot be separated from the "myth" that this voice must be included in the original movie "Open Your Eyes".
Has this ever happened? Where are the boundaries between reality and illusion, existence and consciousness? The director may be reminding us to ask ourselves, "Is the world we live in real? How can we verify its authenticity? What is reality? What is sanity? What is madness? Beauty and ugliness, to what extent? Affecting us?"
Another question raised by the film is "Are the desires and fears in our hearts affecting our understanding of reality, making us unable to distinguish between reality and dreams?" For Cesar? For a charming and beautiful man, what he fears most is to lose his appearance; for Cesar who has lost his beauty, what he hopes most is to take revenge on Nuria; doctors cannot repair Cesar's appearance, and what he hopes most for is his future. Technology can make him beautiful and charming again, and he hopes that he can live until that day;
The beginning and end of the film remind us to open your eyes from illusion.
The end of this film does not provide any fixed explanation, and there are countless possibilities.
The film starts with a nightmare and ends with a complete awakening, and there is a dream within the dream, the dream is disguised as a nightmare, there is a dream interpretation within the dream, and the scene of the dream interpretation becomes another dream interpretation material. All this is like a matryoshka doll, with layers within layers and nests within nests.
An obvious structural element of the entire dream is a deep female voice calling: "open your eyes." It appears twice in the title sequence and once in the most important dramatic turning point of the film. Moment later appears in the epilogue and becomes the first and last sentence of the film. The first time this sentence appeared, it led David into a nightmare. He was woken up by this sentence and got up and drove out as usual. However, in this city with dim lights and huge billboards everywhere, there was no There was no trace of human beings and all the streets were empty. David was filled with infinite panic. He abandoned the car and fled, running wildly on the streets of the famous Times Square and shouting in despair. In New York's 42nd Avenue and Times Square, which may be the most prosperous in the world, the crew blocked them for two hours for live shooting, spending a lot of money, and the effect of this live shooting is really shocking, in such a place that was originally overcrowded The place is alone with the modern civilization that remains the same as before. No amount of running and roaring can vent the fear in the heart.
At this time the second call appeared. This call brought David out of the nightmare and into real life. But in fact, this was the beginning of a tragic nightmare in life. When he woke up, there was a blonde beauty lying next to him, and when David did not invite her to his birthday party and fell in love with another brunette beauty, she led David into a permanent nightmare by committing suicide. , and a voice appeared in this screen, which will appear in the future when a psychoanalyst is interpreting dreams. This is a dream interpretation within a dream.
The third call appeared on a sunny morning. After David was forced to die in love and was disfigured and disabled, the abandoned drunken David lying beside the sewage on the street had his Damn the mask that resembles a faceless man, at this time a gentle and charming voice is calling, this is David's true love, the Spanish beauty Penelope with brown hair. The return of Sophia, played by Cruz, is true love’s rescue of this man who has lost his world. However, we will know later that this is a dream and a daydream, a perfect dream created by high technology, but in this beautiful dream At the very beginning, the deepest elements of nightmare lurk. This dream was chosen by David himself. It was perfect and completely in line with his love. But when he was having sex with her, Sophia under him suddenly turned into Julie. This time Julie's return was The highest point of panic in the whole film is when David sees Julie. He frantically searches for Sophia until he blindfolds Julie/Sofia to death and sees a mole under the deceased's breast, which is Sophia's mark. This dream ended in a nightmare.
Until the end of the film, when David was choosing between the perfect dream and real life, this call appeared again. After David chose real life, he jumped down and watched in the dream. There are tall buildings tens of thousands of meters high, and his life flashes before his eyes. However, at this moment, Perfect still cannot be sure whether this is a dream or reality. It is not until the end credits start rolling that we know that everything is over. Reality has finally won and returned with its cruelty.