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By Popcorn Avenger First of all, let me start by telling you that this review may not reveal anything about the interpretation of this film… so, if anyone was looking here for a deeper meaning, look elsewhere. Vanilla Sky is a film that is so ripe and full of psychological interpretation, any Freudian Scholar should have a field day with it. As for the average filmgoer, he or she may be in a quandary for the bulk of the 2 plus hours that we follow Tom Cruise’s David along his introspective journey of dreams and reality. Here’s the set up: David is casually involved with Julie (Cameron Diaz); she loves him, he does not love her. At his birthday party he meets Sophia (Penelope Cruz) and instantly falls in love with her. Julie becomes jealous and things take a turn for the worse as David and Julie are involved in a fatal car accident that leaves him disfigured. Most of the film we are left with a suspense where in we try to figure why David is in jail. We also try to unravel the differences between dreams and reality, and try to make sense of what exactly our dreams say about reality. Although this is a puzzling narrative, and even I want to view it maybe a dozen more times before I can wrap my head around it, it is well worth the price of admission. All of the leads (Cruise, Cruz, and Diaz) give first-rate performances, and Cameron Crowe shows his craftsmanship as a filmmaker by holding the confusing narrative together until the end. All in all, this is a film worth checking out… if you can deal with confusion that envelops the plot for most of the film.   Back to Movie Index |
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