I saw this movie late at night in 2002. It very well influenced me in several ways, one of them being Russell's character of McGabe. I had just lost my father months earlier, and even before then he was never around much since my parents were divorced. That scene when LE is explaining to David how McGabe was a creation of his mind made from characters like Atticus Finch as a projection of what having a father could be like hit me extremely hard emotionally. I didn't know much about my dad beyond superficial stuff, and realizing how many experiences I would never have and only guess what they felt like, similar to David... ... I just never let that feeling go. It's been nearly 16 years later, and not a week goes by I don't think of it.
i also remembered that many years ago i saw it and i didn't liked it but one week ago i re-watched it for free juts using boxxy software and included it in my fav list
What was so magical about it? What realization did it leave you with? I just finished it and couldn't stand it. Just in awe that ppl adore this, kinda need to get insight on others views.
Moose Chip Basically, the movie envokes feelings of loneliness, love and the loss of love. It makes you more mindful that every decision, no matter how miniscule could change your life. "Every minute is a new chance to turn it all around". It also shows the importance of valuing every minute of life, because we don't know if it will last long.
Johnson82ish when I was 17 I seen this.. and I was an idiot and completely did not get it.. ten years later it blew my fucking mind.. guess I passed the idiot test
“I want to live a real life. I don’t want to dream any longer.” I’ve said that quote to myself so many times over the years. It’s simple, it’s lovely, yet so tragic and sad at the same time. In many ways we never get beyond just existing, trapped in our own thoughts and dreams. Hoping to find the hidden door to our real life, and watching as the minutes, hours, and days pass by. That said, I think it’s so achingly beautiful that we all keep trying.
@@kawehionalani Not caring what others think is hard. I've tried before but it was a logistical nightmare. Where's the line you cross before just being yourself and not caring what others think blurs into narcissism and being a bad person. It's hard to balance because no man is an island. At the end of the day we care what others think because we care about others. We live our lives for other people all the time. If you were the last human on Earth I doubt you'd wanna live very long. I've said it once and I'll die saying it: our ultimate purpose and drive for living comes from other people. We watch movies with people in them, play video games with people in them, read books about people, etc. We're such a social species we have the uncanny ability of seeing faces in practically everything from clouds to the front of cars because our instincts put so much emphasis on not missing out on an interaction with another person. Even if it means seeing people where there are none. People are the focal point of our lives. That's why it's so hard to just stop caring what they think because on some level you're ignoring a part of the reason you're alive and your ultimate purpose.
Lucid dreams, altered consciousness, cryogenic life suspension... So many futuristic and incredible things in this movie. But the thing I find most incredible is tech support actually coming through and getting it right on the first try.
It wasn't futuristic at all. It's a remake. It just seems futuristic back then cause we didn't have that information about psychological stuff cause the internet was shite but if you know about psyche then you would get it. It just became common today cause lucid dreaming was a trend on socials in 2011ish/the age of creepy pasta.
I just finished watching it again for the third time since it was released. The older I get the more I really appreciate it for the way it makes you think about life choices, regrets, and love
I don't like the way it talks about "true love". It just seems cheesy and we all know why it was "true love" right? He was a rich handsome witty guy and she was a sweet caring gorgeous woman. If sophia had not been so beautiful, would there have still been "true love" lol probably not.
Alternative theory: there was no option for him to “wake up” The simulation just lies to him so when he thinks he is waking up, he just restarts in the simulation. No exit.
Everything post accident is a coma and Sofie is greeting him as he wakes from it. Cameron gives you all the clues you need in the photos and videos flashing quickly as David is falling. There was no cryogenic freezing; that was something his mind created after seeing Benny the dog before leaving the apartment. His coma turned into a nightmare fueled by guilt, fear and love. The guilt of being careless with those he cared for, and the fear of losing the women he just fell hopelessly in love with. Tech support was his subconscious telling him he was dreaming, and he was given the choice to stay in the coma or wake up. And as you know, every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around. So David now has another opportunity to be a better friend, boss and man for Sophie.
What did you exactly like about it? Plot that stays abstract and peppered with deus ex machina everywhere.. I couldn't see this as even a fundamentally produced movie. I finished it wondering how someone could like this.
@Jimmy Peeps "Critics hated it." The same critics (or some of them) who praised '12 Years a Slave' and 'Monster', both utter garbage? These critics are morons. I doubt either film was based on 'true events' especially 'Monster'. Serial killers (male or female) have simply been invented by the media.
I remember when it came out it got most bad reviews. After watching I fell in love with it. It was one of the most profound movies for me from this time period. Possibly all 3 of the actors best roles.
yeah......i too loved it. The whole idea..playboy (living the dream) then suffers life changing injuries (lives like normal people) WHAT if...what if he never got in the car........
I truly don't love any other film the way I love this one. Vanilla Sky is a brilliant masterpiece and I won't apologize for feeling that way. Tom Cruise's best film.
I adore it too but it’s not re beat just because Tom makes so so so many great movies Mi series, edge of Tomorrow, a few good men, eyes wide shut, minority report, Valkyrie.
I think the face value ending makes the most sense. It is also a moral ending since David learned the hard way not to play with people's feelings - Brian - and Julie and Sofia too. He got into the car - having just met the supposed love of his life - maybe thinking he could keep Julie as a fuck buddy. As Sofia said to him - I wish you had never got into that car. It's the little things like getting into a car that make the difference - in David's case between a life of true happiness - and a nightmare of his own making.
Agree.. Also in the film I remember the phrase "its the little things that shape the big things" him getting in the car when he had already witnessed Julie being a a stalker was his mistake. It removed him from the love of his life. He made a bad choice. Seemed small at the time but it shaoed his whole future.
As a SciFi geek I'm okay with and like the literal narrative. From a storytellers heartstrings point of view you're answer is a close call for best effect. However, in the literal narrative the idea that David is willing to leave his opportunity to be happy in his dream with Sofia because of the chance of finding her again in another life....when they are both cats. That line is so much the personality of Sofia, so original to David, that his mind could not generate her and her fresh input into his being.... So David Jumps....to find Sofia again for REAL.
I've watched this movie like a hundred times. I believe the ending is left vague because its not important. It would lessen the value of the ending if it were any more clear. I think the only thing we are meant to take away from the film is that we cannot cheat our subconscious and that life is never as sweet without the sour.
@Joe Bloggs well I wouldn't have gotten in that car for sure, but I mean I don't think David was a bad guy. Maybe he wanted to give her a chance to talk about it. I don't think he got in the car with the intention to keep cheating. I think he just felt bad. He was even offended by what she told him before he got in the car.
I remember going to watch this movie with a friend when it came out and rt when Cruise is going into facial reconstruction surgery and is singing "what if God was one of us," we started to hear someone screaming for a doctor..I wasn't sure if it was in the film but all of the sudden the lights came up and the movie went off. I man was having a heart attack..people were trying to perform cpr and revive or keep him alive..ambulance arrived super quick and he was wheeled out but didn't look good. Everyone was just sitting in stunned silence. Then after a couple minutes someone came around with free movie passes and they started up the show again. It was a surreal experience while watching a surreal movie. True story folks.
"You were missed, David. It was Sofia who never fully recovered. It was she who somehow knew you best... and like you, she never forgot that one night where true love seemed possible." This words really hurt me
I watched this film in the summertime and didn't know what to think. But for some reason, I couldn't stop thinking about this movie for almost 6 months after my first viewing. After much thought, I decided to watch this movie again and I can safely say that I love it. No film has been able to impact me this much in a long long time. Wonderful movie!
My favorite line in this movie is at the beginning (during the house party) when he comes out of the kitchen holding 2 bags of ice and says, “Who wants ice?”---you have to watch the movie a few times to understand the irony of this line…he’s dead for the entire movie and his body is cryogenically frozen.
@@rocketsmall4547 Watch the movie a second or third time and you will get it. The entire movie is about his journey to figure out that he actually IS frozen. It isn't until the middle to end of the movie when his memory starts playing tricks on him and he appeals to tech support that he figures this out. Your premise that "he doesn't know that" is correct at the beginning of the movie (He has just started his recollection to McCabe--the Psychiatrist of his fantasy) but your conclusion that I am reading into nothing is 100% wrong...The fact that he realizes at the end that he is in fact a frozen dead man (and in a state of lucid dreaming as per the contract he signed with LE) adds even more to the irony of the statement at the beginning "Who wants ice?"
@@Francisthefootball aight due to ur very articulated response. i will try to watch the movie 2 more timez. will get back to u in few weeks. also. ice can also mean other things . like a slang for bad drug. or some very good agency pending who u ask. i know thats not what the movie is going. but as he is cryogenic frozen. there is really no ice involved. but to eachs own
@@rocketsmall4547RE: "ice can also mean other things" I absolutely agree and this is why I would suggest viewing the movie multiple times. You are correct that the movie is not primarily about drug use (as compared to say Fear and Loathing in Vegas for example) but David does ultimately end his own life with pills so I would agree that you could actually find another layer behind "Who wants Ice?" in that sense. Nice work! ... To go even farther down the rabbit hole of "ICE" as a bad drug in your interpretation, what about "ICE" as a bad trip/experience in general? (David literally takes a bad trip that leads to his disfigurement when he gets in the car with Julie. The trip David takes with McCabe leads him to the realization of his own death which is terrifying for him. I also like "ICE" as diamonds/material wealth as I think this would also apply to the movie or my favorite: "ICE" In Case of Emergency...Man I want to watch this movie again. Thank you.
Even if 90 per cent of the film consisted of dreams and imaginations you can't help but feel sad about the reality that actually took place. The fact that sofia didn't come back the next morning, his face was deformed and body was injured actually and the fact that all these things happened 150 years ago and hardly there was any reminisce of his actual life
I don't know why but it makes me so happy to see how many other people were so deeply affected by this movie. I don't personally know a lot of people who loved it and I always find myself in conversations defending it and trying to make them understand how amazing it is...
Sadly I never got into this movie when it came out. It was only years later that I finally watched it and it blew me away. I’ve watched it many times since, and it always has something new for me. A true cinematic treasure.
I remember being 15 trying to watch this one Netflix only to tune out and change movies. Now? What like 7 years later, this is probably my most favorite movie, the ending leaves me in tears every single time. The balls on them to touch on suicide a d mental health early 2000's
The psychologist represnts his ego, the two women order and chaos, the board members society, the best friend is his youth, the lawyers family... and many more metaphors. To me the story seems to hit a few points of spirituality and awakening. The vanilla sky seems be referring to a universal common deity we all can identify with.
BEST. Im agree with it👍 How about the ending? I think its about “Second Chance”, because He killing himself and still alive. “Do you believe in God David..?” And definitely life must go on and still free will
The end is clearly an analogy for death ('"see your life flashing before your eyes"), and implies an afterlife (opening your eyes to the next stage of existence). This could be the end of a coma, or moving on from a sort of purgatory (the disfiguration being a manifestation of the ugliness within that he has to come to terms with before moving on)-- either of which begins at the car crash.
Absolutely agree on this theory. The dream / purgatory state after the accident would explain the existence of a rather implausible LE company selling cryogen and lucid dreaming. David mind created "LE" based on the Benny the dog report and book by that writer.
I have been in a coma. And it was total darkness. Nothing. I believe there is nothing after death. You are just gone. For me I was in an accident and would never know I died. The surreal thing was waking up. But I like that idea for this ending.
Had a experience similar, pure black and odd enough to say the lack of fear of it when only accepting as nothing hurts no more. Might be a sign of existence to still be aware of the darkness.
You are right the movie contains the views in many religious practices and ideas. there was no company in reality called Life Extension,life extension is rather the purgatory states of the underworld found in catholicism and in both the tibetan and egyptian books of the dead (also the sideways alternate world at the end of the Lost tv series),where we must face what we did in our pass life before we can ascend to our afterlife.Open your eyes
He was in a coma the entire time. One long ass cinematic lucid dream. If you’ve ever successfully recognized you were in a dream, you quickly realize you are in complete control of everything and everyone. There’s is nothing like it. And nothing worse than having to wake up.
unless I'm under the influence of the correct cocktail of stimulating and tranquilizers, if I'm not very careful in remaining calm and not get overexcited, I almost instantly wake myself from lucid dream. but boy oh boy when I can stretch it on for a while and really manifest anything at all. Best sex ever
It would explain why he doesn’t remember what happened to him while he was in coma. Cause he’s still in it. It could even be possible that L.E is the name of the hospital that has him on life support. The tech support guy could simply be his doctor that’s taking care of him. It’s even possible that L.E is a research facility for comatose patients that researchers how to awaken those in coma as well as examine there dreams. There are numerous possibilities of how we can view the ending of the film. All of which can be logical or illogical, which is what makes the film unique in its own way. 👏
Nicholas Sainburg you can! I found a book at a flea market... 3 months later, after following its simple practice. My 12 years of nothing but night horrors and mares ended... I can now wake myself up 9/10 if I find myself in a bad dream, or totally change the whole situation. And 8/10 I can actually dream about seeing the people I want to to, my loved ones that have left too early... but it’s addictive, and I was living in my dreams for half a decade! And sleeping as much as possible... weird thing is, I remember my dreams as much as events that have happened in real life. Something I really believed to had happened for ten years, I only just realised I dreamt it! It becomes a blur... now I don’t do anything to try control my dreams except if it’s a nightmare, I’ll wake myself up. I did have a nightmare two weeks ago, and although I woke myself, I still thought it had happened for the first 30 mins of being awake.... thank god it was a dream... but it felt as real as typing this now does.
Totally agree. Love the fact they had leftfield, the chemical brothers and swayzak featured in this movies soundtrack. They couldn’t have picked a better track from Paul McCartney to play in this movie
I took the film as I imagine it was meant to be taken: He chose to wake up, in the now 150 years after he originally was put into the Dream. Technological advances means his face can be fixed, and he'll just restart his life in the future.
I always followed the theory that David is in a coma following the car accident. Everything after the car accident is David’s dream. I remember there was an LE commercial playing on the TV when David and Sofia are on the couch together. His dream unraveling is his subconscious trying to get him to wake up.
Kelly Michaelene it’s pretty much like that with every mindfuck film. The writers and producers let the audiences mind just wonder about what could be right or wrong (theoretically speaking).
Kelly Michaelene OMG IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND COHERENCE. I wanted to watch this film but couldn’t at the time and was trying to remember the name but couldn’t! Omggg and I haven’t seen mine games but looks interesting 👍🏼
I think it doesn't really matter which ending you decide on. A movie like this is like a painting: Whatever the artist intended, it's still up to interpretation. What matters most about this movie is the emotional insight you get. And this is where the movie shares something in common with other films like Inception or Interstellar. It's the powerful feeling of being "a lifetime apart" from someone. In the last moments of the movie, David knows (or believes) that Sofia died many years ago and they never had the life they could have had. This makes you acknowledge how precious life can be... In Inception, the similar theme is time. Leonardo di Caprio's character spent a lifetime in a dream with his wife, and even though it was only a dream and she killed herself in the (supposed) real world, they shared a lifetime together. In Interstellar, the main character and his children are separated by time and space, also spanning decades. This separation as well as the huge scale of time and distance can evoke big emotions, and this is also why Vanilla Sky works so well. It doesn't matter WHY the main character is dreaming, whether he's psychotic, in a coma or whatever. The notion of having lost the love of his life... of never having REALLY lived this relationship... and all the implications from that, this is the big meaningful stuff. Imagine this: If you are in a happy relationship with the love of your life, and both of you die at some point, what will really remain after that? What (if anything) remains when you have taken all your memories to your grave? That's the deep philosophical question to me.
I love this movie, always have. I feel like this was around the height of Tom's career, as he acted, disfigured, drunk, it's all fitting for the character of the story, and I believe there was a line between what he experienced irl and frozen in a lucid dreaming state. Honestly, enough of that was too real, especially if you see the cut original ending. This movie was moving for sure, and very cleverly written. It's far from a lot of pieces I've seen in my lifetime as of late, and I revisited it after not seeing that alternate ending, and seeking to see those differences in writing for what was shown, and for what could've been. It was amazing then, it still is amazing now, to me.
The actual ending as seen in the movie, ends with David waking up to a voice who's asking him to open his eyes. And the voice is from Sophie, Penelope Cruz, however we just learned that his entire love life with her was imagined, he's now 150 years later, and he's waking up from said dream. So why is he hearing her voice? That is what I wanted to know and why I came here. I have a different theory, that isn't explained. A variation of one of your five. The reality ended when he fell on the pavement, drunk, and the dream started there. But when he jumped off the skyscraper to wake up from the dream he'd imagined after that, he died from the fall (within the dream) and as he "wakes up", the L.V. company inserts him into yet another dream where Sophie is as real as can be, confusing him into believing what was real after all. That the whole L.V. company itself wasn't real, the 150 years wasn't real, his death wasn't real, and he certainly didn't kill Sophie nor Julie, but had the true love with Sophie after all. However, this is all speculation on merely the fact that we hear her voice in the supposed reality where he wakes up in, at the final second of the movie.
This was my thought too. Tech Support doesn’t really tell him how he’s supposed to opt back into the dream, if he wanted to do that instead of “wake up.”
After she went to his memorial she decided to be cryofreezed and woke up when Tom Cruise did 150 years into the future. She did say I'll see you in another life when we are both cats.
What I gather from all this is Tom Cruise is some how still underrated as an actor and for my money no one has managed to combine blockbusters and taking acting to an art form at such a high level as Cruise. It's subjective but he maybe the best movie actor to ever do it. We'll miss him when he's finished.
@@anubusx.. there was supposedly going to be a prequel to EoT about Vrataski's time loop at Verdun, though obviously there'd be no reason for Cage to appear..
I think David died in the crash and he was in purgatory the whole time during the movie until the end where he finally goes to heaven, I don’t know though I’m not a religious person but there is definitely something about the after life going on here
Jokester954 I know same here. I’m still baffled on the reviews this film got back in 2001. Just like the movie stay this film is another underrated and poorly misunderstood gem that deserves a second look.
I believe he is finally waking up from his coma. During the coma he kept having dreams he could never escape/wake up from. Just recurring dreams within his coma.
I love this movie, even though it's been years since I last saw it, I was able to see the original Spanish film before Vanilla Sky was released and I prefer Vanilla Sky, took everything to another level... one of Cruise's most underrated films.
She'd told him they'd be together in the next life. She never got over him because he held her to her promise. In his suicide note he left her instructions that if she meant it then be frozen too when she died. That's why her voice is there when he wakes up.
The first time I saw this movie, it was in a tent in Kuwait. It was at night, and just shortly before I invaded Iraq in 2003. The themes of this movie mixed in an amazing way with the situation I was in at the time. I'm not one to get too wrapped up in any movie plot. It's difficult for me to suspend my disbelief for the 2 hours it takes to watch a film. In this case, I was thoroughly captured by this movie. It was as if I were IN this picture show for those hours. I believe it did help to ground me, with the level of anxiety I was experiencing at the time. It illustrates the power of art to change our lives at any given moment. There is always a message expressed by the artist, to the audience, that can transcend space and time. Not every person is the right audience at the right time to receive that message, but when they are, it can be life changing.
There is so much to love about this movie, the soundtrack, the rabbit hole David seems to go down into...its a mind bending ride. It definitely makes a statement about making choices and how you choose to live your life. This is one of my favorites.
I watched this movie tonight and finished it a few minutes ago, simply because the title of this video caught my attention as I've watched many others of your "Movie Endings Explained". So I thought... "Why not give it a watch?".. Definitely one of my favorite movies now.
my best friend watched this movie and lost his mind. he would ramble about it constantly, i talked with him about 3 nights in a row till the sun came up, just weird shit. shit that only made sense to him. and the weirdest part is he was completely normal before hand. on the fourth night he killed himself. to this day i don’t understand it but i know it was a result of this movie flipping something in his head. not saying anything against this movie at all, just stating the facts. he was my best friend for almost ten years. still miss him. still wish i could talk to him about it. i should of watched it then, maybe i could of helped more. rip sean fox.
Wow, I'm sorry for your loss, friend. I can see a movie like this doing that to someone. The ambiguous style it deals with existential questions can be a mind f%#kc if you're not grounded enough. This is the kind of movie that makes me wonder if everything I know is just a dream, my parents, my siblings, etc. That's not easy if you're not in a position mentally to ground yourself to the here and now.
This is one of those movies I could watch any time, I own a copy. But I have only ever seen it the once. Perhaps, someday, when I am ready, I will watch it again.
I havent seen it in years. This morning as I woke up the line open your eyes came to my mind. I decided to watch it because of that. It was amazing. I find it interesting that the late 90s and early 2000s were all about the mind, The Matrix, The Game, Vanilla Sky.. Being John Malkovitch.. In those movies there is a seamless line between illusion and reality.
A metaphysical view The repeated lines ‘the sweet is never as sweet w/o the sour’ and ‘every passing minute is a chance to turn it all around’ are relevant to St John of the Cross’ classic poem about The Dark Night of the soul. In this painful process one’s hidden (repressed) ‘ugly’ side is * faced*; unconscious pain becomes real and raw. In this purification process one transcends the ego based sense of self which is often called the false self, and represented as a mask. This same metaphysical process is described in Jung’s Red Book The ‘purified” state beyond the ego-self is called “The Real” by psychoanalyst Jacque Lacan The Real is a place of true happiness b/c all desire actually comes from lack or emptiness. What we truly are is not lack-based or empty. The realization of this is true happiness, but the journey or dark night of discovery of this is hellish as one must face unconscious fears which seem very real as they come up. It can feel like dying but it is the death of the false self. This is the true metaphysical meaning of being born again. One must die to the illusions of the false self, which actually causes unhappy with its constant desire which misdirects one from true happiness. Thus the movie line “what is happiness to you?”
I probably watch this movie annually. I'm kind of obsessed with it. "As deep as you want to go with it..." is pretty deep in my case. I always wanted a sequel but, of course, that would ruin it.
One of the ending voices is Julie's the other Sopia's, playing on the character's inability to distinguish the two..as was the case earlier in the film
Vanilla Sky is a great movie, with an incredible soundtrack, probably the best soundtrack ever to be in a movie, from Radiohead to Sigur Ros, the songs selected work so well, and sound so dreamy too, and despite never hearing of lucid dreaming until this point, i did have many dreams when i was younger which i knew were dreams while dreaming, though these went away as i got older. Since watching this film, I got heavily into lucid dreaming, and it changed everything about my life, how i see life, how i interact with everything that surrounds me. Vanilla Sky is probably my favourite film ever!
David's lucid dream happens after the clubbing scene. He's depressed as he thinks there no chance of getting Sofia back. He visits LE Website. And the lucid dream is the entire 2nd half of the movie. The ending is clear that he wakes up into the real world. The film simply teaches us what happens if you choose a wrong pathway. Ie. Getting into the car with Julie. Top film!
Theres one thing i dont get. If after signing the contract with the LE people he was given the chance to choose a moment and live his lucid dream from that moment on, why didnt he choose to go back to his life before the accident, or before jumping into Julie's car?
Maybe because that night when he fell asleep on the side of the street was the last night he ever saw sofia and he didn't wanted to let go of that memory as it happened after the accident
Perhaps in reality he's just an ugly man, and Sofia, Julie, others are all dreams. That moment was the most romantic that he saw in a movie (on deleted scenes), so that is the moment he wants to continue to dream instead of waking up.
Because then Julie Gianni would still exist in that timeline. And in reality Julie probably died in the crash and David didn’t want anything to do with her anymore
I am a big fan of genre-bending movies & that’s one of the reasons I love Vanilla Sky. It begins as a brief psychological drama, then flashes back into a doomed love story, bounces back & forth between hopeful romance & psychological drama with a side of horror before finally settling into an oddly satisfying science fiction finale. One of my favorite films!
If one believes that nothing is real. Then nothing means anything and nothing matters. Quoting the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland "If you don't know where you are going. Then it doesn't matter which road you take."
This movie was important for many people whom have suffered from car accidents!! Life altering vehicle collisions that changed their; relationships, reality, nightmares, etc.
I like to think that the ending is really just a "reboot" and the story picks up again where David is woken up on the street by Sofia the morning after they went to the nightclub.
My personal easter egg ending is that Tom Cruise wakes up to any film he made afterwards. He stars alongside "Julie"(Diaz) in _Knight and Day_ and "Edmund Ventura/Tech Support" in _Edge of Tomorrow,_ but in reality it's just different Lucid Dreams David is having with people he remembers from his actual life.
So the ending - did he actually woke up (into new world - in actual reality) or was the Sofia's voice ,,wake up''just a stimulation for another lucid dreaming? Does anyone know? It seems as if the ending was purposely made to be open for the speculations..but does anyone really know the right version of it?
I believe everything after the accident is a dream in a coma. He just wake up from coma and sofia is greeding him. Someone in the comments explains this very good
Everyone says it’s sofias voice at the end but idk… for some reason I can confirm within myself that it is actually her. It’s sounds like a generic white girl to me.
@@Game-ib3ql He might have never been frozen, Life Extensions might have never existed. He might have been in a coma, but as said in the movie: when you're in a coma you don't remember anything when you wake up. I like this interpretation, but it would only be true for the first version because as he does he hears the voice of Sophia. In the second (2015) version he hears an unfamiliar voice, which I think means he does in fact wake up 150 years later.
@@followyourbliss2404it's true I was in a coma 8 days on life support, remember nothing yet life in my mind was continuing on but with slight differences. When you wake up and tell people, they don't believe you. Like the doctor didn't believe David.
Good movie. I actually bought it retro on VHS at Goodwill the other day and watched it Sunday again for the first time in a long while. It’s one of those films you need to watch several times and set aside all the distractions.
This soundtrack is amazing. I remember this movie from college and I still think of it as I go through all the chapters in my life. Fantastic life lessons I think about a lot. I love the beginning when he was concerned about a single gray hair and oh how his life changed even worse than a tiny gray hair. I think back on all my young worries and time wasted in my life in my 20s and 30s. I’m currently in my late 30s with an awesome family. Life gets frustrating at times- it’s not easy supporting a family and it can get crazy sometimes. Working 3 jobs and having my older son Crosley calling me begging me to come home to play tears me apart. I try to stay awake during this crazy time of raising two kids 5 and under to all the joys we are experiencing in the mist of chaos. I try to embrace the chaos and am trying to enjoy every moment. I think about how one day I will look back on all my current worries and stresses and all the time I missed with my family just to work 3 jobs and how the time with my boys is going by so fast. I’ll look back and say those are were the good old days, why didn’t you enjoy them more? So that’s what I’m trying to do- enjoy every moment and be grateful. I love my family so much and try to invest in my boys and students everyday. What an honor and privilege to be a teacher. What just happened? All I wanted to say was that I really liked Vanilla Sky’s soundtrack.
I always took it at face value where he really was under cryo freezing but this video pointed out (at 9:07) the banging on the glass scene. Wow. It's almost like that was intentionally used to create keep it cryptic and unknown. Excellent film. A work of art.
You did chose that. It is why you are still here, in the Earth-life program. Do you wish for the highly intelligent and advanced e.t.'s running all this to select another program for you?
But what about when the funds run out? Do they just use your to gratify the sadistic and voyeuristic pleasures of some ''audience''. The tech guy on the roof seems to imply as much.
I used to think that the dreaming began when David fell asleep at Sofia's house and he had a horrible nightmare. Or he could have had that dream while in a coma the entire time too because in 2001, suspended animation wasn't back the.
Honestly feel like in the end he was stuck in a coma and essentially everything from there was him dreaming in that state, everyone keeps telling him to wake up throughout the film. Then at the end when someone tells him to open is eyes/wake up he is waking up from his coma. 10/10
Either the life extension never existed and was just his coma dream, face never disfigured etc or it was real. Either sofia was frozen too so greeted him when he woke up because she awoke from her lucid dream too, or, she was simply there once he awoke from his coma. In either way she was there in the end because that was clearly her Voice.
I actually started out watching this movie thinking is was a lame early 2000s romantic comedy. I stuck with it, and how wrong I was. Vanilla Sky is the greatest mind-f*ck of a movie experience I’ve had since The Matrix.
In my opinion, the jumping off the building is the previously programmed way the character selected to reset the lucid dream. He knew how stubborn and spoiled he was. He was spoiled, and wanted a perfect life. He knew he would have to shake himself to the core in order to choose to reset the dream. He knew that he wouldn't simply follow the customer service agent after a simple bar encounter, so he knew he had to go through all of this drama in order to reset the dream. I think he is still in the dream, convinced that he woke up. In a new dream, perhaps with slight obstacles that keep him grounded this time. That's what I would have chosen.
I really liked the film, but I kind of wish that the ending wasn't a full explanation, and somehow provided clues but remained somewhat ambiguous... you know, made the viewer try and figure it out.
I totally agree and whenever writers or filmmakers create these ambiguous endings where you yourself have to try to figure out what happened , I feel cheated somehow . If it wasn't for that one fact with this film this would have been one of my favorite films but it was so frustrating trying to figure it out. I never re-watched the movie after the first time I rented it all those years ago . Whenever writers and filmmakers do ambiguous endings it almost feels CHEAP . If a person is telling a story they should tell it instead of leaving it open-ended . Even though it's a great movie is ambiguous ending made it less great
I feel like he actually died right in the beginning when the truck almost hit him and this whole movie has been him in a coma and now he’s finally waking up at the end. Everything in between was just him dreaming in the coma. I lucid dream a lot and find myself calling out to someone for help sometimes. He could just be doing the same to help him get out of his coma once he realizes it’s not real.
Vanilla sky is a movie about a dream the psychologist had. The whole movie took place inside a dream of Kurt Russell's character McCabe. All the signs are there,..... Mccabe had 2 daughters, represented as Sophia and Julie. David David also represented the young womanizer the psychologist always wanted to be but chose a family life. Benny the dog frozen for 3 months and then coming back to life… fantasy dreamworld. Sophia saying open your eyes in the beginning of the movie, Frozen heads in side freezers dreamworld.And in the alternate ending mccabe is absolutely freaking out that David will jump off the roof, Subconsciously he knew it would be the end of the dream and his dream character. Many signs the whole movie was the doctor's dream and when he woke his name was actually David at the end. It was the doctor's wife that said open his eyes at the very ending.
i liked the alt ending, bc it wasn't sophia's voice. sophia would be long dead in 2151. "don't do it" and "i wanna wake up" are HEAVY lines of dialogue that i think belong there. overall, you can honestly choose to jump off the train whenever you want. i don't think he survived the crash at all. "i lost you when i got in that car" maybe i'm insane, but i've had a couple of near-death experiences, and i think death is a vanilla sky. all the info, the same stuff your dreams is made of, all just smears together into an incoherent blur of what was and what you saw and how you felt and what might have been. all the electrical impulses fire simultaneously, one last time..."your whole life passes before your eyes" and your body and mind cry out to wake just once more, then it's over. no black screen, no light at the end, it just jumbles together like clouds do when you've stared too long. this movie starts off as plot, but ends as emotion. it gives me a sense of impending loss, peaceful resolve to face death and reality together. it reminds me of each little choice we make and how profound it may be if it were the last you ever made. it makes me feel like maybe love isn't that important bc we die so alone. on the technical tip, tho. cruise, while not at his best here, he can OMG act thru a mask! seriously, he's oscar-caliber. in each and every scene he is wearing that mask, you realize that you don't NEED to see him bc he's fucking tom cruise. this film is also Cameron Diaz's finest moment. her role is small, but powerful and perfectly executed.
Simply the best, as a huge fan of this dream, living my life as David Aames since 2001. Dreams are sweet and nightmares are sour, and the sweet is never as sweet without the sour🙌 cheers
The movie is taking place as the car is crashing and he lives an entire life from the time the car goes over the edge until he dies along with the driver when it hits bottom. Much like an old Vietnam flick where the veteran lives an entire lifetime between the time he leaps into the air to save his fellow service members from a grenade that has been tossed at them until when he lands and then dies when the grenade kills him. He envisions himself getting up off of a dud grenade much like David does when he wakes up disfigured from the car crash.
It's about life being a dream. At the end he experiences a summary of all his memories before transitioning to the other side. It's about the other side, to be the real reality, and this life being a dream. At the same time it's trying to imply that it's an easy choice to end a life or to decide if that life can start after an incubation period in a cryonics experiment. I can see a future where people pay for a cryonics experiment with two hundred years of conservation, just to be terminated after a short time span.
Was watching a party of the movie the other day, it got me wondering about the ending. This was the first video I watched on it; and the last. You explained it so perfectly on all aspects that I was satisfied. You make some good, quality content man. I usually have to watch 4 others to get it. Hope you keep up the good work!
My theory - the entire movie is him in a coma, David survives an overdose (how he remembers killing himself). Film start's with Sofia says "Open your eyes" x5, he consistently can't control dreams and ends with "wake up". He's living an ordinary man's DREAM: Bachelor life, power, George Lucas at your party, all girls want you, even your best friends date. Overthrow the big bosses out to get you. Sci-fi 3d holograms. Being resurrected/eternal life... "REAL true love". He's describes his "real" life McCabe (who's not real), but his real life haunts him: the empty times square screeches a busy life (headache). Betrayal of a girl and friend. "Money". Rejection. Maybe "not facing the consequences"of his "promises" was true. A cruel joke and he can't wake up. Maybe he was "just a guy snowboarding through his life with no focus", with fear/jealousy of his father's adventure. Maybe Julia was his wife. Why, of the few things that flash before the end of his (real) life is "Goodbye honey"? He doesn't even remember the party where he met Sofia. "Party? What party?" Followed later by; "here's what you remember from a coma - nothing". The message is all in the Title /end credit song: "You're gonna fly so high in the sky" but... "your life is fine, it's sweet and sour...don't blow it away"
I remember a theatre in Vancouver at the time had a double feature where OPEN YOUR EYES and VANILLA SKY played as a double bill. Saw it a few times there.
I noticed on the alternate ending there was a double wake up. The first wake up "open your eyes david, you're going to be fine" not sofia's voice. The second wake up "relax david, open your eyes" but this time its louder and is Sofia's voice. The same way it was on the radio throughout the movie. The double wake up is not in the original ending. I think the double wakeup implies another potential ending. Where he wakes up into reality, and then in a blink (since memory would be erased) he wakes up again in the lucid dream. Probably implying he rejoined the real world and things did not work out and he went back to the dream, but maybe it implies something else. Regardless, I think the double wakeup is very significant a difference. It feels like it was specifically designed to say something. Maybe what it is saying is as simple as- he was taking his fictional life with her, with him into the real world as memories or possibly delusions.
There is no double wake up actially it's just the creator of this video put the original ending followed by the alternate ending straight afterwards. It's a bit confusing but the creator of this video does state that's what they are going to show you.
End of the day. It harkens back to the ending of Inception and that wonderful quote from, of all movies, Free Guy. It doesn't matter whether the top stops spinning, doesn't matter whether Sofia is at the end and doesn't matter whether it was all a game world all along. What matters is what's real. And what's real, despite all the illusions, is this moment right here, right now. As long as I'm content with it, it doesn't matter what pill you offer me, red or blue. They're one and the same.
I think it took him 150 years to come to term with losing the love of his life in that short time they had in reality. In doing this at the rooftop it was his way of letting go. Just my thought
So many times in my life I've felt like screaming "Tech support!"
I must remember this next time I'm having a nightmare, lol.
Well even without tech support you still know what to do to wake up.
LMFAO
That's a new one for me to use. I often think to myself that I want to go back into the matrix. Dreaming is often better than reality.
@@quietcorner293 no. This world Is the matrix. The real world is much worse than this.
For Some reason, I still think about this movie over 15 years later.
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I saw this movie late at night in 2002.
It very well influenced me in several ways, one of them being Russell's character of McGabe.
I had just lost my father months earlier, and even before then he was never around much since my parents were divorced.
That scene when LE is explaining to David how McGabe was a creation of his mind made from characters like Atticus Finch as a projection of what having a father could be like hit me extremely hard emotionally.
I didn't know much about my dad beyond superficial stuff, and realizing how many experiences I would never have and only guess what they felt like, similar to David...
... I just never let that feeling go.
It's been nearly 16 years later, and not a week goes by I don't think of it.
Because it's one of the best movies ever made. It has to be the most underrated movie of all time.
Wow me too that’s why I’m here
bc they don't often make movies this good. pretty simple.
I just honestly wanna say that when I was about 16 and saw this movie, it changed me... And that's the magic with movies.
Johnson82ish a
i also remembered that many years ago i saw it and i didn't liked it but one week ago i re-watched it for free juts using boxxy software and included it in my fav list
What was so magical about it? What realization did it leave you with? I just finished it and couldn't stand it. Just in awe that ppl adore this, kinda need to get insight on others views.
Moose Chip Basically, the movie envokes feelings of loneliness, love and the loss of love. It makes you more mindful that every decision, no matter how miniscule could change your life. "Every minute is a new chance to turn it all around". It also shows the importance of valuing every minute of life, because we don't know if it will last long.
Johnson82ish when I was 17 I seen this.. and I was an idiot and completely did not get it.. ten years later it blew my fucking mind.. guess I passed the idiot test
“I want to live a real life. I don’t want to dream any longer.”
I’ve said that quote to myself so many times over the years. It’s simple, it’s lovely, yet so tragic and sad at the same time. In many ways we never get beyond just existing, trapped in our own thoughts and dreams. Hoping to find the hidden door to our real life, and watching as the minutes, hours, and days pass by.
That said, I think it’s so achingly beautiful that we all keep trying.
Touching words man
Most people sadly live their lives for other people worried about being judged. Once we stop living for others is when we can live a real life.
@@kawehionalani Not caring what others think is hard. I've tried before but it was a logistical nightmare. Where's the line you cross before just being yourself and not caring what others think blurs into narcissism and being a bad person. It's hard to balance because no man is an island. At the end of the day we care what others think because we care about others. We live our lives for other people all the time. If you were the last human on Earth I doubt you'd wanna live very long. I've said it once and I'll die saying it: our ultimate purpose and drive for living comes from other people. We watch movies with people in them, play video games with people in them, read books about people, etc. We're such a social species we have the uncanny ability of seeing faces in practically everything from clouds to the front of cars because our instincts put so much emphasis on not missing out on an interaction with another person. Even if it means seeing people where there are none.
People are the focal point of our lives. That's why it's so hard to just stop caring what they think because on some level you're ignoring a part of the reason you're alive and your ultimate purpose.
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Lucid dreams, altered consciousness, cryogenic life suspension... So many futuristic and incredible things in this movie. But the thing I find most incredible is tech support actually coming through and getting it right on the first try.
It wasn't futuristic at all. It's a remake. It just seems futuristic back then cause we didn't have that information about psychological stuff cause the internet was shite but if you know about psyche then you would get it. It just became common today cause lucid dreaming was a trend on socials in 2011ish/the age of creepy pasta.
Did you try turning it off and back on?
I just finished watching it again for the third time since it was released. The older I get the more I really appreciate it for the way it makes you think about life choices, regrets, and love
Yeah man, completely agree..
Life is the video game just keep playing and respect the rules
I don't like the way it talks about "true love". It just seems cheesy and we all know why it was "true love" right? He was a rich handsome witty guy and she was a sweet caring gorgeous woman. If sophia had not been so beautiful, would there have still been "true love" lol probably not.
@@stephenperry9042 beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Alternative theory: there was no option for him to “wake up”
The simulation just lies to him so when he thinks he is waking up, he just restarts in the simulation. No exit.
First time I’ve heard this one, and I think we have a winner. What an incredible thought/theory
Woah, I guess it's just assumed technology has improved in the future to revive him
I hope not, otherwise it’s super tragic 😢
NICE TAKE
@@Kiyoshi_9606 it gave me no pleasure to arrive at that as a possibility since it is actually extremely depressing LOL
Everything post accident is a coma and Sofie is greeting him as he wakes from it. Cameron gives you all the clues you need in the photos and videos flashing quickly as David is falling. There was no cryogenic freezing; that was something his mind created after seeing Benny the dog before leaving the apartment. His coma turned into a nightmare fueled by guilt, fear and love. The guilt of being careless with those he cared for, and the fear of losing the women he just fell hopelessly in love with. Tech support was his subconscious telling him he was dreaming, and he was given the choice to stay in the coma or wake up. And as you know, every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around. So David now has another opportunity to be a better friend, boss and man for Sophie.
I think that this is the only explanation that makes the movie worth it to me.
Nope....everything from beginning till end was a dream
Uh he was for sure frozen.
Good interpretation.
Thank you this makes sense
Such an underrated film.
What did you exactly like about it? Plot that stays abstract and peppered with deus ex machina everywhere.. I couldn't see this as even a fundamentally produced movie. I finished it wondering how someone could like this.
"Such an underrated film."
By whom?
@Jimmy Peeps
"Critics hated it."
The same critics (or some of them) who praised '12 Years a Slave' and 'Monster', both utter garbage? These critics are morons.
I doubt either film was based on 'true events' especially 'Monster'. Serial killers (male or female) have simply been invented by the media.
I remember when it came out it got most bad reviews. After watching I fell in love with it. It was one of the most profound movies for me from this time period. Possibly all 3 of the actors best roles.
yeah......i too loved it. The whole idea..playboy (living the dream) then suffers life changing injuries (lives like normal people)
WHAT if...what if he never got in the car........
I truly don't love any other film the way I love this one. Vanilla Sky is a brilliant masterpiece and I won't apologize for feeling that way. Tom Cruise's best film.
Agree on that
Copycat and worst ending so sad
Original spanish is way better
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No man, that remake is little better.
I adore it too but it’s not re beat just because Tom makes so so so many great movies Mi series, edge of Tomorrow, a few good men, eyes wide shut, minority report, Valkyrie.
I think the face value ending makes the most sense. It is also a moral ending since David learned the hard way not to play with people's feelings - Brian - and Julie and Sofia too. He got into the car - having just met the supposed love of his life - maybe thinking he could keep Julie as a fuck buddy. As Sofia said to him - I wish you had never got into that car. It's the little things like getting into a car that make the difference - in David's case between a life of true happiness - and a nightmare of his own making.
So true, I agree
Agree.. Also in the film I remember the phrase "its the little things that shape the big things" him getting in the car when he had already witnessed Julie being a a stalker was his mistake. It removed him from the love of his life. He made a bad choice. Seemed small at the time but it shaoed his whole future.
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"Face" value. Nice 👉👉
As a SciFi geek I'm okay with and like the literal narrative. From a storytellers heartstrings point of view you're answer is a close call for best effect.
However, in the literal narrative the idea that David is willing to leave his opportunity to be happy in his dream with Sofia because of the chance of finding her again in another life....when they are both cats. That line is so much the personality of Sofia, so original to David, that his mind could not generate her and her fresh input into his being....
So David Jumps....to find Sofia again for REAL.
I've watched this movie like a hundred times. I believe the ending is left vague because its not important. It would lessen the value of the ending if it were any more clear. I think the only thing we are meant to take away from the film is that we cannot cheat our subconscious and that life is never as sweet without the sour.
@Joe Bloggs well I wouldn't have gotten in that car for sure, but I mean I don't think David was a bad guy. Maybe he wanted to give her a chance to talk about it. I don't think he got in the car with the intention to keep cheating. I think he just felt bad. He was even offended by what she told him before he got in the car.
@Star Espinal she guilt tripped him for sure, but I don't think she knew she was going to kill herself that day.
Very well said.
I remember going to watch this movie with a friend when it came out and rt when Cruise is going into facial reconstruction surgery and is singing "what if God was one of us," we started to hear someone screaming for a doctor..I wasn't sure if it was in the film but all of the sudden the lights came up and the movie went off. I man was having a heart attack..people were trying to perform cpr and revive or keep him alive..ambulance arrived super quick and he was wheeled out but didn't look good. Everyone was just sitting in stunned silence. Then after a couple minutes someone came around with free movie passes and they started up the show again. It was a surreal experience while watching a surreal movie. True story folks.
WOW thats crazy
And I had lunch with Michael Jackson.
@@iOpurrrate Is that why you're so butt-hurt? Buzz off gnat.
"You were missed, David. It was Sofia who never fully recovered. It was she who somehow knew you best... and like you, she never forgot that one night where true love seemed possible."
This words really hurt me
"I really want to make sweet love to a schoolboy" - Lloyd Christmas, Dumb and Dumber.
It's beautiful
Seen this movie twice and both times that part made me cry 😢
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but she dumped him
Holy shit I can’t believe Ellie was actually LE as in Life Extension. David’s mind was trying to tell him that this was in fact all a dream
Right!!!!
Oh snap I didn't even realize until now
I just miss Sofia
You only met her once!!
@@creepymarinettedupain-chen6040 and loved her all his life :-)
I watched this film in the summertime and didn't know what to think. But for some reason, I couldn't stop thinking about this movie for almost 6 months after my first viewing. After much thought, I decided to watch this movie again and I can safely say that I love it. No film has been able to impact me this much in a long long time. Wonderful movie!
My favorite line in this movie is at the beginning (during the house party) when he comes out of the kitchen holding 2 bags of ice and says, “Who wants ice?”---you have to watch the movie a few times to understand the irony of this line…he’s dead for the entire movie and his body is cryogenically frozen.
but he doesn't know that. so it makes no sense. u are reading into nothing
@@rocketsmall4547 Watch the movie a second or third time and you will get it. The entire movie is about his journey to figure out that he actually IS frozen. It isn't until the middle to end of the movie when his memory starts playing tricks on him and he appeals to tech support that he figures this out. Your premise that "he doesn't know that" is correct at the beginning of the movie (He has just started his recollection to McCabe--the Psychiatrist of his fantasy) but your conclusion that I am reading into nothing is 100% wrong...The fact that he realizes at the end that he is in fact a frozen dead man (and in a state of lucid dreaming as per the contract he signed with LE) adds even more to the irony of the statement at the beginning "Who wants ice?"
@@Francisthefootball aight due to ur very articulated response. i will try to watch the movie 2 more timez.
will get back to u in few weeks.
also. ice can also mean other things . like a slang for bad drug. or some very good agency pending who u ask. i know thats not what the movie is going. but as he is cryogenic frozen. there is really no ice involved. but to eachs own
@@rocketsmall4547RE: "ice can also mean other things" I absolutely agree and this is why I would suggest viewing the movie multiple times. You are correct that the movie is not primarily about drug use (as compared to say Fear and Loathing in Vegas for example) but David does ultimately end his own life with pills so I would agree that you could actually find another layer behind "Who wants Ice?" in that sense. Nice work! ...
To go even farther down the rabbit hole of "ICE" as a bad drug in your interpretation, what about "ICE" as a bad trip/experience in general? (David literally takes a bad trip that leads to his disfigurement when he gets in the car with Julie. The trip David takes with McCabe leads him to the realization of his own death which is terrifying for him.
I also like "ICE" as diamonds/material wealth as I think this would also apply to the movie or my favorite: "ICE" In Case of Emergency...Man I want to watch this movie again. Thank you.
@@Francisthefootball ok i watched it. was pretty good. good film. i can probably watch it a few more times and find more things i missed. later
Even if 90 per cent of the film consisted of dreams and imaginations you can't help but feel sad about the reality that actually took place. The fact that sofia didn't come back the next morning, his face was deformed and body was injured actually and the fact that all these things happened 150 years ago and hardly there was any reminisce of his actual life
*spoilers* 😂
Exactly
@@Justth1nk41nceWhy TF would you be in a _"Vanilla Sky Movie Ending... Explained"_ video if you don't want any spoilers? lmao
I don't know why but it makes me so happy to see how many other people were so deeply affected by this movie. I don't personally know a lot of people who loved it and I always find myself in conversations defending it and trying to make them understand how amazing it is...
Sadly I never got into this movie when it came out. It was only years later that I finally watched it and it blew me away. I’ve watched it many times since, and it always has something new for me. A true cinematic treasure.
I remember being 15 trying to watch this one Netflix only to tune out and change movies.
Now? What like 7 years later, this is probably my most favorite movie, the ending leaves me in tears every single time.
The balls on them to touch on suicide a d mental health early 2000's
It doesn’t feel like a real movie
i didnt like it. thought it was nonsense and full of bs
i had no ideal what the movie is about. after this video. it still blows. garbage film
@@rocketsmall4547 yeah for real bro. Fkn movie was too complex it made me feel dumb >:(
Complex films are bad just shoot stuff!!!!
@@lXedalinl unfortunately we do need stupid people to clean the toilets of real thinking human beings.
probably one of my all time favorite movies. I always just have interpreted it straight up. they already provided the twist.
The psychologist represnts his ego, the two women order and chaos, the board members society, the best friend is his youth, the lawyers family... and many more metaphors. To me the story seems to hit a few points of spirituality and awakening. The vanilla sky seems be referring to a universal common deity we all can identify with.
BEST. Im agree with it👍 How about the ending? I think its about “Second Chance”, because He killing himself and still alive. “Do you believe in God David..?” And definitely life must go on and still free will
I was with you until you assumed all people can identofy woth a universal deity.
I'm an atheist 😉
@@turbo8628 me too brother
i prefer the matrix more.This movie is creepy
Turbo 86 YAH is God
The end is clearly an analogy for death ('"see your life flashing before your eyes"), and implies an afterlife (opening your eyes to the next stage of existence).
This could be the end of a coma, or moving on from a sort of purgatory (the disfiguration being a manifestation of the ugliness within that he has to come to terms with before moving on)-- either of which begins at the car crash.
Absolutely agree on this theory. The dream / purgatory state after the accident would explain the existence of a rather implausible LE company selling cryogen and lucid dreaming. David mind created "LE" based on the Benny the dog report and book by that writer.
I have been in a coma. And it was total darkness. Nothing. I believe there is nothing after death. You are just gone. For me I was in an accident and would never know I died. The surreal thing was waking up.
But I like that idea for this ending.
Had a experience similar, pure black and odd enough to say the lack of fear of it when only accepting as nothing hurts no more. Might be a sign of existence to still be aware of the darkness.
You are right the movie contains the views in many religious practices and ideas. there was no company in reality called Life Extension,life extension is rather the purgatory states of the underworld found in catholicism and in both the tibetan and egyptian books of the dead (also the sideways alternate world at the end of the Lost tv series),where we must face what we did in our pass life before we can ascend to our afterlife.Open your eyes
He was in a coma the entire time. One long ass cinematic lucid dream. If you’ve ever successfully recognized you were in a dream, you quickly realize you are in complete control of everything and everyone. There’s is nothing like it. And nothing worse than having to wake up.
unless I'm under the influence of the correct cocktail of stimulating and tranquilizers, if I'm not very careful in remaining calm and not get overexcited, I almost instantly wake myself from lucid dream. but boy oh boy when I can stretch it on for a while and really manifest anything at all. Best sex ever
I wish I could learn how to lucid dream
It would explain why he doesn’t remember what happened to him while he was in coma. Cause he’s still in it. It could even be possible that L.E is the name of the hospital that has him on life support. The tech support guy could simply be his doctor that’s taking care of him. It’s even possible that L.E is a research facility for comatose patients that researchers how to awaken those in coma as well as examine there dreams. There are numerous possibilities of how we can view the ending of the film. All of which can be logical or illogical, which is what makes the film unique in its own way. 👏
Nicholas Sainburg you can! I found a book at a flea market... 3 months later, after following its simple practice. My 12 years of nothing but night horrors and mares ended... I can now wake myself up 9/10 if I find myself in a bad dream, or totally change the whole situation. And 8/10 I can actually dream about seeing the people I want to to, my loved ones that have left too early...
but it’s addictive, and I was living in my dreams for half a decade! And sleeping as much as possible...
weird thing is, I remember my dreams as much as events that have happened in real life. Something I really believed to had happened for ten years, I only just realised I dreamt it!
It becomes a blur...
now I don’t do anything to try control my dreams except if it’s a nightmare, I’ll wake myself up.
I did have a nightmare two weeks ago, and although I woke myself, I still thought it had happened for the first 30 mins of being awake.... thank god it was a dream... but it felt as real as typing this now does.
@@GregSmith-wf6hq same mate, day after a heavy session of drink and drugs I have very vivid lucid dreams which I can control crazy stuff
The music on this film is class
I agree
I agree ...i have a lot of the songs downloaded
Totally agree. Love the fact they had leftfield, the chemical brothers and swayzak featured in this movies soundtrack. They couldn’t have picked a better track from Paul McCartney to play in this movie
The part when he is smothering Julia/Sofia is brilliant with the songs fading in and out over the top
Was there a Bjork track there like the original
I like to think the ending is David waking up from the surgery to repair his face.
Good one!
This is a valid 6th theory
@@bbyjazzjane Agree.
Could be!! anothe possible interpretation, they are all valid
The movie was an entire dream
I took the film as I imagine it was meant to be taken: He chose to wake up, in the now 150 years after he originally was put into the Dream. Technological advances means his face can be fixed, and he'll just restart his life in the future.
I always followed the theory that David is in a coma following the car accident. Everything after the car accident is David’s dream. I remember there was an LE commercial playing on the TV when David and Sofia are on the couch together. His dream unraveling is his subconscious trying to get him to wake up.
Daeff Emoline Jackson Nice pull! There's so many details in the film.
But isn't it Penelope Cruz at the beginning saying open ur eyes in Spanish and English?
Kelly Michaelene it’s pretty much like that with every mindfuck film. The writers and producers let the audiences mind just wonder about what could be right or wrong (theoretically speaking).
Kelly Michaelene you seen the film triangle? A mindfuck film that should be watched 👍🏼
Kelly Michaelene OMG IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND COHERENCE. I wanted to watch this film but couldn’t at the time and was trying to remember the name but couldn’t! Omggg and I haven’t seen mine games but looks interesting 👍🏼
I think it doesn't really matter which ending you decide on. A movie like this is like a painting: Whatever the artist intended, it's still up to interpretation.
What matters most about this movie is the emotional insight you get. And this is where the movie shares something in common with other films like Inception or Interstellar.
It's the powerful feeling of being "a lifetime apart" from someone. In the last moments of the movie, David knows (or believes) that Sofia died many years ago and they never had the life they could have had. This makes you acknowledge how precious life can be...
In Inception, the similar theme is time. Leonardo di Caprio's character spent a lifetime in a dream with his wife, and even though it was only a dream and she killed herself in the (supposed) real world, they shared a lifetime together. In Interstellar, the main character and his children are separated by time and space, also spanning decades. This separation as well as the huge scale of time and distance can evoke big emotions, and this is also why Vanilla Sky works so well. It doesn't matter WHY the main character is dreaming, whether he's psychotic, in a coma or whatever. The notion of having lost the love of his life... of never having REALLY lived this relationship... and all the implications from that, this is the big meaningful stuff.
Imagine this: If you are in a happy relationship with the love of your life, and both of you die at some point, what will really remain after that? What (if anything) remains when you have taken all your memories to your grave? That's the deep philosophical question to me.
I love this movie, always have. I feel like this was around the height of Tom's career, as he acted, disfigured, drunk, it's all fitting for the character of the story, and I believe there was a line between what he experienced irl and frozen in a lucid dreaming state. Honestly, enough of that was too real, especially if you see the cut original ending. This movie was moving for sure, and very cleverly written. It's far from a lot of pieces I've seen in my lifetime as of late, and I revisited it after not seeing that alternate ending, and seeking to see those differences in writing for what was shown, and for what could've been. It was amazing then, it still is amazing now, to me.
I can’t believe how bad the reviews were and I can’t believe I put off watching this. Amazing
Tom Cruise did a acting job in Cocktail..Cocktail was a great movie and a lot easier to understand than Vanilla Sky..🤔🎥
Vanilla Sky was such an amazing experience at the time. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is just as good, if not better.
Vanilla Sky will always go down as one of the best movies ever created.
The ending Sigur Rós Nothing Song is perfection to an already amazing movie. Look at the translation and it's even more fitting.
The actual ending as seen in the movie, ends with David waking up to a voice who's asking him to open his eyes. And the voice is from Sophie, Penelope Cruz, however we just learned that his entire love life with her was imagined, he's now 150 years later, and he's waking up from said dream. So why is he hearing her voice? That is what I wanted to know and why I came here.
I have a different theory, that isn't explained. A variation of one of your five. The reality ended when he fell on the pavement, drunk, and the dream started there. But when he jumped off the skyscraper to wake up from the dream he'd imagined after that, he died from the fall (within the dream) and as he "wakes up", the L.V. company inserts him into yet another dream where Sophie is as real as can be, confusing him into believing what was real after all. That the whole L.V. company itself wasn't real, the 150 years wasn't real, his death wasn't real, and he certainly didn't kill Sophie nor Julie, but had the true love with Sophie after all.
However, this is all speculation on merely the fact that we hear her voice in the supposed reality where he wakes up in, at the final second of the movie.
I wanted a discussion on this comment
I reject your opinion
This was my thought too. Tech Support doesn’t really tell him how he’s supposed to opt back into the dream, if he wanted to do that instead of “wake up.”
i thought he would wake up in the hospital after the car crash.
After she went to his memorial she decided to be cryofreezed and woke up when Tom Cruise did 150 years into the future. She did say I'll see you in another life when we are both cats.
What I gather from all this is Tom Cruise is some how still underrated as an actor and for my money no one has managed to combine blockbusters and taking acting to an art form at such a high level as Cruise. It's subjective but he maybe the best movie actor to ever do it. We'll miss him when he's finished.
I want Edge Of Tomorrow 2.
@@anubusx.. there was supposedly going to be a prequel to EoT about Vrataski's time loop at Verdun, though obviously there'd be no reason for Cage to appear..
I think David died in the crash and he was in purgatory the whole time during the movie until the end where he finally goes to heaven, I don’t know though I’m not a religious person but there is definitely something about the after life going on here
Such a brilliant move, Tom Cruise should have won an Oscar in my opinion.
yes man, that film is so underrated.
For me is the best Tom Cruise's movie.
Yes! Absolutely!!!!! What an incredible movie! Best movie ever made!!!!!!!!
Nah he didn’t have any long dramatic monologues so no Oscar lol
This movie scared me as a kid holy shit it had me really think about death at that time and that was scary
I was blown away watching this...i thought it would be just another generic romantic movie
This is my favorite all time movie
Jokester954 I know same here. I’m still baffled on the reviews this film got back in 2001. Just like the movie stay this film is another underrated and poorly misunderstood gem that deserves a second look.
I believe he is finally waking up from his coma. During the coma he kept having dreams he could never escape/wake up from. Just recurring dreams within his coma.
I love this movie, even though it's been years since I last saw it, I was able to see the original Spanish film before Vanilla Sky was released and I prefer Vanilla Sky, took everything to another level... one of Cruise's most underrated films.
You're right man.
That movie is so underrated and Tom Cruise deserved academy nomination.
She'd told him they'd be together in the next life. She never got over him because he held her to her promise. In his suicide note he left her instructions that if she meant it then be frozen too when she died. That's why her voice is there when he wakes up.
oh my fucking god--
This is amazing
Oh shittt brooo thank u for that now I'm relieved
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This gives me hopes and closure. I choose to believe this is the canon ending.
❤❤❤❤ thank you!
The first time I saw this movie, it was in a tent in Kuwait. It was at night, and just shortly before I invaded Iraq in 2003. The themes of this movie mixed in an amazing way with the situation I was in at the time. I'm not one to get too wrapped up in any movie plot. It's difficult for me to suspend my disbelief for the 2 hours it takes to watch a film. In this case, I was thoroughly captured by this movie. It was as if I were IN this picture show for those hours. I believe it did help to ground me, with the level of anxiety I was experiencing at the time. It illustrates the power of art to change our lives at any given moment. There is always a message expressed by the artist, to the audience, that can transcend space and time. Not every person is the right audience at the right time to receive that message, but when they are, it can be life changing.
There is so much to love about this movie, the soundtrack, the rabbit hole David seems to go down into...its a mind bending ride. It definitely makes a statement about making choices and how you choose to live your life. This is one of my favorites.
I watched this movie tonight and finished it a few minutes ago, simply because the title of this video caught my attention as I've watched many others of your "Movie Endings Explained". So I thought... "Why not give it a watch?".. Definitely one of my favorite movies now.
this has been my fav movie for years. i’ll never stop loving it.
my best friend watched this movie and lost his mind. he would ramble about it constantly, i talked with him about 3 nights in a row till the sun came up, just weird shit. shit that only made sense to him. and the weirdest part is he was completely normal before hand. on the fourth night he killed himself. to this day i don’t understand it but i know it was a result of this movie flipping something in his head. not saying anything against this movie at all, just stating the facts. he was my best friend for almost ten years. still miss him. still wish i could talk to him about it. i should of watched it then, maybe i could of helped more. rip sean fox.
Ppl share way to much on youtube comment lol
i'm very sorry for your loss.....wanting to punch out of a dream / nightmare can be a terrible mental worm
Wow, I'm sorry for your loss, friend. I can see a movie like this doing that to someone. The ambiguous style it deals with existential questions can be a mind f%#kc if you're not grounded enough. This is the kind of movie that makes me wonder if everything I know is just a dream, my parents, my siblings, etc. That's not easy if you're not in a position mentally to ground yourself to the here and now.
Im so sorry you lost your friend :( this is an incredibly sad story, what was he saying about the movie that wasnt making sense to you?
This is one of those movies I could watch any time, I own a copy. But I have only ever seen it the once. Perhaps, someday, when I am ready, I will watch it again.
i feel the same way
I havent seen it in years. This morning as I woke up the line open your eyes came to my mind. I decided to watch it because of that. It was amazing. I find it interesting that the late 90s and early 2000s were all about the mind, The Matrix, The Game, Vanilla Sky.. Being John Malkovitch.. In those movies there is a seamless line between illusion and reality.
This is the most mysterious movie I've ever seen. I love it.
A metaphysical view
The repeated lines ‘the sweet is never as sweet w/o the sour’ and ‘every passing minute is a chance to turn it all around’ are relevant to St John of the Cross’ classic poem about The Dark Night of the soul. In this painful process one’s hidden (repressed) ‘ugly’ side is * faced*; unconscious pain becomes real and raw.
In this purification process one transcends the ego based sense of self which is often called the false self, and represented as a mask.
This same metaphysical process is described in Jung’s Red Book
The ‘purified” state beyond the ego-self is called “The Real” by psychoanalyst Jacque Lacan
The Real is a place of true happiness b/c all desire actually comes from lack or emptiness. What we truly are is not lack-based or empty. The realization of this is true happiness, but the journey or dark night of discovery of this is hellish as one must face unconscious fears which seem very real as they come up. It can feel like dying but it is the death of the false self. This is the true metaphysical meaning of being born again. One must die to the illusions of the false self, which actually causes unhappy with its constant desire which misdirects one from true happiness.
Thus the movie line “what is happiness to you?”
Thank you 🙏 you just made me realize that when I was obsessed with this film I was indeed having a DNOTS. Bless you ❤
I probably watch this movie annually. I'm kind of obsessed with it. "As deep as you want to go with it..." is pretty deep in my case. I always wanted a sequel but, of course, that would ruin it.
did anyone notice julie's ringtone in the beginning??? its the row your boat song. and in the lyrics of the song it says "life is but a dream"
Highly underrated movie, even if it's not 100% original.
One of the ending voices is Julie's the other Sopia's, playing on the character's inability to distinguish the two..as was the case earlier in the film
Vanilla Sky is a great movie, with an incredible soundtrack, probably the best soundtrack ever to be in a movie, from Radiohead to Sigur Ros, the songs selected work so well, and sound so dreamy too, and despite never hearing of lucid dreaming until this point, i did have many dreams when i was younger which i knew were dreams while dreaming, though these went away as i got older. Since watching this film, I got heavily into lucid dreaming, and it changed everything about my life, how i see life, how i interact with everything that surrounds me. Vanilla Sky is probably my favourite film ever!
Favorite movie of all time! True Masterpiece. They dont create movies w such depth today! Life,love, responsability, ,loss,
Thanks!
There's so many clues that the entire movie is a dream I can't even begin to name them all.
So Sophie was just a dream?
David's lucid dream happens after the clubbing scene. He's depressed as he thinks there no chance of getting Sofia back. He visits LE Website. And the lucid dream is the entire 2nd half of the movie. The ending is clear that he wakes up into the real world. The film simply teaches us what happens if you choose a wrong pathway. Ie. Getting into the car with Julie. Top film!
But how does he wake up from the cryo facility or lucid dream
@@skru2476 Because LE wake him up while communicating with Tech Support!
Theres one thing i dont get. If after signing the contract with the LE people he was given the chance to choose a moment and live his lucid dream from that moment on, why didnt he choose to go back to his life before the accident, or before jumping into Julie's car?
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Perhaps for the effect of the oft repeated ''theme'' of the yin/yang of sweet contrasted with the bitter?
Maybe because that night when he fell asleep on the side of the street was the last night he ever saw sofia and he didn't wanted to let go of that memory as it happened after the accident
Perhaps in reality he's just an ugly man, and Sofia, Julie, others are all dreams. That moment was the most romantic that he saw in a movie (on deleted scenes), so that is the moment he wants to continue to dream instead of waking up.
Because then Julie Gianni would still exist in that timeline. And in reality Julie probably died in the crash and David didn’t want anything to do with her anymore
I am a big fan of genre-bending movies & that’s one of the reasons I love Vanilla Sky. It begins as a brief psychological drama, then flashes back into a doomed love story, bounces back & forth between hopeful romance & psychological drama with a side of horror before finally settling into an oddly satisfying science fiction finale. One of my favorite films!
If one believes that nothing is real. Then nothing means anything and nothing matters. Quoting the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland "If you don't know where you are going. Then it doesn't matter which road you take."
.. existence is a phenomenon..
This movie was important for many people whom have suffered from car accidents!! Life altering vehicle collisions that changed their; relationships, reality, nightmares, etc.
I like to think that the ending is really just a "reboot" and the story picks up again where David is woken up on the street by Sofia the morning after they went to the nightclub.
That would make sense too
My personal easter egg ending is that Tom Cruise wakes up to any film he made afterwards.
He stars alongside "Julie"(Diaz) in _Knight and Day_ and "Edmund Ventura/Tech Support" in _Edge of Tomorrow,_ but in reality it's just different Lucid Dreams David is having with people he remembers from his actual life.
So the ending - did he actually woke up (into new world - in actual reality) or was the Sofia's voice ,,wake up''just a stimulation for another lucid dreaming? Does anyone know? It seems as if the ending was purposely made to be open for the speculations..but does anyone really know the right version of it?
I believe everything after the accident is a dream in a coma. He just wake up from coma and sofia is greeding him. Someone in the comments explains this very good
Everyone says it’s sofias voice at the end but idk… for some reason I can confirm within myself that it is actually her. It’s sounds like a generic white girl to me.
@@Cyprus_Is_Greek Its been 150 years, since he was frozen, she wouldnt be alive.
@@Game-ib3ql He might have never been frozen, Life Extensions might have never existed. He might have been in a coma, but as said in the movie: when you're in a coma you don't remember anything when you wake up. I like this interpretation, but it would only be true for the first version because as he does he hears the voice of Sophia. In the second (2015) version he hears an unfamiliar voice, which I think means he does in fact wake up 150 years later.
@@followyourbliss2404it's true I was in a coma 8 days on life support, remember nothing yet life in my mind was continuing on but with slight differences. When you wake up and tell people, they don't believe you. Like the doctor didn't believe David.
Good movie. I actually bought it retro on VHS at Goodwill the other day and watched it Sunday again for the first time in a long while. It’s one of those films you need to watch several times and set aside all the distractions.
This soundtrack is amazing. I remember this movie from college and I still think of it as I go through all the chapters in my life. Fantastic life lessons I think about a lot. I love the beginning when he was concerned about a single gray hair and oh how his life changed even worse than a tiny gray hair.
I think back on all my young worries and time wasted in my life in my 20s and 30s. I’m currently in my late 30s with an awesome family. Life gets frustrating at times- it’s not easy supporting a family and it can get crazy sometimes. Working 3 jobs and having my older son Crosley calling me begging me to come home to play tears me apart. I try to stay awake during this crazy time of raising two kids 5 and under to all the joys we are experiencing in the mist of chaos. I try to embrace the chaos and am trying to enjoy every moment. I think about how one day I will look back on all my current worries and stresses and all the time I missed with my family just to work 3 jobs and how the time with my boys is going by so fast. I’ll look back and say those are were the good old days, why didn’t you enjoy them more? So that’s what I’m trying to do- enjoy every moment and be grateful.
I love my family so much and try to invest in my boys and students everyday. What an honor and privilege to be a teacher.
What just happened? All I wanted to say was that I really liked Vanilla Sky’s soundtrack.
take care!
I always took it at face value where he really was under cryo freezing but this video pointed out (at 9:07) the banging on the glass scene. Wow. It's almost like that was intentionally used to create keep it cryptic and unknown. Excellent film. A work of art.
David is brave. I would have chosen to stay in my lucid dream since tech support said they fixed the glitch. Life sucks lol
You did chose that. It is why you are still here, in the Earth-life program. Do you wish for the highly intelligent and advanced e.t.'s running all this to select another program for you?
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That would be awesome. Unfortunately screaming “tech support” isn’t giving me the same results 😉
@@toniroberts8117 haha, your awesome, thanks for your good naturedness. and i agree, prob. not same results.
You can't trust tech support 😂 there could have easily been another glitch :)
But what about when the funds run out? Do they just use your to gratify the sadistic and voyeuristic pleasures of some ''audience''. The tech guy on the roof seems to imply as much.
I cried my heart out at this film.
I used to think that the dreaming began when David fell asleep at Sofia's house and he had a horrible nightmare. Or he could have had that dream while in a coma the entire time too because in 2001, suspended animation wasn't back the.
Honestly feel like in the end he was stuck in a coma and essentially everything from there was him dreaming in that state, everyone keeps telling him to wake up throughout the film. Then at the end when someone tells him to open is eyes/wake up he is waking up from his coma.
10/10
Maybe he's was in a coma after the car accident. And everything after that was a dream. "Open you eyes, you will be fine"
I like this best. It would mean Sofia was there for him waking up during his nightmare coma
@@sirperduwyn WRONG!
@@mikekaraoke I know.. but I like it
Either the life extension never existed and was just his coma dream, face never disfigured etc or it was real.
Either sofia was frozen too so greeted him when he woke up because she awoke from her lucid dream too, or, she was simply there once he awoke from his coma.
In either way she was there in the end because that was clearly her Voice.
I actually started out watching this movie thinking is was a lame early 2000s romantic comedy. I stuck with it, and how wrong I was. Vanilla Sky is the greatest mind-f*ck of a movie experience I’ve had since The Matrix.
I'm 12 and I just watched this movie. I've got to say that this movie is truly disturbing and confusing. I wasn't expecting this movie to be so scary.
In my opinion, the jumping off the building is the previously programmed way the character selected to reset the lucid dream. He knew how stubborn and spoiled he was. He was spoiled, and wanted a perfect life. He knew he would have to shake himself to the core in order to choose to reset the dream.
He knew that he wouldn't simply follow the customer service agent after a simple bar encounter, so he knew he had to go through all of this drama in order to reset the dream. I think he is still in the dream, convinced that he woke up. In a new dream, perhaps with slight obstacles that keep him grounded this time. That's what I would have chosen.
I really liked the film, but I kind of wish that the ending wasn't a full explanation, and somehow provided clues but remained somewhat ambiguous... you know, made the viewer try and figure it out.
I totally agree and whenever writers or filmmakers create these ambiguous endings where you yourself have to try to figure out what happened , I feel cheated somehow .
If it wasn't for that one fact with this film this would have been one of my favorite films but it was so frustrating trying to figure it out. I never re-watched the movie after the first time I rented it all those years ago .
Whenever writers and filmmakers do ambiguous endings it almost feels CHEAP .
If a person is telling a story they should tell it instead of leaving it open-ended .
Even though it's a great movie is ambiguous ending made it less great
It’s only the full explanation if you believe what tech support was telling you. 😊
I feel like he actually died right in the beginning when the truck almost hit him and this whole movie has been him in a coma and now he’s finally waking up at the end. Everything in between was just him dreaming in the coma. I lucid dream a lot and find myself calling out to someone for help sometimes. He could just be doing the same to help him get out of his coma once he realizes it’s not real.
I think that if you watch the movie a second time right after the ending, that’s when he wakes up ! Think about it
Ya think?
What happens at the end of that one?
Vanilla sky is a movie about a dream the psychologist had. The whole movie took place inside a dream of Kurt Russell's character McCabe. All the signs are there,..... Mccabe had 2 daughters, represented as Sophia and Julie. David David also represented the young womanizer the psychologist always wanted to be but chose a family life. Benny the dog frozen for 3 months and then coming back to life… fantasy dreamworld. Sophia saying open your eyes in the beginning of the movie, Frozen heads in side freezers dreamworld.And in the alternate ending mccabe is absolutely freaking out that David will jump off the roof, Subconsciously he knew it would be the end of the dream and his dream character. Many signs the whole movie was the doctor's dream and when he woke his name was actually David at the end. It was the doctor's wife that said open his eyes at the very ending.
i liked the alt ending, bc it wasn't sophia's voice. sophia would be long dead in 2151. "don't do it" and "i wanna wake up" are HEAVY lines of dialogue that i think belong there.
overall, you can honestly choose to jump off the train whenever you want. i don't think he survived the crash at all. "i lost you when i got in that car"
maybe i'm insane, but i've had a couple of near-death experiences, and i think death is a vanilla sky. all the info, the same stuff your dreams is made of, all just smears together into an incoherent blur of what was and what you saw and how you felt and what might have been. all the electrical impulses fire simultaneously, one last time..."your whole life passes before your eyes" and your body and mind cry out to wake just once more, then it's over. no black screen, no light at the end, it just jumbles together like clouds do when you've stared too long.
this movie starts off as plot, but ends as emotion. it gives me a sense of impending loss, peaceful resolve to face death and reality together. it reminds me of each little choice we make and how profound it may be if it were the last you ever made. it makes me feel like maybe love isn't that important bc we die so alone.
on the technical tip, tho. cruise, while not at his best here, he can OMG act thru a mask! seriously, he's oscar-caliber. in each and every scene he is wearing that mask, you realize that you don't NEED to see him bc he's fucking tom cruise. this film is also Cameron Diaz's finest moment. her role is small, but powerful and perfectly executed.
Joseph Drummond this was well written👏👏👏👏
Simply the best, as a huge fan of this dream, living my life as David Aames since 2001. Dreams are sweet and nightmares are sour, and the sweet is never as sweet without the sour🙌 cheers
It took me watching this film about 6 times to “understand “ the ending ..everytime I watch it I find or realize something new ..great movie
The movie is taking place as the car is crashing and he lives an entire life from the time the car goes over the edge until he dies along with the driver when it hits bottom. Much like an old Vietnam flick where the veteran lives an entire lifetime between the time he leaps into the air to save his fellow service members from a grenade that has been tossed at them until when he lands and then dies when the grenade kills him. He envisions himself getting up off of a dud grenade much like David does when he wakes up disfigured from the car crash.
Jacob's Ladder is the film you mean ;)
Also reminiscent of the short film An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge!
It's about life being a dream. At the end he experiences a summary of all his memories before transitioning to the other side. It's about the other side, to be the real reality, and this life being a dream.
At the same time it's trying to imply that it's an easy choice to end a life or to decide if that life can start after an incubation period in a cryonics experiment.
I can see a future where people pay for a cryonics experiment with two hundred years of conservation, just to be terminated after a short time span.
exactly,thank you
Why are you everywhere
I think it’s masterfully done in a way to where it could be many different things.
This movies ending has always made me cry. You really feel for the character.
Awesome job on the soundtrack!
Was watching a party of the movie the other day, it got me wondering about the ending. This was the first video I watched on it; and the last. You explained it so perfectly on all aspects that I was satisfied. You make some good, quality content man. I usually have to watch 4 others to get it. Hope you keep up the good work!
I just hope David finds Sofia in another life. Everyone deserves a Sofia. Penelope Cruz is such a gorgeous lady
My pov is that he was just dreaming the whole thing and he wakes up to Sofia.
My theory - the entire movie is him in a coma, David survives an overdose (how he remembers killing himself).
Film start's with Sofia says "Open your eyes" x5, he consistently can't control dreams and ends with "wake up".
He's living an ordinary man's DREAM: Bachelor life, power, George Lucas at your party, all girls want you, even your best friends date. Overthrow the big bosses out to get you. Sci-fi 3d holograms. Being resurrected/eternal life... "REAL true love".
He's describes his "real" life McCabe (who's not real), but his real life haunts him: the empty times square screeches a busy life (headache). Betrayal of a girl and friend. "Money". Rejection. Maybe "not facing the consequences"of his "promises" was true. A cruel joke and he can't wake up. Maybe he was "just a guy snowboarding through his life with no focus", with fear/jealousy of his father's adventure.
Maybe Julia was his wife. Why, of the few things that flash before the end of his (real) life is "Goodbye honey"?
He doesn't even remember the party where he met Sofia.
"Party? What party?"
Followed later by; "here's what you remember from a coma - nothing".
The message is all in the Title /end credit song:
"You're gonna fly so high in the sky" but...
"your life is fine, it's sweet and sour...don't blow it away"
I remember a theatre in Vancouver at the time had a double feature where OPEN YOUR EYES and VANILLA SKY played as a double bill. Saw it a few times there.
This movie messed so much with my head. But it was great
For me, this movie is near perfect.
I noticed on the alternate ending there was a double wake up. The first wake up "open your eyes david, you're going to be fine" not sofia's voice. The second wake up "relax david, open your eyes" but this time its louder and is Sofia's voice. The same way it was on the radio throughout the movie. The double wake up is not in the original ending. I think the double wakeup implies another potential ending. Where he wakes up into reality, and then in a blink (since memory would be erased) he wakes up again in the lucid dream. Probably implying he rejoined the real world and things did not work out and he went back to the dream, but maybe it implies something else. Regardless, I think the double wakeup is very significant a difference. It feels like it was specifically designed to say something. Maybe what it is saying is as simple as- he was taking his fictional life with her, with him into the real world as memories or possibly delusions.
There is no double wake up actially it's just the creator of this video put the original ending followed by the alternate ending straight afterwards. It's a bit confusing but the creator of this video does state that's what they are going to show you.
End of the day. It harkens back to the ending of Inception and that wonderful quote from, of all movies, Free Guy.
It doesn't matter whether the top stops spinning, doesn't matter whether Sofia is at the end and doesn't matter whether it was all a game world all along.
What matters is what's real. And what's real, despite all the illusions, is this moment right here, right now. As long as I'm content with it, it doesn't matter what pill you offer me, red or blue. They're one and the same.
I think it took him 150 years to come to term with losing the love of his life in that short time they had in reality. In doing this at the rooftop it was his way of letting go. Just my thought
I think this is the best interpretation i've heard. I've tried to make sense of this movie that explanation hits closest to home.