Saw Vanilla Sky yesterday, Tom Cruise at his peak, and my favorite Penelope Cruz. It's an old movie from 2001. I was attracted by the movie name back then, but when I saw that there was a "science fiction" in the genre, I immediately lost interest. It can be seen that I am not a fan of them at all. I like an actor mainly because of the characters they create, never because I am infatuated with actors and feel that everything they play is good. After all, the actor's own charm is much worse than that of different characters. Depp has more personality, but the characters he portrays are not particularly good, perhaps because the pirates have overshadowed the light of the other characters he has created. Well, I mean pirates are not that good. Brad Pitt himself is average, but he has a lot of good characters.
Let’s just tell a story, but it’s not just a story. The handsome and unspendable David (Tom Cruise), God's perfect masterpiece, has inherited his father's publishing kingdom. He has the appearance of turning all living beings upside down, and he is everywhere. He falls in love with Sofia (Penelope Cruz) at first sight, and makes Julie (Cameron Diaz), a woman who has slept before, jealous, and she tricks him into the car and asks why he is not responsible for her because she Thinking that sleeping with someone is a commitment. In a fit of rage she drove towards a tree and fell off a bridge. After being in a coma for more than ten days, David woke up to find that he was disfigured, and his arms and legs were inflexible, and his life fell into a low ebb.
He was afraid to take off the mask after the plastic surgery, Sophia comforted him and took off his mask, telling him that everything was perfect. They had a sweet time, but because of the aftermath of heavy physical and psychological damage, one day he saw Sophia's face as a dead Julie in the confusion. He thought that Julie had kidnapped Sophia, so he covered her died and went to jail. At the end of the movie, he learned that he had signed a contract with a life-extending oasis project in the confusion. They hadn't seen each other since Sophia got rid of him that night. At that time, he decided to stop real life and let the dream continue the reality, His successful plastic surgery, and the sweet love with Sophia are all a dream he made under the high technology. I was shocked when I woke up to find out that everything was fake, and I immediately felt that the whole movie was boring because Sophia wasn't in love with him. But his subconscious turned his sweet dream into a nightmare, in which he murdered and went to prison.
What I like is the scene where he and Sophia were together before the accident and they were painting each other's pictures. Sophia's David is a cartoon image of a banknote in one hand and a surfboard in the other, surrounded by many beautiful women. He was surprised and asked her if she saw him that way. She said that maybe the money wasn't enough to draw, but he said no, it was very expressive. His painting of Sophia is truly expressive, drawing her thoughtful innocence. Sophia was very moved when she saw it, and felt guilty for turning him into that, and said that he said he wanted to draw funny. He said: "No way, this is you in my eyes." It's a pity that their love ended because of a woman's jealousy before it really started. A woman who does evil because of jealousy is really ugly, and her heart has been occupied by the devil. I always thought Cameron Diaz was ugly, and after watching the movie, I thought it was even uglier, it was disgusting.
Several times from this film, I deeply felt all kinds of loneliness: how lonely it is to be without love, without caring for oneself. Even if you love, but the other person doesn't love you, you are still lonely. There is money that can’t be spent in several lifetimes, but no one can believe it. There are people around who deceive you or who are waiting to deceive you. Who you want to believe, but you don’t know who is credible, how lonely it is. And everything you have is so precarious, you may fall into a conspiracy at any time and lose everything.
Fortunately, I have not encountered these problems. Those who love me like me are from the heart. I can get along with people around me without defense, I know what it is to truly love and be loved, and I live with love and passion without numbness. Although life is not entirely satisfactory, because I have found my way to the true meaning of life, I have the hobbies that make me passionate about life, and have true pure love and appreciation. So I often can't help but sigh that I am so lucky, I no longer feel frustrated and frustrated, no longer feel that God refuses to care for me, but feel that I am God's darling. It's not because of what I have acquired and what wealth I have, but because I finally know what is worthy of true love, what I am passionate about, and devoted myself to my feelings. Although they are nothing in the eyes of the world, I cherish them very much.
People tend to dismiss things when they have them, chasing boring things. Only after seeing the essence of life and understanding what is worth cherishing, but found that everything is too late. And I am no longer confused. In fact, I have never been confused, but the direction I once pursued is not very clear. Now that you know it, you won't waste your life anymore. Although sometimes it is regrettable that it is a little late, and many things have missed the best time, but it is nothing, but it is very regrettable. As long as you really like it, it's never too late, as long as you pursue your dreams, it's the best time.
In the end, David knew that everything before was a dream after his body was frozen. It was his wish rather than reality. He didn't have plastic surgery, his face was still so scary, and his legs and feet were not healed. Sophie Ya was not by his side but left. Fortunately, killing Sophia was also what he dreamed was not real, which made him a little relieved. It's time for the final decision, or continue to dream of happiness, under that Monet's Vanilla Sky (actually The Seine at Argenteuil), that hangs over him. A picture of the room, under that sky, he owns Sophia, weaving sweet dreams out of childhood memories, like his favorite record covers (seeing them walking down the street and thinking of the movie parody of Bob Dee) The photos of Lun and Susie were mentioned later, and they were replayed against the album cover), to feel the father's love in their favorite movies, or to understand the true meaning of love. He imagined falling in love with Sophia in his dream, but he couldn't be with him in reality, but he became his savior in the dream. He could go on with it all, or he could choose to thaw his body and restore his face and body, but the world is so different, it seems like 150 years have passed.
If he wants to wake up, he has to jump off a skyscraper, which is also what he chose to do in his dream, because he wanted to overcome the fear of heights he has had since he was a child. This is a journey of self-awakening. He was asked: "What is happiness to him?" He replied: "I want to live a real life, I don't want to dream." "What is your last wish?" Touching his face, he returned to the way he was, and they kissed under the vanilla sky. He said to her, "I'm frozen and you're dead. And I love you. You told me every minute can change everything." She kissed him softly and said, "I'll find you again. ." He said as he stepped back, "We'll all be cats in the next life, see you!" This was what she had said to him before the accident. Then he ran to the side of the building jumping up and down under the vanilla sky, and in the process of falling, he saw everything he dreamed of.
People always confuse dreams with delusions. I pursue my dreams, but I also don’t like to have meaningless dreams to escape reality and deceive myself with those boring things. But I will also escape from reality and immerse myself in a better world in the process of pursuing my dreams, instead of the so-called sweet dreams that anesthetize myself and sink into. I don't want to explain. Those who understand will naturally know what I'm talking about, and those who don't understand will only make them more confused. Anyway, they are all the same, and there is no difference. The difference is that there is no dream. People who don't understand dreams will sink into delusions, instead of touching a beautiful world in their dreams.
View more about Vanilla Sky reviews
