vanillia sky - cé?

mooman_00

I usually get films but due to watching this at work i dind really pay much attention. I dont like not getting films and well i didnt get the ending of this one. It'll be monday before i get to see it again so can someone explain the ending please.

Does he wake up from A: a coma from the crash, B: Cryogenesis(sp), C: his lucid dream back into a new lucid dream or some random other sleeping event that i missed in the film??

cheers

Tusky

been a long time since i saw it but i think....

after the crash he gets put into a lucid dream because he cant live with his scars etc ... in his lucid dream he lives his life as he did before the crash but something goes wrong and it all turns nasty... so the fella wakes him up and gives him the option of going back into the lucid dream OR being woken up for good...

as i said long time since i saw it so i could be v.wrong

bandit

Dont know how to use spoilers so I'm sorry.
The cruiser sees the ad for the lucid dream, choses when he wants the dream to start, the kills himself (he overdoses on pills if you recal) and then thats it.

Goodshape

Your basically right there tusky,

The car crash left Cruise scared, emotionally and physically. After a while he decided enough is enough and, after seeing the add for (and signing up to) the lucid dream program, he overdoses on pain killers.

He decided that his dream would start from the night he collapsed drunk outside Penelope's house, and the memories of everthing after this event were erased.

Now frozen by cryogenics and dream away, Cruise gets together with the woman, has plastic surgery, regains controll of his company and everthing is A-OK.

But then the repressed memories of his real life start to reservice... in his mind the two realities seem equally real - he can no longer distinguish between one dream (the lucid, constructed one) and the other (the memories of his real life).

Because of this error, the company sends in there representative, who informs Tom about what has happened and gives him two options....

1. Don't jump. The lucid dream will be fixed and restarted, with whatever alterations he wants.

2. Jump and wake up from the lucid dream. His wounds can now be healed as it is 200 years (or so) in the future. He will have to start an entirely new life.

He jumps.

Clear?

(spoilers are done by typing [-spoiler-] and [-/spoiler-] (without the - 's) on either side of the text)

bugler

Ah but if it's so cut and dried then why

did we hear Sophia's voice at the very start, when he was dreaming? He hadn't yet met her. Is it a supernatural IlovedyoubeforeImetyou kindofmoment? Or is it all a frickin dream?!!

Just watched it again last night on DVD, so it's all nice and fresh in the memory.

Essentially, there is no 'right' interpretation of the story. Having listened to the audio commentary before, it seems that there are a few likely ones, and a few bizarre ones

The most obvious one is that it is all exactly as Tech Support said. Essentially that he WAS in the accident, he WAS horribly scarred, he couldn't deal with it and he topped himself. The splice occured the night of the night club, and nothing since then was real, it was a dream, which turned nightmarish.

Another is that the whole thing is a dream. All of it, going on inside David Aames hedonistic little head.

Another is that it's all real up til the point of the car crash, and everything from there on is what Aames dreams while in a coma.

Remember the very end? "Relax David. Open your eyes". Is that him coming out of a coma, or just waking up from a nights sleep, or him being thawed out 150 years into the future, like Tech Support said? Listening to Crowe speak about the film, he's very keen for people to 'cling' to their own interpretation. So do it

Goodshape

Well, I think

the night of the night club was the turning point. Why would he choose to dream himself a car crash and (almost) falling out with his friends?

The 'wake up' at the beginning is probobly just to throw people like you off track

But then, that's just what I think. And I plan to cling to it

bugler

"Why would he choose to dream himself a car crash and (almost) falling out with his friends?"

Eh..now you've confused me more than the film :P The idea is that the whole thing is a dream, that occurred maybe after one typical day in Aames's life. Not a lucid dream. We can't control what we dream. Haven't you ever had a bad dream? Your question is what you need to answer, seeing as you think it was a Lucid Dream from the nightclub night. Why would he dream his best-mate betrayed him? The answer is the same anyway, because we can't control our dreams. Despite the efforts of Tech Support, he still had nightmarish episodes.

Goodshape

this could go on...

bugler

I don't know which way I like to look at it..but either way the point is that there is no exact way of interpreting it, it could be any of them..

On a slightly off-topic note, I felt VS was unjustly treated by the critics. It got panned by plenty. Not liking Tom Cruise much myself, I would have happily disliked it, but I couldn't Great soundtrack too, really complemented the visual scenes.