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Tuesday, June 18, 2002 emotional or.. hopeless romantic? I finally got around to watching Vanilla Sky tonight. I'm never going to take advice again from people on their opinions on what movies I should and shouldn't bother looking into. Heh. I heard from so many people that Vanilla Sky was horrible, but, wow, I discovered tonight that there's so much beauty in the creation of that movie. I kind of had to chuckle at myself.. either I'm just emotional or the most hopeless romantic ever. In all truth, I'm probably a good mixture of the two. I don't want to ruin anything for anyone else who hasn't seen the movie yet, but below is my explanation of where I got "emotional" during this movie **you've been warned** ;) anyway. I honestly had no idea what this movie was really about because I didn't see many of the trailers to it, and I don't see many previews of movies on t.v. because it's not often I get around to watching hardly any t.v....busy busy.. or on the computer. :Þ so I was trying to figure out the movie from 'scratch', and the part where this guy (Tom Cruise's character) has had an accident in a car where his face has pretty-much been misconfigured, and previously another girl he had met - they were falling in love before the accident. Once this girl finally sees this guy again, the chemistry between them are evidently different, and a scene ends where this guy has just been rejected by his 'love', and he is on his knees on a sidewalk crying/emotionally destraught after during the freezing night where he finally passes out/sleeps? on this sidewalk. This girl finds him on the sidewalk in the morning (the beginning of the 'lucid dream'), and suddenly she is accepting of him again. She smiles and warmly tells him to "open [his] eyes". .. as they start walking off together she says "Oh God, my life is going to change in a zillion ways".. and she wraps her arm around him. It's a little hard to explain (the scene?), but at that moment tears just started to trickle down my eyes. ha.. I sometimes don't like to watch movies alone because when I'm watching a movie by myself.. I'll just let all of my emotions loose.. no one is around to see me cry when I feel like crying... and I feel sort of stupid for 'crying' when probably no one else has/would at that scene?.. but then why should I care. I felt the scene was love in its purest form.. they weren't making love.. it was on a deeper level which seemed to demonstrate that she loved him truly in every way by accepting/loving him the-same as she did before his face was destroyed by the accident. I don't know.. I don't even know why something like that would personally bring me to the point of tears, but I guess the word for it is that I felt the entire scene at that moment was 'beautiful'. I had to pause the movie ;x .. take a look at my eyes in the mirror, chuckle a little, wipe my eyes, then back to the movie. Maybe it seemed beautiful because it seemed like an idealistic situation of love to me - I am very-much-so an idealist when it comes to 'love'. Unfortunately, I realized the movie also did a good job of addressing the realities of life - that indeed, the reality of the situation was that she had rejected him for possibly the change in appearance (or his character's personal changes.. but she didn't really give him time to adjust to being his 'normal' self again by accepting him back anyway), and that he had altered the outcome of the situation in his lucid dream so that she would love him again regardless of his change in appearance... .. too bad. Overall I thought the movie was excellent. . . . babbled Lin |
