Vanilla Sky

Lucid dream thriller

Vanilla Sky is a 2001 American psychological thriller film directed by Cameron Crowe, starring Tom Cruise as a disfigured man whose reality becomes increasingly unstable.

The title comes from the distinctive sky in Monet's paintings.

The film is a remake of the Spanish film *Abre los Ojos* (Open Your Eyes).

That plot twist was very Vanilla Sky.

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Tom Cruise · director · psychological thriller · waking life · cryonics · solipsism · Hollywood · memory distortion · false memory · lucid dreaming · simulacrum · subconscious mind · mirage · plot twist · tech support · dream sequences · reality check · existentialism

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Opposites
narrative structure

Vanilla SkyThe Notebook

Elderly love remembered

Sleepless in Seattle · Forrest Gump · Before Sunrise · Twelve Angry Men · The Breakfast Club

visual/tonal aesthetic

Vanilla Skykitchen sink realism

Drama of everyday hardship

cinéma vérité · documentary style · Erin Brockovich · Precious · social realism

genre/reality treatment

Vanilla Skyneorealism

Art emphasizing contemporary actuality

Family

sky, vanilla, skyscraper, skyline, skylight, skyward, skylines, skylights, skybox

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Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG