Saturday, December 20, 2003
Happened to catch Vanilla Sky on tv the other day for the second time. I missed the first part of the show again though. Argh. Anyway, it was wayy complex, but a good show nonetheless. The kind of show you have to watch at least twice before you can actually appreciate it. Brilliant narrative for a slightly dark film with bits of uplifiting parts, especially at the end. The ending was bittersweet and tinged with a touch of melancholia though - Tom Cruise realized that the love of his life was just a figment of his imagination with the help of artificial intelligence. His dream woman was just a relative stranger in real life, if I'm not wrong. All the while, he was thought he was living a dream, when he was actually lying semi-dead of sorts in a cold metal container..only able to think and dream because of A.I.
The music really plays a really powerful part in the show. Somehow, it actually gives insight as to what're the underlying tones and feelings in each scene and amplifies them so that they are brought across individually. The music at the last few scenes on the rooftop before he jumps, especially, is just beautiful to accompany. Sad, yet hopeful. You'd have to had watched the movie to appreciate the music though, because it's the sort of music that reminds you of scenes in the show everytime you hear it. Joan Osborne's 'One of Us' is one of those songs. It plays throughout the main scenes and because of the frequency of its occurences, you either hate it or love it. There's lots of minute details in this movie that you have to look out for, if not you might not be able to understand the ending when it's finally unveiled.
Here's a clip of it's trailer. Quite confusing at times if you haven't read the synopsis or such. Oh well. You have to right-click on the pop-up and zoom in so that its full screen if you want it to be clearer.
Shu at 12:52 PM
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