An elevator opens, revealing the strange man from the bar.Īs the elevator climbs to the top of an impossibly tall building, the man explains that he is Tech Support and that David has been in suspension for 150 years. He escapes McCabe and the guards while calling for ' tech support', and rushes for the building's lobby, which is suddenly empty. David realizes that he is in cryonic suspension and the world he inhabits is his own lucid dream, which has become a nightmare. Rebecca, a company representative, explains how Life Extension uses cryonic suspension to save those with terminal illnesses until a cure can be found, keeping them in a lucid dream state to otherwise exercise their mind. Seeing a company with that name nearby, McCabe arranges to take David there under guard. McCabe conducts several more interviews, which serve to help David to recall the name 'Life Extension'. David is arrested and imprisoned and his facial disfigurement is mysteriously restored.ĭr.

One day, while at Sofia's, David awakens to find himself in bed with Julie, whose face has replaced Sofia's in their photographs. Later, he is plagued by bizarre experiences, such as brief flashbacks of his disfigurement and an encounter with a mysterious man at a bar who informs him that David is omnipotent, demonstrated by the entire bar falling silent at David's command. Doctors find a way to repair David's face despite their prior prognosis. She takes him home, the two form a relationship and he slowly begins to recover. The next day, Sofia returns and apologizes to David. They leave him in the street outside the club after he becomes drunk and insults them. Brian convinces David to join him and Sofia at a club. She purposely crashes the car, killing herself and disfiguring David.ĭoctors cannot repair David's face using plastic surgery, forcing him to wear a prosthetic mask, and the mental and physical scarring from the accident causes him to become withdrawn and depressed. As David leaves, Julie offers him a ride, and soon reveals her jealousy of Sofia. David and Sofia spend the night together at Sofia's apartment and fall in love, unaware that David's current lover, Julie Gianni, has followed them there. He is introduced to Sofia Serrano by his best friend, Brian Shelby, during a party. In flashbacks, David leaves the duties of the publisher to his father's trusted associates while living as a playboy in Manhattan.

Wearing a prosthetic mask, David tells his life story to court psychologist Dr. Plot ĭavid Aames, the owner of a large publishing company he inherited from his father, is in prison.

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, and Diaz was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Award.

The film has been described as 'an odd mixture of science fiction, romance, and reality warp'. It follows a magazine publisher who begins to question reality after his resentful lover kills herself. The film stars Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz (reprising her role from the original film), Cameron Diaz, Jason Lee, and Kurt Russell. It is an English-language remake of Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 Spanish film Open Your Eyes, which was written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil. Vanilla Sky is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film directed, written, and co-produced by Cameron Crowe.

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