A solid film about a guy's shaky reality...

Rating: Null/10 (4 January 2002)

This movie ushers you into the world of a man who is both blessed and cursed, allows you to watch his destruction, and witness his re-birth.
Films in recent years have been good at documenting dreams, or altered reality. Such movies stand the chance to fail because the director takes license with the imagery. Vincent Ward's "What Dreams May Come", I believe, left plot behind when he got caught up in the possibilities of an after-world. Vanilla Sky does not stray down this path. Instead, it positions itself to build fantasy from harsh reality and then fold its fantasy back into our real world.
Vanilla Sky and Mullholland Drive share a dreamlike motif. Both films uncover the fact that dreams play a large role in getting us through life...and explore how dreams can take a larger role when one's life becomes unsufferable.