Finally a different movie

Rating: 8/10 (2 December 2007)

I wanted to watch a movie that was very deep, abstract, existential, and philosophical but I couldn't find any other movies that fits into my category other than Fight Club. But when I heard that Vanilla Sky has a lot of philosophical themes I was curious enough to watch it. I burrowed this movie from block buster and saw it and I have to say that I really liked the movie. I didn't exactly understand why there were a lot of negative reviews because I thought vanilla sky was 10 times better than any average Hollywood movies. However I understand that people are not very favorable of movies without a solid conclusion, but in favor of the movie I argue that most movies these days have solid conclusions and majority of those conclusions are very unoriginal, corny, and extremely ... "Hollywood". Vanilla Sky ends in a way that makes the audience guess or think what the main character chose: A real life or a life of dreams. Most movie-watchers have the tendency to watch movies that requires no philosophical inquiry and would rather watch movies that are usually simple and predictable. What I'm exactly arguing for is that Vanilla Sky is one of those few movies that are actually different in a positive sense. If one simply looks at the plot of Vanilla Sky then you can't exactly appreciate it because you're excluding the idea or the theme. The theme is hard to describe because unlike most movies it's not very tangible; It's hard to grasp it all at once, you actually have to see the movie to understand what I mean. Well I explained why I found the movie significant to me, but I'll also explain why I didn't give a perfect rating. For me personally the twist in the movie didn't seem entirely realistic, it was rather some-what out of place. However the twist was necessary to convey the theme but such "necessary evil" has partially ruined the movie. This is probably why most reviewers disliked it, which I could understand, but as I said before the twist seemed necessary to convey the theme. A similar movie called Forgotten was even worse, the way the twist worked made it worse than the plot-twist in vanilla sky. In Vanilla sky they had a plot-twist that seemed more possible, in Forgotten the twist is a mixture of possibility and impossibility. The twist was more like one of those UFO conspiracy theories you hear now and then, which I found to be very corny. So basically yes you'll find a ridiculous plot twist in Vanilla Sky but it isn't as bad as the plot twist in other movies, Vanilla Sky uses a plot twist that is necessary to convey it's theme and I don't know any other better ways to convey the theme. It's not the best way, I admit, but what counts is that it works. Well In conclusion I have to say that I enjoyed Vanilla Sky and I enjoyed the humor and romance.