Disturbing; worth watching.

Rating: 8/10 (30 May 2002)

I'm still trying to sum up how I feel about this movie. I watched it sometime between 2am and 5am today. It's 5pm now. It's been all I can think about since I finished watching it. I'm gravitating around a 7 or 8 out of 10.
I'm a woman that doesn't cry at movies. Really! Ok, Beaches had me almost there, but I honestly don't let films manipulate me into crying.
This movie disturbed me. When I say disturbed, I mean rattled me out of my conventional thoughts and emotions. At times I felt like my heart was breaking. (I still didn't cry! But it was hard not to.)
I hoped when I arrived at work today, someone would have seen this too and I could pass the time discussing it. No such luck. It's nice to come to IMDB and read the other comments. It helps me come to terms with my feelings!
And yes, I feel like I need to "come to terms" with them.

One comment said the dialogue was horrible. Hmm...recently I have criticized other films of the same thing. In this case, I didn't notice the dialogue as bad. Ok, I think back to Kurt Russell's role, and some of his lines weren't stallar. But, I wonder if the character was one-dimensional on purpose? Hmmmm.
Another comment on this board said Mulholland Drive was better. Sorry, I didn't like Mulholland Drive. I thought it was a perverted, overly long "Twilight Zone." Ok, I "got" that movie, but still didn't like it. I "get" this one too, um, I think ;) After I saw Mulholland Drive, I wanted those 2 hours of my life back!!! I don't have the same feeling after watching Vanilla Sky.
I definitely want to see the original (Spanish) version of this movie.