interesting confusion

Rating: 6/10 (5 October 2015)

David Aames (Tom Cruise) is a vain publisher playboy in NYC. His friend Brian Shelby (Jason Lee) brings his date Sofia Serrano (Penélope Cruz) to a party and David finds the love of his life. Volatile ex Julie Gianni (Cameron Diaz) drives his car off a bridge to kill herself and disfigures his face. At a later time, he is wearing a mask in jail charged with an unknown murder as he recounts his story to psychologist Dr. Curtis McCabe (Kurt Russell).
This is a confusing movie. I'm not sure Cameron Crowe is the guy to adapt this strange Spanish movie. I think it would be more compelling to have more of this movie to be dreamlike in a visually surreal way. Cameron Crowe is not a visual director. The empty streets of New York are an interesting way to start but he needs to do more. It is a pretty interesting confusing movie but something keeps bugging me about it. My take on the ending is coma but it could mean so many things.