Get it on DVD and really open your eyes...

Rating: Null/10 (27 July 2005)

I've channel surfed and seen this film or bits and pieces of it late at night on various premium cable channels the past few months and still get caught up in the spell of it. The visuals and scene shifts and segues are mesmerizing, especially late at night. I finally got the DVD and the ability to slow down and analyze scenes and structure as well as hear the director comments really enhances the experience. This film is very much a life lesson and appreciated more with repeated viewings. There is Buddhist psychology and underpinnings of Zen, related to karma, becoming awake, interconnectivity of people and things, good actions, form and emptiness, craving and clinging and aversion. Given the opportunity to experience a reincarnation to another life which is more authentic and rewarding, David Aames has a choice to make under a vanilla sky - risk everything and confront his ultimate fear.