This week, it was all a dream — or was it? — in Cameron Crowe’s 2001 movie Vanilla Sky. Do Cruise and Cruz have chemistry? Does four times mean something? Is anything really anything?
Content warning: sexual assault, sexual violence, misogyny, nudity, drug use, car crash, physical trauma
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Unanswered Questions:
- So… what really happened?
- Is the film’s ultimate lesson to embody ourselves in pop culture ephemera, or to reject those things for something more human and authentic?
- Is there anything to be gained if we believe Crowe’s suggestion that the events of the movie are the events Brian’s book?
Further reading:
- Nicole Kidman Post-Divorce
- Abre Los Ojos (1997)
- Sleeping With Other People (2015)
- Vanilla Sky Secrets
- The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films
- The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule
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