[Quick Summary: An heir to a NY fortune searches for answers after he wakes up again and again to what could be a surreal dream or a nightmare.]
I simply don't understand this script. I wish I did.
In Act 1, David Aames, Jr. is pursuing the girl of his dreams (literally).
In Act 2, he's in dreams, he's out of dreams, he plunges into nightmares, he wakes up from nightmares.
In Act 3, he comes to a self-realization in the end, and wants to live a real life.
But what was the point of his journey?
The ending doesn't have any easy answers (fair enough), but I wish the script was clearer about why Aames needed self-realization.
I was at a loss, and ended up not liking this script very much.
WHAT I'VE LEARNED: This Cameron Crowe script was unlike any other I've read.
It was a technically adept Crowe script, but it felt odd.
It was not just the genre, but the tempo, the mood, the narrative line. Probably because it was an adaption?
Vanilla Sky (2001)
by Cameron Crowe
Based on a screenplay "Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes)" by Alejandro Amenabar & Mateo Gil
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