Vanilla Sky Explained

Definitely Cameron Crowe’s Most Complicated Movie

[panosms]

Dude holy shit man. You literally made a 2 minute video explaining a rly complicated movie and Ur explaining was so good and accurate. Unlike ALL the other videos or sites that just keep telling you more and more things but in the ending you still have questions.
You have answered all my questions with this video about the movie Thx!

[Kyser]

One can’t help but fall in love with Penelope Cruz character, she was amazing at being ‘the girl of your dreams’ in this movie which for most of it, is what she was 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[celesterose]

Hmm. I always thought the entire film was that he never woke up form his coma. That everything in the dream is what he was hearing around him (David, wake up). The ending is him waking up from his coma.

[Ace-pfwm]

For me this film is about signing a contract for a life that is sold to you as one which you can make whatever you want. In that life you're on top of the world, but with the really good comes the really bad. You can live a great life but alas you are not in control. Voices in your head, flashbacks, prison, suicide, whilst also living a rich life, wanting for nothing, sleeping around, falling in love. Once that contract is signed you don't know whats real and what is fake, in the end, only way out is death.
Im sure there are people out there that know exactly which contract I'm referring to, and it isn't irony that we are constantly being told to wake up but majority never will.

[Cypherus]

David was a douche at the night club trying to score Sophia, but it was known to him that if he did not get her in his real life, full of depression and insecurity, that she would be by his side on his 150 year old lucid dream. His attempt at the night club was a last ditch effort to gain happiness before deciding to leave this world for another one where he is happy.

[AlchemicalForge]

when I saw it at 18 it was interesting. Now I'm 31 and watched it, it was overwhelmingly depressing. Dreams, gnostic teachings, real, idealism.. it doesn't matter. I see now the consequences of the most little choices we make.

[luisgomez]

You have to watch it a few times to understand it definitely a Masterpiece.

[davidmendez]

One of the best explanations of anything, ever. Thanks

[tiffanywimbish]

Yes love this movie in my early 20s I watched it over and over and it has become even more thoughtful in my later years. It’s really stunning art just as it’s name sake painting.

[rajsankar]

Absolutely brilliant.. story.. film movie 🎦 I watch it more than 3 times I went to the cinema back in 2001 and at first I didn't get it.. But after my friend explained it to me. Then I said to myself what a beautiful movie.. I love sofias words... I will tell you about it in another life when we are both cats.. An in the ending of the movie when she's said that I will find you again.. In a cold summer day when the kool wind blows and some one laughs you will get a feeling an you will remember me or so she said.. Man her words melt me down

[HermeticAscetic]

0:47 that sentence is one of the best explanations of the movie I’ve come across.

[kahrenhol]

Is Julie the same person as Sofia? Is Sofia's murder a subconscious projection of David's belief that he was responsible for Julie's death due to his carelessness? Is David dreaming throughout the entire movie, pulling certain truths of his life throughout as memories, giving us clues to what happened prior to the Lucid Dream? (Is that Sofia's voice at the beginning of the movie telling him to open his eyes, and if so, does that not imply that he is dreaming from the beginning, that coupled with a vacant Times Square?) Why does David's face transform from disfigured to perfect in the final scene on top of the building when Sofia appears before he jumps off the building (both faces appearing under his favorite dream-like Vanilla Sky)?

[myles_bennett]

Great explanation. Straight and to the point which is so rare here on YouTube. Thank you for the great explanation but especially for saving me 14 minutes of my life I never would’ve gotten back!

[jaydenlucas]

The weirdest part is when you first see him go to life extension it is the dream life extension and that he's already been to the real one but he's just learning that he already did this in real life. Total mind fuck.

[TheSADHU]

I think the movie is much deeper, it is in fact more of a symbolic movie than a story to be told. It tells us a story about not taking life and love seriously enough and the consequences for it. He jerks the blonde around because he likes having sex and doesn't take her seriously, which results in her almost getting him killed because he didn't notice that she has a very unhealthy obsession, i also had a similar situation with a blonde woman in my life, but she hasen't tried to get me killed yet :P hopefully she never tries. And story about Sofia, well that one is also a very painful lesson in life, when you meet the perfect girl ! But sadly you are not ready in that time in life to be with her although you want to with all your heart. It can be the most painful experience in your life if you have experienced it. Ruining the chance to be with someone who is your perfect match, there is not greater psychological torture. Sometimes in life you get another shot with the girl of your dream, sometimes multiple shots, but sometimes it just wasen't mean to be.... Sadly this is also another life lesson i had to learn, so i understand this movie very well i'd dare to say.

[brabbit]

It always bugged me - why didn’t David start the lucid dream before the accident??

[stefanamirona]

When I first saw the movie, while watching the movie, before anything that the end is going to reveal, I thought he, David, the main character, was somehow reached by his own uncounscious guilt for what he had done to Julianna.
But then... the explanation was more than enough. His couscious did play tricks on him even in living in a lucid dream.

[TomTheCurator]

Just realized I used the word doesn’t instead of didn’t in the end 🥶

[sarahg]

It's about life being a dream. At the end he experiences a summary of all his memories before transitioning to the other side. It's about the other side, to be the real reality, and this life being a dream.
At the same time it's trying to imply that it's an easy choice to end a life or to decide if that life can start after an incubation period in a cryonics experiment.
I can see a future where people pay for a cryonics experiment with two hundred years of conservation, just to be terminated after a short time span.

[laurentpk]

Excellent summation. Precision like an atomic clock. Respect. 🙂👍