![]() It is not the first movie to explore this theme and it won’t be the last. It is fitting to remember this idea when thinking about Tom Cruise’s new movie VANILLA SKY, which explores the impact of dreams and movies on our lives. Movies are a public dream where people sit in a darkened room watching fleeting images flash by while they eat their popcorn. It also contains suicide themes, sexual immorality, nudity, some violence, and plenty of strong foul language that is not appropriate for teenagers and many adults. VANILLA SKY suffers, however, from poor dialogue, superficial characters and uninspired acting. The movie mitigates this by including some moral, redemptive and even Christian elements. As such, its worldview seems to implicitly reflect the pagan worldview of Tom Cruise’s Scientology religion, where people work out their own demons by discovering the truth about themselves. VANILLA SKY is a psychological thriller, a mystery and a work of science fiction. ![]() Guilty about being so careless with other people’s feelings, David finds himself on a roller-coaster ride between dream and reality, past and present, fantasy and nightmare. Handsome, wealthy and charismatic, David meets the girl of his dreams, played by Penelope Cruz, but can’t let go of a blonde singer with whom he’s been fornicating, played by Cameron Diaz. Tom Cruise plays David Aames, a rich, young, publishing mogul who inherited his father’s successful business when his parents died in a car crash. VANILLA SKY is based on a Spanish movie called ABRE LOS OJOS or OPEN YOUR EYES.
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