#42 - Vanilla Sky
Sweet and sour. Every passing moment is another chance to turn it all around. The little things...there's nothing bigger.
The movie begins with "Everything in its right place". A sour song that punctuated the irony that everything is NOT all right.
True love becomes possible with Sofia to the sounds of "Solsbury Hill" - a song about taking your life in a new direction.
David pays the price for forsaking the new live for the old lust. Attempting to rekindle what was possible David has a failed date with Sofia, who wears a t-shirt that says "St. Rose." - the Patron Saint of Vanity. St. Rose used to pray: "Lord, increase my sufferings, and with them increase Your love in my heart."
Falling asleep and waking up "the next morning" to the sweet sounds of R.E.M.‘s "Sweetness Follows", David finds that a dream life with Sofia is actually possible.
The dream turns to nightmare as David's subconscious guilt overrides the dream.
As the mesmerizing "
The Nothing Song" by Sigur Ros plays, David decides to give up the fake dream life for the chance at a real life.
His friend Brian once told him, "You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy, who goes home alone." But that turns out to be epically untrue. But it's okay. Every passing moment is another chance to turn it all around. And he'll see Sofia again in another life...when they are both cats.
Trivia:
At the start of the movie, when David wakes up with Julie Gianni, her cell phone ringtone is "Row Row Row Your Boat" but at the moment she answers the call and the music stops, the next lyric would have been "Life is but a dream".
In the cell, Carl Jung's book, "Memories, Dreams, and Reflections" can be seen on the table between David and Russell's character. The book is all about Jung's personal dreams and how they helped him uncover his "shadow" and remove his persona (or "mask").
