Vanilla Sky

[tsumik]

I watched Vanilla Sky for the first time last night and it was a wonderfully decedent movie. Now I'm not a big Tom Cruise fan cause his expressions and emotions convey in the same repeated way in nearly every movie, but he does play the role quite well. The movie contains such wonderful moments and really does capture love in the bitter and the sweet moments. The struggle from various angles on the same ring of relationships. And the part that captured me the most was the depiction of the moment that transpires when you have that first meeting with someone that causes the air to vibrate with excitment. How these two people left to their own moment create this world which is no longer bound by the rules and procedure what society deems as the proper momentum of relationships. In that small span of space these people are charged so high that accomplishing anything, being anyone, and expressing fully without critisism seems possible. These sort of moments develop into countless morning hours of conversation, laughter, and alot of times ultimately silence and disappointment. Cause like two cars passing each other in the dark. The light shines on each other briefly and then fades away to just a pin strike on the horizon.

I think too many people furnish these moments and then grasp for the moment to last forever. And sometimes it does but alot of times something that burns that intense eventually cooks away and falls out of the sky. I'm guilty of such things even but more every day as I have been taking incremental control of the ship that I sail on the vast sea of life I have learned to wish and cherish the shooting stars instead of trying to capturing them. I used a quote once to describe someone once and it was "You light my heart afire much like flowers do." Little did I not realize the hidden meaning I had placed in that statement. Flowers eventually die and turn to dust to return back to the wind.

So this movie, just turns in my head beautifully much like the title would go to say life and love comes in spoonfuls of vanilla sky. And I wish that for all those flowers and shooting stars, I wish to meet you again in another life, when we are cats.

Comments

[muffinbear.livejournal.com]

I still need to see this movie..... oh and ppppppuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrr *G*

[tsumik.livejournal.com]

Who are you trying to kid, your coming back as a bear.

[seaopaque.livejournal.com]

If you liked Vanilla Sky, you should see its Spanish predecessor, Abre Los Ojos. Exactly the same story, but in Spanish and still stars Penelope Cruz in the same role. I guess Cameron Crowe really liked the original and wanted to make his own American, wide-release versoin. Most people agree that the original is better.

[tsumik.livejournal.com]

Yeah I put it on my list of movies that I need to see.

[spikeygrrl.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the original movie it was based off of?

[tsumik.livejournal.com]

No but I want to now =)

[watersugar.livejournal.com]

I love Vanilla Sky. At the end, when he says, "I'm frozen and you're dead, and I love you," I always get really sad. To be 150 years in the future, where everyone you know and love is dead, is quite a shock.

[tsumik.livejournal.com]

Yeah I thought that was pretty tragic. I really liked the line "We'll meet again in another life when we're cats."

[justgoodnight.livejournal.com]

I scoured this and not ONE mention of penelope cruz's boobs! re-write it. haha

[tsumik.livejournal.com]

LOL! I have to agree they were quite breathtaking. But I'm not sure if I could find words to describe how wonderful they are =)