warn represent do contain spoiler . open your eyesif you have not see this film and plan on do so and just stop reading here and take my word for it . you have to see this film . i have see it four time so far and i still haven not make up my mind a to what exactly happen in the film . that be all i be go to say because if you have not see this film and then stop read right now . if you be still read then i be go to pose some question to you and maybe if anyone have any answer you can email me and let me know what you think . i remember my grade 11 english teacher quite well . his name be mr. krisak . to me and he be wise beyond his year and he always have this circuitous way of teach you thing that perhaps you weren not all too keen on . if we do not like shakespeare and then he turn the story into a modern day romance with modern day language so we could understand it . our class room be never a room and it be a cottage and we be on the lake read a book at our own leisure time . this be his own indelible way of brand something into our sponge like mind . i begin this review of vanilla sky with a description of this brilliant man because he once give u an assignment that have be firmly etch in my mind and like the phone number of a long lost best friend and and it finally make some sense to me after watch the matrix . now if i do not know good and i would have think that the wachowski brother be really just an alias for my teacher mr. krisak . but give them the benefit of the doubt and we will assume it wasn not him . but that be the first time this assignment be anything more than impalpable . he have ask u to prove to him and to ourselves that be real . show me how you can tell that you be real . this get the class spout off all of the usual idea that i be sure you can imagine . everything from pain and to sense of touch to sense of loss to sense of hunger be spout off to our teacher to prove to him that we be real . after every scenario that we give him and he would come back with the one answer that would leave u speechless . what if you be nothing but someone else dream . what if you be someone else dream . what a mess up question that be . this be a question or scenario pose to u about 15 year ago and before the astronomical use of the internet and rapid advancement of computer . how possible could it seem back then . but if you look at today technology and now ask yourself and what it you be a part of someone else dream . another brilliant but surreal film this year and david lynch mulholland drive explore similar area . but vanilla sky go deep than any other film could hope to . in short this be one film that will literally ( if you let it ) blow your mind from all of the possibility that surround you . open your eye . tom cruise play david aames and a young and hot shot and righteous and full of himself publisher and owner of several magazine . he inherit this from his father and although he have talent and business savvy and his board of governers and the seven dwarf and think he be a rich dink bear with a silver spoon in his mouth . they feel he have do nothing to deserve the pinnacle of success that each and every one of them believe should go to them . early in the film we meet one of david gorgeous toy name julie gianni and play with pernicious but bombastic perfection by cameron diaz . david and julie play a good game and both claim they be just there to use each other and be not the slight bit interested in a monogamous and committed relationship . this be the type of relationship commensurate with david other fling he have in the sexual prime of his life . and although both talk a good game and we can tell that only one be really tell the truth . next we meet brian shelby and play with a stroke of genius by kevin smith good buddy jason lee . brian be write a book that david be go to publish but they be also very good friend . this be something that david have very little of in his life and you can sense a real caring for one another early on in the film . brian have one famous line that he keep tell david over and over again . and that be the sweet ain not so sweet without the bitter . he go on to tell him that one day he will find true love and not just this part time lover status that he seem to perpetrate with all of the floozy who inhabit his bed for a night or two . at david huge birthday bash and ( so huge that the like of steven spielberg wish him a happy birthday ) brian enters with his date and sofia sorrano and played of course by penelope cruz with what have to be the best performance of this year by an actress . this be a bash by invite only and at first david and sofia seem intrigue with one another . and in typical david fashion and despite his best friend be there and he begin to flirt with sofia . to complicate thing and julie show up uninvited and begin spy on david . david then spend the night with sofia and but they only talk and draw caricature of one another . there be no hanky panky . the next day and a david be leave sofia apartment and he be greet by julie and who offer him a ride and from there . well and i think we have all see the commercial . that be all i will really say about the plot and because from here the film tease u with what be reality and what be blur perception . we be introduce to a character play by kurt russel and a few other shady character that all play a part in this labyrinth like haze . there be a subtext of death and possible panacea like cure alls that may or not be able to create the possibility of eternal life . this be just one of the intriguing possibility the movie offer u and but it doesn not end there . like many movie seem to thrive on today and this film have a secret . sixth sense may have begin this craze and but look even far back and you can maybe thank angel heart for start the craze . regardless of how it originate and vanilla sky have one of it own surreptitious gut buster . and what make this one so much fun be that the film give you many obvious clue along the way but not enough to give you an apodictic solution to the gauntlet of truth and lie you have just put yourself through . i have see this film four time and every time it have be because i want to see if there be something more i can pick up and something more i can understand . to be able to work your mind in the theater and to enable it to open up to new possibility be something rare in a film . all of the ersatz so call best picture of the year have be good but nothing spectacular . they lack substance . a beautiful mind be intrigue but flat and the royal tenenbaums be interest but uneven . vanilla sky be a rarity because it be a film that leave you yearn for more yet guarantee your satisfaction because the film and those that make it care about it . i know this film have receive mixed review but i just think that those who do not like it do not quite understand it . this be what film making be suppose to be like . this be what a film be suppose to do to you . it be suppose to make you feel something . most of the other film this year have be just empty space . this one isn not . positive the best film of the year . i would love to see this get nominate for best picture and i would love to see cruz up for best actress and diaz for best supporting and cruise for best actor and jason mewes should be a shoe in for best support actor . cameron crowe should there as well . none of this may come to pass and and that be a shame . this be one film that should not be miss . and on a final note and i be quite sure mr. krisak would like this film and maybe this be the one film that may answer his question . can you prove you be real . or be we just a figment of someone imagination . be we artificially transplant for someone else bemusement . this be a film that spawn more question than it do answer . and i be sure that be just fine with him . open your eye .