Vanilla Sky (2001): All You Should Know About This Sci-Fi Film and What is Latest News?

This movie is a science fiction movie and has elements of psychological thriller, making you crave for more as you watch along.

Well, if asked to define the genre of the film, we might be a little confused there because it’s a very peculiar mixture of love, romance, thriller, and science.

What is the Movie About?

The movie is about a young man who has a very simplified life, and he has almost everything he needs, and if not h,e definitely has all the means to get whatever he needs. But then mysteriously he loses it all. But why? Let’s provide a very vague answer, maybe because he is conscious. Or maybe the absence of consciousness took it all. Whatever it is, life is hard for him. It’s one of those films that you don’t want to pass your reviews till you’ve watched it again to clarify.

More About the Movie

The movie begins with David Aames being in prison. He had inherited a huge company from his father. And now he’s in prison with a mask covering his face as he narrates it to the court psychologist.

Rewind a little, David leaves his inherited property with his father’s associates and prances about in his all jolly go behavior. He meets Sofia Serrano in a party by a casual introduction by his friend, Brian Shelby. After spending the night together the duo realize that they live with each other. But David was dating Julie back then and she had followed them up.

She offers David a ride when he’s about to leave the apartment but she also discloses her jealousy. And out of rage, she crashes that car and ends up dead. But David is scarred for life. Even plastic surgery won’t let him have his original face back. Now he’s roaming with a mask wherever he goes. And is mostly depressed. Sofia returns to David and caters to his needs.

How does David React?

With Sofia’s apologies and her care, David recovers and feels a lot better too. Even the doctors approve that he might get some surgeries that will help him get his face a little mended than before.

This time life feels a little perfect to him. But then he’s now he gets blurred visions of someone telling him that he won’t be able to control the world as he thought that he could. One day he wakes up in Sofia’s place to imagine Julie. He gets so shocked that he ends up suffocating Julie. He’s arrested and imprisoned and later finds himself wearing the mask again to hide his face.