This week, it was all a dream — or was it? — in Cameron Crowe’s 2001 movie Vanilla Sky. Do Cruise and Cruz have chemistry? Does four times mean something? Is anything really anything?

Content warning: sexual assault, sexual violence, misogyny, nudity, drug use, car crash, physical trauma

Unanswered Questions:

• So… what really happened?
  
  
• Is the film’s ultimate lesson to embody ourselves in pop culture ephemera, or to reject those things for something more human and authentic?
  
  
• Is there anything to be gained if we believe Crowe’s suggestion that the events of the movie are the events Brian’s book?
  

Further reading:

• Nicole Kidman Post-Divorce
  
  
• Abre Los Ojos (1997)
  
  
• Sleeping With Other People (2015)
  
  
• Vanilla Sky Secrets
  
  
• The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films
  
  
• The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule
  

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