"Vanilla Sky" is a Tom Cruise's movie. It's a thrilling and mysterious movie about this very handsome guys who tries to escape from reality because he can't handle reality. So, he goes to a firm where they promise him that he'll be put to sleep and he will start living in a his dreams where everything is beautiful and nice the way he wants. So he agrees to go through this program. But life and reality are not that easy to escape from. They are like ghosts and they will find their way to haunt you, where ever you run. Hence, eventually reality starts slowly creeping into his dreams as well. So his sweet dreams start turning into nightmares.
When I first saw this movie I was able appreciate the concept of the movie and the actors for their performance in the movie: Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz (my favorite at that time) , Cameron Diaz and Jason Lee. But now when I re-look at the story and the concept, it makes so much sense. It seems like the truth, whatever you do you just can't escape reality, it just bites you and you have to go through the biting session whether you like it or not. It does creep into your dreams. I am sure all of us have experienced this, if something bad is happening in our lives we see that badness exaggerated in our dreams. This is like the ghost, it not only takes away the peace in our lives in day light, when we are wide awake, it also haunts us in the dark night as dreams. We don't have choice but to live through it, hoping that on the other side of this haunted tunnel that is peace and happiness.
"Hope" the quintessential anomaly that is simultaneously source of our greatest strength and our greatest weakness.
1 comment:
The moment we start questioning - 'Why is this happening to me?', we're in trouble. We start searching for answers. Acceptance of reality is what frees up some bandwidth in the head. Instead of asking questions, we can move ahead from the situation we're in.
Reality bites. Accept it and go get some medicine for it. :)
my 2 cents,
suman
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