Abre los ojos
Abre los ojos DVD Cover
Directed by	Alejandro Amenábar
Produced by	Fernando Bovaira José Luis Cuerda
Written by	Alejandro Amenábar Mateo Gil
Starring	Eduardo Noriega Penélope Cruz Chete Lera
Music by	Alejandro Amenábar Mariano Marín
Cinematography
Editing by
Distributed by
Released	December 19, 1997 Spain
Running time	117 min
Language	Spanish
Budget	ESP 370,000,000 (estimated)
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IMDb profile

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Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) is a 1997 film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by him and Mateo Gil. It stars Eduardo Noriega as César, a successful and handsome young man in Madrid who becomes severely disfigured in an automobile crash and then undergoes some disorienting experiences. The film also stars Penélope Cruz as Sofía, Najwa Nimri as Nuria (the girl who causes the automobile crash that disfigures César), Fele Martínez as César's friend Pelayo, and Chete Lera as Antonio, a psychiatrist who becomes something of a father figure to César. 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 1972) is a Chilean-born Spanish film director, widely considered one of the most important Spanish directors working today even though he has directed only four films. ... Mateo Gil Rodríguez (b. ... There are two film actors named Eduardo Noriega: Spanish actor Eduardo Noriega born 1973 who appeared in Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes). ... Madrid is the capital and largest city in Spain, as well as in the province and the autonomous community of the same name. ... Penélope Cruz Penélope Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress. ... Najwa Nimri (born February 14, 1972 in Pamplona, Spain) is a Spanish actress and singer. ... Rafael (Fele) Martínez was born in 1975 en Alicante, Spain. ...

Director Cameron Crowe remade the film as Vanilla Sky (2001), with Tom Cruise in the lead role (renamed David Aames), Penélope Cruz reprising her role as Sofía, Cameron Diaz as the girl who disfigures David (renamed Julie Gianni), Jason Lee as the friend (renamed Brian Shelby), and Kurt Russell as the psychiatrist (renamed Curtis McCabe). The remake also transplants the action from Madrid to New York. Cameron Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American writer and film director. ... Vanilla Sky is a 2001 film which tells a story of a young multi-millionaire who is charged with murder. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Tom Cruise is the stage name of Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born 3 July 1962), an American actor and film producer who has starred in a number of top-grossing movies and remains one of the biggest movie stars in the world. ... Cameron Diaz at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. ... Jason Lee (born April 25, 1970, in Huntington Beach, California) is an American actor. ... Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American actor. ... NYC and New York, New York redirect here. ...

Plot summary

After César's disfigurement, he begins to have a series of disorienting experiences, culminating in his arrest for the murder of a woman said to be Sofía but whom César believes to be Nuria. It is gradually revealed that, shortly after his disfigurement, César contracted with 'Life Extension', a company specializing in cryonics, to be cryogenically preserved and to experience extremely lucid and lifelike virtual reality dreams. He then committed suicide and was placed in cryogenic suspension. His experiences from about the midpoint of the movie onward have been a dream, spliced retroactively into his actual life and replacing his true memories. At the end of the film he elects to wake up and be resurrected. This bigfoot Dewar flask is custom-designed to contain four wholebody patients and six neuropatients immersed in liquid nitrogen at -196 degrees Celsius. ... Virtual Reality (VR) is an environment that is simulated by a computer. ... Dreaming is the subjective experience of imaginary images, sounds/voices, thoughts or sensations during sleep, usually involuntarily. ...

The Cameron Crowe remake follows the original plot very closely but makes minor changes to the ending and incorporates a great many pop culture references. In general the mood of the original film is darker and more brooding. Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ...

The overall plot device and themes of unreality in Abre los ojos are very similar to those employed in the novel Ubik by Philip K. Dick. Cover of the 1970 Dell paperback edition of Ubik Ubik is a 1969 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. ... Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 — March 2, 1982), often known by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer and novelist who changed the genre profoundly. ...

External links

• Abre los ojos at the Internet Movie Database