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Abre Los Ojos

Rated:  R 1997 Color 117 mins
Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Penelope Cruz
Directed by: Alejandro Amenábar 
Written byAlejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil 
Movie Co.: 20th Century Fox

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Vanilla Sky--Episode One--The Familiar Movie
by Michael Flanagan

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For a very good assessment of Abre los Ojos, see Christian's review of Vanilla Sky, Cameron Crowe's remake of this movie.  I agree very much with his assessment; I loved seeing Vanilla Sky.  I was drawn in, excited, enthralled, and thrilled to have a movie that leaves you with the ability to philosophize.  I hadn't seen Abre los Ojos.

Now, I have.

I loved seeing Abre Los Ojos.  I was drawn in, excited, enthralled, and thrilled to have a movie that leaves you with the ability to philosophize.  With very few differences, it is basically the same as its remake, except with almost different actors (Penelope Cruz reprised her role, a smart move on Crowe's part) and it's in Spanish.  See, it has to be in Spanish, because it's a Spanish movie set in Spain.

I mentioned other differences.  Sky has added pop-culture references, like classic rock music and old movies.  It uses these, as well as a corporate capitalist angle, to comment on the mistakes people make, not as people, but as society.  The conclusion there makes the suggestion that a lot more has to be done, and we, as a society, should open our eyes.  This angle leaves us with a little more to think about at the end, but it's not the main point of the movie, and it certainly doesn't hurt Ojos not to have it.  Ojos introduces the sci-fi angle earlier in the film through a series of clearer hints and allusions.  Ojos' main character, Cruise's later counterpart, Cesar, played well by Eduardo Noriega, begins to realize what his situation may be sooner, and he is more accepting of it when it comes.  There are some minor differences in dialogue, and Crowe seems to have a better grasp of the human condition, at least through dialogue.

All in all, Abre los Ojos is not only an earlier film, but a younger, more innocent perspective on the story.  Steven Spielberg has often commented on Close Encounters of the Third Kind in that, if he made the movie now, he would not have Dreyfuss' character leave with the aliens.  The man has a wife and family and responsibility, and as such, he should have stayed.  When Amenabar made Ojos he was 24.  Cameron Crowe made Vanilla Sky when he was 44.  Although Crowe did not change the ending, or anything else for the most part, his age and experience show in his version.  Abre los Ojos is not so much naive as simply young.  A young man's journey, as opposed to that of a man with responsibility.  Both are equally good, for very similar reasons, and if you like one you should watch the other.  I don't know which to tell you to watch first.

And in this day and age of Planet of the Apes (2001), a practically unaltered remake is a welcome thing, even if its similarity is jolting.

 
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