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Disfigurement Major 
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TITLE |
Open
Your Eyes (1997) |
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DIRECTOR |
Alejandro
Amenbar
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A good
looking young man, Cesar, breezes through women |
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until at a
party he meets one who might be something more |
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than a
one-night stand. But he has to contend with the last |
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woman.
Reluctantly getting into her car she drives over a |
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bank and
into a wall. She is killed and his face is badly |
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disfigured.
The injuries to his facial bones are so bad his face as to be
re-contruscted. But when we first encounter him after the
accident he is in prison wearing a mask. |
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It is at
this point one should say that telling the story in no way
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explains the
film. From this point we never know whether a |
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scene is a
dream or reality. Cesar is in a pyschiatric prison |
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charged with
murder. Who, we don't know at this time. |
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The woman,
Sofia (Cruz), at first appears to reject but later it |
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appears his
face has been miraculously (through high tech |
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methods)
restored to its original and he and Sofia are in love. |
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But then he
begins to imagine that Sofia has been replaced by the woman
who crashed the car and we are faced by a mystery. |
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Suffice to
say that this film tackles head-on and obliquely the |
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emotional
and mental consequences of what has happened |
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On a single
viewing I couldn't follow or understand all that was |
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going on but
I highly recommend this film. |
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Remade as
Vanilla Sky (2001) with Penelope Cruz and Tom |
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