{"id":1159,"date":"2002-12-26T13:04:01","date_gmt":"2002-12-26T20:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2002\/12\/26\/vanilla-sky\/"},"modified":"2002-12-26T13:04:01","modified_gmt":"2002-12-26T20:04:01","slug":"vanilla-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2002\/12\/26\/vanilla-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanilla Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rented <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0259711\">Vanilla Sky<\/a> last night. I usually don&#8217;t blog rentals, for no good reason, but this definitely merits an entry. The film&#8217;s proximate inspiration was a Spanish movie, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0125659\">Abre Los Ojos<\/a><\/i> (Open Your Eyes &#8212; starring Pen&#233;lope Cruz in the same role she played in this movie) but the main underlying plot device seems pretty clearly to originate in PKD&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/isbn.nu\/0679736646\">Ubik<\/a>. The story jumped around in sequence and in layers of unreality, and keeps you guessing and speculating even after it ends. Despite that, I wouldn&#8217;t quite call it a mindfuck &#8212; though I&#8217;m not sure if this is because I&#8217;ve been habituated by other films on this level, like <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0209144\">Memento<\/a>, because I&#8217;ve been desensitized and primed by the vastly more mindfucking Ubik, or because this movie&#8217;s just not far-out. But definitely enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rented Vanilla Sky last night. I usually don&#8217;t blog rentals, for no good reason, but this definitely merits an entry. The film&#8217;s proximate inspiration was a Spanish movie, Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes &#8212; starring Pen&#233;lope Cruz in the same role she played in this movie) but the main underlying plot device seems pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}