1001 movies you must see before you die – Abre los Ojos (1997)

If anyone wonders Abre los Ojos means Open your eyes.

So alright, this is a spanish movie made by the apperently fameous spanish directore Alejandro Amenebar wich they remade 4 friggin years later, put Tom “Idiot” Cruise in it and called it Vanilla Sky. My question is: Why the mothershit did they do that?! Probably because Amerinoobs can’t read -.-
So alright anyway. The purpose of the movie is apperently to make a science fiction movie without actually ever seeing the science part. It’s like those old violent plays where actually all they did was to talk about the violence. But alright, lets cut to the cheese or whatever. Our protoganist Cesar who is a piece of shit. Because he hooks up with the chick that his best friend fancied. As if that isnt enough, he goes of to bang some chick he does not even like afterwards. But karma is a bitch, cuz the psycho bitch lures him into her car and drives off a cliff and dies. Our piece of shit hero on the other hand wakes up with a messed up face. What goes around comes around if u ask me.  Our rich asshole of a guy ruins his chances with the hot chick now ofcourse, cuz not only does he look like a peperonni pizza, he is also abnoxious. But with his mooloz he pays a damn load of doctors to fix his face. OR DOES HE?!

Suddently the whole movie is a psycologic experience or whatever they call it. Shit stops making sense, then it makes sense again and then it doesnt make sense before it all makes sense. Just like fight club and memento and all that stuff.

I must say, I enjoyed this movie even though it was gloomy and psychotraumatic? I mean I have tons of dreams where I wake up and have the face of a duck or whatever and to watch exactly that shit happening to the guy in the movie made my backhairs stand up like pablo fransisco. The worst friggin parts are where he thinks he is fixed and then he isnt but then he is and no one actually knows if his face is messed up at all or if its just something in his head(through most of the movie he wears a mask).

I do recall getting bored at certain parts of the movie though. But the ending was awesome when everything was “clear”. Not that much was clear actually. And I just must spoil that he suddently wakes up in the future (yes this movie is that messed up), but we never get to see the damn future cuz the movie ends. We never get to see any of the fancy technology or anything. Damn you movie!

 

I give it 3,5 tacos out of 4?

 

I was looking at some of my ratings and they are unbalanced. Dunno if Im being way to nice against some movies. anyway…