Word: opening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tranquilo, tranquilo. Abre los ojos" (Relax, relax. Open your eyes.) Cesar hears a voice telling him this after jumping off a 50 story building. But I wouldn't want to spoil the ending...
...this sounds unbelievable, it is. Imagine a combination of Back to the Future, The Truman Show and Phantom of the Opera, set in Spain and you'll have some idea of the complex and quick moving Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos). The movie opens with Cesar, a millionaire playboy played by Eduardo Noriega, finding relief from a seductress Nuria by meeting the beautiful girl next door type Sofia (played by Penelope Cruz). Cesar spends the night at Sofia's apartment in what seems to be the match made in heaven, but as he walks to his car the next...
...Open Your Eyes is an entertaining analysis of the blurry line between reality and fantasy, dreams and nightmare, and the powers of the human mind. Cesar has several experience of deja vu, some that are actually happening for the first time after happening in a dream, and some that he recalls from real life while in the dream...
...past: a man freezes to death, defeated by a curse and by the unforgiving wind; a boy gives his life to the empty and futile myth of the western bullrider, the memory of his abandoning father inescapable. Like the bareboned land from which they grew, the Close Range stories open themselves up entirely to the reader, exposing naked nerve. In becoming one of our finest short story writers, Proulx has learned to strip away the enigma that shields personality, to expose memory and personality, somehow in her search for the authentically tragic to remain as dispassionately powerful, and as intimate...
...past: a man freezes to death, defeated by a curse and by the unforgiving wind; a boy gives his life to the empty and futile myth of the western bullrider, the memory of his abandoning father inescapable. Like the bareboned land from which they grew, the Close Range stories open themselves up entirely to the reader, exposing naked nerve. In becoming one of our finest short story writers, Proulx has learned to strip away the enigma that shields personality, to expose memory and personality, somehow in her search for the authentically tragic to remain as dispassionately powerful, and as intimate...