Vanilla Sky, Open Your Eyes....

Choosing between a chaotic still controllable life and the cruelty of the real world is the main theme in the Vanilla Sky, Open Your Eyes blockbuster movie.

The prophetic vision of producer Cameron Crowe and the unforgettable performance of Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz in this hypnotic love story could wipe out all our old-fashioned convictions about a linear story-line and the presence of science fiction in our life.

The lucid dream of David Aames with New Age references is the amazing symbiosis of an imaginary world and the memories of a young media tycoon ready to sacrifice the world of the rich and famous on the altar of eternal love.

Vanilla Sky, Open your Eyes is the movie that changed the life of millions with its pioneering worldview and the visionary soundtrack which could lure us into the magical realm of life extension.

I don't want to offer too many details about the plot....watch this trailer as the best appetizer for the movie...:)
AHHHHHHH.....and the amazing soundtrack....I adore Cameron Crowe and his team....:)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly….

Trapped in your own body, trying to offer the world a vague sense of your state is literally backbreaking. In the movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly we’ll have the chance to get familiarized with the story of the late Editor of ELLE magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby. In 1995 the famous socialite suffered a severe stroke also called a ’locked’ syndrome. Leaving his body completely paralzed and his mind working miraculously precise, was indeed one of the greatest dramas a man can ever face. The movie directd by Julian Schnabel and starring Mathieu Amarlic is a modern day masterpiece. 

The audience hears the thoughts of Bauby and has the opportunity to share the most delicate moments with this person imprisoned in his diving bell. Soon it turns out that this story is more than just a biographical production. The universal story of pople who are stuck in a pretty hopeless situation and they have only one super-thin string that ties them to this world. Memories and imagiantion are the only values that keep us humans as the movie suggests, and we hear the words of Bauby in our ears…..

„Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.”

It seems humor is indeed a solution to everythings and can free us from the huge loads of stress accumulated through the years of low periods…..Give yourself a break and see how hard it is to stay sane in a world that practically drives you crazy, while you’ll left completely motionles and impotent…..

Adam (2009 movie) teaches you about Asperger’s syndrome….

The cute neighbor at first seems simply clumsy and a bit nerdy, however as we proceed with the plotline it becomes clear that he has an exquisite memory and by the way, ADAM is also fascinated about astronomy….

With a ghostly resembling beginning to Temple Grandin, ADAM invites us into his secret world that’s apparently many light-years apart from our world….There’s love, (apparent)compassion and complex emotions until the audience finds out the main explanation for the funny gestures and acts of the main character…..

ADAM has Asperger’s syndrome, a health conditions to many pretty unknown as this is one of the branches of autism rarely presented to the public.

The movie starring Hugh Dancy- the real life husband of actress Claire Danes, who plays Temple Grandin in the biographical blockbuster….how funny for them to play so similar roles…that gives some really fascinating subjects to talk about….- illustrates the main disadvantages of this condition which are basically: difficulties in social interaction, restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. 

ADAM is cute and clumsy a bit…but more importantly he is literally unable to feel compassion which leads to the fall of this apparently blooming relationship….Make sure you have some hankies at hand….Before revealing every tiny detail make sure you see the movie for yourself and send me some comments about your opinion…..

Temple Grandin the untapped genius......

Autism as we know it might make us wonder how underappreciated these people really are…Being a genius is indeed a tricky state as this term blurs the limitations between sanity/saneness and insanity/madness. 

Temple Grandin is one of the most visionary movie productions based on the real life of this lady who managed to create a life-long and super-profound relationship with animals and more exactly  cattle. The now well-known Dr.Temple Grandin can be considered a modern day Dr. Dolittle. Animal science was never as comprehensible and fascinating than presented in this biographical production.  What makes this person even more mind-blowing her high-functioning autism.

2010 opened the eyes of the world to another  fabulous personality now considered one of the most influential people in the world by the Time 100 list. This classification is even more interesting as she is included in the ”Heroes” category. 

Before revealing all the special details about the memorable life of the 63 years old animal scientist, check out the trailer of the movie featuring the breathtaking Claire Danes immortalizing Temple Grandin in the most spectacular way awarded with the Emmy Awarded for Outstanding Lead Actress as well as Golden Globe Award For Best Actress in 2010.