After losing his looks and having his heart broken, life became too complicated for Cesar (Eduardo Noriega) to handle, he cryogenically freezes himself, without taking into consideration the consequences of his choice, hoping all his problems could be solved in the future. Directed by Alejandro Amenbar in 1997, Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) a mystery/science fiction/drama long feature film, speaks of a 25 year old handsome, promiscuous, rich young man called Cesar whose best friend Pelayo (Fele Martinez) introduces to Sofia (Penelope Cruz), whom he falls deeply in love with. Since he was infamous for being a womanizer, one of his bed sharing friends, Nuria (Najwa Nimri) becomes infuriated with the idea that he was willing to settle down
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Always in red, the color of love, lust and everything erotic. She gets mental when she doesn’t get what she wants, to the extent where she kills herself. We sense the mental instability in her from her way of life, we always see her drinking or taking pills, basically doing things a lost soul would be doing.
The film makes you go through trances, you start wondering what I would have done if something as horrible as getting disfigured had happen to me. The fact that we only get to see Cesar’s point of view all the time, allows us to understand his emotions and reactions, we get lost with him, we wake up with him, and we feel with him.
. Getting facially deformed is hard, but so is living life with no legs or hands, but people still persevere, they fight for their right to live. Its society’s fault that people with differences, those who derive from the norm’s scale, are considered worthless. But that’s wrong, what’s even worse is that as humans we tend to stare even glare at the person with the slight deformation as if the perfect person exists. In Abre Los Ojos, Cesar has a problem facing himself, because he had such a flamboyant life before the accident. He was sexy, had a different girl in his bed every night, parties and all the things a good looking man in his mid-twenties dreams of. By not accepting his deformation he created the mental problems he went through, it was him who allowed this physical deformation evolve and turn into a mental one. Its hard to accept but everything gets better with time, by better I mean we get accustomed to it and it turns
Always in red, the color of love, lust and everything erotic. She gets mental when she doesn’t get what she wants, to the extent where she kills herself. We sense the mental instability in her from her way of life, we always see her drinking or taking pills, basically doing things a lost soul would be doing.
The film makes you go through trances, you start wondering what I would have done if something as horrible as getting disfigured had happen to me. The fact that we only get to see Cesar’s point of view all the time, allows us to understand his emotions and reactions, we get lost with him, we wake up with him, and we feel with him.
. Getting facially deformed is hard, but so is living life with no legs or hands, but people still persevere, they fight for their right to live. Its society’s fault that people with differences, those who derive from the norm’s scale, are considered worthless. But that’s wrong, what’s even worse is that as humans we tend to stare even glare at the person with the slight deformation as if the perfect person exists. In Abre Los Ojos, Cesar has a problem facing himself, because he had such a flamboyant life before the accident. He was sexy, had a different girl in his bed every night, parties and all the things a good looking man in his mid-twenties dreams of. By not accepting his deformation he created the mental problems he went through, it was him who allowed this physical deformation evolve and turn into a mental one. Its hard to accept but everything gets better with time, by better I mean we get accustomed to it and it turns