Ive seen a lot of strange movies,and this is definitely strange. Abre los ojos is a movie centered around the thoughts of a young Cesar who has been cryogenicized after a devastating accident with his crazed ex girlfriend Nuria, that has left him disfigured. During his ''sleep'' he thinks about his life before as a young handsome man and with his best friend's girlfriend Sofia.
I think the main theme in this movie is definitely ''beauty is only skin deep''. Cesar is one of those guys who are vain and was use to getting any girl he wanted because of his looks. He is perhaps narcissistic in the way that he obsesses about his disfigurement and because there's nothing he could do about it at the moment he decides to go down a downward spiral in which he becomes delusional and doesn't even know what is real anymore. What he is convinced that is real is his love for Sofia, and that Sofia will always be there for him,while also knowing that Nuria is the reason for his disfigurement she keeps on coming back again and again and he wants to get rid of her...with good reason of course.
A few parts of the movie I dont understand is that Sofia makes her money as a mime in a park, I dont know if this is suppose to be symbolic ,but when I think of mimes I think of a porcelain doll that comes to life and entertains you just a bit before they stand statue-esque again. I think Cesar thinks of her as some sort of doll and is only attracted to her because of her looks.He is not attracted to Nuria because she is not typical pretty,she doesn't fit into his mold so he keeps shunning her away.
Pelayo is a loyal friend and tries to help Cesar but its too late, this also hurts him in the end because the friendship was one sided.
At the end of the movie,Cesar sees this sort of ''time line'' of people in his life when he wakes up from his dream but the only way he could truly wake up is if he jumps. When he jumps I see it as a kind of re birthing process ,he finally opens his eyes and he doesn't have to spend his time in this vicious cycle anymore.
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