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As a result, the explanatory flashbacks at the film’s end brought none of the satisfying sense of discovery that came from revisiting key scenes at the end of The Sixth Sense. It didn’t occur to me that they were meant to be plot points. I even noticed a couple of the visual cues - and took them for Crowe being arty with his film.
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He kept us guessing, not by honorable misdirection and red herrings, but by neglecting to establish the ground rules of his universe.Īll right, so it’s clever. Similarly, when we at last learn what’s "really" going on in Vanilla Sky, we realize that director Cameron Crowe hasn’t been playing fair. And you can have Kevin Spacey claim to be from another planet, but not in the last reel of what had until then looked like a solidly earthbound crime thriller. What you can’t do is suddenly bring human-like robots into the end of a ghost story in which the existence of that kind of technology hasn’t been established.
Vanilla sky movie#
Now, you can have a sci-fi movie in which Haley Joel Osment plays a robot.
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Or suppose that, in the last act of the noirish thriller The Usual Suspects, Kevin Spacey abruptly explained that he was an extraterrestrial beaming back to his home planet, the way he did, maybe, in K-PAX. I don’t want to give away any particulars, but just imagine how it would be if, at the climax of the ghost story The Sixth Sense, Haley Joel Osment suddenly turned out to be a boy robot, like his character from A.