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I'm not sure if this movie has yet achieved classic status, but it certainly should. Open Your Eyes is the smartest, most powerful, and most important film I've seen in a long, long time. I was literally speechless at the end. Speechless! That doesn't happen too often.
Essentially, the story centers around Cesar (Eduardo Noriega), an impossibly handsome moneyed bachelor who has but a few passions, and the most pronounced of those is sex. After spending time with Sofia (Penelope Cruz), his jilted girlfriend, Nuria (Najwa Nimri) drives her car off the road, killing herself and horribly mutilating Cesar's face. Soon after, reality begins to break apart, and Cesar must try to understand what led up to his being committed to an asylum, accused of a murder he doesn't remember committing. Then the fun starts. If you enjoy having the rug pulled out from under you, trying to put together the puzzle without all the pieces, then chances are you'll enjoy this little gem. However, this movie isn't about psychological tricks at all--if you check out the liner notes for the DVD, Amenabar has a sort of mini-essay where he says that the movie is about alienation, and the opening scene is an indellible image: the city of Madrid, home of 5 million people, completely empty. It always comes to mind when I'm walking down a lonely road.
So, you might be wondering, do I see this or the Tom Cruise American remake? The answer is: this one. It's not hard to see why this movie didn't fare quite so well in America--many people here have become so isolationistic and close-minded that they don't want to watch a movie with subtitles. Then again, these are the same people who complain that Hollywood doesn't make good movies anymore but don't bother to watch independent films either. Not only that, but this movie doesn't give much in the way of closure--it can be taken at face value, but too many small mysteries abound to bring about a final resolution, and many audiences here would just as soon not pay money to see a movie if they don't know what happened. I'm not a film snob, by the way--I have enjoyed a few Arnold Schwarzenegger movies in my day (he makes a better politician than actor) and I don't bore other people with harangues on the genius of Kubrick, Altman, Cassavetes, etc. The remake, though, was far more in spirit to American cinema today--all the ambiguities and mysteries that enrichened the original film were stripped out to create a film with less feeling and far more closure. I'm actually surprised that the remake got that close, considering the studios today.
Now, my soapboxing over, please enjoy the film. If you don't mind subtitles--heck, even if you don't like them but keep an open mind--you'll no doubt be enthralled, as I was.
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BD-R, decent picture quality, burnt-in subtitles, improvable audio, no extras
There are some obvious bad aspects about this bluray, first one is that we are talking about a BD-R, lower quality due to a less longevity for the disc content, and not being a cheap release to compensate that anyway. Also, we have a release intented only to English speakers, because the subtitles are not only forced (like the case seays) but BURNT-IT, they are in the picture, codified as image and totally impossible to remove, no matter your player can avoid forced subtitles or that you make a copy in your PC, they won't move.Picture quality anyway is nowadays the best available, even when they have change the ratio a bit (it's 1.85:1 originally) and the video is not restored, considering the only restored available version is the Spanish BD and they made a horrible job, it's quite better to have a decent not restored version than a horrible restored one. Picture is sharp enough, it shows nice detail, it's better than all previous DVDs and doesn't seem to mess up colours too much (though it sometimes shows a magenta tint that doesn't always seems to be intentionally made by the filmmaker, but it's not always too obvious or disturbing).Audio quality is quite improvable, it's a simple Dolby Digital 5.1, while in Spanish BD we have a PCM 5.1, totally loseless.Subtitles, as I said, you have to watch English subtitles no matter if you like it or not. They also included Spanish subtitles for the hearing impaired but you know, considering you cannot take the English ones off, they show you both at the same time (Spanish being up - overtitles-, English down) so it's an absolute impractical mess.Extras: none, while this release had many extras in Spanish BD, this version is totally empty.Also note that the case is wider than usual and the cover is not, so the spin looks uncanny.Considering that, maybe if you really need English subtitles 100% of the times and don't care too much about BD-R shorter lifespan, not having a great audio quality or don't care too much about extras, it could be ok for you. In my case, being native Spanish speaker, it's a bit sad that the best picture quality has to be released forcing subtitles I don't need.Note: all pictures made by myself, and the lst ones are screenshots made of this very release in my PC to show the original picture quality and the unavoidable subtitles.
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Abre los ojos.
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Por otro lado, tenemos por primera vez esta edición en Blu-ray de la cinta, para empezar no es un Blu-ray sino un BD-Rom, pero no conforme con esto, tiene subtítulos inglés forzados, es decir; no se le pueden quitar. LionsGate nos entrega una edición deficiente para una cinta que debería tener una edición de lujo.
El BD-Rom tiene audio en español y subtítulo en inglés.
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