Two years later, Cameron Crowe melded the concept of an alternate reality with dreams in “Vanilla Sky,” a film in which every scene may have been part of a dream, or at least those scenes after Tom Cruise’s character experiences a horrible facial disfigurement in a car crash. He’s told at the end of the film that he opted to be put into a lucid dream after the accident, and during his 150-year-long cryonic suspension, his dream malfunctioned, revealing that his strange visions earlier in the film were actually elements of his subconscious emerging.
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