FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE THE BEST MOVIES IN OUR VIDEO STORE Alejandro Amenabar - Open Your Eyes (engl. subt.) 

This is the story of a young man who has everything: He's rich and beautiful and charming, and he has the attention of a beautiful woman. What's more, I think she falls in love with him immediately. And this woman is as beautiful as Penelope Cruz! But then he loses everything. Perhaps because, contrary to all expectations, he does have a conscience? Or simply because life is so shitty? You see, Open Your Eyes is a ruthless moral film. The beauty of it is that when you see Open Your Eyes for the first time, it offers very good entertainment. A mystery thriller, a love story... If you watch it again, you'll want to analyze the film. You think you know what happens. Then you realize you've been completely wrong. Director Alejandro Amenábar leaves us in the dark and demands a lot from us. He belongs to the generation of filmmakers during the 90s who are not satisfied with telling a story in a linear way. You are supposed to look at the events from different perspectives and for that the plot is broken up. And which perspective is the "right" one? Well... If it's any consolation, the hero in the film reacts as stunned as you do. And it's not as if he suffers from memory loss as other characters in similar films. He has no memory at all. His name is Cesar (Eduardo Noriega) and he inherited a fortune after his parents died. His apartment looks like a tour of the furniture store Exil at our place in Köpenicker Strasse. Cesar is what is called a "player". He has so-called "Friends With Benefits" or also "Sex Girlfriends". At a party he meets then YOU: Sofia (Penélope Cruz). They don't sleep together, but it looks like they understand each other blindly. The opposite of a "sex friend". It is love that comes from really SEEING the other. Then a twist. A surprise. Then a twist and another twist and another and another... Is it at all still about the life and love of Cesar? No. Open Your Eyes is now about something completely different. This completely different one is explained - but with the reservation that it may cause more confusion. Watch the beginning. "Open Your Eyes" says the voice of Sofia. Only she has not yet met Cesar at this point. Let alone heard her voice. But even this mystery can be solved, because there is a character in the film who connects all narrative strands...