Abre Los Ojos

Yesterday in my Spanish class we finished watching a Spanish film called: Abre Los Ojos. Some of you may know the movie Vanilla Sky, which is actually based on Abre Los Ojos. Tom Cruise bought the film rights after the movie was made to make an "Americanized" version. Fun fact: Penelope Cruz is in both movies and plays the same character. The director of Abre Los Ojos is Alejandro Amenábar, who is called the Spanish Alfred Hitchcock... as he likes to do a lot of thriller/scary movies.

Before watching Abre Los Ojos, I had seen Vanilla Sky once before... but a very long time ago and I remember being very confused after I watched that movie. It was really good to watch a traditional Spanish made movie in my class... and the great thing about my prof is that she put on English subtitles for us, as the actors talk INCREDIBLY fast and therefore it's very hard to understand them.

The movie was very well done and I think I liked it more than Vanilla Sky (as Im not a huge Tom Cruise fan, and the lead actor in Abre Los Ojos was very cute!! hehe). It took our class about 4-5 classes to watch the whole movie, as we would watch it in chunks. Then yesterday once the movie had finished we had a discussion about it in Spanish, what happened, why we liked it, how crazy it was etc.

My Spanish prof then introduced us to 4 more possible Spanish films that we get to vote on to watch next! So I will keep you posted on which one I get to see next. :)