OPEN YOUR EYES

César is a very rich and charming young man who inherited his father's restaurant chain and now spends his days between work meetings, travel, entertainment, and beautiful women. His life is, however, destined to change following a terrible car accident caused by one of his lovers who was trying to commit suicide with him. César survives but is horribly disfigured, bitterly discovering that friendship, love, and his life will never be the same again. The boy begins to lose touch with reality, to have strange and disturbing visions until the discovery of an unexpected truth... Second feature film by the promising Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar, who, in addition to directing the film, also wrote the screenplay and composed the musical theme. "Open Your Eyes" is a fantastic brand thriller with a complex structure: the viewer is continually surprised by the multiple flashbacks, the space-time overlaps, the protagonist's vision-revelations, up to the unexpected and surprising ending where everything makes sense. In his homeland, the film obtained a stunning success, even competing with Cameron's "Titanic" at the box office and launching the beautiful and talented Penelope Cruz into the world of international stars, although, to be honest, the most convincing performance is given by the excellent protagonist Eduardo Noriega. It is not a horror film but a disconcerting thriller that can sometimes be unsettling.