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Abre los ojos / Open Your Eyes
Character: Sofía
Year: 1997
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Screenwriter: Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller
MPAA Rating: Rated R for some strong sexuality, language and some violence
Other Cast: Eduardo Noriega, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez
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An imprisoned man hides his face behind a mask is telling his story, as a flashback, to a psychiatrist: his name is César, he is an orphan but he had inherited a fortune from his parents, and he used to live in a luxurious house of his his own.
He was also very handsome and a renowned womanizer. His best friend, Pelayo, was jealous of César because he was not very successful with women. But one night, Pelayo showed up in one of César's parties with a beautiful woman named Sofía. When César met her and talked to her for a while, he began to feel something he had never felt before: love. And, although she was supposed to be Pelayo's girlfriend, he tried to woo her, spending that night at her home.
But Nuria, with whom César had his last affair, was very jealous; she went to pick him up in her car the next morning, and committed suicide by ramming it into a tree. César survived the crash, but his face was hideously disfigured, his handsome looks gone. Doctors said they couldn't help him. He was very depressed and still in love with Sofía.
One night he went out with her and Pelayo, and he felt that they were very uncomfortable with his presence. But the morning after, his luck seemed to change completely: Sofía came to him, saying that it was he whom she really loved, and the doctors called him and told him that, with a revolutionary new technique, they could rebuild his face, which they did.
César was happier than ever, but that's when the really strange and scary things started to happen...and César found out that the real nightmare had only just began for him....
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Alejandro Amenábar imagined the script after having horrible nightmares while ill with the flu.
When César goes to Sofía's apartment and starts to rip down her photos on the wall, there is a picture of "The Sandman," a popular comic book that deals with the world of dreams, created by Neil Gaiman.
Penélope Cruz also stars in Vanilla Sky (2001), Cameron Crowe's remake of this film, playing the same character, Sofía.
César's apartment uses same set used by the character of David in Pedro Almodóvar's movie Carne trémula/Live Flesh (1997), which also starred Penélope Cruz.
The film's title translates to "open your eyes," which is a repeated motif.
As César runs on an "empty" street, you can see someone on his balcony on the top center side of the screen.
Crew or equipment visible: A crew member is reflected in the car window when César picks up Pelayo for tennis.
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