I picked up the soundtrack for Vanilla Sky when it was going cheap at JB Hi Fi. It looked like an interesting bunch of songs and it was on sale so why not. It turned out to be a regular play around the house in John Street Elwood.
I'd heard about the film. How it was an inferior remake of a Spanish film called in English "Open Your Eyes" and so I went and rented that version out. Under the impression that the original is always the greatest. And it was great. But then I thought I would check out what Cameron Crowe had done with it because I like his work and he had these big stars in it plus the beautiful Penelope Cruz. Watching it I found it a bit dull compared to the original. However it had this really brilliant scene at the end. And it was sound tracked by a band I'd never heard of. But as Tom Cruise throws himself off a building Sigur Ros creates such an emotional backdrop to the images that flash before his eyes including images of popular culture, including The Who, the effect is just devastating.
I went and bought more Sigur Ros and they create this music you just live inside. No words you can recognise. Just sound. You can see they had an effect on Radiohead. I love the ending and thanks to what maybe the greatest creation of all time, YouTube, I often go back and relive it.
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