Vanilla Sky Ending: Every Frame Explained

9. Monet

Vanilla Sky
Paramount Pictures

Monet's 1873 oil painting "The Seine at Argenteuil" is featured fleetingly, and the painting serves a major purpose throughout the movie entire, given that David not only owns it, but his subconscious uses the painting to create a "Monet-like sky" within the lucid dream world.

Again, the flash of the painting is his brain attempting to make sense of the mish-mash of the real and the imagined, and also the pivotal role that the piece clearly plays in it all.

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