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00:00The story begins with a man repeatedly hearing the voice,
00:04Open your eyes.
00:05Then David Ames is describing a dream where he's alone on the streets of New York City,
00:11completely deserted.
00:12He drives his car through empty streets and everything feels eerie and abandoned.
00:18The scene shifts to David talking with psychologist Dr. Curtis McCabe.
00:23David is wearing a mask over his face.
00:25He's in jail, charged with murder.
00:28McCabe is asking him about his life, how he got there, and why he's been charged.
00:33David explains he was about to turn 33, running three magazines and a worldwide publishing house.
00:40He talks about his youth and success.
00:43A flashback begins showing David at home with a woman named Julie Gianni.
00:48They have a casual physical relationship.
00:51Julie is somewhat possessive, but David makes it clear he doesn't want marriage or anything serious.
00:56Julie brought him chicken soup when he was sick.
01:00Julie tries to get emotionally closer, but David keeps her at a distance.
01:04Then David goes to play racquetball with his best friend Brian Shelby.
01:09Brian asks if he hooked up with Julie again.
01:12David denies it, but Brian can tell.
01:14Brian says one day David will understand real love.
01:18David says Julie is just a friend he sometimes sleeps with.
01:22Brian admits Julie is his dream girl, but David took her.
01:26While driving, they nearly have an accident.
01:29They arrive at David's office where he has a board meeting.
01:33These seven board members, whom David calls the Seven Dwarves, don't like him and want control.
01:39David's secretary Beatrice tells him the board is angry he's late.
01:42Talking with McCabe, David explains his father was a powerful publisher.
01:48His parents died 10 years ago on New Year's Eve, killed by a drunk driver.
01:53David's father left him 51% of the company and the remaining 49% to seven board members who thought they'd be in control.
02:02David believes the board is trying to trap him.
02:05McCabe asks what happened to David's face.
02:07David hesitates to continue the story, saying if he explains, McCabe will think he's crazy.
02:14McCabe tells him their time is limited because he has dinner with his daughters on Wednesday.
02:19Then we see David's birthday party.
02:22Many people have come.
02:24Brian brings a woman named Sophia Serrano, whom he met at the library.
02:28David and Sophia have instant chemistry.
02:31Sophia has a huge coat that won't fit in the closet.
02:34David and Sophia flirt together while Brian feels awkwardly sidelined.
02:39At the party, David's lawyer Thomas Tip tells him the Seven Dwarves want to declare him incompetent and take the company.
02:47He advises David to claim his life and learn to be an asshole.
02:51David is impressed and rehires Tip with a raise and gives him a big office.
02:56Then Julie Gianni shows up at the party uninvited.
03:00She's possessive and upset David didn't invite her.
03:02Julie says they had sex four times, which means something special.
03:07She threatens David playfully, but her desperation shows.
03:11David tries to gently push her away.
03:14David and Sophia feel a strong connection.
03:17Sophia takes David to her home where she has a dog named Paolo and works as a dancer.
03:22They get to know each other.
03:24David tells her his nickname is Citizen Dildo, given by the board.
03:28Sophia says she came to New York to dance, paint, act, and deal arms.
03:33She's joking.
03:35They watch an infomercial on TV featuring Raymond Tooley talking about Life Extension,
03:40a company that can freeze people and revive them in the future.
03:44He uses the example of Benny the dog, who was frozen for three months and then recovered.
03:49David and Sophia draw pictures together.
03:52Sophia made a beautiful sketch of David while David made a funny caricature of Sophia.
03:57David asks for one kiss in exchange for the sketch.
04:01They grow very close.
04:03David says he's a pleasure delayer, meaning he keeps relationships casual until the breaking point.
04:09In the morning, David leaves Sophia's place feeling like he's found purpose in his life.
04:14He's inspired and thinks about running his company better.
04:17Then, Julie Gianni follows David and gets in his car.
04:22She's upset and says David told Brian she was just a fuck buddy.
04:26David denies it.
04:28Julie becomes emotional and says she loves David.
04:31She's desperate and says the physical intimacy they shared means something.
04:36David gets scared when Julie starts driving recklessly.
04:39Julie asks if David believes in God and then deliberately drives the car off a bridge,
04:44a suicide attempt, with David in the car.
04:47David goes into a coma in the hospital.
04:50His face and arm are shattered.
04:53Three weeks later, he regains consciousness.
04:55Doctors say surgery is difficult because time was lost due to the coma.
05:00David has headaches and nerve damage.
05:02His face has been reconstructed, but not perfectly.
05:06David is given a facial prosthetic, basically a mask that can simulate his original face.
05:11He's very depressed and afraid of his face.
05:15Sophia wanted to visit him, but David didn't allow it.
05:19David feels the board is attacking him so he can be declared mentally incompetent.
05:24Lawyer Tip says the board wants to declare him mentally unfit to take control.
05:29David starts working from home and attends board meetings via video.
05:33A few months later, David goes to meet Sophia wearing the mask.
05:37Sophia is initially hesitant, but then accepts David back.
05:40She says if David disappoints her again, she can fall out of love instantly.
05:46David and Sophia start a relationship.
05:49The day comes to remove David's prosthetic mask.
05:52Doctors have surprisingly said there's a new experimental procedure that can fix his face.
05:57David is suspicious because the same doctors previously said nothing could be done.
06:02Still, the surgery happens and when the mask comes off, David's face is perfect,
06:07exactly like before the accident.
06:09David and Sophia's life becomes perfect.
06:13They're in love, David's company is doing well, everything seems amazing.
06:17David feels like maybe this is all a dream, but he's so happy he doesn't want to think about it.
06:22One night, David and Sophia are in bed.
06:25David gets up to drink water and when he returns,
06:28Julie Gianni is lying in Sophia's place.
06:31David is shocked because Julie died in the accident.
06:34He panics.
06:36Julie says she's Sophia, but David sees Julie's face.
06:40David becomes completely confused.
06:43Everywhere he sees Julie instead of Sophia.
06:46He can't understand what's real and what's not.
06:49Brian says David attacked Sophia.
06:52Police photos show Sophia's face badly injured.
06:55David doesn't remember anything.
06:56Thomas Tipp says the board will handle everything and there won't be charges if David quietly goes away.
07:03David becomes delusional.
07:05He thinks the board has created some conspiracy.
07:08Brian tells him Julie Gianni died in the accident.
07:11Her body was found.
07:13But David still sees Julie instead of Sophia.
07:16Brian says David hurts Sophia and now he's in denial, like O.J. Simpson.
07:20David goes to a club where he meets a mysterious man who tells him everything can be explained.
07:27He says David signed a contract.
07:29David is confused.
07:31The man says David has all the control.
07:34He can create everything with his mind.
07:36Then the man makes everyone silent just by David thinking it.
07:41David feels this is all a lucid dream he paid for.
07:44David and McCabe go to the Life Extension building.
07:47There, ladies named Libby and Rebecca Dearborn remind David he chose the lucid dream option.
07:54This option says you'll be frozen and when thawed, your perfect life will be simulated.
07:59Your memories, your desires, everything you want.
08:03McCabe tries to convince David this is a scam.
08:06David is in real life and has to face trial.
08:09But the mysterious man returns.
08:11His name is Edmund Ventura and he's from Life Extension.
08:14Now Oasis Project, David's tech support.
08:18Ventura reveals David actually already died 150 years ago.
08:23When David fell asleep on the pavement walking home from the club, that was the splice moment,
08:28where real life ended and the lucid dream began.
08:31Everything that happened after, the relationship with Sophia, the face surgery, everything,
08:37was David's dream simulated by life extension.
08:39What really happened, after the accident, David became lonely and depressed.
08:45His face never healed.
08:47After months of isolation, Thomas Tipp got company control back from the board.
08:52David chose Life Extension's lucid dream option and had himself frozen.
08:56Brian held a three-day memorial for him.
08:59Sophia never recovered without David.
09:02Ventura explains David's subconscious created problems.
09:05The guilt of bringing Julie back, the board conspiracy, David's mind created all this.
09:11McCabe was also David's creation, born from his need for a father figure.
09:16David is given a choice.
09:18Go back into the lucid dream where Sophia exists and everything is perfect,
09:23or wake up in the real world 150 years in the future where there are no guarantees.
09:29Sophia, or her simulation, tells David one last time.
09:33They'll meet again.
09:34How will he know?
09:35He'll know from the feeling.
09:37A breeze, someone's laugh, a glance.
09:39Sophia will be there.
09:41David decides he wants to go to the real world because he can't be satisfied with a dream,
09:46no matter how perfect.
09:48He's standing on the building's rooftop.
09:50This fear of heights was his last remaining fear.
09:54David says,
09:55I will see you in another life when we are both cats.
09:58The same line Sophia said the first time.
10:00McCabe tries to stop him, but David understands this is all a dream.
10:05David jumps from the rooftop.
10:07As he's falling, he sees flashes of his life.
10:10Brian, Sophia, everyone.
10:13Then a voice says,
10:14Open your eyes, David.
10:15You're going to be fine.
10:17The story ends here,
10:18leaving it unclear whether David actually woke up in the real world or not.
10:22The ending is deliberately kept ambiguous.
10:24The ending is deliberately kept ambiguous.
10:25You're going to be fine.
10:25You're going to be fine.
10:26Let's have a visible place.
10:26Turn the крас espace into the rooftop.
10:27Then you're going to start seeing the dashboard.
10:27To be free with it,
10:29you are going to be fine.
10:30Today,
10:31come share every collection,
10:31Nancy came and she keeps them asleep with these,
10:33who are not taking morph Danielle Island to the rooftop wouldn't be fine.
10:36So these things are going to be fine.
10:37Here,
10:37let's watch this time.
10:38For now,
10:39let's be fine.
10:39And let's see where we get yourself.
10:39Let's read it.
10:40As we get started,
10:41let's listen to this message,
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10:43this message.
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10:46The founder says,
10:47let's watch over the house,
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