Guide Questions for Open Your Eyes:
 

What is the role of technology on this film? What are its cultural, moral, ecomomic and/or political implications?

Discuss the importance of the body as a crucial site of anxieties in the film.

Towards an interpretation of the religious subtext in the film. Discuss the biblical parallels of "Life extension", the miracles, the resuscitation, and the idea of paradise.

How does the film make use of certain mythical patterns? Some of them may include the story of Job, Calderón's Life is a Dream, Freudian theories of the unconscious and the interpretation of dreams, fantastic and science-fiction stories such as Dr. Jekill and Mr. Hyde.

Other recent films such as The Matrix, The Game, and The Thirteenth Floor have dealt with similar quests in virtual reality. To what do you attribute this coincidence? In what ways are these films different from Open Your Eyes?

What is this film about in your opinion? What does it tell us about contemporary culture? Discuss how particular film techniques such as shot framing, editing, jumps in narration, flashbacks, repetitions, sound, and mise-en-scene are employed to carry out the themes in this film.