What are some Mind Blowing historic photos?

 

• Building the hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty, Paris, 1876.

• The Statue of Liberty as seen from the torch.

• Workers building the Empire State building, in 1930s.

• Henry Ford in the first car he ever built, 1896.

• The absolutely massive chain for the Titanic’s anchor, in 1909.

• A photo by Berenice Abbot of a woman wiring an IBM computer, 1948.

• A man repairs the antenna on the World Trade Center, NYC, 1979.

• Bottling ketchup at the Heinz factory, Pittsburgh, 1897.

• A meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club, California, in 1930.

• The intact seal on Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922. It went untouched for 3,424 years.

• A woman is ticketed for wearing a bikini, 1957.

• Vietnamese soldier, in 1965.

• Painting the Eiffel tower, 1932.

• Wojtek the bear, who fought in WW2.

• Loggers pose with a massive redwood, 1892.

• Collecting golf balls, 1920s.

• A baby cage, initially named a “health cage”, was essentially a bed encased in wire, dangling from the windows of city apartments.

• This photo from 1902 shows French knife grinders. They would work on their stomachs in order to save their backs from being hunched all day.

• The old Cincinnati library before it was demolished.

• Gerald Ford plays Soccer with Pele, 1975.

• The Twin Towers from a wheat field in Manhattan.

• Niagara Falls frozen over, 1911.

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In Vanilla Sky, when the tech support guy says Penelope Cruz never recovered, what does he mean?

 Vanilla Sky is a mind-bender with layers upon layers of reality and dreamscapes. When the tech support guy drops the bomb that Penelope Cruz’s character, Sofia, never recovered, it’s a punch straight to the feels.

David, played by Tom Cruise, is living in this trippy dream world, which he doesn’t even realize until tech support shows up to explain the whole deal. Turns out, he’s been in a lucid dream state, kind of like a high-tech, prolonged coma that he signed up for after his life went to absolute crap.

When tech support says Sofia never recovered, it means she didn’t survive or bounce back from whatever traumatic events happened in real life. She’s not part of his current reality; she’s a figment of his dream, a creation of his mind to cope with his loneliness and loss. The real Sofia, unfortunately, is gone.

This revelation is a total gut punch because it forces David to confront the harsh reality he’s been running from. It’s like tearing down the beautiful facade of his dream world and revealing the raw, painful truth beneath. The woman he’s been obsessing over and cherishing in his dream is just a memory, a fantasy he’s clinging to because the truth is too damn painful to face.

In a way, this also reflects the theme of the movie about the blurred lines between dreams and reality, and how we sometimes use fantasy to escape our real-life pain. David’s perfect version of Sofia is his way of holding onto hope and love, even if it’s all just a dream.