"The Dreamer" being classified as an erotic movie is also a gimmick. Sex is just a pretense in it, the dream is the point. The shots are bold enough, yet very aesthetic and "artistic". Three handsome men and women lay there naked, without any sexual arousal effect, like humans before they ate the forbidden fruit, like gods on Mount Olympus.
The real themes of the film are actually dreams, youth and revolution. The director seems to want to explore their relationship, but like all brilliant directors and teachers, he doesn't have an answer. But he gave enough clues, parades, wine, sex, movies, poems, slogans, and Mao statues everywhere. He's just acting, explaining what you need to think about yourself. A theme that appears to be clearly visible, yet plausible. While watching it, more than once I thought of another movie, "Sunny Days." One of the two directors was born in China and the other was born in Italy. But what they wanted to say and the feeling they wanted to express were almost the same. I think the reason must be that they were both in a great or psychedelic era, and they both had passionate and confused youth.
I love the ending of the movie. In the process of watching it, I had a hunch more than once that the appearance of so many passionate and confused elements would definitely lead to death. Later, after waking up, Isabelle directed the gas to the curtain where the three of them were. I thought this was the end, and that would make me sad. But the director deftly avoids this, and with a crisp sound, a mighty parade emerges. Three (two to be exact) young people immediately jumped into it, as if nothing had happened before, as if they had been in the midst of this revolutionary torrent. I thought death would still appear again, but no. The film ends in an excited and bewildered piece of music.
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