Freud's discussion of dreams suggests that the way dreams work is accomplished in four ways. They are: condensation (combining many into one), displacement (subconscious transformation of bits and pieces), figuration (specific feelings are correspondingly presented in dreams), and secondary processing (connecting illogical things). Of course all this is done in an unconscious state. And dreams are also a way for people to release themselves, so some unsatisfied desires or childhood shadows are often expressed in the form of dreams. It can also be said in popular terms that we used to have unfulfilled wishes or unsatisfied satisfaction in real life. It will be realized and satisfied in the dream. And movies are also such a way. When we sit in a dark theater and watch what happens in the world on the screen, it seems like we are doing our own dreams. Some stories or shots in the movie are about us. When we desire, we are satisfied and a release of our desires (including murder and arson, pornography, and punishing evil and promoting good).
In this way, our movies (daydreams) and dreams have certain similarities, and it is more appropriate to say that movies are a dream factory. Although we cannot ignore the fact that dreams are the work of the subconscious mind after all, and movies are the work of the consciousness, dreams and daydreams are both conscious and subconscious constructions of wish fulfillment. In dreams and daydreams, childhood Memories and traumatic situations are likewise mixed with other material and no longer have their identifiable, identifiable identity. This is why some directors unconsciously form their own styles and iconic elements, such as John Woo's church and pigeons, and Chen Kaige's performance of his unique understanding of his father.
The difference between dreams and daydreams (movies) may be that although they are both derived from the relaxation of the self-censorship mechanism and prohibition, the leading role of the secondary processing of daydreams is stronger, deeper and more thorough, so daydreams/movies The scenes are mostly complete and beautiful logic. But the movie "An Andalusian Dog" took the world by storm and moved the dream scene directly into a daydream.
The film "An Andalusian Dog" has no plot, just a series of illogical and irrational shots, and a dissonant junction of strange and grotesque images: a man wants to hug the woman he desires, but is caught by a long rope tied with a pumpkin ; a dead donkey drenched in blood on the piano; a well-dressed man playing the violin boredly along the street... Because of its ambiguity, many people have different views on it and talk about it with relish and enjoyment. Leaving aside the meaning of the film, but in terms of the mechanism of the dream, the reason why the film can be called a film and a classic film is because it does contain a lot of language and techniques from film studies: the effects of editing.” The "Kulishov effect" makes people constantly reorganize the picture and investigate the meaning of its assembly; the dead donkey on the piano when the piano is played, and the symbolic and expressive meaning of these actions and things such as the long pumpkin rope; And the naked body of women makes people wander back and forth between the imaginary and the symbolic, etc... and we can find that the subconscious dreaming method seems to have a slight similarity to the way we use our own consciousness to make movies.
A thing that really shows a dream, but something illogical can form a classic film on the screen that can attract people's attention, which shows that dreams and movies still have a lot in common. And the most fun it brings to the audience is the process of analyzing the movie, which is actually a process of dream interpretation. For Freud, the so-called dream interpretation is the analysis of dreams as a system of representations intended to conceal their truth and meaning, in order to discover the underlying wishes and childhood or traumatic memory content and content. significance. As far as our audience is concerned, the analysis of the film is also a process (the in-depth analysis of "Let the Bullets Fly", so as to understand the director's intentions and wishes). This kind of dream interpretation not only provides a way to explain the audience's mind and pleasure in watching movies, but also provides the possibility of interpretation of movie text analysis. This is also the fun that Andalus dogs bring us.
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