Unreal dream

Lewis 2022-03-21 09:02:08

This movie took a long time to finish in two days. After watching it, I was at a loss. After reading the first hot review of the long review, I suddenly realized that this was really a dream of the male protagonist's mother. I really admire the director of this film for his ability to seamlessly combine virtual and reality, which is really amazing. I also admire the author who wrote that long review. I really give you a big compliment. It's perfect.

So today, I watched the first half of the movie again, and my thoughts were smooth. Often we only paid attention to the superficial content, but ignored the important details. The director explained the clues of the film very vaguely, and the interweaving of the two timelines made people confused. At the last moment when the male protagonist in the dream overturned in the car, the camera switched to several clues in the male protagonist's mother's dream, the bottle of "antidote", the eel, the ballet dancer, the photo, and then the mother woke up and fell asleep again and passed away . Then the camera switches to the end of the story. The cremation of the male protagonist's mother happened after the male protagonist took Pan back according to the company's request, and it was also in the real world. After the male protagonist took the elevator and left, the camera switched to the mother's dream, the deer, and then the mother's dream continued.

In addition, I would also like to explain that the director has a very deep and thorough understanding of dreams and has brought it into play in his film and television works: First, the logic of the storyline in the dream is very wrong, and you cannot explain it from a realistic point of view, because you It can never be explained clearly. When you observe the movie, you will find many so-called logical flaws, and you may think that it is a hole dug by the director. In fact, this is the director's intention, because this is the true expression of the dream, and the director has done it. Second, people always switch between the first person and the third person when they dream. The image represented by the male protagonist's mother in the dream switches back and forth between the dancing girl and herself. For a while, she becomes the first person who directly talks to the second-person son, and then she becomes the third-person bystander observing the son and the dancing girl. . Third, the character in the dream experiences in the dream what you experience in reality, not what he experiences in reality. As an example of my own, I once dreamed that my junior high school classmates in my dream were taking classes in my high school classroom. Fourth, the time, place, quality, geographic location, etc. in the dream are all controlled by the dreamer, and many days in the dream may only pass a few hours in reality. The director did this too.

The humming of the female voice in the background music of the film gives a noble, elegant and gorgeous look. The scenes in the film are like a paradise, and the rhythm of the film is slow like a long stream of water, which has a refreshing and healing effect.

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A Cure for Wellness quotes

  • Pembroke: [Lockhart reading his letter] To my fellow-members of the Board. A man cannot unsee the truth. He cannot willingly return to darkness, or go blind once he has the gift of sight, any more than he can be unborn. We are the only species capable of self-reflection. The only species with the toxin of self-doubt written into our genetic code. Unequal to our gifts, we build, we buy, we consume. We wrap us in the illusion of material success. We cheat and deceive as we claw our way to the pinnacle of what we define as achievement. Superiority to other men.

  • Pembroke: [Lockhart now reading the letter sitting at boardroom table] There is a sickness inside us. Rising like the bile that leaves that bitter taste at the back of our throats. It's there in every one of you seated around the table. We deny its existence until one day the body rebels against the mind and screams out, "I am not a well man." No doubt you will think only of the merger. That unclean melding of two equally diseased institutions. But the truth cannot be ignored. For only when we know what ails us can we hope to find the cure. I will not return. Do not attempt to contact me again. Sincerely, Roland E. Pembroke.

    Hank Green: Well, Mr. Lockhart, what do you make of that?

    Lockhart: Clearly he's lost his mind.

    Wilson: Our thought exactly.

    Hollis: Man goes for two-week spa vacation and has a complete mental breakdown.

    Humphrey: [viewing his smartphone] Who the hell takes the waters in the 21st century anyway?