How many times will the fantasy become reality?

Britney 2022-09-19 19:15:15

Buried Oedipus' fatalism: what we fear most is what we ourselves do not know we are going to do (or have done). What we fear in the face of the abyss is not the pure unknown abyss, but the illusion or precognition that we don’t know why we want or force to jump (as shown in the movie) In other words, maybe there is no precognition in the world , only the repeated reincarnation and repeated discovery of fate.

Or, it's all fantasy, and the prediction and the confirmation of it are fantasy. In this case, another horror arises: how many times does the fantasy become reality? I shudder when I think that every repetition we realize may have been the successor of countless repetitions: the dark fantasy that overflows our dreams like a liquid, becomes reality, a reality without redemption. I gradually understood the choice of the protagonist: instead of admitting this reality, I would rather choose to live in an endless dream: at least every time I wake up with a smile and lament that it's all just a nightmare.

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Dead of Night quotes

  • [Talking about the mirror:]

    Peter Cortland: But in a queer sort of way, it fascinates me. I feel as though that room, the one in the mirror, were trying to... to claim me. To draw me into it. It almost becomes the real room, and my own bedroom imaginary.

    [He takes a drag off his cigarette with a shaking hand]

    Peter Cortland: And I know that there's something waiting for me on the other side of the mirror. Something evil. Monstrously evil. And if I cross that dividing line, something awful will happen.

  • [Golf buddies Larry and George, in a pub, are arguing over the beautiful Mary, whom they both desire, and who likes both of them. Mary sits crowded between them, yet they act as though she isn't there. All three look depressed, their chins slumped into their hands]

    Larry Potter: I wish you were dead, old man.

    George Parratt: It'd be just as good if you were.

    Larry Potter: George! I've got it!

    George Parratt: What?

    Larry Potter: We'll play for her!

    George Parratt: Tomorrow morning. Eighteen holes!

    Larry Potter: Match play!

    George Parratt: The loser to vanish from the scene.

    Larry Potter: Forever.

    George Parratt: Put it there, then.

    [They shake hands]

    Mary: Of course! Why didn't we think of it sooner!