dream maker

Such intensive discussions on life, philosophy, art, freedom, science, etc. are brought out by the conversations of characters in various scenes. The entire animation takes the form of a man who is half-dream and half-awake constantly switching between dreams and reality. As a patient listening bystander, he seems to have experienced all these fragments in the moment of half-dream and half-awake. He is a dream explorer, and he uses lucid reason. The ability to combine with endless dreams, shuttle in different dreams.

Some are fragments of movies, and some are extended fragments of reality. These fragments disrupt time and space, and make the whole film appear in a disordered state. If we can freely switch between dreams and reality, and can control dreams, we will be able to cross the boundaries of different spaces and be omnipotent.

In the shaky lens language and the realistic and rough simulation characters, the director not only confuses the boundaries between dreams and real life, but also endows each short segment in life with rich philosophy and connotation, making it open The fruits of thought are like pearls left behind by the waves. Although it is impossible to judge the length of each episode, sometimes the feeling is so real and shocking, the six-minute experience, the dream is comparable to the experience of a lifetime in reality. Contains the essence of the entire universe in just a few minutes. How incredible all this is. These wonderful moments are testimony to existence and answers to eternal questions posed by God.

These wonderful moments are also witnesses to the expansion of the individual. When each individual thinks he is so special, in fact, he is the result of the continuous development of human society, the accumulation and sublimation of memory and civilization, just like everyone else. The creation of new experiences is the accumulation of surprising moments that exist between each other.

These fragments, beautiful moments in which words, conversation and listening are all necessary, make the void of nothingness full rather than empty. Even many wonderful illusions that appear in the movie are all language, and thoughts are materialized, and they are wonderful illusions transformed by sparks from the collision of thoughts.

Finally, the director also raised the question of the origin of life, is life just life? Or is life just a dream? Do people just switch to another dream after death? The protagonist even realizes in his dreams that he is dreaming. What if one person is another person's dream character? In this infinite loop, who is the real me? How can we break this endless cycle of dreams?

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