dream play through

Ray 2022-10-20 16:05:35

This movie is an illogical combination of Goodman's own experience and fragments of his brain combined with what is happening around him into a dream.

1. The actual external world time is very short, just a few minutes, but Goodman has experienced more than an hour in his mind, which is the asymmetry between dream time and actual time. There is often a feeling that a long time has passed in the dream.

2. The three stories are all fragments, which are the same as our actual dreams. They are also fragments of free transformation. The space and time change quickly, but we think there is nothing wrong with this.

3. The projection of reality in the dream, three people, their names are always staggered, the assistant doctor came in and called the parents, the attending doctor mentioned suicide with a gun, the rag doll on the chair, and the mirror in front of him (corresponding to the second The self on the car window in the story), the sound of the radio, the catheter in the mouth, these elements of reality are all shown in the dream.

4. The core of the dream is what you believe and avoid in your subconscious mind, so don't do anything wrong, and don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door.

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Ghost Stories quotes

  • Charles Cameron: Things are not always as they seem.

  • Devil: [as Simon tries to get out of the car] Stay.

    Simon Rifkind: FUCK THAT!