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I saw Science of Sleep a couple weeks ago. While I was watching it, I hated it. It blurred the lines between conscious and unconscious behavior, some scenes are intentionally not meant to be clearly one or the other. This is very creative and it was well executed.
At times it reminded me of cheezy romantic comedies where the male lead is allowed to stalk and say mean things, while the female lead continually gives him the benefit of the doubt only for the sake of the plot. In the real world, women, of course, do not do this and are, in fact, cruel in these scenarios.
However, after I spent most of the movie thinking that the writing was lazy on this account, the last scene pulled it together for me. The guy was saying things to the girl, obviously unfiltered subconsciousness, and it was like they were sharing a dream using reality.
The whole movie was more like a premonition, who knows what happened. Although as such the plot becomes less important, the feeling the movie left me with reminded me of my own dreams and was my first experience in art of the sensation I actually have when I'm in my dreams, saying or doing natural, yet stupid, things.
Ultimately this reminded me of The Idiots, which is another movie I hated most of the way through but then finally began loving it in the last ten minutes. I think there are definite parallels between these movies.
The horse was an exceptional idea. The foam room/inner head concept, with dream pot and dual cameras was also really well concieved and executed. The lead actors voice was perfect, hypnotic.
I did wish the hot next door neighbor who put up with him would have been more eccentric, she wasn't convincing, from the writing, as someone who would accept the guy.
I highly recommend it, but don't take an indie film newbie to it and make sure you are well rested. |
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