Dreams

Holy sh*t!!!!! What a film. It consists of multiple different stories based on Kurosawa’s actual dreams, hence the name. This is Kurosawa at it’s best. How did Akira (technically) unconsciously come up with these brilliantly creative stories. My favourite is the one seen on the backdrop of this review.  First of all, this is so cinematically stunning. I could literally hang up any shot in this film on my wall. Brilliant camera, and it most certainly doesn’t become worse when THE George Lucas is the visual designer! And fucking Martin Scorsese as Van Gogh?! Brilliant. And also Steven Spielberg as a co-producer. My roman empire. The stories are so poetic, especially the last one with maybe the best dialogue I have seen. Some of the stories also brings up important themes like «what is art?», nuclear weapons, war and radioactivity, heavily fantasising it and making it pure cinema.  Second best Kurosawa film! I was even found some parts of this magnificent film a tiny bit creepy. There is something with Kurosawa fantasy that is very mysterious in a very strange way. And I love it. 5/5