Dreams
If I had to pick one last film to watch before I died, it would be this one. It’s haunting, it’s beautiful, it’s such a mature and meditative film, and it continues to blow me away.
During this viewing I learned something new. This movie has a unique attribute to it that no other movie has. It’s actually still great if you watch it exhausted in the middle of the night. It being a collection of dreams allows it to take on a completely different feeling if you’re falling in and out of sleep. You’re missing parts here and there, but you actually feel like you’re having dreams. I’m not saying this is the way to watch the movie. But there’s something different to be gained from the movie watching it fully awake vs half awake. I found it making me feel different this time falling asleep during one dream, and waking up in the middle of another dream. I’ve seen this movie multiple times now, so I know exactly what’s going on when I wake up again. It feels like I’m the one having reoccurring dreams and I’m waking up exactly when I’m supposed to at a perfect part of the dream. I know this is about to sound so pretentious but the movie feels profound in different ways watching it this way. It’s almost a bit ethereal.
Anyways, my point being any other movie that you might doze off to, you’re definitely missing something and losing something from the experience. With this movie, it allows you to appreciate a different aspect of the filmmaking.