The dreamer does not wake up

Elenora 2022-04-19 09:02:17

Ten years ago, I wanted to write a novel that would roughly say that "I" live two lives 24 hours a day. The normal life during the day is one kind, and the night involuntarily experiences another life, not as in sleep, because each night's life is as connected as the day's life. These two kinds of life are completely different, but sometimes there is always a little bit of remnant left in the other life, like the rest of the dream after sleeping. However, this story, like many of my other stories, only leaves a sketch written in pencil on a white cardboard in the library and the beginning of a dozen sentences on the reverse side.
The Bible says there is nothing new under the sun, and I believe that. What you are thinking must also be imprinted on the brain grooves of many people. In the early years, I had countless thoughts and the outlines and beginnings of countless novels. When I watched Luc Besson's "Angel A", the plot of the angel who stretched out his white wings and rose into the sky on the street was very interesting. It was in my card earlier. The matter is as Stephen, the protagonist of "Scientific Sleep", said: "Because your brain is thinking about such a complex circle, it seems that our brains are not communicating with each other, but instead evolve in the same direction, step by step, this is called Parallel synthesis randomness." I don't understand what parallel synthesis randomness is, but I know that there are too many people with wonderful ideas in this world, but only great people will insist on turning their ideas into reality.
"Scientific Sleep" is vaguely similar to the story on my card. The director I respect worked hard to turn ideas into reality, so this film is very close to me. Even so, the weirdness of the first half of the movie made me dizzy, and I struggled to understand it as if it were a dream, but it wasn't until Stephen's mother said, "He has often confused dreams with reality since he was 6 years old." how the director tells the story.
Stephane, who often took dreams as reality, fell in love with his neighbor Stephanie, tried to get close to his lover in reality and in dreams, and even wrote a letter in the dream and stuffed Stephane through the crack of the door Ni's door crack, but he hooked it back with a hanger immediately after waking up, but in fact, Sphynny has seen it. Although he loved the shy neighbor boy, the girl rejected his love several times for fear of being hurt, so the dreamy and hurt Mexican boy decided to go back to his hometown. Regarding the name of the movie, the cover of my D-version disc is translated as "THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP", and the translation in the small paper bag inside the disc is "Sleepwalking in Love". I don't know English very well, the former translation seems not quite correct, the literal translation should be "Sleep Science" anyway, and the latter should be the Hong Kong translation, although like all western Hong Kong translations Since it is self-conscious, it is very cinematic, but the former translation is rigid. I didn't imagine it when I watched it at the beginning, but it developed into a love movie in the end, but it is a very unique love story.
The magical realism style of the film is obvious, and the absurd dreams are interspersed in the daily life of the protagonist, which will remind you of the pretty girl Rey Remedios in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "The South" Here the protagonist discovers that he is not real but the product of someone else's dream. In the film, details such as the golden horse, the white cloth boat in the forest, the cotton suspended on the ceiling like clouds by the resonance of the piano, etc., as well as the transitions of various scenes, are deliberately unnatural like the transition between the two languages ​​used by the protagonist. The natural nature makes the film full and full like a layered flower with multiple petals.
What is more worth mentioning is that the dialogue in the movie is like a violin in a concert, which not only fits but also secretly dominates a lively performance. Stephen speaks at a very fast pace, and when he speaks, he blurts out most of the time. There are many times when he doesn't answer the other party's words at all. He talks to himself. Suddenly there are some playful and classic lines from time to time: "would you marry

me when we're 70? you've got nothing to lose."
Nothing to lose).

“If you could just stop doubting that I love you. Call me home. Next door.du•••••”
( If you could just stop doubting that I love you. Call me home. Next door.du•••••” ••••••)

"I like your boobs. they are very friendly and unpretentious.
"
"it's like if you were toching your penis with your left hand."
"I don't have a penis."
"you have a left hand."
" It's like if you were toching your penis with your left hand." "But
I don't have a penis." Brother." (Stephanie looked at Stephen with the eyes of a monster, but still answered in a normal way.)
"But you have a left hand."

These lines are suddenly like a spring breeze coming in a wild night, and the conversation is rather rambling. It has the impressionist temperament in "Norwegian Forest": "How much do you love me?" "The forests of the world are falling, and the tigers of the world have turned into butter." human nerve.
And when I recalled the opening remarks of the movie afterwards, it actually brought out another line of the movie. How do people dream. People think it's a very simple and easy process, but it's actually a little complicated. You see, the key is fine matching and rich ingredients. First, a few drops of random thoughts, then add the main ingredients: the right amount of memory fragments and nostalgic juice - it's for two; add a little love, a little friendship, a little relationship, and all the 'ships' (don't know how to translate, maybe 'ships', the iconic thing that appears in the movie, I guess ideals or the future, etc.), and the songs you listen to during the day, the things you see and the personal matters...”

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  • Gracie 2022-04-24 07:01:15

    Four and a half stars

  • Libby 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    The little boring scenes are not pretty and a bit rough”

The Science of Sleep quotes

  • Stéphanie: Randomness is very difficult to achieve.

  • Stephane: It's as if her synapses were married directly to her fingers.