Surprise idea, not enough completion.

Gretchen 2022-01-07 15:53:22

Creative full marks! The idea is a bit like the b-side of Ghost Street. It's not that you enter a dream, but the dream becomes a reality. The front is very fascinating. I think this theme will not go in the direction of horror but in the direction of fantasy and innocence. It will definitely be a wonderful children's movie. After all, dreams are full of imagination, and how exciting it is for dreams to shine into reality.

At the end, the milk teeth are cured! Until I went to the mental hospital to visit my former adoptive father, I felt that the direction behind the story would be that the mother and the son were both blackened and violent. Fortunately, the blackening phase kills people's blood, but the happy ending makes people feel relieved.

The little boy is innocent from beginning to end, and I have been grieving his situation since the beginning. He is just an ordinary child. The more turbulent the fate, the more disturbed and the easier he will have nightmares, all of which are beyond his control. What's more, he is so sensible, and his experience makes him sensitive and cautious, which makes him more distressed.

Having said that, the storyline is still a bit flat, and the heroine looks very strange. After watching it for a long time, she gets used to... Is it a plastic surgery?

In fact, according to my expectation, in the end the female main can find a way to fight against the nightmare. After entering the dreamland to find the missing person, it may be more to my taste. It is just a mouthful to clean up the mess... It’s still a bit perfunctory. .

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  • Jean 2022-03-20 09:02:15

    The story is very good, the heroine was wrong, and she was too out of shape. Changing the heroine will definitely bring tears to the plot

  • Melba 2022-03-23 09:02:38

    The concept is not new, and the handling is not very special. The scaring point basically does not work, either obvious or lacking foreshadowing, and the sudden shocking soundtrack is even more cheap, but even if the director's control of suspense and horror is as skillful as Wen Ziren, This kind of sudden shooting method is not necessarily suitable for this film; only the ending does not fall into the stereotype of this type, and it clearly has the opportunity to become a surprise work, but it ends up being completely different.

Before I Wake quotes

  • Jessie: No one ever really goes away. Not completely. Because they live in our minds, and in our hearts

  • Natalie: I've had a case come back across my desk that could be a very good fit. Cody. He's eight. His birth mother died when he was three. And we placed him with a couple that may turned out weren't fit. The second couple we placed him with abandoned him. Oh, my God. And I went for his annual follow up I found him living alone in the apartment.