Upon the recommendation of many of you, we saw \u201cInception.\u201d What I like are complicated, mutli-leveled, twisting plots. This qualified. So thank you for the suggestion.<\/p>\n
My one problem with the movie is that it depicted dreams, and yet nothing in those depictions was remotely dream-like! There was none of that combination of seeming logic and actual illogic, no shifting of place, no fantasy, no archetypes. \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d does a good job of recreating what dreams are like (the book and possibly the Disney cartoon, emphatically not the recent Tim Burton travesty). So does Spenser\u2019s \u201cFaerie Queene\u201d and MacDonald\u2019s \u201cPhantastes.\u201d I\u2019m trying to think of movies that capture that. Are there any? Or are movies, by their nature, too literal?<\/p>\n
(I\u2019ve thought of a few: \u201cAndalusian Dog\u201d; Jean Cocteau\u2019s \u201cOrfeo\u201d and \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Upon the recommendation of many of you, we saw \u201cInception.\u201d What I like are complicated, mutli-leveled, twisting plots. This qualified. So thank you for the suggestion. My one problem with the movie is that it depicted dreams, and yet nothing in those depictions was remotely dream-like! There was none of that combination of seeming logic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1077],"class_list":["post-6044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-inception"],"yoast_head":"\n