Tuesday, March 23, 2010

On Dreams and Movies

Today I had a very featured Dream. I'm not pretty sure about the argument, but I remember that it included a mother taken away from her children because she suffered demonic -or angelic, which is the same- possessions, run-away adventures in a train, time travels... and a very mysterious final scene in which a 'half lizard'-'half white widow' ("lizwidow" now and on) came out the frame of a window while I was messing around with a fork on the spiderweb. I killed IT with the fork but couldn't avoid a quick short, sharp, shock -dig it?- in my finger. Then I awoke.

I won't waist any second thinking about possible interpretations (I did). This could be very self revealing, but it's a busy day and I've got things on my mind: so I'll focus on the technical details!! My Dream was of a high quality! It involved several complicated technical resources such as panoramic views, zoom into the spider -or elsewhere, just amazing zooms-, 'camera' changing to the point of view of the characters -thus we could say, I was not the main person... or I was all those persons at a time 'cause I was into them and knew their limitations and feelings-, ... At the same time, some fantastic elements were quite realistic (e.g. the lizwidow) and I would swear, in the moment this beast was about to show up from the wooden shadows of the window frame, there was some music straining the audience.

Here my question: were Dreams all the same during the history? I guess NO :) So: how were the Dreams of the people living in the DDR different from those living in the Bundesrepublik Deutschland? How were the Dreams of the Spanish people when they only had radios or could only watch TV in front of the store windows? How are the Dreams of the people living in latin america, where at any moment the worm -a lizwidow- can come and sweep all sanity away? How were the Dreams of the greeks? How would be our Dreams in the future, as we incorporate more and better special effects? I'm amazed about the possibilities a 3-D Dream could offer!!! Do rich people have more quality Dreams than me? I'd like to be rich for a night just to have a complete 4-D Dream with dolby surround audio!! Could a man be soo rich, that a nightmare would kill him?