Thursday, October 8, 2009

Dreams (week 2)

Since watching the film Dreams on Wednesday, I have learned that Dreams is a 1990 magical realism film based on actual dreams of the film's director, Akira Kurosawa at different stages of his life. The film is based more on imagery than on dialogue. The film consists of several dreams based on Kurosawa's own, throughout his life. The dreams are eight separate segments in the following order:

  • Sunshine Through The Rain
  • The Peach Orchard
  • The Blizzard
  • The Tunnel
  • Crows
  • Mount Fuji in Red
  • The Weeping Demon
  • Village of the Watermills

    • I have also learned that Kurosawa's dream sequences are elusive, metaphoric and influenced by Japanese legends, reflecting in some way impressions from his own life. In this film, he brought forth his conscious experiences mixed with his unconscious imaginations. He mostly revolved his emotions around his own society which seems to greatly affect his perception on Japanese socialism. From start to finish, each scene to resemble the several emotions involved in the movie process; mood setter, enlightenment, struggle, confusion, suspense, and a happy ending. Sunshine Through the Rain, to me, resembles the curiosity of being a child which in result gets a child in trouble. The Peach Orchid seems to express the idea of new beginnings. The Blizzard seems to resemble the glimmer of hope in the darkness. The Tunnel symbolizes the guiltiness in one's soul and how bad memories always come back to haunt you. Crows seems to resemble the confusion in people's mind. Mt. Fuji in Red expresses the idea of man-made weaponry to be poison amongst the world. Weeping Demon expresses the aftermath of Mt. Fuji in Red and how society is naturally evil. And the Village of the Watermills resembles the idea of peace and prosperity. That is the idea and symbolism I got from watching this movie. The imagery, sound, and metaphors made the movie that much more artistic.

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    2 comments:

    1. Anna workshopOctober 8, 2009 at 10:43 PM

      I think most of us share the same thoughts and the same ideas about this film because it clearly gets his point across to the audience with his strong imagery and sound.

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    2. ReneOctober 12, 2009 at 3:11 AM

      I dont believe Mt Fuji in red and The Weeping demon necessarily parts of the same story just closely related in themes and scenario.

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