When you see dreams they often seem to be very logical. Everything that happens to you or the characters you follow seem to have some kind of a logic, but when you wake up the images that are left to linger in the back of your mind begin to turn rather obscure and the logic of the story begins to shatter as you try to tell what exactly was the tale you just saw. And that seems to be the basis for Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams".
Dreams is a film compiled from several segments, that have seemingly no relation to each other. There's a story of a boy, who spies upon a wedding ceremony of the foxes, who get angry and demand retribution. In one tale we see apocalyptic vision of one future, in which people have mutated into trolls, whom scream out their pain. We also see a painter, who travels inside the works of Vincent Van Gogh and in the end we see a story, that ponders if we truly need the advancements of technology in order to be content with our lives.
So basically what "Dreams" is all about is the dreams, fears, hopes and behaviour of humans. It warns us to not to rely on machinery that much. It tells us to dream, as dreams are powerful and it tells that hopes might come true, if you truly want them to.
Dreams is not easy film to watch, as it is rather fragmented in narration, nor is it truly a masterpiece, but it is an interesting and cleverly told musing about the society we live in.
Dreams is a film compiled from several segments, that have seemingly no relation to each other. There's a story of a boy, who spies upon a wedding ceremony of the foxes, who get angry and demand retribution. In one tale we see apocalyptic vision of one future, in which people have mutated into trolls, whom scream out their pain. We also see a painter, who travels inside the works of Vincent Van Gogh and in the end we see a story, that ponders if we truly need the advancements of technology in order to be content with our lives.
So basically what "Dreams" is all about is the dreams, fears, hopes and behaviour of humans. It warns us to not to rely on machinery that much. It tells us to dream, as dreams are powerful and it tells that hopes might come true, if you truly want them to.
Dreams is not easy film to watch, as it is rather fragmented in narration, nor is it truly a masterpiece, but it is an interesting and cleverly told musing about the society we live in.