Dream (AKA: Bi-Mong) (DVD) (Korea Version) DVD Region 3
Lee Na Young (Actor)
| Odagiri Joe (Actor)
| Kim Ki Duk (Director)
| Kim Tae Hyun
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numinair
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February 16, 2009
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February 16, 2009
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Dream Connection
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It’s difficult to express a Kim Ki Duk film on a superficial level. As I watched “Dream” my brain kept telling me there were many elements beneath the top onion layer of it’s premise. It certainly can relate and interconnect to Ki Duk’s other films like “Breath” and “Time” and expands upon his major theme of neurosis and madness, in a fascinatingly dark poetic story of dreams. “Dream” immediately grabs your attention. A man in a hit and run car accident panics and drives away to almost hit a drunk walk in front of his car. But the shock suddenly awakens him – it’s a bad dream. But the dream is true and the man then goes to the accident spot where the police have located the driver. The man follows the police to a house where a woman is swiftly arrested and is questioned about the injured victim. The man blames himself due to his dream and the woman frantically denies causing the accident, even though police show her a camera photo of her driving the car. This introduces the premise. The man and woman are strangers unusually cohered by a strong emotional dream, due to both having emotionally distressing past relationships. Though the woman hates her ex-lover, the man hopes he can reunite with the woman he loves. If both simultaneously sleep the woman sleepwalks and initiates negative emotions relating to her past relationship, with the man dreaming of the woman’s dangerous actions. To stop the woman’s distress getting worse than a car accident, they both agree that one must remain awake or something even more terrible could happen. “Dream” is an unusual viewing experience. It’s fluid and attention grabbing and though laced with symbolism and intellectual parallelisms, it’s easy to follow. The characters are ciphers (enigmas or symbolic proxies) and can be viewed in various ways. They’re two people, a Japanese wood block artist and sleepwalker Ran. But “Dream” suggests the ex-lovers could be the dreamers themselves with added elements of association and resemblance. A part / apart. I did wonder though if KKD met two people who dreamt this way. Interesting how the language barrier of Korean and Japanese doesn’t exist here, although I’ve had dreams where someone spoke in another language and…I didn’t have a clue what they were saying. Recommend film. Top quality acting from Na Young Lee and Odagiri Joe, too, with lots of food for thought here. If you watch with friends you’ll certainly discuss into the early hours like Bohemians afterward, I’m sure. |
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