I love it in movies and TV shows when something happens in a character’s dream, and then afterward shows up in the character’s real life. In fact, that happened in the most recent episode of Only Murders in the Building<\/i>.<\/p>\n
In a rational sense, of course this is impossible. Yet when we see it on the screen it seems to make perfect sense. Technically, such a moment is transforming what we had thought was a true-to-life fictional world into a fantasy fictional world.<\/p>\n
But isn’t that the point? When we watch something on the screen, we are indeed receiving it the way we receive a dream. On a sensory level, the end result of the techniques of camerawork and editing is not like real life. It is like our dreams.<\/p>\n
So when we see something impossible happen, such as a dream foreshadowing reality, we accept it, and we even celebrate this momentary escape from the strictures of real life.<\/p>\n
Because after all, isn’t that why we go to the movies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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