Like A Dream You Want To Figure Out

Rating: Null/10 (21 March 2004)

I haven't read any of the other reviews here before writing this. I saw this movie just last night, March 20th. Wow. I've seen Being John Malkovich and Adaptation (numerous times). I already knew that the writer, Charlie Kaufman, is a nutty guy. Man o' man, he really takes you on a trip this time. This movie is for ANYONE who's loved and lost, and wishes they could forget, and move on...or go back and pick-up where the relationship ended...as if either can happen. In real life, it's not easy, or impossible. In this movie, those issues are addressed, sometimes with dead seriousness, in other ways whimsically. The story floats in and out of serious situations and knuckle-headed silliness. I liked that a lot because moments in our life can be both of these things, and memories and dreams of these moments are mostly what we're left with when the moments themselves have irreversibly come and gone. I myself have felt so many of the emotions and even had so many of the experiences of this movie's lead character: splashing (yes, splashing) in the snow with the most beautiful person you've ever met...feeling like you can die now because everything you wanted to happen has now come true...daring to fall madly for someone, thinking they felt the same way, only to realize they didn't care, or couldn't care...they're living their own version of the nightmare. That sensation that you once knew someone, and now you can't find them, as though perhaps you just imagined the whole thing. C'est la Vie!