Its just a long dream sequence

Rating: Null/10 (20 February 2003)

I think its very simple - its just a long dream sequence. Like many long dreams, it shifts focus at odd times. Sometimes you remember a previous scene or character, other times scenes and characters just flow by randomly.
It sort of reminds me of the infrastructure of the Nightmare On Elm Street movies (not the plot, which was simple horror). Remember in NOES movie #2, somebody mentions another character as having lived thru the extreme horror of having her whole family murdered by a madman? That's seemingly a flashback to #1, EXCEPT that the family murdered subplot in #1 turned out to be just another dream scene (the final end of #1, if you recall, was with a bunch of the friends - all alive after 95% of the movie having just been revealed as a long dream - heading to school in a car thats just turning into a murder scene).
I remember a scholarly discussion about the whole NOES scenario - called the infinite dream - where you wake up to reality, only later to find out that you were still dreaming, when you wake up a second time. Then later you wake up again - and again - and again - each time into yet another dream.
In cases where dream scene #2 logically follows scene #1, you remember #1, but have no idea what's coming next. In cases where scene #2 logically precedes scene #1, you conversely know just what's coming next ("I've already had this dream!"), but have no idea of what just happened.
It doesn't have to make perfect sense. In a way, it's just like life. You take it one scene at a time - sometimes the scenes relate, sometimes they don't.
I'm definitely going to see this again. The next time will be harder - if I can't get my VCR working, I'll watch it IRT 1:00 in the morning.