Bloody dreams

[andrewducker]

I just woke from a dream and it's bloody well gone already.

I was watching a movie. I watched it once and didn't like it - couldn't see the point, then caught bits again when other people were watching it and suddenly saw why people liked it, and was halfway through watching it by myself, utterly entranced by it's beauty and depth when I woke up.

I don't remember much, except that it was animated (beautiflly), set largely in a public school gone horribly wrong and seemed to be about the power that masks have over the people who wear them.

Damn, damn, damn.

Comments

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't worry. In dreams we have such high emotional responses (I've heard it described as like a small child) to just about anything that happens that the daftest/dullest events and circumstances seem incredibly meaningful and involving. I definitely find that when I wake up and recall a dream, none of it has anything like the emotional charge it did in the dream and, in fact, seem quite silly and my reactions melodramatic.

Oh, and the word is 'film'. (or possibly 'picture' as in 'going to the pictures') What are you, some kind of damned American? :-) Let's keep the English language as big and comfusing as possible!

[andrewducker]

Eek - nobody says going to the pictures! Well, possibly except for people's dads.

Movie is a perfectly good word, and it's one that it's common use. film, on the other hand is sounding increasingly outdated as it refers to the storage medium - one that's already on the way out.

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

Move is from the same phrase as 'pictures' i.e. 'moving pictures' referring to the (then) amazing fact that they moved and were not stationary. (interesingly 'talkies' quickly fell by the wayside).

I never heard anybody using 'movies' for most of my life unless they were American or Americophile (is that a word?).

I'm seriously in favour of not using they American version of a word if there is a British one. Just trying to maintain a difference and maintain diversity of language.

You may disagree but it makes people sound like wannabe Americans.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

Now, imagine that you're a two dimensional television character that suddenly realises that he's a three dimensional person. Walk off the stage.

Masks are scary. I once read a pop-psychology book about a compulsive liar, and it was illustrated with a man taking off mask after mask after mask, and never getting to the real face.

This is the shit that stuck with me, a kid that liked to tell stories.

Damn. I wish you remembered your dream, too.

Love,
A.