‘Dreamlike’ Movie Recs

Alrighty, my fellow hogs. 😁

Let’s talk about dreams. Sometimes a story wants to be set in a dream — not just to use surreal imagery or ‘dream-logic,’ but to actually be set inside one or more interconnected dreams within the text of the narrative.

Inception is the classic example of a movie that says it’s going to do this and never actually bothers — that movie feels like it’s set in a series of rather logical interconnected video game levels, with our only concession to the ‘dream’ concept being some pilfered Satoshi Kon imagery and a scene where a cityscape goes foldy-foldy. This is not a query about Inception.

My two live-action visual touchstones for stories set in dreams are Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, particularly the last third, and the Buffy episode Restless. These are not only set largely in dreams within the narrative and progress using some amount of ‘dream-logic,’ but also go to some lengths to achieve the texture and dizzying ‘feel’ of being in a dream.

Because I don’t know shit about fuck, and am not as ciné-literate as I should be… what are some other examples that you think are as good or better? They should be 1) live action, 2) explicitly set in a dream within the narrative, and 3) really try to feel like dreams to match their narrative pretensions.

I can’t wait to hear your wise suggestions!

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