danny

are we dreaming our own dreams?

dreamworks, one of the production companies is called. and by extensions it may englobe what some movies (hollywood?) has come to be. a dream factory. can you close your eyes, and dream, and call that dream yours? aren’t we thought to dream, and moreover, what to?

i was watching this movie called unfaithful (director adrian lyne: flashdance, jacob’s ladder, fatal attraction, 9 1/2 weeks, indecent proposal, lolita… c’mon, you know better than this, adrian!). it is another moral reproach to extramarital liaisons. marriage is queen, scared, and if you betray, you must suffer a lot before going on with your life. beacuse you’ll continue with the true-love marriage (farsa?) you commited to. because you cannot risk marital happiness for a handful of wild good shags.

in the 4 minutes the expiatory scene lasted, i had the chance of thinking about 4 or 5 different endings to it. but the punchline is that, when confronted to it, most of us wouldn’t do the same as the characters. cause yes we can screw things up, we know we’re humans. after all, there’s a pleasure in being human (human beings). and it came without limited warranty. but movies are doing a great work on making us sign one, full life spanned. to be able to dream of everlasting love without remorse (or living it through remorse itself).

so i ask you (me?) again, are your dreams yours, or did you grab them on a theater seat?

This entry was posted on Monday, April 7th, 2003 at 03:52:00 and is filed under thoughts.