Ignorant Movie Review:  The Science of Sleep

Response to title:  Maybe this will help me.

Response to curbside poster:  Well, now that’s surreal.

Response post-credits:  What a visual smorgasbord!  An interesting and, I think, apropos side note regarding this movie, the French word for "Director", réalisateur, literally means one who realizes ideas.  Seemingly casting himself as torch bearer of a 21st century surrealism, Michel Gondry (le réalisateur) creates life as a series of breaks between dreams in The Science of Sleep.  Through a landscape of temporal distortion, dialogic miscommunication between three languages, movies within a movie and familiar human themes (love, death, work, sex, lies, art, etc.), Gondry strives to see us delivered from Plato’s cave on the back of a chaotically mechanical horse vis-à-vis a protagonist who lives a life of dream and sleeps a dream of life.  I think this is an absolutely fantastic film.

Rating:  4.800000009 out of 5 Oly Stubbies

Film Haiku:  Frozen feet awake
               “a neighbor and a liar”;
                trees in a boat breeze.

Can be seen:  Olympia Film Society
                         206 5th Ave N
                     Olympia, WA  98501

                Tuesday, November 28, 6pm
              Wednesday, November 29, 9pm