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Movie Reviews of What Dreams May Come
Movie Review: Creative Artistic Fantasy
Summary: 5 Stars
A movie is rarely made with such intense creativity. The artistic quality is completely unique, stunning and makes this visually exciting.
Two souls meet and are soul mates beyond reality. Sunlit beauty entices you into the story. Emotional elements take hold of your heart and capture your attention in a way only one other movie has. This is a modern version of Somewhere in Time, with a more inventive twist. Only that movie made me feel the same way. What Dreams May Come is far more creative and captures the emotions of life with such truth. Yet, seems to have a similar theme.
When Chris Nielsen and Annie meet on a lake, they never imagine they will go to hell and back, in life and in death. This is an intellectual look at how heaven and hell might be and is worth watching for those aspects alone. This is a journey into Chris' mind in life and in death. Robin Williams (Chris) and Annabella Sciorra's (Annie) acting is so wonderful. I kept thinking it is a sign of a good actor when they can play so many parts in one movie. Annabella's character goes from goddess to suicidal mother and then tortured soul. Robin's character goes from calm to courageous.
Chris and Annie go through more than the normal human will ever be required to endure. When Chris dies and finds out his wife has committed suicide, he vows to find her tortured soul and bring her back to the heaven he has created for himself in his mind. He says something so profound about life and explains how he misses, books, naps and kisses. It will make you value life more.
This is a quest for everlasting love and happiness in the afterlife. While I don't believe in reincarnation, that aspect plays a role in the story which is amusing. The originality in this movie is beyond creative. Having Chris end up in a heaven made of paint when he loves paintings was so wonderful! The flying creatures were so incredible and the fact that you could be anyone you wanted to be, freeing.
A movie that will deepen your belief in a heaven and may even cause you to seek God and discover your soul. The aspects of respect, loyalty, courage, family, trust, love, belief in someone and endless devotion play out beautifully in the characters lives.
This is a movie I will watch again and again and am so pleased I purchased it. Life can take us in its teeth and shake us around. It is in the next life where we will gain our reward or punishment.
"I didn't get to say goodbye." was what Chris said in this movie and that hit me hard because I just lost my grandmother and didn't get to say goodbye to her. Realizing that she is perhaps in the heaven of her dreams, maybe cooking in a kitchen of her imagination with my grandfather, maybe riding around in my grandfather's boat in an ocean of his imagination made me feel more at peace with my loss.
A deeply spiritual and intellectual story about issues we all care about! Don't miss it, it is spectacular and magical.
~The Rebecca Review
Movie Review: If I Should Die Before I Awake ....
Summary: 5 Stars
Lately I've been on a Robin Williams kick, having enjoyed Bicentennial Man recently. I picked up this DVD and though the film tends to be maudlin at times, overall is quite a production!
Philosophy:
In my studies I had discovered that thought is greater than reality, and that you are not your arms, legs or brain, but you are you as a spiritual being. The film emphasized this without beating you over the head with its spiritual thought & inspiration, but was necessary to develop this concept for the film to make sense!
Annie & Chris:
Annie & Chris meet with the typical Hollywood "cute moment." They ram their boats into each other in Europe. Annie has claimed Switzerland in the name of Minnesota and Chris just claims her for his bride. We don't get a lot of character development here until well into the film. The flashback sequences are done well and are at times extremely emotional. Their life looks great until their children get killed in a car crash. Annie blames herself and goes into a deep depression which she never recovers.
Mythology:
There are ancient tales of the hero travelling into the depths of hell to recover his love. Even the gates of hell in the film had a large ship with the name Cerberus (the three headed dog, natch!) on front! The imagery of heaven and hell are well-presented. The crazy Raphaelian paintings; the upside-down cathedral; the heaven created that is actually made of paint! Crazy!
Ending:
The movie slam-punches grief until you can just cry with the anguish that Annie feels. The film tastefully covers the areas of suicide and never giving up. And even when you lose, you win (still trying to wrap my wits on this one). Movie critics have said that Robin Williams and Annabella Sciorra were not in tune in this film, but I beg to disagree. At times maudlin and heart-wrenching, the actors do indeed put their heart into their work and come out shining.
DVD:
Has an alternate ending which I'm glad was not in the final cut. The actual ending was more a message of hope that did not drag the story way out. The "making of" segment with a few words from the novelist Richard Matheson was also enjoyable.
Recommended!
Other Robin Williams Films:
Bicentennial Man
Mrs. Doubtfire [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: A Coil of Hope, in color
Summary: 5 Stars
While a world without tragedy may be desirable for us mortals, it is unfortunately not in our fate. Sometimes everyday people with normal lives are thrust into calamity. And sometimes that calamity is so devastating, our faith and happiness are quickly smeared into mud. If anyone can imagine their child dying in a gory accident, they still cannot imagine the internal agony that would follow. Now double that tragedy. Triple that tragedy, and you have the basis for a heart-gripping and believable tale. The character, Annie, understandably, cannot easily recover from her loss and withdraws psychologically. Her pain envelops her, and she commits suicide. As an artist, she was more prone to an emotional perception of her environment. While in good times her painting expressed her joy, it also controls the strokes of her brushes in bad times.
The movie follows this dark course, but delivers a twist. It offers hope. While delivering the audience through a powerful action-filled experience into the afterlife, it is laced with an encryption of spiritual enlightenment. Tuning into Annie's mind, the liquid texture of an artist's palette becomes an underpainting to the visual renderings of the film. Chris's journey to rescue his soulmate Annie is a moving decline through graphic levels of hell that rival the images of the painter Bosch. As he struggles through fallen souls and wrecked landscapes, his appreciation of the gift of inner life becomes more apparent. He is finding himself, as he is searching for Annie.
Although most traditional religious thought is unclear in their written doctrines on suicide, leaving the outcome of suicide victims open to mortal pessimists, this story offers a brighter take. In this new view, the audience is able to transcend the judgements of theorists, and discover an afterlife that is as mutable as oil colors on a plate of glass. A beautiful rendition. Only in discovering who we are, and why we are where we are, are we finally able to attain the heavenlike destiny that God has set aside for us.
Perhaps in the real afterlife we are not saturated with doctrination and separated by denomination. Hopefully we humans are finally able to set aside our prejudices of religious zealism and ignorance that so separates us here. Wishfully, we will discover a world that is how God intended, a world like we can imagine in this visual movie. Without revealing too much of the ending, believe that this story will lift you in the end, and give you dreams as vivid as rainbows. Enjoy.Movie Review: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Summary: 5 Stars
While a world without tragedy may be desirable for us mortals, it is unfortunately not in our fate. Sometimes everyday people with normal lives are thrust into calamity. And sometimes that calamity is so devastating, our faith and happiness are quickly smeared into mud. If anyone can imagine their child dying in a gory accident, they still cannot imagine the internal agony that would follow. Now double that tragedy. Triple that tragedy, and you have the basis for a heart-gripping and believable tale. The character, Annie, understandably, cannot easily recover from her loss and withdraws psychologically. Her pain envelops her, and she commits suicide. As an artist, she was more prone to an emotional perception of her environment. While in good times her painting expressed her joy, it also controls the strokes of her brushes in bad times. The movie follows this dark course, but delivers a twist. It offers hope. While delivering the audience through a powerful action-filled experience into the afterlife, it is laced with an encryption of spiritual enlightenment. Tuning into Annie's mind, the liquid texture of an artist's palette becomes an underpainting to the visual renderings of the film. Chris's journey to rescue his soulmate Annie is a moving decline through graphic levels of hell that rival the images of the painter Bosch. As he struggles through fallen souls and wrecked landscapes, his appreciation of the gift of inner life becomes more apparent. He is finding himself, as he is searching for Annie.
Although most traditional religious thought is unclear in their written doctrines on suicide, leaving the outcome of suicide victims open to mortal pessimists, this story offers a brighter take. In this new view, the audience is able to transcend the judgements of theorists, and discover an afterlife that is as mutable as oil colors on a plate of glass. A beautiful rendition. Only in discovering who we are, and why we are where we are, are we finally able to attain the heavenlike destiny that God has set aside for us.
Perhaps in the real afterlife we are not saturated with doctrination and separated by denomination. Hopefully we humans are finally able to set aside our prejudices of religious zealism and ignorance that so seperates us here. Wishfully, we will discover a world that is how God intented, a world like we can imagine in this visual movie. Without revealing too much of the ending, believe that this story will lift you in the end, and give you dreams as vivid as rainbows. Enjoy.
Movie Review: MAKES YOU WONDER, IN SO MANY WAYS
Summary: 5 Stars
WHERE DO I BEGIN. A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE ONCE MENTION TO ME ABOUT THIS MOVIE SHE WENT TO SEE WITH HER HUSBAND AND THAT IN DID HE WAS MAD AT HER FOR MAKING HIM SEE SUCH AN IGNORANT AND SUPID FILM, BUT FOR HER IT MEANT SO MUCH AND IT JUST MADE THINGS CLEAR FOR HER. I MYSELF DIDNT UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE MEANT AND SHE RECOMENDED THIS FILM FOR ME TO SEE. AS I PREPARE MYSELF TO SIT BACK AND WATCH THIS FILM, I KNEW IT MEANT FOR ME TO GIVE IT NOT 100% BUT MAYBE 200%.
I SAT BACK AND WATCH THE MOVIE. THIS IS A LOVE STORY I THOUGHT, OK. BUT THIS IS NOT JUST AN ORDINARRY LOVE STORY. THIS IS A STORY OF 2 PEOPLE THAT FIT WITH EACH OTHER, THEY WERE MADE FOR EACH OTHER AND THE GOOD TIMES AND BAD TIMES THAT THEY WENT THRU IN THEIR LIVES, WAS NOT COMPARE THRU THE HELL THEY WERE TO ENDURE IN THE AFTERMATH OF THEIR OWN DEATH.
YOU SEE, IN THE REALITY OF THIS WORLD PEOPLE TODAY DONT BELIEVE IN SOULMATES. THEY THINK IS SILLY TO EVEN BELIEVE IN SUCH A THING. THE BOOK, THE BOOK JUST FINALLY GAVE ME WHAT I WAS SEARCHING FOR AFTER WATCHING THIS MOVIE. YOU SEE, THE BOOK IS REAL, WELL TO ME IT IS AND I WILL BELIEVE THIS UP TO THE DAY I DIE. I TRULY BELIEVE THAT CHRIST SOME HOW MANAGE TO MAKE SUCH MANUSCRIPT IN DETAILS THRU A WONDERFULL WOMAN THAT MANAGE TO MAKE IT WITH IN 6 MONTHS AND HAD IT DELIVERED TO HIS BROTHER ROBERT NIELSEN, AND HE GOT IT IN JANUARY, 1978. HIS EXACT WORDS WERE: THE QUESTION, IN MY MIND, ABOUT THIS BOOK ARE MANIFOLD. I WILL NOT ENUMERATE THEM BUT PERMIT THE READER TO FORM HIS OR HER OWN. IF ONLY ONE THING AM CERTAIN. IF THIS MANUSCRIPT IS TRUE, THEN ALL OF US HAD BETTER EXAMINE OUR LIVES ... CAREFULLY.
IN THE BOOK ALSO HAS A MENTION THAT HAS STUCK BY ME..ALWAYS.. *WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH, THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP* PEOPLE ARE NOT PUNISH FOR THEIR DEEDS BUT BY THEM. IF ONLY EVERYONE BELIEVED THAT. IF ONLY EVERY MEN AND WOMAN IN THE WORLD KNEW - BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUGT - THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR LIVES. THE WORLD COULD CHANGE OVERNIGHT.*
THIS MOVIE IS NOT JUST A LOVE STORY, IS A MOVIE THAT TEACH US DIFFERENT PATHS IN LIFE. WHAT A LOVE ONE IS READY TO DO FOR THE OTHER, WHEN TRUE LOVE EXIST.
I MYSELF HAVE SAID ENOUGH, BUT WITH THIS I LEAVE... THE MOVIE ALONG WITH THE BOOK, ARE 2 OF THE MOST INTERESTANT PIECES I HAVE EVER READ AND SEEN. THE MOVIE TOUCHED MY SOUL, BUT THE BOOK CHANGE MY VIEWS COMPLETELY REGARDING LOVE, SINS, HEAVEN AND HELL.