“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” — Frederick Nietsche

I wanted to let you know about a new website that a friend of mine just put up – http://theoraclestar.com.  She has some similar spiritual interests that I do, so I thought I’d plug it here.  Why is that even important?  And what does it have to do with ‘Dreams Awake’?  Well, first of all, she’s allowed me to put the film’s trailer on the front page (the first site to allow us that privilege).  But maybe more importantly (we’ll see) her site is going to do the first review of the film.  On the surface that sounds cool, but I have to admit I feel a bit nervous about it.  I know it’s part of the game, but still I have my issues with critics, which I’ll just have to get over.  Personally, I rarely rely on critics when I watch a film, because I hardly ever agree with them.  Is that a filmmaker bias towards critics? Or am I too sympathetic to filmmakers, realizing how much work it takes to get that film on a screen?  And believing that critics have no conception of what that does take?  Of course, I guess I really am revealing my bias towards critics.  Oh well, my friend won’t be doing the review herself, probably being a bit biased herself, so I’m not sure who she’ll have write it.

Certainly I have had several others ‘critque’ it, but that was for different purposes.  Interestingly enough, this does remind me that during that long and varied analytical process there seemed to be one layer (nuance? subtext? level?) of the film that I still don’t think anyone ever really got.  It has been on my mind periodically, a feeling of unfinished business.  And I’ve been wondering if I did something wrong there.  Or am I continually second-guessing myself?  No, I’m definitely sure no one got it (at least they didn’t communicate it to me), so that is probably on my shoulders.  Which makes me think sometimes that I may have actually outsmarted myself.  Have you ever done that?  Not sure I was ever smart enough to do that, but in trying to not make a point in the movie too obvious I may have buried it too deeply, thus hiding a major point of the film.  After the film is released this actually may be very intriguing to watch, to see what the reactions are.  At the very least I may see soon what a certain reviewer thinks about it all.

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” — Edgar Allan Poe

JAD