Dreams

Week 8, Day 1

We spent the whole class period watching a movie called Dreams, directed by Akira Kurosawa.  The movie is composed of 8 short segments, all of which are based on Kurosawa's actual dreams.  Information about the movie can be found here, as well as summaries for each of the 8 segments:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_%281990_film%29

I did not like this movie AT ALL  I found it extremely depressing and disturbing.  Almost each segment of the movie dealt with death.  It almost makes me wonder what happened to Kurosawa during his lifetime for him to dream such troubling dreams.  Did he experience something that was that emotionally or physically distressing?  Some of the segments in Dreams were so graphically disturbing that they actually left me feeling really paranoid.  After class today, when I walked into the restroom, I was so afraid that a deformed one-horned demon was gonna jump out from one of the stalls and attack me.  Yes, I know that this would never actually happen, but I'm just a super paranoid person who tends to have a wild imagination at times.  This is the reason why I never watch horror movies; they make me really paranoid about the silliest things, like showering (I'll explain later) or staying in a room all by myself.  I even refrain myself from watching commercials about horror movies; I always switch the channel or look somewhere else when such a commercial comes on.  I still remember the time when I "accidentally" saw the commercial for The Grudge several years ago - for the next two weeks, I got really nervous everytime I stepped into the shower.

I wish we watched that documentary instead.  Professor Moss gave us two options, but the majority of the class, myself included, chose to watch Dreams.  This movie is gonna make me feel paranoid for a while.  Maybe I should've looked somewhere else during the disturbing parts...