Scottish filmmaker Amy Hardie’s brilliant ninety-minute documentary film, The Edge of Dreaming , was shown on PBS last night. Ms. Hardie had a vivid premonitory dream that she would die in her 48th year; this greatly focused her attention on what was important in her life and on the reality of dreams. During the course…
One of the wonderful aspects of Inception is that it takes dreams seriously, enough so that they provide the main architecture of the film. It also very intellectually complex, asking for the viewer to think on many levels about the nature of reality. Unfortunately, director Chris Nolan filled the movie with too many chase scenes,…
The more I think about it, the more I am disturbed that Grace Hanadarko (in Saving Grace, reviewed yesterday) is a member of the police force. If she is in indeed a model of how a woman of the 21st century can be — tough, compassionate, comfortable with her sexuality, more than the equal to…
In Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Alice develops her “muchness” and the courage to choose her own path. This comes out of a descent into the Unconscious, i.e., falling down the rabbit hole and dealing with the figures in the Unconscious. Towards the end of the movie, she uses a magical sword to successfully…