The story:
University Teacher feels his life is passive.
Starts showing up on people's dreams.
People start giving him preferentiable treatment like he's a movie star.
His introverted wife just wants him to appear on her dream in a sexy way, and doesn't like the spotlight.
Ad agency wants to commercialize his image.
He shoots down their ideas, he justs wants to write a book about ants.
A girl from the ad agency tells him she has intense sexual dreams about him.
He tries to have a fling with her, but gets so nervous he farts, and embarassed he leaves.
He feels angry about a former colleague stealing his ideas.
Starts showing up on people's dreams killing them.
People start antagonizing him in the real world.
He doesn't know how to react to that, and becomes combative, which worsens the situation.
His wife distances from him due to shame.
Some time passes.
The teacher has stopped appearing in people's dream in America.
Humanity develops the technology to make people enter other people's dreams.
Vapid pretty teens are paid to make ads into people's dreams.
The teacher eventualy learns to use the new technology and enter his wife's dream to appear in a sexy way. Happy ending.
The analysys: The story is an allegory for fame. People who don't particularly want it, become viral, get used, don't know how to deal with the media, become adored and/or vilified, pay so much attention to the shiny new things that come into their life, that they lose sight of what they wanted the most. While other explore the new way to become viral for commercial purposes.
The opinion: The movie has no opinion, doesn't try to teach you anything, doesn't take the concept into any interesting venue. And in the end, the moral is sort of "all you need is love", and "cancel culture is bad". Has anyone in the world not heard that boring idea a million times over at this point?
Here are some interesting concepts they could've taken it: What made his powers start? What made his powers stop? What would happen if he tryed to feel other emotions before sleeping? What if he tryed lucid dreaming? What if he tryed to stop dreaming? What if he was smart enough as a college professor and avoided conflict and called the cops and sued people, instead of getting physical with them? Why only one girl had sex dreams with him?
Starts showing up on people's dreams.
People start giving him preferentiable treatment like he's a movie star.
His introverted wife just wants him to appear on her dream in a sexy way, and doesn't like the spotlight.
Ad agency wants to commercialize his image.
He shoots down their ideas, he justs wants to write a book about ants.
A girl from the ad agency tells him she has intense sexual dreams about him.
He tries to have a fling with her, but gets so nervous he farts, and embarassed he leaves.
He feels angry about a former colleague stealing his ideas.
Starts showing up on people's dreams killing them.
People start antagonizing him in the real world.
He doesn't know how to react to that, and becomes combative, which worsens the situation.
His wife distances from him due to shame.
Some time passes.
The teacher has stopped appearing in people's dream in America.
Humanity develops the technology to make people enter other people's dreams.
Vapid pretty teens are paid to make ads into people's dreams.
The teacher eventualy learns to use the new technology and enter his wife's dream to appear in a sexy way. Happy ending.
The analysys: The story is an allegory for fame. People who don't particularly want it, become viral, get used, don't know how to deal with the media, become adored and/or vilified, pay so much attention to the shiny new things that come into their life, that they lose sight of what they wanted the most. While other explore the new way to become viral for commercial purposes.
The opinion: The movie has no opinion, doesn't try to teach you anything, doesn't take the concept into any interesting venue. And in the end, the moral is sort of "all you need is love", and "cancel culture is bad". Has anyone in the world not heard that boring idea a million times over at this point?
Here are some interesting concepts they could've taken it: What made his powers start? What made his powers stop? What would happen if he tryed to feel other emotions before sleeping? What if he tryed lucid dreaming? What if he tryed to stop dreaming? What if he was smart enough as a college professor and avoided conflict and called the cops and sued people, instead of getting physical with them? Why only one girl had sex dreams with him?