Dream Scenario, the latest Nicolas Cage vehicle worthy of theatrical viewership, features the actor as Paul Matthews, a tenured professor whose quiet work in ant studies goes unnoticed by the world and those within his immediate academic circle. To say that Paul’s life is a disappointment is a disservice to the many simple things he has going for him; it’s just very bland. One day, however, he finds himself at the center of social media and local news attention for appearing in people’s dreams. Unsure of the cause but willing to use the opportunity to boost his profile, Paul sets about on a comic romp, though tinged with deep sadness, through a defamiliarized version of modern living.Written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli (Sick of Myself), Dream Scenario is a wily and unpredictable patchwork film that pulls from many disparate influences to create a vividly realized adjacent reality that feels as grounded as any “serious” drama, despite having, at its core, one of the goofier premises of recent years. Unlike such films as, say, Beau Is Afraid, Dream Scenario is mostly played straight, without superfluous stylistic/budgetary pyrotechnics to distract from its deeply humane core. Where Sick of Myself was eager to hold a mirror up to the ugliest sides of phone-addled attention seekers, Borgli’s latest is an earnest odyssey of finding oneself at the heart of a viral craze despite not asking much from life other than an opportunity to take care of the work one desires.As we enter the world of Paul, we find that compounding the issue of remaining utterly anonymous in an already relatively not mainstream field, his ideas have found their way into a peer-reviewed scientific journal, ripped off by a former colleague. Paul’s home life, on the other hand, is just fine. His two teenage daughters don’t hate him (which is saying enough), and his wife, played by Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown, Planet Janet), seems to just enjoy being around him. That is to say, when Paul’s students begin to whisper about their professor’s inexplicable appearance as a benign presence in dreams, he’s taken aback but eager to see where it goes.RELATED: 25 Movie Endings That Make No Sense Even On A Rewatch
Dream Scenario, the latest Nicolas Cage vehicle worthy of theatrical viewership, features the actor as Paul Matthews, a tenured professor whose quiet work in ant studies goes unnoticed by the world and those within his immediate academic circle. To say that Paul’s life is a disappointment is a disservice to the many simple things he has going for him; it’s just very bland. One day, however, he finds himself at the center of social media and local news attention for appearing in people’s dreams. Unsure of the cause but willing to use the opportunity to boost his profile, Paul sets about on a comic romp, though tinged with deep sadness, through a defamiliarized version of modern living.
Written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli (Sick of Myself), Dream Scenario is a wily and unpredictable patchwork film that pulls from many disparate influences to create a vividly realized adjacent reality that feels as grounded as any “serious” drama, despite having, at its core, one of the goofier premises of recent years. Unlike such films as, say, Beau Is Afraid, Dream Scenario is mostly played straight, without superfluous stylistic/budgetary pyrotechnics to distract from its deeply humane core. Where Sick of Myself was eager to hold a mirror up to the ugliest sides of phone-addled attention seekers, Borgli’s latest is an earnest odyssey of finding oneself at the heart of a viral craze despite not asking much from life other than an opportunity to take care of the work one desires.
As we enter the world of Paul, we find that compounding the issue of remaining utterly anonymous in an already relatively not mainstream field, his ideas have found their way into a peer-reviewed scientific journal, ripped off by a former colleague. Paul’s home life, on the other hand, is just fine. His two teenage daughters don’t hate him (which is saying enough), and his wife, played by Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown, Planet Janet), seems to just enjoy being around him. That is to say, when Paul’s students begin to whisper about their professor’s inexplicable appearance as a benign presence in dreams, he’s taken aback but eager to see where it goes.
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