Dreams

Tonight i watched what is titled Akira Kurosawa's Dreams on netflix. I have been watching the foreign films category lately. A few months ago, at the start of a monthly ride, a fellow cyclist was talking about music in spanish. He does not know spanish, but he said he likes to hear it because he enjoys the music and it helps clear his mind even if he doesn't understand. Maybe that's why i like listening to radio stations from India on the web sometimes? At any rate, i am in agreement with this idea, and have applied it to movies lately.

Tonight's was a random pick. The movie is a collection of 8 short films based on the dreams of the filmmaker. The film(s) are very much how dreams occur for me: they don't always completely follow logic and yet there is almost always some sort of message or meaning. For this film, the dreams all relate to the interaction of man and the environment. There are some great messages in these dreams. It saddens me that this was made in 1990...and twenty years later it is still very relevant.

This dream was among my favourite. The ending reminded me of how man is attempting to deal with the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. The dream is titled "Mt. Fuji in Red". It runs towards the end of the series of dreams.