I remember being 3-6 and having dreams that "feel" exactly like this. I can't really explain it, but nothing has seemed so much like a dream than this. For nightmare, INLAND EMPIRE.
"It's a strange world." - Blue Velvet
I had the same experience as well. It most likely has to do with the silence itself and some of the dream-like imagery (the unfamiliar places, the dwarves, etc.)
shareI remember having dreams about being alone in unfamiliar places and exploring them. I remember them feeling fun and exciting, but at the same time menacing. Like, it seems fine now, but something dark is just below the surface. I dunno...kind of hard to explain.
"It's a strange world." - Blue Velvet
I have never had dreams like this (thankfully), but what a brilliant depiction of a dreamlike state Bergman offered in those scenes. It seems like this film was the inspiration for countless music videos in the '80s, as well as Kubrick's "The Shining."
I don't think all dwarves (or little people or whatever we're supposed to call them these days) look alike, but didn't many of them seem to resemble Peter Dinklage?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227759/
It's probably significant that they were shorter than the boy himself. What it means, though, I can't say.
Brson-sh... my response too. Of two women in a dream, I thought of Mulholland Drive. So I've been doing a Bergman/Lynch marathon over a couple years now- they seem cut from the same cloth as it were.
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In full disclosure I admire some of Lynch's work, but find Mulholland Drive incoherent and a failure. But... I do not mean to suggest his fans should not explore Bergman. Of course they should, because putting aside my own views about certain Lynch projects, it is clear he is one in the long list of major directors in film history who were clearly influenced by and admired Bergman.
Someone else made a nice catch in this thread how Kubrick's The Shining was obviously influenced by The Silence.
Why do you both think The Shining was inspired by The Silence? As if it was a fact. You both know Shining was "inspired" by the book by Stephen King, right? ...Not the silence.
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