The Dreams


I recently watched this and I loved the dreams. I liked how grounded on reality they were while still being very unsettling. For instance, Jenny dreams all her patients are gathered in a little room in her apartment, and she has to see them one by one, while Tomas, with his smug smile, stands at a corner, watching in silence. So simple and yet it's so claustrophobic!

After watching this movie and The Hour of the Wolf, I think Bergman had a natural talent for dark fantasy and horror. It's a pity he never explored those talents much in his work.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

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idk if you have ever seen seventh seal or virgin spring, but you would like both of those also.

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The dreams are one of the film’s best elements.

Bergman: "I like to think of these dreams as an extension of reality. This is therefore a series of real events which strike the leading character during an important moment in her life."


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Bergman does dreams like nobody does dreams, and this might be his best representation of them ever. Those scenes make the movie.

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Yes, in addition to the other Bergman films mentioned on this thread, I also recommend seeing his use of dreams and also daydreams in Persona, imo his best film.

Here, once again an excellent use of dreams. Somehow Bergman brings enough into these scenes to make it apparent, although sometimes intentionally less apparent than others, that we are in a dream while also portraying them in a way that makes us feel how real the dreams seem to those having them. It is an incredible ability he had to do that.

Here of course there were not only dreams but also what in effect were hallucinations rather than daydreams. In fact I think it even arguable that some of what first seemed real events were, as the film went on, possibly daydreams or even hallucinations for Jenny. An example might be the early scene with her patient Monica.

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