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Adulthood Dreams
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Dreamscape
Created by: Mark Anderson
The dreamscape trilogy is meant to represent Emily's
middle period, a time of uneasiness at best and sometimes bordering on depression
(although in 1958, "depression" was certainly not a condition that elicited
the attention it does today). The movie is punctuated with a re-curring vision
of Emily seeing herself dreaming (lucid dreaming) from above. She sees that the
dreamer (herself) is very disturbed by the sudden movements and uneasy jerkiness
of her feet and legs and desperately tries to find out "what's wrong....what's
the matter" - in vain. This is further meant to represent her outward waking
opression of her concerns (typical of a housewife in the 1950s) by the fact that
she does not respond to her own pleas and the comment at the end of the movie
about going "to Atlanta this spring." Additionally, she is very aware
of her socio-economic circumstances and the events that trigger her solemn mood;
the selling and subsequent destruction of the family home and all its memories;
her wedding (representing the "beginning of the end"); and the lack
of worldly experiences and her fantasizing of far-off, exotic places.
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