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  Review by chavel ★★★ 4

  Dream was perhaps the last virtuous film by Kim Ki-Duk before he would enter his late period and masochism by anti-socials would hostilely preoccupy his artistry. A Japanese man survives intact from a car accident, but he soon learns his dreams kindle a woman's sleepwalking and incites her into actions she does not wish to commit. They had never met before, and after some philosophical debate they will counsel each other. That's a rich predicament and a thin conceit at the same time, the middle sometimes feels long with Ki-Duk reiterating his points. Ki-Duk though gets to some striking imagery sometimes just by pointing his camera at his lead actor who has the physique of an old century samurai (and…

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  Review by DamRibeiro ★★★ 7

  Uma premissa bastante interessante só que não tão bem executada assim, entre sonhos e delírios um ponto fora da curva surge quando um Homen chamado Jin começa a premeditar em seus sonhos acontecimentos de uma mulher misteriosa, após sonhar com um acidente ele logo percebe que esteve nesse lugar mas no corpo de outra pessoa, então Ran uma mulher sonâmbula e apresentada como sendo a pessoa que está nesses sonhos cometendo todos esses acidentes na vida real, sem saber como ajudar a Ran eles criam um forte vínculo misterioso para tentar entender o porque disso está acontecendo com ambos, só que eles não esperavam que essa união iria acabar com a sanidade deles aos poucos, Kim ki-duk nós envolve em…

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  Review by BrandonHabes ★★★★ 2

  DREAM is one of the most metaphysically trippy in the KKD canon. Still not sure my mind has completely processed this one. 

  What one man dreams about another woman sleepwalks and brings into reality. The woman is sleepwalking and doing exactly what the man is dreaming about, with the outcomes reversed through gendered barriers. If he obsessively dreams about making love to his ex-girlfriend, she'll sleepwalk to her ex-boyfriend, who she hates, and make love to him in reality. The man and the woman are complete strangers, but they're inexplicably drawn together through a kind of Second Life ventriloquy that exposes the conceit:

  What brings pleasure to the man (dream sex with his ex-girlfriend) brings misery to the woman (real…

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  Review by Willy 6

  i love a concept film where everything naturally ties into the concept, making it so at no point you're taken out of it.

  what i mean is, when every layer of the film serves to realize the concept. everything from the oldschool korean architecture this is set in/around, the interiors, colors, editing, music, to the fact that joe odagiri speaks in japanese while everyone responds in korean, is there to help realize this trippy take on dreams. 

  it's not a constructed backdrop, but a living environment that gives birth to the story. a leap into what gave birth to the story. (- the mind of the writer/director)

  
  this is my 4th korean flick of the night and the first kim ki duk since i had to prematurely drop him after the allegations against him of rape and other abuse on set broke.

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  Review by Sara Gomes ★★★½

  Another tragic romance from my favorite Korean director Kim Ki-Duk. This movie follows Jin, a young man who discovers that his dreams are mysteriously tied to a girl named Ran, who is a sleepwalker. The movie is very spiritual and some of the scenes very beautiful, but sometimes the character's lack of intelligence dealing with their problem can distract the viewer from what's really important in the story. A must-see specially for every Ki-Duk fan.

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  Review by guilherme ★★★★ 3

  sonhos e vidas entrelaçadas; um homem que vive apenas enquanto sonha, consumido pelo seu amor ao passado enquanto nutre um desejo ardente de retornar a ele. uma mulher que só sonha enquanto vive, despreza o passado e anseia por escapar dele, os dois lados da mesma moeda: o amor e o ódio; sonho e realidade, preto e branco, Yin e Yang, apenas duas metades de um todo. a única forma de apaziguar essa dor sufocante, é se entregando completamente ao sono eterno, um sono tão profundo que os transforma em borboletas, livres dos casulos de seu passado e prontos para voarem juntos. 

  tirando o fato do Kim Ki-duk ter sido desprezível, não da para negar que ele era um ótimo diretor. o filme tem um conceito muito único e um romance bem diferente do comum. genial o detalhe de todos personagens falarem coreano, menos o protagonista, mas mesmo assim todos se entenderem de alguma forma.

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  Review by aleyna ★★★★

  ❝ siyah ve beyaz, tek bir renktir.❞

  yine bir kim ki duk yapımı ve yine bir balyoz. gerçekten hislerine ve zekasına bayıldığım bu yönetmenin az önce bitirip kendime gelemediğim bir başka filmi oldu dream. uyumak, delirmek, sevmek, yeniden aşık olmak ile ilgili olan hikayesinde bir çok şey veriyor bizlere. atmosfer ki duk yapımları gibi yine garip ve merak uyandırıcı. kısa süresiyle kopmanıza izin vermiyor. içinden istediğiniz sonucu da alabilirsiniz üstelik, daha ne olsun... senaryo muhteşem, vurucu sahneler yine aniden gelip beyninize yerleşiyor ve unutamayacağınız o hissi size bırakıyor. rüyalarda buluşan, iki yapbozun parçası gibi olan ran ve jin, birbirlerini tamamlayıp yaşamaya çalışıyorlar. ama ne yaşamak...

  
  budizmin etkisini yoğun şekilde bize tattıran dream, reenkarnasyon ve metafor gibi kavramlarıyla da öne çıkıyor.…

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  Review by Ashlea💧🦎 🐜 ★★½

  Dream has been sitting around waiting for me to watch it after a JFF staff member gave me something special and when asked who her favourite actor was said Joe Odagiri and referred me to this movie. It's not something I would typically go for, and paired with the fact that the filmmaker is an animal abuser and accused physical and sexual abuser himself, this was a very tough sell for me. I admit that at times I got lost in the fantasy elements of this film: as if watching some teen fantasy drama on ABC as a kid, but when I was reminded of his abuses it all soured for me quickly. Not only does this film seem pretty…

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  Review by Raj_Mohan ★★★

  Kim ki-duk💥

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  Review by The-Hung Nguyen ★★★

  I was about to give Dream a higher rating up until the final 20 minutes.

  If Kim Ki-duk was still alive, I would make my way to his home and shout at him that some of my favorite films are his least gory/violent/visually disturbing efforts (e.g. 3-Iron, Time, Address Unknown). With his talent and vision, he could consistently deliver great films without being a sadist!

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  Review by Anton Bitel

  Review first published by EyeforFilm

  "I, Chuang Tsu, once dreamed I was a butterfly, fluttering between here and there, in all its aims a butterfly. I just knew that I followed my moods like a butterfly, and was unconscious about my human nature. Suddenly I awoke; and there I laid: again 'me myself'. Now I don't know: was I then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or am I now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man? Between man and butterfly, there is a barrier. Crossing it is called change."

  This brain-teasing parable, attributed to the fourth-century BCE Chinese philosopher Chuang Tsu, forms the enigmatic underpinning of Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk's 15th feature Dream. Here, too, there is a…

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  Review by liv ★★★ 1

  Ok! Absolutely shook by that last scene but y'all couldn't just alternate sleep shifts?