{"id":16508,"date":"2024-06-16T21:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T01:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16508"},"modified":"2024-06-16T17:00:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T21:00:45","slug":"life-is-a-dream-1986-raoul-ruiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16508","title":{"rendered":"Life is a Dream (1986, Raoul Ruiz)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a movie theater with birds flying around, a man talks with the police stationed behind the screen and with the Chileans in a club accessible through the ladies room.  Not exactly an adaptation of the 1600&#8217;s Spanish play, but our man has used the play as a mnemonic device to memorize (then forget) the names of 15,000 Chilean revolutionaries, and the film apparently includes footage of Ruiz&#8217;s prior staging of the play. Life may be a dream, or a movie, as the man tries to re-remember the list of names while the story blends dreamily with the genre films playing at the timeless theater.  Variations on themes and images I&#8217;ve seen before, and then there&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/lifedream1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/lifedream2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Lesley Stern wrote about it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rouge.com.au\/2\/life.html\">reprinted in Rouge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe too complex for me, but hopefully we&#8217;ll get a restoration some day and I can get lost in it again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/lifedream3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/lifedream4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a movie theater with birds flying around, a man talks with the police stationed behind the screen and with the Chileans in a club accessible through the ladies room. Not exactly an adaptation of the 1600&#8217;s Spanish play, but our man has used the play as a mnemonic device to memorize (then forget) the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,308,67,306,1308],"class_list":["post-16508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-chile","tag-raoul-ruiz","tag-revolution","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16543,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16508\/revisions\/16543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}