Contains overtones from David Cronenberg's films

"Come on!" ... the banal ending undermines the ambiguity of dreams and nightmares

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The world of nightmares, dreams and hallucinations has always been a fertile ground for filmmakers, it is a mysterious and illogical world, a world whose events take place in the human mind, for some sleep is a rest, and for others it is the experience of severe nightmares, which one would like to not sleep because of it.

Come True, a low-budget science fiction movie by Anthony Scott Burns, deals with the experience of a teenager running away from her home for a reason we don't know, named Sarah (Julia Sarah Stone) who sees a recurring nightmare, in the form of someone with two eyes lit in the dark.

Sarah sees a poster in a café that advertises a university study related to sleep, and lures volunteers for a large amount for a runaway girl who lives as homeless, and Sarah decides to participate, and begins the study as usual. She seeks help in research. She meets the volunteers and asks them repeated questions, as if she is a therapist, and the volunteers go in and out of a room designed To monitor sleep.

Sarah discovers later that the study has an exploitative and experimental aspect, and she feels that something is not right. These study authors not only observe her sleep process, but also explore her dreams. Does Christopher Nolan's film Inception occur to the reader's mind?

The film bears clear references to David Cronenberg, a famous Canadian filmmaker specializing in horror of the body and adept at mixing horror and science fiction.

"True sleeve" is a slow burn type, meaning that it develops slowly before it turns into something else or ends in a surprise.

The independence of the film is clear from the beginning, there is no known actor, and there is no large film crew, especially if we know that Burns himself wrote, filmed, directed the film and composed the music, as well as that the horror scenes are made in the style of the old school, meaning without special effects, and all dependence on The lighting, the shadows and the dark, which is a very impressive technique that costs nothing.

The film succeeds in providing a sharp tone and an ideal general atmosphere for its material, and pushes its events in an upward direction to reach climaxes that may cause chills in the viewer's body, Burns is patient and loves the empty passages that are frequently repeated in his shots, as well as the dark forests and distorted video screens.

The film contains two parts, the first is Sarah's awakening world, the second is her dreams, and the two sections contain good strangeness, and the director worked on merging the two worlds together, and their balance strengthens each of them.

The film, although slow, has a suspenseful style, and the dialogue leaves the viewer with an open appetite for what follows.

The movie is smart to a certain extent, but it is not so smart that the director is trying to reach, and there are certain elements in the story that spoil the experience and stop it completely from progressing.

For example, the story of the only other girl who withdrew from clinical trials related to uncovering the causes of sleep difficulties, and the researcher's attempt to convince Sarah that this is a usual thing that occurs in all practical research.

And there is a sub-story in a movie that does not have side stories, unless it is a brilliant director like David Lynch or Nolan, about a researcher, embodied by Landon Lebiron, who almost falls in love with teenage Sarah, and it is a story that definitely has no place in the film and is not linked to it organically, and no reason However, Burns is not convinced that his movie can end in 90 minutes or less.

The story of this researcher begins with his pursuit of her and ends in a strange way, and the strange one is of two types, the kind that makes you think about it, or that makes you think about the reasons for the director's decision to introduce something that is useless but to prolong the length of the film.

Why did Sarah run away from home?

A question worth asking in a movie about this girl's nightmares, the purpose of the film is not to explain the mystery or to explain Sarah's dreams and nightmares, but he has to explain the reasons for her escape, and link that to diving into the emotional state of adolescence, and how this is reflected in her nightmares.

Nightmares here are an abstract case, frightening yes, but they have no meaning and superficiality. If someone says to you you dreamed of this or saw a nightmare, the first question that comes to your mind is what does this person think and what is he afraid of?

Then she connects the causes of fear and nightmares, bringing to light the emotional state.

Stone's performance is very good and imposes her presence on the screen, amongst the supporting actors trying to present a lot with the little they have, and in particular Christopher Huddington in the character of Dr. Meyer eccentric, with his huge glasses and shirt that covers his neck, and his scenes dominated by strange colors such as violet, and Anita (Karlie Riske) Which tries to convince Sarah to experiment.

The end is like a bomb that explodes in the viewer's face, and he may love the movie because of it or curse him and curse the moment he decided to watch it .. The end is like all the cheap, fraudulent deceptive endings that the Indian American, M. Night Shimallan, employs in his films "The Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable" and "The Village," "The Visit," and "Split," and far from the surprising surprises that Lynch improves, such as the unforgettable end of "Mulholland Drive".

• The film is smart to a certain extent, but it is not so smart that the director is trying to reach it.

• The film, despite its slowness, has an interesting style, and the dialogue makes the viewer open to what will follow.

• The ending is like a bomb that explodes in the viewer's face, and he may love the film because of it or curse him ... like all cheap fraudulent endings.

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