I know I’ve said so before in this journal, but I’d just like to reiterate how amazing the production design is in Blade Runner<\/i>. I just finished watching the director’s cut for the first time, which, especially in letterbox format, is much more satisfying than the alternate version. No cheesy voiceovers, for starters, and the violence is much less gratuitous, allowing one to focus on the cerebral aspects of the film. Such atmospheres they created… steam, smoke, piercing lights, neon, the glow of the sunset and sunrise, everything flickering, floating; everything is the surface but isn’t. It’s a beautiful piece of work. I could only conjure up environments like that in my dreams… I kept a dream journal freshman year. Perhaps I’ll start doing that again…<\/p>\n
Dreams, waking and sleeping, have been a central part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can recall many dreams from my childhood more readily than actual memories–nightmares that sent me scurrying into my parents’ room or simply yelling for them in my bed, or epic visions that I would later record in drawing in elementary school, much to the bewilderment of my teachers–I can remember them all. More resurface everyday with the observation of a small details here or there, the gait of someone’s walk, the cracks in the concrete of the sidewalk, the shape of the clouds, the smell of the air… They may not register on my conscious mind, but they stockpile in my subconscious, circulating, protruding into my conscious mind only enough for me to be aware of the emotion of their presence. And every once in the while, Sunday nights being a prime example, they overflow and I find myself longing with the combined strains of both spheres of my mind for the unnamed universe. *sigh* These dreams… Perhaps this is why intuition fascinates me so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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