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movie review - Slumberland

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2022.11.26

My daughter and I watched the original story about a young girl whose father disappears at sea. Leaving the lighthouse where they lived, she joins her uncle in a grey urban life (in a grey urban apartment). While sleeping discovers and enters a dream world and meets someone there she believes can help her reunite with her father. Things in the dreamworld are not easy, nor do they make any sense. But through determination she and her new friend are going to do all the crazy dream/nightmare stuff they must.

We enjoyed it. I particularly liked the humor and intelligence that the lead (adult) brought to his role.

Recommended.

rand()m quote

The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

—Richard Feynman