The Aesthetics of the Psychological Dream (extracts)
Wild Strawberries, 1957
The sequence suggests, I think, one of the most frightening realities of our dream world: that is, seeing ourselves. The cliché goes that, if you see yourself in a dream, you're going to die. Most of the time, of course, you don't. You yourself are the protagonist in your dream; everything happens to you, you regard the action
The death he knows he must face. But also a reminder that in order to purge himself before achieving serenity, he has to make a journey into his past
Isag Bork: the personality that resolutely refuses to confront his emotions
He gets closer and closer to his image
It's much easier to think someone's the answer if you haven't seen them for years.
Because they're not really real. People can't be answers.
They're just more questions.
- Alyssa in The End Of The F***ing World, S01E08
Because they're not really real. People can't be answers.
They're just more questions.
- Alyssa in The End Of The F***ing World, S01E08
I sat for about half an hour until I realized that Alyssa had left.
That was the day I learned that silence is really loud.
Deafening.
- James in The End Of The Fu***ing World, S01E04
That was the day I learned that silence is really loud.
Deafening.
- James in The End Of The Fu***ing World, S01E04
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