Cell, The (2000)

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Every time I see a dream sequence, I think of a scene from Living in Oblivion where Peter Dinklage's character is irritated by his role in the film-within-a-film:

Tito: Why does my character have to be a dwarf? Nick: He doesn't have to be.
Tito: Then why is he? Is that the only way you can make this a dream, to put a dwarf in it?
Nick: No, Tito, I...
Tito: Have you ever had a dream with a dwarf in it? Do you know anyone who's had a dream with a dwarf in it? No! I don't even have dreams with dwarves in them. The only place I've seen dwarves in dreams is in stupid movies like this! "Oh make it weird, put a dwarf in it!". Everyone will go "Woah, this must be a fuckin' dream, there's a fuckin' dwarf in it!". Well I'm sick of it! You can take this dream sequence and stick it up your ass!

The Cell isn't technically a dream sequence (it's Catherine Deane (J-Lo) wandering around inside the head of a comatose serial killer), of course, and there are no dwarves in it. Like Nick's sequence, though, it's an artificial, utterly unbelievable representation of an inexpressible inner space. Like Tito, I got sick of it pretty fast.

- Sam - 2008-01-02 01:27:22