6/27/21 - Come True (2020) - 5/10
An interesting concept with the lines blurring between the waking world and that of sleeping nightmares as scientist try and see people’s dreams. I wanted to like it, but it remained more a dream of what could be rather than a reality of what is.
There was very little information, which with the ending might be on purpose, but I felt a bit in the dark about personalities, motivations, and aims. I wanted to be on board, but details were just too ethereal. Probably some level of purposeful, but intent and product are estranged.
I enjoyed the 80s-esque dream screen tech as well as the dark dream designs & appearance. The dreary dread and the dark passenger were properly creepy. The concept of it “breaking into our world” with sleep paralysis terrors was quite engaging. Despite those few effective elements, the drama was lacking, the stakes weren’t clear, and the interlocking pieces of the whole were opaque.
Now, about the end; it is tantalizing and conceptually stimulating, but I don’t think it ties the darling bow around the sleepy package that it desires to.
