How the film language expresses dreams

In ancient times, dreams can be expressed in literature, and dreams in literature are also exceptionally beautiful. In modern society, movies have become a new way of expressing dreams. There are similarities between the film’s graphical expression language and dreams, so it is hard to tell whether it is watching a movie or dreaming.

The classic work "Eight and a half" by the Italian director Ferico Fellini is a dream movie. Fellini calls dreams "the fables we tell ourselves and the myths that help us understand our own". He said that he strives to create "a stunning ambiguity between fantasy and reality" in the film. Therefore, there are often some places in the film shooting technique that deliberately make the end of reality and the beginning of dreams ambiguous. There are many strange-looking characters in his films, and the setting is surreal and abrupt. These are undeniable relying on dream inspiration. Got it. The color of his films on the screen is not only part of the film language, but also to express the "concept and feeling of dreams."

The movie uses almost magical techniques to play with images between the palms of the hands, which seems to be the best way to express dreams. Naturally, some extremely prestigious film masters have used dreams to bring out the beauty of art. The Swedish film giant Ingmar Bergman's film and dream relationship is further than Fellini. He has always used the same actors, and over time the audience is very familiar with their faces, so that they become a kind of "paradigm" characters, which are very easy to confuse when watching different movies. As one critic said, his works as a whole form a rich picture of repeated dreams. Bergman appreciates this metaphor, saying that if the audience finds that the dreams in his movie are similar to their own dreams, it is the best communication. The characteristics of dreams in the movie, whether it is the storyline or the characters, maintain a kind of iconic, like a dream-like performance. However, Bergman's work not only presents the pictures of dreams. For him, making movies is like dreaming, which is one of the essence of life.