Nightmare

Korea, Republic of

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Synopsis

A man starts to have the uncanny experience that life is mirroring his nightmare.

REVIEW

In the Freudian sense, a dream is a replacement for reality and another language of our unconscious. The man who wants to break up with his girlfriend has a nightmare taking a bloody photograph of himself and wakes up terrified. The next day, assuming the person in his dream was his girlfriend, he meets her on the street and destroys her camera. Instantly, she dies in a car accident and he continues walking, apparently unbothered. After this incident, the man starts to have the uncanny experience that life is mirroring his dream and feels apprehensive. This animation brilliantly portrays the confusing boundary between the illusion and reality.

-Meera Lee