THE DREAMERS - (2003) by Bernardo Bertolucci | Review
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I’m here again to tell you something about, “The Dreamers” by Bernardo Bertolucci.
Actually, I have been having a hard time to find a link where I can watch it online. Well, there is a bad news and a not so good new. Good news, is at least I have found a clear streaming, and the not so good news is that, it doesn’t have English subtitles and this is a movie set on Paris, and most of the time, characters are speaking in French.
Anyways, what I love about this movie, except the nudity, is the entire story. I love the orange, yellow, and white motif also and the movie references they are using/mimicking.
With those being said, I believe, “TD” told me a different kind of Friendship and at the same time a different kind of relationship.
Basically, the story was I think at first all about Matthew, an American boy, who found himself in Paris (1968). He struggles adapting the french culture until he met the twin. Isabelle and Theo have this kind of special treatment to each other. They’re kissing each other, sleeping together naked and do what other things lovers usually do. And eventually, three of them developed a different kind of friendship with a common interest to films.
Matthew is so naive and nervous… he is a total nerd but a kind person. Isa and Theo has a great sophistication and a really good taste in art.
Theo decided to invite Matthew to live with them, and ending them up with a different situation. They had a strange intimate relationship with each other. Matthew fell in love with the twin, specially to Isa after having sex together foor the sake of a dare from their films-game.
Matthews sees them as one… half of each other, and he wanted to become a part also.
The film, I think talks a lot about innocence, maturity, relationships, friendships, dreams, and turning away to the world.
They build their own world together. Setting their lives to one another. Hanging out, talking about films, taking a bath together, and playing their silly film-games.(there’s even a scene that Isa wanted to suicide by inhaling tear gas in the middle of the sleeping boys, but it was interrupted by the rebellion). They joined the rebellion.
However, this story seems not to end happily. Matthew was separated from the twin in the rebellion (I am not sure to what they are rebelling) Lol. Matthew is an anti violence person, so he tried to stop them from leading a violent attacks to the police, but Theo pulled Isa. Isa don’t even choose, he just let herself be taken by Theo. Matthew just turned away. Next thing is that they are firing some improvised explosives to the police, and the police is firing shots to whoever against them. No one knows what happened to the twins
As I was watching this film, I am asking myself If love does really mean only for two. I mean we used to share it with our family, though I know it is a different kind of love. But, would it be possible to work a kind of love they’re sharing in, in case there was no rebellion?
My head hurts, and I am running out of words. Hehe. That’s all for now. :)
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