DVD The Science of Sleep
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Rating: - Terrible
This is one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time. There is absolutely no plot, the characters are unlikable and hard to care about (with the exception of Stephane's co-worker Guy), and the effects are cute but really nothing magical. It seems like it wants to be a hip, sexy, trendy movie with something profound to say about being young, artistic and in love, but there is really nothing that it says at all. I only watched it completely out of sheer stubbornness, but there are much better ways to spend 106 minutes of your life. The same guy wrote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: that was a vastly better movie than this one. In comparison, this is more quirky, but with less heart. Don't waste your time.

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Rating: - --
I was going to write something "witty" in quotation marks combining this title and "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind" but only to connote the fack this to me is, while not a companion piece, whatever that means, unavoidably linked, at least to Americans, as a film as well as story. Briefly as well as personally, I enjoyed this one more. OK, "Eternal Sunshine" is the better movie as a whole. But I liked this one more. For one thing, "Et. Sun" didn't have that one laff-out-loud moment (for me!) that "Science" did, which was the time-machine bit where he grabbed/kissed her twice because "one was in the future and one was in the present".... --Getting down to it, this one shares the same flaws as its predecessor: it feels like a longer film-length than it is. It's toward the end it starts to bore, like a wonderful drug experience that you just want to see some exhilarating conclusion to and somehow wake up next morning and never quite recover . . . which is I suppose entirely appropriate; pththththththbthbthbthbth.... This is a beautiful film that should never have aimed toward some romantically clean resolution, -- which it didn't. However, the very "quirkiness", for lack of a better adjective, which deliciously sets this film apart throughout the first two-thirds of the film, are highlighted to the great disadvantage of story, emotion, and engagement, in the final. I for one am left with a sense that the main character has betrayed himself in pursuing a course that identifies dream with escape instead of enhancement. --Not to mention he ends up a whining little *&%$#@!

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Rating: - No me gustó
Esta película tiene unos subtítulos en inglés que no se desaparecen con la opción del menú: sin subtítulos, están PERMANENTEMENTE ahí, es muy incómodo verla.

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Rating: - Inventively fun
"The Science of Sleep" is like no other film I've seen. Blending reality and fantasy into a seamless thread, director Michel Gondry has produced a gem. The cast is uniformly good and is headed by the appealing Gael García Bernal, in a role as Stéphane, for which he seems destined. He makes the film what it is with an abundance of humor and pathos.

The visual effects are among the best the industry has to offer and the childlike "Alice in Wonderland" quality of the film is superb. It is well-paced and engrossing at every turn. I highly recommend "The Science of Sleep" for its creativity and charm.