The Good Night (2007)
93 min - Comedy | Drama | Fantasy - 18 January 2008 (UK)
A former pop star who now writes commercial jingles for a living experiences a mid-life crisis.
Director: Jake Paltrow
Writer: Jake Paltrow
Stars:
Martin Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Penélope Cruz |
Martin Freeman plays a jingle writer whose life is all about playing it safe, while working as a studio musician and jingle writer. Then, he begins to have random lucid dreams about an ideal woman, whom he becomes obsessed with.
Martin's character wanders through the range of explorations that someone might go through in search of a way to make the dream girl real. These are classic endeavors, and quite funny.
Finally he sees his dream girl on a poster on the side of a bus. He uses his connections in the advertising world to find out who she
is, and to arrange a meeting. When he meets his dream girl in real life, played by Penélope Cruz, he finds her less than perfect on her interior.
As a lucid dreamer I found this movie to be an impressive portrayal of what lucid dreaming can be like. Experiencing an ideal person, and
feeling intense attraction for that person, are common themes in lucid dreaming. The beauty of this movie is Jake Paltrow (writer and
director) got that the ideal person, in reality, might just be the wrong person.
I highly recommend this movie for anyone who lucid dreams
