Dream Scenario - The (Lethal) Power of Perception
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of Nicolas Cage? Weird? Amazing? Nutty? Unfulfilled potential? Living his best life? GOAT? Over the top? Subtle? Unleashed? Restrained? Unique? Incomprehensible? None of these answers would be wrong. And yet, they don’t fully describe the man. They can’t, because he’s not just one thing or the other – he’s everything, he’s everywhere… Wait a minute. That’s Dream Scenario. A film in which Nic Cage’s Professor Paul Matthews is Everything Everywhere All At Once! But this is a film directed by Kristoffer Borgli (known for his absurdist black comedy, Sick of Myself) and produced by… Ari Aster. Distributed by… A24. So don’t expect wholesomeness or warmth or even happiness – it’s absurd, it’s real (or unreal, depending on your PoV)… it’s a 100-minute Black Mirror episode. Look at this synopsis: Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in thei
