Word: dreamful
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...stage)--and portray Shakespearean actors in the same way that Bugs Bunny portrays a rabbit: They play caricatures, not characters. The "actors" are shy, ironic, angst-ridden, occasionally obnoxious and grossly human. Their closest Shakespearean analogues are the Rude Mechanics in A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...didn't look or sound like a Kennedy, and did not seem to have picked up the family gene for recklessness. In short, he was as much an emblem of the family as a member of it, and for the observing public, he was useful as a figure to dream into...
...left without a true explanation to his journey. But Kubrick inserts a scene where all loose ends are tied up and the result is almost laughable. The film limps to its finish, without catharsis or meaning. The "moral" of the film, according to Alice who had her own horrifying dream adventure the night before, is that "no dream is only a dream" just as no one night symbolizes all "reality." It's a direct quote from the last page of Schnitzler's novella--a very sad example of Kubrick's uneven adaptation of the text...
...much could be said about Kubrick's failure to realize that Bill is also entrapped in his own dream and Kubrick's revamping of Alice's dream (in the book, she dreams of her husband being tortured and crucified). It may seem unfair to criticize a movie because it is its own story, and not Arthur Schnitzler's. But this film has Dream Story's narrative structure, and throughout the movie--especially when the novella's closing moral is repeated verbatim--Kubrick commits himself to Schnitzler's theme...
...however, Surrender is not especially focused on partying but on extending the scope of sounds. For example, "The Sunshine Underground," the album's halfway point, anchors the album with eight minutes of instrumental music, moving from an Indian-tinged opening to an insistent, psychedelic loop. The album closes with "Dream On" (featuring Jonathan Donahue of college radio favorites Mercury Rev), an impossibly beautiful song that begins with delicate guitar strumming before soaring into its synthesizer refrain: the perfect comedown after too many electric highs...