SURVIVING LIFE(THEORY AND PRACTICE)

"SURVIVING LIFE(THEORY AND PRACTICE)"(2010/Czech Republic,Slovakia)
Synopsis
This movie is a Czech comedy horror film by Jan Švankmajer. The film uses a mix of cutout animation from photographs and live-action segments, and tells the story of a married man who lives a double life in his dreams, where he is married to another woman. It will premiere out of competition at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.

Have you ever seen a dream? I have always seen colored dreams with scents. 
My dreams come as comedy, tragedy, disaster or  suspence story with dinosaurs coming out to get me.
Sigmund Freud is an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis.
According to Freud, dreams are meant to satisfy human desires and all of our dreams are meaningful ones. And he also said there are two types of dreams. One is when the desires appear cleary. Another is when the potential desire appear and change their shapes as distorted dreams. 
This movie deals with the logic of Freud in a very unique way.
Evzen, a hero of the movie, met a women in his dream and he tried to manipulate his dream to see her again. But the women was not his clear desire. So what is meaning of her appearance?  As the story progresses, you will find her true identity. The end of the movie is complicated mixture of reality and dreams.
I like Švankmajer's movies and I am always impressed by the production of his movies and his techniques. Generally his movies are difficult to understand.
But I think this movie is easy to watch even if you're a beginner fan of his.

My rating:★★★★