Student's production - Movie review 'What dreams may come'

What Dreams May Come
By Gerusa and Andrielly Galvão. 
Essencial Languages. Intermediate. 

This is a movie about a man that loses his children and his wife. This man is a doctor, a good husband but isn´t very good dad as he´s working all the time. 

The movie talks about what there´s after that, were we go when we die. We can see the difference between heaven and hell very much through scenes, with the scenario, colors and music. As in the beginning of the story, the scenes were very clean with nature and happy moments composed with many colors that represent harmony. Other scenes have dark colors and horrible things to see: cold, despair, fear and fire. We can perceive the opposite feelings.

So, it´s a very good film, it uses strong moments with sensations either love or hate and disgust. However, it has romance, since it shows soul mates, meetings and partings, actually the man passes all the story trying to save his wife from bad sensations either in life or after it. Well, this movie brings us a lot of emotions. It uses the paintings to highlight sensations better than ordinary real scenes, this way we can imagine more. I think it was the best choise for a theme because today the people need to think more about it, instead of war, money, sex. So it´s a smart and beautiful film to whom like art, philosophy, romance and secrets of life. I believe that our life doesn’t finish here.     

The idea of this drama film is to show that there can be life after death, in other words: reincarnation.

Colors are very striking and present in this film, from red color at the beginning of the movie; synonym of passion, until the black color in its sad scenes.

During the movie, paintings became of total importance, creating incredible scenes, such paintings containing features of the Impressionist Style, with blurred images, valuing decomposition of colors, definition loose emphasis on nature themes. The detail of the paintings introduced in the scenes is very creative.

This is a movie with several beautiful and hopeful lines, in moments of despair and depression the director shows several dark tones, It makes them most emotional scenes.

Well… It is an interesting movie, leaving at the end an intelligent message.