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This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

When Stephane (Gael Garcia Bernal) moves in next door to Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) he falls in love but the creative refuge of his dreams confounds his real life desires. It is a beautiful film that speaks to us of the child within in us and our inability to reconcile the naiveté, purity and creativity of the early years with the demands of our older years. The world that director Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) creates for us, is a world full of homemade creative invention that flows through dreams and reality, the borders ever fuzzy.Resonant with the main film itself, is the stop-motion homemade film that Stephane and Stephanie embark on together. One senses that it is a fertile world for love to grow and Stephanie's gentle soul is best symbolized by a little stitched horse that Stephane animates and that leaps with joy and delight.It is the insecurities of the real world though that bring a sadness to the story. The inability of Stephane to understand the rituals and responsibilities of romantic love pushes her away as he sinks deeper into his world. The final poignant moment has her stroking his hair as he sleeps, perhaps part mother and part longing. At that moment she is what he desired all along and yet he is in the faraway land of his dreams as he rides away with her on the stitched horse.

While watching movies, I am trying to find an emotional connection or some other connecting characteristic or hobby to be able to relate to the main character and I am comparing what I would do in his/her situation. In "The Science of Sleep" I could not really find any similarities to Stephane, the protagonist, who seemed confusing to me, just like the whole movie. Confusing for me were the scenes, where Michel Gondry (director) mixed dreams with reality. The protagonist Stephane, a shy and creative Mexican, is a very emotional dreamer. This means that his dreams are affecting him so much, that he starts to move, walk around, talk and write during the night. I couldn't sympathize a lot with Stephane, which made his actions for me feeling very weird watching him. "He is a man-child, unable to adjust himself to the everyday realities of the outside world." (Quote from another Review) – This instability (kind of uncomfortable feeling) was transferred to me while seeing this film - the director maybe wanted me to feel like that – I don't know. The director used a lot of Time-Laps Technique, to better demonstrate Stephane's dreams and the 'magic'. What I also noticed was the audio recording of the doors, which seemed to me to loud and supported my already twitchy stomach. The film had a very abrupt ending, which could be unsatisfying for some people. Anyways "The Science of Sleep" is a very special and creative film, which creates magic, it has some funny parts in it and provides entertainment – just not my favourite type of movie.

A wildly original film tells you all the plot you need to really know in the early minutes. Our protagonist is a immature underachiever who finds himself amongst those of the same ilk. they are a society of people who accept mediocrity as a passing phase where our young man/boy has his fulfillment and adventure in his dreams. His apartment is transformed into a late night TV set where his confidence and communication skills are highlighted where in real life he can be equally creepy and charming. The language changes are abundant and often cause an audience reaction to wonder if this is a dream or reality. This fantasy is short on Hollywood satisfaction but endless in dreaming non-sense. IFinding this as interesting without being clearly meaningful is difficult but peeked my interest none the less and I'm glad I finally got my hands on the DVD

Director Michel Gondry's film 'The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' played tricks with time and reality as it told a quirky story of romance; although in places it seemed arbitrary and childish, it undoubtedly had a certain charm. 'The Science of Sleep' is less successful, mostly because it's so conceptually similar: the story of a hesitating relationship, in which the director gives himself carte blanche to break from the constraints of the real world and do, as he indeed does at various points, whatever he wants. Although there's some hint at the idea that what we are seeing on screen is a more accurate representation of the inner mind-set of a confused central character than strict realism, none of the ideas here are worked out with discipline and consistency: indeed, few of them even deserve to be called ideas, they're better described as merely images, with more the illusion than the reality that anything solid lies behind them. The movie still isn't utterly charmless; but I failed to see the point of it.