The Dream Nation: A Totalitarian Society
THE DREAM STATE presents with a very intriguing futuristic totalitarian society. It offers a visionary and cautionary new world that is controlled by a mysterious “great leader.”
The script does a nice job of crafting what this divergent world looks like and how it’s run. The “great leader” completely controls society and the people within the border. This world seems to lie to the populace about war and the need for protection and rules. It’s a very oppression society.
While these types of worlds are not new in the industry, they always provide for a thought-provoking glimpse into what our current society could evolve into. Moreover, the script offers an intriguing hook with the idea of the “dream machines.” This easily reminds one of the classic sci-fi TOTAL RECALL …show more content…
Consider adding more twists and turns, especially regarding the “great leader”. Provide a motivation for why this society is this way.
Also, it’s not understood why John would see Lila as his dream girl before he meets her. He tries to explain it away, but the audience doesn’t know if he really saw her before and she became part of his subconscious or not.
John is certainly a likable character. He transitions from passive to active, but just late. The idea of him being in denial and then slowly becoming suspicious works, but something major needs to occur to him that locks him into his goal. In other words, when he first suggests to Lila that they should escape, nothing of major consequence has occurred yet, with the exception of David being arrested, but at this point John really doesn’t know what did occur to David. It would be different if he were told that David was sent to rehab, but then he discovers that David is dead. This would lock him into his goal.
One actually doesn’t know much about John’s backstory, which might add more depth to his
The script does a nice job of crafting what this divergent world looks like and how it’s run. The “great leader” completely controls society and the people within the border. This world seems to lie to the populace about war and the need for protection and rules. It’s a very oppression society.
While these types of worlds are not new in the industry, they always provide for a thought-provoking glimpse into what our current society could evolve into. Moreover, the script offers an intriguing hook with the idea of the “dream machines.” This easily reminds one of the classic sci-fi TOTAL RECALL …show more content…
Consider adding more twists and turns, especially regarding the “great leader”. Provide a motivation for why this society is this way.
Also, it’s not understood why John would see Lila as his dream girl before he meets her. He tries to explain it away, but the audience doesn’t know if he really saw her before and she became part of his subconscious or not.
John is certainly a likable character. He transitions from passive to active, but just late. The idea of him being in denial and then slowly becoming suspicious works, but something major needs to occur to him that locks him into his goal. In other words, when he first suggests to Lila that they should escape, nothing of major consequence has occurred yet, with the exception of David being arrested, but at this point John really doesn’t know what did occur to David. It would be different if he were told that David was sent to rehab, but then he discovers that David is dead. This would lock him into his goal.
One actually doesn’t know much about John’s backstory, which might add more depth to his