I hadn’t seen this one in a very long time. A man named Edward Hall goes to a psychiatrist to get help. He has a bad heart and cannot be exposed to excessive stress. Hall is having dreams in which a woman named Maya is trying to scare him to death. So, he is taking stimulants to keep from sleeping but the lack of sleep will also eventually kill him.
He arrives at the psychiatrist’s office and lays down on the doctor’s couch for just a moment and then goes on to tell him this story. He and the doctor discuss his problem and Hall tells him the details of the dreams he is having but doesn’t believe there is a solution. As he goes to leave the office, he notices that the doctor’s secretary looks like Maya. Hall then crashes through the glass of the office window and plummets many floors to the street below screaming as he goes.
The scene changes back to the doctor’s office where Hall is apparently sleeping on the couch and the doctor is calling his secretary in. He tells her that Hall fell asleep and then almost immediately screamed and died. She replies, “he must have had a heart attack.” The doctor replies that it probably was an easy death. So, the whole episode we watched took place in the few seconds after Hall fell asleep.
I don’t know, it’s an interesting concept but the implementation is kinda so-so. The twist ending is unexpected but I just didn’t seem to care all that much about Hall and his dilemma. Dream, reality which is which? Blah, blah. C+
Sort of like; “I see dead people”.
I guess if I had to bang out these stories on a schedule some of them would be sub-par too but I can’t be too lenient on the grading or you folks will think I’m going soft in the head. Surprisingly, the proportion of good episodes has been higher than I expected.
No, I was commenting that Hollywood has stolen from Serling in almost every way imaginable. The Sixth Sense was blatant robbery from Serling’s Perchance to Dream. There is little left of creativity in Hollywood today. Rehashing comic books, while it makes for fun movies, is not generating new art. Even in its heyday, Hollywood stole from Akira Kurosawa. Now they are making remakes of the remakes. There was no reason to remake Mary Poppins and the box office reflected that. You may as well try to remake The Sound of Music. Or True Grit, starring Jeff Bridges (the so-not-John-Wayne), another… Read more »
Without a doubt Hollywood is barely capable of rising to the level of fifth-grade subject matter with the current super-hero mania. And having them remake Mary Poppins or Ghostbusters reveals just how bankrupt they are of writing talent. But I’ll have to disagree with you on True Grit. And I take a back seat to no man in my contempt for pinko Matt Damon, but I think the Coen Brothers did a very good version of the story. Comparing Portis’s book to each of the film versions brings out strengths that each has. Each film differed from the book in… Read more »
PS: At least there is no way they can remake Blazing Saddles in the current social environment.
If they did, it would be so boring as to be unwatchable and Mel Brooks would be rolling in his grave even before he was dead. That movie should be played just to trigger snowflakes everywhere.