A BBC (Everyman) production called "The Dream" (1990) was adapted by Murray Watts from "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man." "The Dream" is a monologue. The director was Norman Stone ("Shadowlands") and it stars Jeremy Irons.
Plot summary (of the Book)
The story opens with the narrator wandering the streets of St. Petersburg. He contemplates how he has always been a ridiculous perso...
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A BBC (Everyman) production called "The Dream" (1990) was adapted by Murray Watts from "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man." "The Dream" is a monologue. The director was Norman Stone ("Shadowlands") and it stars Jeremy Irons.
Plot summary (of the Book)
The story opens with the narrator wandering the streets of St. Petersburg. He contemplates how he has always been a ridiculous person, and also, how recently, he has come to the realization that nothing much matters to him any more. It is this revelation that leads him to the idea of suicide. The narrator of the story reveals that he had bought a revolver months previous with the intent of shooting himself in the head.
Despite a dismal night, the narrator looks up to the sky and views a solitary star. Shortly after seeing the star, a little girl comes running towards him. The narrator surmises that something is wrong with the girl's mother. He shakes the girl away and continues on to his apartment.
Once in his apartment, the narrator sinks into a chair and places his gun on a table next to him. He hesitates to shoot himself because of a nagging feeling of guilt that has plagued him ever since he eschewed the girl. The narrator grapples with internal questions for a few hours before falling asleep in the chair. As he sleeps, he descends into a very vivid dream.
In the dream, he shoots himself in the heart. He dies but he is still aware of his surroundings. He gathers that there is a funeral and he is also buried. After an indeterminate amount of time in his cold grave, water begins to drip down onto his eyelids. The narrator begs for forgiveness. Suddenly his grave is opened by an unknown and shadowy figure. This figure pulls the narrator up from his grave, and then the two soar through the sky and into space. After flying through space for a long time, the narrator is deposited on a planet, one much like Earth, but not the Earth that he left through suicide.
The narrator is placed specifically on what appears to be an idyllic Greek island. Soon, the inhabitants of the island find him, and they are happy, blissful, sinless people. The narrator lives in this utopia for many years, all the while amazed at the goodness around him.
One day, perhaps in jest or frivolity, the narrator tells a lie. This begins the corruption of the utopia. The lie engenders pride, and pride engenders a deluge of other sins. Soon the first murder occurs. Factions are made, wars are waged. Science supplants emotion, and the members of the former utopia are incapable of remembering their former happiness. The narrator pleads with the people, he begs for martyrdom, but they will not allow it.
The narrator then awakes. He is a changed man, thoroughly thankful for life. The first thing he does is help the girl that he had earlier pushed away. He later becomes a preacher, and spends the rest of his days trying to recapture the truth he witnessed in his dream.
The Dream (TV)的短评 · · · · · · ( 全部 8 条 )
0 有用 豆友190664743 看过 2020-09-01 11:28:12
无言的配角选得好，长相俄味十足。我都给他俩取好名了：胖老头叫费尔多；瘦秃子叫格里高利。
0 有用 苗斑 看过 2017-10-01 22:49:41
voice porn，太文艺了
0 有用 paradiso 看过 2019-03-05 19:33:57
全程对镜独白，除去依赖JI本身魅力外，在如何廉价而有效地丰富有声书影像方面导演还是用心设计了的，在一幢房子的不同房间里，讲到星星就给水晶吊灯、讲到死亡下地下室、讲到树林进暖房、讲到十字架给个十字窗框前景等等。陀思妥耶夫斯基这篇《荒唐人的梦》我没读过，从这版文本看一般般啊厌世时还挺吸引以为要如何惊天展开结果有点失望，而且这个梦中穿越宇宙维度的设定在当时恐怖小说界似乎很火呢【油管全片】
0 有用 Maskenfreiheit 看过 2017-07-24 18:44:22
“ 然而，当我成长为青年后，虽然对自己很坏的品性一年比一年有更深的认识，但不知为什么心情却反而变得平静多了。的确是不知道为什么，因为我至今还不能断定其原因。这原因也许是由于某种极大地影响我的情况，使我心头积聚着极度的苦闷，这就使我萌发了一种信念：世界上到处都是·无·所·谓。”
1 有用 八月鹅卵石 看过 2017-03-26 12:44:25
整一个堪称完美的活体有声书