When a language dies, a unique vision of the world is lost forever.

词曲作者迪恩·麦格雷戈在睡梦中叙述他的梦想成为20世纪60年代著名。他的室友记录了他这样做。

Songwriter Dion McGregor became famous in the 1960s for narrating his dreams in his sleep. His flatmate recorded him doing so. In their new film somniloquies, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel overcome the boundaries between inner dreamscapes and human bodies. At the start, flowing forms can be seen and a gentle, undefinable sound made out in the background. McGregor's voice appears and makes an invitation: “I have expected you, come-on in, I said I would grant an interview”. The more we listen to him and enter into his dreamworld, the clearer the contours of the sleeping bodies become, before they seem to dissipate once again. The dreaming man speaks with people who are sawing open his body, removing his organs and stitching him back up. As we find out how painful he finds the stitches, we ask ourselves for how long we’ll want to follow the camera, which sometimes seems to caress the bodies tenderly, but at other times seeks to pierce them almost brutally, like an x-ray. Just in time, we hear his voice: "Let’s go to future land (…) it’s shining near the corner". In this case, sleeping in the cinema means pushing forward to its very limits. (berlinale 2017)

本片是導演捕捉沖繩「被返還」後風景的嘗試，純粹拍攝來往的人們、動物與地貌風景，呈現盈滿沖繩未盡之戰的視覺和嗅覺記憶，並以8mm膠卷嗅錄那股關於死亡的氣息。受到約拿斯・梅卡斯《追憶立陶宛之旅》的啟發，本片的非敘事結構和間歇的慢動作鏡頭，就像是超越既視感的視覺詩篇。

二川读了半辈子书，到头来不如一把锄头管用。赵家羞辱他，土地公算计他，连亲爹都劝他认命。他不甘心，于是做起了一个又一个梦。梦里什么都有——除了他想要的那条路。

基督尚在人间叩问天父苦难何时了，自诩永垂不朽的斯大林已趾高气扬来到天堂等候上帝开门迎接。他可不寂寞，希特勒、墨索里尼、邱吉尔都在，你一言我一语呢喃着个人遗憾，对亲手造成的二战劫难却兴趣阙如。亚历山大·索科洛夫以非凡技艺将历史图像改造成恍如深伪暗黑童话，与二十世纪独裁者的爱恨纠缠在云雾间若隐若现，栩栩如生的幽魂在世界末日般的炼狱幻梦里更像是引人发噱的小丑，只可惜笑话是落在万千无辜人民身上，其声音在历史的朦胧里早已被淹没掉了。