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I hooked my digital projector up to my satellite earlier and watched some Scrubs, some CSI, and a very little bit of (shhh) High School Musical.
I fell asleep while flipping through channels and wound up on VH1's "Classic Albums." Featured artist today: The Band.
Now none of this is really important... What was kinda' interesting was my dream that I had: the accompanying images and comprehension, if you will, to the documentary-style VH1 sounds I was hearing.
In the dream, I am watching, I believe, a documentary-style review of an unnamed c. 1960-70s movie. Very simply, the movie being examined is based upon a small red box, the contents of which are never shown. In this box is said to reside a Komocet watch (kah-moh-set, evidently made up). On the exterior of this box is a small passage, read by several characters, but whose exact words I cannot remember. I only recall that the passage attacks the instability of the United States economy and questions whether this box and its contents may ever be sold. According to these words, the item is so valuable that selling it would lead ultimately to the fall of the American economy.
The plot of the movie is very simple, with an older poor gentleman losing to a young, risk-taking businessman in something like a card game or other gamble. With characteristically foreboding words of wisdom, the older man gives up the box, never to be heard from again. Now the movie couples with the latter man and his wife, following their life as it grows increasingly chaotic and dark as a result of tracing the watch's history.
The plotline is simple and rather cliche and the concept is a bit strange, but this movie that I haven't really seen is amazing. It examines the downfall of a successful young couple as they delve into histories that weren't meant to be told, uncover secrets that tear them from the inside out, and strangle themselves a little more in "reality" as each day passes.
Think Breakfast at Tiffany's style and manner, the dark tone of Dr. Strangelove, and the conspiracy of a modern flick like Enemy of the State.
I think my new favorite movie is one that doesn't exist.