Life is a Dream

FROM: Glasz DeCuir Life is a Dream LIFE is a DREAM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKnvdgDK9Is A short machinima attempt inspired on the poem, a fragment of the play by Spanish dramatist Calderon de la Barca, "Life is a ...

FROM: Glasz DeCuir Life is a Dream
LIFE is a DREAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKnvdgDK9Is
A short machinima attempt inspired on the poem, a fragment of the play by Spanish dramatist Calderon de la Barca, "Life is a Dream" (S. XVII)
Theme: the opposition between destiny and liberty.
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Cello Suite No.1, Prelude
Experimenting tenebrism "chiaroscuro" ambient and close-up shot-cuts filming.
Any comments and suggestions are welcomed.
Film G Fun
"I dream that I am here
of these imprisonments charged,
and I dreamed that in another state
happier I saw myself.
What is life? A frenzy.
What is life? An illusion,
A shadow, a fiction,
And the greatest profit is small;
For all of life is a dream,
And dreams, are nothing but dreams."
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Life is a Dream is one of Calderón's most well known and well studied works.

A few central ideas constitute the major philosophical themes of the play: the opposition between destiny and liberty, the topic of life as a dream, and the theme of free will.

Focusing on Segismundo's line, "Y los sueños, sueños son," a more accurate English translation, better representing Calderon's poetic and philosophical intent, may be given as: "And dreams themselves are merely the dreams of dreams," implying and underscoring the ephemeral nature of human life and physical existence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_is_...

La vida es sueño es una obra de teatro de Pedro Calderón de la Barca. El tema central es la libertad frente al destino.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_vida_...ño