What Dreams My Come... This is a perfect film. What drew my sttention firstly was the mystical atmosphere created in the movie. You experiece both this world and the afterlife. What really amazed me was seeing Robin Williams, as a happily married physician who dies in a freak accident, spends most of the time laughing, crying, or staring into the sky with puppy woe, and Annabella Sciorra, as his artist wife (who commits suicide in response to his death), matches him beam for wet-eyed beam. Actually, the scenes are magnificent too. What I can say about the scenes is that What Dreams May Come presents the afterlife as a metaphysical place. For example, in afterlife, the things that drew my attention most is a pastoral hall of mirrors whose inhabitants must learn, then relearn, the rules.
The first act of "What Dreams May Come" is almost enough to make you not care what may come of the rest of the movie. In the opening half hour, Chris and Annie Nielsen (Williams and Sciorra) lose their two children in an automobile accident. (There's nothing quite like undersize coffins to spell unendurable tragedy.) The family dalmatian has already died. And, much worse, Chris violently perishes while attempting to save someone else's life. As 
a ghost, he is given a tour of his own wake and funeral, and he then lands inside a bursting landscape. It's no accident that the place resembles a painting. Heaven in the movie is whatever you want it to be, and Chris, in death, has imagined himself inside a gently cascading version of one of his wife's deep-saturated canvases. He slides down hills, dunking himself in a thick blue pond. And then, he emerges with paint clinging to his clothes. He leaps off a cliff and lands with a gentle thud. Paths are painted with purple petals, and there are classical columned structures that look like the ones for Greek Gods as we always read in Greek Mythology.
a ghost, he is given a tour of his own wake and funeral, and he then lands inside a bursting landscape. It's no accident that the place resembles a painting. Heaven in the movie is whatever you want it to be, and Chris, in death, has imagined himself inside a gently cascading version of one of his wife's deep-saturated canvases. He slides down hills, dunking himself in a thick blue pond. And then, he emerges with paint clinging to his clothes. He leaps off a cliff and lands with a gentle thud. Paths are painted with purple petals, and there are classical columned structures that look like the ones for Greek Gods as we always read in Greek Mythology. Towards the mid of the movie, Chris meets an angel guide, Albert, who speaks in pop koans. ''I want to see my children!'' Chris cries. ''When you do,'' replies Albert, ''you will.'' (I think he means, Today is the first day of the rest of your etern
ity.) For all of the joys of heaven, Chris remains tormented by the family he's lost, and, indeed, the entire picture is haunted by loss. Annie's sinful death consigns her to the film's equally florid vision of hell (a field of heads poking up from the ground, and so on), and it's up to Chris to rescue her to reunite with his twin spirit.
ity.) For all of the joys of heaven, Chris remains tormented by the family he's lost, and, indeed, the entire picture is haunted by loss. Annie's sinful death consigns her to the film's equally florid vision of hell (a field of heads poking up from the ground, and so on), and it's up to Chris to rescue her to reunite with his twin spirit. What Dreams May Come is in such a organized way that it practically dissolves as you watch it. The idea of two people sustaining romantic chemistry into the next world may, in truth, be a paradox, at least it was like that for me. Nevertheless, Williams and Sciorra do convince you that they're soul mates in life and death. The two gaze at each other so longingly that it's easy to believe they'd be happy just growing old together.
What Dreams May Come is not very dramatic. I felt as if I was stuck inside a two-hour 
dream sequence. As Chris and company land on the shore and approach the gates of hell, he begins to recall a time he spent with his son. It was a truly defining moment, when he tells his son that he respects him and would want him by his side even through the fires of hell. For me, this leads to a very important revelation. Chris has not been thinking of Annie, he says, and is losing the bond they share. Does this imply that he can only love one at a time? What I deducted from this scene is that Chris’ love for his son takes away from the love he can share with his wife. And indeed, it seems when he first arrives in heaven he has nearly forgotten his children and only seeks his wife. If Chris and Annie have this incredible bond, what does that say for the rest of us? Is not it:)
dream sequence. As Chris and company land on the shore and approach the gates of hell, he begins to recall a time he spent with his son. It was a truly defining moment, when he tells his son that he respects him and would want him by his side even through the fires of hell. For me, this leads to a very important revelation. Chris has not been thinking of Annie, he says, and is losing the bond they share. Does this imply that he can only love one at a time? What I deducted from this scene is that Chris’ love for his son takes away from the love he can share with his wife. And indeed, it seems when he first arrives in heaven he has nearly forgotten his children and only seeks his wife. If Chris and Annie have this incredible bond, what does that say for the rest of us? Is not it:)
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