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Other people’s dreams bore me rigid. So why are films and TV shows full of them?

Brisbane Times · 26 August 2026 at 7:35 pm

Other people’s dreams bore me rigid. So why are films and TV shows full of them?

Dream sequences are a lazy storytelling device.

The only place they belong is the cutting room floor.

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