Sarah is a high schooler who has arty nightmares. We meet her having one while sleeping on a slide in a public playground instead of in her mother's nice suburban home. Sarah apparently does this a lot. We never learn why or why nobody- like maybe a cop or even just a concerned adult- has ever interrupted her sleepovers in the park. Is Canada really so safe that a teenage girl can spend the night alone in a public playground?
Anyway, at other times, Sarah stays over at her friend Zoe's house and watches Zoe sleep. Maybe Sarah has insomnia. Or maybe she just likes watching Zoe sleep since she seems to be infatuated with her. This plot line, like the one about Sarah's refusing to sleep in her own bedroom, is never explained.
Sarah joins a sleep study either to have a nice place to sleep that isn't home or because she doesn't like sleeping alone or because she has nightmares. The film hints at each of these motivations but never clarifies which one is driving her decision. An adult scientists helping to conduct the sleep study starts to follow Sarah around when he isn't watching her sleep. He eventually seduces Sarah and has sex with her. If this sounds unethical to you, wait until you see it because even though Sarah at one point announces that she is 18, she doesn't look a day over 13. The movie seems to celebrate this coupling, but I found it creepier than any of Sarah's nightmares.
There are some interesting things about this movie- the art direction, the cinematography, the score, and its focus on hypnagogic states. Plus, the always interesting Landon Liboiron is in it. Still, all of these things adorn a half-baked script, which . . . Just . . . Drags. And the ending is a grade A eye roller.
Imo, Come True is not an awful movie, but not a particularly satisfying one either.
Anyway, at other times, Sarah stays over at her friend Zoe's house and watches Zoe sleep. Maybe Sarah has insomnia. Or maybe she just likes watching Zoe sleep since she seems to be infatuated with her. This plot line, like the one about Sarah's refusing to sleep in her own bedroom, is never explained.
Sarah joins a sleep study either to have a nice place to sleep that isn't home or because she doesn't like sleeping alone or because she has nightmares. The film hints at each of these motivations but never clarifies which one is driving her decision. An adult scientists helping to conduct the sleep study starts to follow Sarah around when he isn't watching her sleep. He eventually seduces Sarah and has sex with her. If this sounds unethical to you, wait until you see it because even though Sarah at one point announces that she is 18, she doesn't look a day over 13. The movie seems to celebrate this coupling, but I found it creepier than any of Sarah's nightmares.
There are some interesting things about this movie- the art direction, the cinematography, the score, and its focus on hypnagogic states. Plus, the always interesting Landon Liboiron is in it. Still, all of these things adorn a half-baked script, which . . . Just . . . Drags. And the ending is a grade A eye roller.
Imo, Come True is not an awful movie, but not a particularly satisfying one either.
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