THE TRAILER
THE DIRECTOR
Pilotpriest
THE ACTORS
Bobby Jerome Izat, Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron, Carlee Ryski, Christopher Heatherington, Tedra Rogers, Brandon DeWyn, John Tasker, Austin Baker, Martin Kvapil, John Warkentin, Steve Tsang, Ecko Goffic, Skylar Radzion, Shane Ghost Keeper, Martin Kvapil
THE STORY
Sarah (Julia Sarah Stone), who is 18 years old, merges with an anonymous machine during a private sleep studio. This is Anthony Scott Burns’s mesmerizing science fiction thriller. The physician conducting the investigation watches the dreams of his subjects on grainy black and white screens via wired counterparts and devices. He sees visions glittering through nebulous, dark countryside filled with crumbling structures, empty abysses, and petrophysical characters with glowing red eyes. Whether she is riding a bicycle like Donnie Dunk or wearing a patch to conceal her bleeding eye, Stone is as enigmatized and empathic as her character. In the same way, the film itself is an obscure, atmospheric tale about the terrors that tie and afflict us and the challenge of understanding our brains and the boundaries with which they interact.
THE RUNDOWN
What, then, are we simply showing up and sleeping?” the young lady unbelievingly asked the scientists responsible for this strange project at her first encounter. And her scepticism cannot be faulted precisely. Despite being hooked up to multiple wires, wearing a thick felt helmet, and wearing several panels tightly around her body, Sarah looked and felt fresh. Maybe she could be awake in class now, without drinking half a dozen cups of coffee a day.
Predictably, the reality underlying the inexplicable condition of sleep paralysis is not as easy as they are in a secret and breakthrough (or, so they claim) research. Firstly, the only other woman in the program who does not appear after her first night is the question. The researchers attempt to ensure that Sarah is constantly dropping away, but she is uncomfortable. Additionally, Sarah is still stunned that Jeremy (Landon Liboiron), who she has been courting for years, is engaged (but not to us) to someone in the studio.
Still, Burns provides these infernal images nonetheless an awful edge that surrounds them with sufficient visual punch in the depths of Sará’s abstract mind. In dreams, she sometimes sees shadows moving, sometimes in a motionless manner, sometimes flippantly, as she opens dark doors and sees things hanging from the ceiling, such as carved pieces of limbs and stones. I think these are the most powerful “Come True” moments, with the production design elements working hard to hide the documentary’s low budget and poor yet respectable VFX. The film’s eclectic films and synthetic score—Burns filmed, published, wrote, and co-scored the film and Pilotpriest—is also very heavy-handed. He is not as efficient in his fears as Ascher. The film is pseudonymous and synthetic. However, they assist him collectively to approach his paranoia-infused fear level in Cronenberg, even when he does not quite arrive.
Burns does not seem to be intended anywhere, particularly on the page. A subject of “Come True” is the obligatory ethical code to lead a scientific test so that it can be discarded without even considering its full extent. Similarly, the Kubrick-ian Room 237 seemed too simple to be a perfunctory name-check. Perhaps more disturbingly, Burns is not as in-depth as you want in “Come True” into Sarah’s inner mind. The somewhat irritating twist-more of a copout than truly earned—excuses some, but only artificially, of this mistake. Stone is at least entirely game-playing for a crazy trip, showing a solid but frantic presence with astonishing power, even though the gloomy atmosphere about her implies substance.