What if your perfect dream became everyone else's nightmare?
Set in the near future, the story revolves around the emergence of the virtual dream reality technology "Good Dreams", which allows people to do whatever they desire within their self-created dreams. However, a crisis triggered by these dreams quietly unfolds.
Cinematography
Dream sequences that dissolve reality better than Inception
Acting
Dylan Wang's unraveling is genuinely unsettling
Production
Near-future China feels lived-in and quietly dystopian
Director
Han Yan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Han Yan spent three years developing the dream logic rules with neuroscientists before filming a single frame.
The title's Latin phrase — 'through hardships to the stars' — is deliberately ironic; the film argues we use stars as excuses to avoid hardship entirely.
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