Thursday, October 24, 2013

Saying yes

I dreamt that I was in a movie starring Robin Williams in which he plays a man who spends a year saying yes to everything - yes to any idea that pops into his head, yes to any opportunity that presents itself, yes to any offer or request by another person - yes to anything as long as it's not lethal, immoral or impossible.

Initially he's in a giant museum gym and he is the only adult playing on all the equipment while his best friend, a blonde woman in a business suit, looks on - he swings on the log suspended fifty feet in the air (over a net).  He walks through the silly string fountain and climbs the forever stairs, a bedazzled escelator that moves downwards at the same rate as the stairs move up.

In the next scene his body has youthened to the age of thirteen; he stands on a dais in the middle of a town square wearing silk pyjamas and self-consciously adjusts his page-boy wig.  His mother points Vanna White-style as a horse-drawn chariot moves through the center of the square, stopping right in front of him.  His mother pulls a long black leather Matrix style jacket out of the chariot and holds it up.  He smiles, nods yes to the costume and moves foward to assume the role of superhero.

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