What is in a dream? I’ve always wondered about dreams and their meanings. Everyone has a different take on dreams, but I have long been fascinated by what they mean.
Maybe that’s part of the reason that I loved Hallmarks take on dreams in, My Dreams of You. A department in the sky that programs your dreams and a case worker that tries to give you the best dreams. The VHS tapes are a little old school, but there is nothing wrong with old school.
In Hallmarks latest movie, Skyler Samuels and Kapil Talwalkar are utterly charming. Samuels plays Grace, who has dreamt of the same man every night for over a week and can’t figure out where she knows him from. What she does know is that she really likes this guy that keeps appearing in her dreams.
Grace lives with her sister and temps part time. She wants to be a writer, and while others may feel that she won’t get there, Grace never stops believing. She believes in herself and knows that this is a goal in her life that she won’t give up on.
Kapil Talwalkar plays Michael, a musician that doesn’t remember his dreams. He’s talented and sweet. Grace doesn’t know his last name in her dreams, but she does know that she’s attracted to him and she wants to know his name.
In Dreamland, one of the biggest rules is that no one can meet in dreams. Dreams are supposed to come from memories that a person has. Alura (Cecilia Lee), who is Grace and Michaels dream weaver breaks this rule (unintentionally) and this is how they have met. When she realizes her mistake she brings it to the attention of her supervisor immediately.
Here’s the thing where I get confused – one big theme of this movie is that fate will always find a way. It keeps telling you that whats meant to be, will be. It’s honestly one of the reasons that I love movies like this – that they remind you that fate is there. But when Alura accidentally makes the mistake and gets Grace and Michael to meet in their dreams – isn’t that fate also? I have such a hard time following that could be a mistake, because it feels genuine and as if its a part of fate.
Maybe I am thinking too much and that is something that is a big possibility. But even if I am, I don’t care. I think that the is the beauty of entertainment – it makes us think. Sometimes overthink. I love that something makes me think and question and makes me wonder what I am doing with my life. I feel like that’s part of the joy of entertainment. It takes a good script, a good crew, and good actors to pull that off.
I’ve long been a fan of Samuels and I know that she’s capable of pulling off anything. She made me believe that Chloe King could be real (IYKYK). Where I doubted the chemistry between Grace and Michael, I found myself growing into the chemistry that Samuels and Talwalkar share. That sprinkler scene made me scream at the TV – kiss (repeatedly)!
Would I think that Grace would sleep deprive herself and board a train to Portland from Michigan with the guy she just met? No. But sometimes when you know that fate has taken a hand in life and is also trying to take a hand in taking something away from you – you have to take big risks.
And she’s definitely taking big risks.
Alura (Cecilia Lee) and her boss Harvey (David Rosser) – I would have loved to have seen them more, but I understood Grace staying one step ahead and making sure that she could have her time with Michael. It was because of her time with Michael that added the awe factor and true love moment. The moment when you knew that she wanted to be with him, but she loved him enough to let him go.
That’s not something that everyone would do.
I think that its Samuels that sold me on the beauty of loving and letting go with this movie. Loving someone enough to want to make sure that they achieve their dreams – the things that really drive them – is something that you don’t really think happens. No one wants to feel the heartache.
But I think that when you’re having your mind erased it all gets better or you know – easier.
Yet, I will say that (for me), seeing Michaels face when she doesn’t remember him (before he gets all memories of her taken), I broke a little bit inside. He looked in so much pain and I was ready to throw in the towel. After all, I didn’t deserve to have my heart broken too.
That was just cruel.
Maybe though, the real hero of this story was Alura – who never gave up on what she saw in Grace and Michael. She cheered them on from Dreamland and was as invested in this love story as we all were.
My Dreams of You wasn’t what I thought it was going to be, though I am not sure what I thought. What I know is that I walked away satisfied with an ending that opened the door to new opportunities and falling in love based off honesty and no one else’s mistakes this time.
It was fate.
