Marianne Dreams

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Adam: I think it gets across that feeling of being ill as a child. I had a lot of chest and ear infections as a young kid, so I definitely remember long days and weeks spent in bed and feeling stuffy and frustrated but also out of it and woozy.

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Ali: Yeah, I like standing stones in general. But as villains I think they’re pretty good in this. Standing stones with a single cyclopian eye is particularly good for me.Adam: She knows there’s an outside. She seems to recognise that she is somewhere else, but she can’t quite remember what the other world is. But she seems to know more than Mark, but isn’t completely aware that she’s in a dream. She had met the psychiatrist and author Anthony Storr (1920–2001) during her training and married him in 1942. They had three daughters, Sophia, Polly and Emma, but divorced in 1970. She later married the economist Lord Balogh (1905–1985). [6] Paperhouse was initially released on VHS format not long following its theatrical exhibition in the United Kingdom. In the United States, Vestron Video handled releasing it on both VHS and Laserdisc, both in the 1:33.1 aspect ratio.

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Ali: I really liked the grass. The grass is genuinely described as being malign. Right from the beginning when she finds herself out in the grass, and also later when she has to hide in the grass, during the escape from the house, there’s definitely a feeling that the grass is watching and it’s not on the children’s side. Ren: The not-father is creeping down the stairs and Mark’s urging Anna to destroy just the part of the drawing with her father in it. But she’s asleep, so her sleeping self is reaching for this drawing, and she has a candle next to her bed, and she manages to set it on fire. Catherine Storr's later novel Marianne and Mark was a sequel to Marianne Dreams. [2] Film, television and theatrical adaptations [ edit ] Adam: But this is what we were saying about the dream logic of the film, if you want to be charitable. I’d want to call it dream logic.Ren: Is the horror increased by imagining them hopping along, or does it make them less horrifying? Ali: It pretty much seems to be actually the lighthouse. But it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s not at this point in the film. Magical Land: Marianne is able to live in the fantasy world she created for herself by drawing it in a notebook. I was very pleased to find that Escape into Night has been released on DVD. This is certainly one of those programmes which I remember only vaguely but that had a very lasting impact. Like others, I could not remember what it was called so it took some searching to find. I originally found the film Paper House and watched that as Escape into Night had not at that point been released. The Paper House film though was not as dark or sinister as I remembered the TV series. Ren: Yeah, I did wonder about that. Because they’re like ‘we could get down to the beach by drawing a ladder’ but then they think ‘oh, but you couldn’t draw a ladder that long’.

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She draws a face in the window of the house, and when she goes into the dream, there is a boy there, named Mark. It turns out that he is a real person, who is being taught by the same tutor as her, and he can’t walk because he’s suffering from polio. Adam: And in the book, of course, we hear their thoughts to some degree, or their basic sensory impressions, through the radio. Ali: Well, in the book. Marianne draws a radio in another room to where Mark is, because she thinks it will keep him entertained. But then when they turn it on — well, we haven’t talked about THEM yet, but anyway, it’s a sinister radio. Ren: Anna draws this for herself and then this bizarre sludge of ice-cream comes out, just splurges out — Furthermore, Marianne is no longer in control of the dream world because she brought The Pencil into that world and gave it to Mark. When we last see her in the dream world, she finds Mark has gone off in the helicopter having left her a note to say he did wait for her, but could only wait so long because the helicopter had been hovering around all day waiting for him.

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Ren: I wouldn’t be surprised. It definitely feels like its own thing. It’s interesting, it’s good. I liked them both, I think they both work really well for what they are, but they’re not the same thing at all. Ren: Yes, because it’s like — is it part of her illness, or is it because she set her bed on fire? You don’t know. And it’s the distinctly unsaid that makes the story so potent: if the features of the nightmare world are dependent entirely on the drawings in Marianne’s sketchbook, then what exists beyond that? When Mark and Marianne escape the house, and set up a John Wyndham-esque “cosy apocalypse” homestead, barricaded into a lighthouse of her creation, what lies across the ocean that they wistfully gaze out upon? It’s a book filled with questions, and lesser authors might have unwisely attempted to provide logical, join-the-dots answers. Adam: Yeah, pretty much! There’s quite a lot of Anna’s parents in the film being oddly blunt. Like when Anna’s mum talks about her drawings.

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I must say, the TV show makes this distinctly less “weird” by confirming that Marianne fell off a horse and broke her leg; if she’s hallucinating, it’s because of the boredom of bed (like in the classic Victorian metaphor-for-the-lives-of-women short story the Yellow Wallpaper). If the book features a mystery malady instead, that’s a lot more interesting; and there’s also a political dimension to that, especially in the way that women with mystery maladies like MS/chronic fatigue/fibro are undermined as “hysterics with a mental health problem” rather than people experiencing a genuine health crisis; it spirals out into all sorts of ideas culture has about both good health and also women. Very much like Yellow Wallpaper, actually. Ren: She decides to make a girl to be friends with because she’s angry with Mark. But she draws her to totally the wrong scale, so she’s worried for a while that she’s created a friendly giant of a girl. Ali: Yeah, I felt like one of the things that I really liked about the book was that it was quite tightly structured. There’s quite a logical progression between the different dreams, and then she draws something else as a consequence of that dream, and then theres another dream and the consequences of what she’s just drawn are revealed. The film’s pretty erratic, in terms of how her drawing is motivated. Coming of Age Story: Marianne Dreams is this trope in pretty much every way. Ironically, getting caught up in the escapism of a fantasy world is what leads to Marianne's maturity developing.There’s a force in this place. You felt it in the cold wind and now it is in them. It pulls at you, pulls all the energy. I think it would pull the light from the sky if it could.’ Adam: So in the book it’s a pretty strained relationship for most of the book, by the end they’re friends, but — Ren: So Anna’s mother is quite frazzled, and her father is away for long stretches of work. And Anna compared to Marianne is a much more rebellious kid. Marianne is in bed for weeks at a time, convalescing, whereas Anna doesn’t seem to spend more than a few minutes in bed before she’s up wandering around.