The drawings are McKean's, who designed the film's look, from the odd masks of the human characters to the mysterious floating giants, talking hedgehogs, monkeybirds and scurrying eyeball spiders. And the fantasy world the girl finds herself in is of her own design, inspired by drawings she created and hung on her bedroom wall.
The girl's parents aren't the typical out-of-touch clods - they're circus performers. "I'd start watching a film, and images would come up on the screen, and I didn't know where I was going to go or what I would be seeing." The story line is a classic fantasy standby: A girl (Stephanie Leonidas) rebels against her parents and finds herself lost, like Dorothy in Oz or Alice in Wonderland, trying to get back home.īut in the details, Gaiman and McKean strive to set their story apart. This is what we call "dreaming"."I wanted to get across that feeling I had as a kid," says McKean.
It scrambles memories, juggles images, rearranges data, invents scary or titillating stories. For the rest of our sleeping session, the unconscious mind is off duty. We are in deep sleep only two or three hours a night. The information our conscious minds receive during waking hours is processed by our unconscious during so called "deep sleep". As a matter of fact, we already do, but compared for flowers, our kind is primitive and limited.įor one thing, information gathered from daily newspapers, soap operas, sales conferences and coffee klatches is inferior to information gathered from sunlight.Įither because our data is insufficient or because our processing equipment is not fully on line, our own noctural processing is part-time work. This is called photosynthesis.Īs our neocortex comes into full use, we, too will practice photosyntesis. Flowers have always lived in an information technology. “We live now in an information technology.
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