Strengths
In Dream or Real , the camera acts as a biased narrator. We do not see the world as it is; we see it as the protagonist perceives it.
What if the dream is technology? The question shifts from "Dream or real?" to "Does it matter if the steak tastes good?"
The film’s visual language is built on a sense of "wrongness." Familiar settings—a quiet apartment, a city street, a park—are rendered with slight, unsettling distortions.
Wes Craven's New Nightmare is arguably the most meta-textual "Dream or Real" film ever made. In this film: