I’m showing ‘The Lathe of Heaven’ tonight at The Royal Standard. It’s a great film that raises lots of interesting questions about progress, particularly how people progress in different ways, some by forcing it, others by just ‘going with the flow’. It’s also a good movie in that it has no bad guys, just characters that are trying to do good, but perhaps going about it the wrong way.
In relation to my own work, it’s interesting how George Orr, the central character in ‘The Lathe of Heaven’, dreams many futures, all of which fail on some level. It feels to me that, at it’s core, the film is about the impossibility of imagining the future, and the disastous consequences of trying to hard to force a future upon ourselves…