Analysis and Comparisson of Movie: No `Dreamers` in America

The movie The Dreamers has much to do with youthful idealism . It is set in the revolutionary period of the late 1960s when the youth of Paris revolt against , among other things , authority and what they view as a stale way of life . In the beginning it involves viewing the main characters as friends , who then turn to lovers . Yet inevitably , their love runs dry and the trio splits into what they were before they first encountered one another . It is a story about love lost , and an idealism that refuses to die

p What sets this apart from many other movies , especially movies from the United States , is the unashamed nudity and explicit sexual liaisons between the three main characters . It is rare to see full frontal nudity in a movie in the States , and generally it is a woman who is seen . Even rarer is the completely nude body of a male . But this French film has all of this and yet goes one step further two of the main characters are siblings . This movie presents to the American audience something never before seen to much of the population . Yet the fact that it was theatrically released with an NC-17 rating , something that had not been done in the States since the movie Bent was released in 1997 , is testament to the fact that this is not just pornography , but a movie worthy of the admiration of cinephiles ' everywhere (IMDB

The movie begins by introducing Matthew , played by Michael Pitt . He plays a young American traveling in Paris in the 1960s . One of the first scenes is of him watching a movie at a theater after he exclaims only the French would house a cinema inside a palace ' The setting of Matthew in the movie theater is a foreshadowing of the importance movies play in the plot of the film . All throughout the movie , the actors pretend to play characters from certain movies in a sort of game The game though ends up having serious , but playful consequences consequences which bring about and cement the relationship which eventually develops among the characters

At a student gathering is where Matthew first meets Isabelle and her brother , Theo . This gathering is where the audience gets its first glimpse of the idealism that pervades the rest of the story as the gathering turns violent and pits students against police . One part in particular , a scene in which all three are walking together , further illustrates this idealism . In it , night has fallen yet the violence has yet to subside . Amidst the students taunts of Assholes , Fascists Bastards ' the three make their way back toward home . As the three walk side by side , Theo mentions that he is staving and Isabella pulls from her hand bag a couple sandwiches . Once they begin eating , they realize Matthew too is probably hungry and although he is to polite to ask ' first Isabella and then Theo give to Matthew some of their sandwich . I feel this is...