Marianne Dreams

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Adam: So I think all of us would recommend the book and the film, but to different audiences and age groups. Adam: The father is almost notably absent, I’d say, in Marianne Dreams. He’s mentioned maybe twice, but very much isn’t present, interestingly. So I thought that the film maybe reflected that by having the father not present, and being away for his work. Marianne looked again. It was difficult to see much of any one of the stones because of the bars and the fence hindering her view. But as she concentrated on one of the humped squat figures with all her attention, she saw suddenly a movement. A dark oval patch, which she had taken to be a hole, disappeared, as a pale eyelid dropped slowly for a moment and then was raised again. And in the dark oval, the ball of an eye swivelled slowly towards the house and remained there, staring with a fixed and unwinking gaze straight, it appeared, at Marianne herself. She shrank away from the window and turned to Mark. ‘One of them looked right at me!’ she said. Ren: Is the horror increased by imagining them hopping along, or does it make them less horrifying?

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Adam: But then, I’m fond of the film but I can’t imagine many groups of adults going to the cinema and enjoying it. Young Talent Time 1 9 7 1 - 1 9 8 8 (Australia) 800+ x 30 minute episodes "Close your eyes and I'll… Adam: Yeah, that’s one of the differences between the books and films. In the books despite her, I don’t want to say (Adam puts on a sneering voice) ‘ineptitude’ at drawing, but despite the fact she’s just a kid, and she’s no child prodigy as the book says. 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.Townsend (1987), 246, " Marianne Dreams is strong stuff for children of the fairly low age-group (about nine to twelve) for which I have seen it suggested. But I would not say it is unsuitable. The realization that we all have power for evil must come some time, and could take far more disturbing forms than this." Ren: It’s a really amazing looking scene! The candles blow out and the not-father looms up and says: ‘daddy’s here!’ Adam: I think it becomes a bit more about abandonment anxiety. More about her frustrations at his absence than any violence? I don’t know. It does feel like an odd choice, and then it does then put the rehabilitation of the father, and the restoration of the father-daughter relationship, to the forefront of the narrative.

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Ren: I know, I can’t believe we used that joke on a previous episode when this one is literally about a house made of paper. Ali: More when I was an adult. I think when I was young I was too scared, certainly of the owl service.Together with the boy at the window, Marianne finds her dream world increasingly austere and frightening; the land is cold and barren and there is force watching them; waiting. When she wakes up the next morning, she realises that the house she had drawn was identical to the house in her dream - she draws the stairs.