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Avclub.com Buffy The Vampire SlayerBuffy in the 21 tv episodes that do dream sequences rightTuesday 2 April 2013, by Webmaster (...) 10. Buffy The Vampire Slayer, “Restless” (2000) “Restless,” the fourth-season finale of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, features four dream sequences, in which each of the main characters is stalked, Freddy Krueger-style, by “the first slayer.” This device allows for a lot of surreal images and moments of weird comedy, as well as a hard-to-resist opportunity to have Anthony Stewart Head break into song. But there are also some striking, unsettling touches that have the indefinable power and strangeness of a real dream, such as the shot of Xander looking miserable in over-bright sunshine as he watches himself working out of a food cart—all the while insisting that he doesn’t feel as if his friends are leaving him behind—and the sudden cuts to a wide shot, with the sound dropping out, during the climactic fight. (...) Click on the link for more : |