Dream Scenario (Starring Nicolas Cage) – Film Review & WDM’s No. 2 Top Film of 2023
Dream Scenario is a uniquely strange feature – and that's a good thing.
Written and directed by Kristopher Borgli and produced by Ari Aster, Lars Knudson, Nicolas Cage, Jacob Jaffke, and Tyler Campellone, this film is an alt-comedy with dark undertones that utilizes surreal imagery in an effort to tell its off-beat story. Released earlier this year in November of 2023, it stars Nicolas Cage playing Paul Mathews; a rather mousy man who teaches Biology at a university but yearns for his time in the spotlight. Specifically, his desire revolves around the publishing of a theory on the formation of ant colonies - a niche subject he’s studied extensively over the years.
His friends are all beginning to have their ‘second peak’ and he seems to be left in the dust, until one day, people around the world start having recurring dreams about Paul - and his life changes irrevocably, overnight. He soon gets all the attention he’s been seeking, and then some.
