Come True
Endless nightmare
No one doubts that one of the industries most affected by the pandemic was the cinema. Not only did the screening rooms remain closed for most of 2020, but the production of the films and series itself was severely hampered. Even so, some films still came to the market, as is the case of the Canadian production “Come True” (CAN, 2020).
At first, it is a little difficult to classify the genre of this movie, horror, suspense, science fiction. The truth is that there is a little bit of everything, from bogeyman to vampire, passing by alien. But the ending surprised even me, after decades of cinephile.
The story is seen – literally – through the eyes of Sarah Dunne (Julia Sarah Stone), a teenager who ran away from home due to relationship problems with her mother. Sarah is tormented by serious sleep problems.
In fact, she is always falling asleep, napping in the classroom, in the library and even in the laundry room. Sarah’s problem is that she suffers from strange and frightening nightmares, which almost always cause her to wake up very frightened.
Without having a place to live, and with these sleep problems, the solution seems to come through an advertisement in a cafe. A university is doing sleep research and it pays people to sleep with monitoring. For the young woman it seems to be a gift from heaven.
But something is odd in this research. Scientists have found a way to digitize dreams and the strangest thing is that a weird figure seems to be present in the dreams of all the participants of the research – at the same time!
Sarah is increasingly frightened by what is going on in her dreams, especially when Jeremy (Landon Liboiron), the person in charge of the research, explains the true objectives of the study.
The situation gets more and more worrying when Sarah enters a sleepwalking state that takes her towards the frightening world of her dreams, which seems to become more and more real.
“Come True” is a movie that can be said to represent the current state of cinema in times of pandemic. It is a film without major technical equipment, reduced cast, locations in public buildings in Edmonton, in the province of Alberta, and with a script well adapted to make good use of these scarce resources.
Still, many scenes are very interesting from a visual point of view, especially the dream scenes of endless walks in strange corridors full of bodies in frightening positions.
Do not expect a conventional story, as I have said before, the film brings elements of various genres and plays with our expectations until the final seconds. The story is mainly supported by the performance of the young and talented actress Julia Sarah Stone, who has an appearance very different from the Hollywood standard. Try it.