A Hong Kong Pop Movie Dream

As this dream started, it was clear that half of me was watching it as a movie, and the other half was actually in the movie. It begins at an airport somewhere in Asia and I was watching aged 747s land. The movie was sort of like Chungking Express. I was some kind of secret agent/bodyguard and was on assignment trying to find Guo Jing Jing (diving star). My partner and I were following her as she was moving through the crowded terminal. She went down an escalator, and was momentarily obscured from our view. Looking over the railing to the level below, I caught a glimpse of a friend of hers, who had pink tips in her hair incidentally. Her character was the beautiful rebel-type, street-wise and suspicious of the law. She saw that I spotted her, and she was shielding Jing Jing, who now was wearing different clothes and sported a new short hairstyle. It was quite a quick disguise, but I was onto it. I yelled at my partner what was going on, and we ran towards the escalator that the two women were taking. Both of us hopped onto the railing which was a smooth metal slide, and as we were sliding down, we could see that the two women were also on the slide, but were not moving. We ended up catching them, and in a friendly exchange, informed them that we were to stay with them during their stay in the city.

At this point, the plot of the story became more of a romance, where my buddy was in love with Guo Jing Jing, and the other woman and I were just tagging along. I was in third-person view for the next scenes, which were the kind you see in movies where a nice song plays, and the two characters have fun building the relationship. That part of the movie Shrek where Fiona and Shrek are on the way home and they blow up those balloons is what I am talking about. In the dream movie, I could see my buddy trying to impress Jing Jing, buying her flowers, opening doors for her, and trying to be the sweetest guy ever. It was pretty funny because it was so campy. Even though I was a supporting character in this movie, my character had a funny (and goofy) scene as well. My love interest was buying CD’s and my role had become less of a bodyguard and more of a valet. I ended up carrying all of her shopping bags and it was kind of a sappy, playful movie scene but fun nonetheless. This went on for a bit, and then when it came time to leave the store, my love interest abruptly gave me the cold shoulder and hopped on a bus. I was devastated. Looking at it from third-person view, my character watched the bus leave and was left standing amid the Hong Kong bustle. It was truly a sad sight! (cue Incredible Hulk TV series ending piano song)

Skip forward to the next third-person scene, which was at night and there was a huge celebration happening throughout the city. It seemed like Chinese New Years, and there were people out in the street eating, dancing, and generally having a great time. My character, on the other hand, was sadly wandering the streets, hands in his pockets. Meanwhile an image of his love interest was shown at some swanky party at the top of a skyscraper. She was wearing a purple sequined party hat, the leprechaun-style shaped hat you often see at New Year’s celebrations. But she was only pretending to have fun. As she gazed out across the city from high above, she felt sorrow and regret.

At that point I was thinking that maybe I still have a chance, and the movie will end with us being reunited. Unfortunately, I woke up and could not fall back asleep to the same dream, so I guess we’ll never know. And I never did find out what happened to my buddy and Jing Jing.