A Writer’s Odyssey: Dream Within a Dream of the Modern Don Quixote

Abstract

Lu Yang, a young director who have successfully created surreal nested double dreams through his new works, A Writer’s Odyssey.This movie focus on the individual’s survival anxiety in the real world, including a profound introspection of reality. From the perspective of Žižek-style path of film interpretation, audiences, on the one hand, could gain more than audiovisual pleasures within the absurd illusions, on the other hand, would encounter and experience the unescapable enslavement from capital, which is the deepest fear of modern people. The way of traumatic writing turns the new director, Lu Yang, into a Modern Don Quixote, who are trying to achieve his dream of making our world better through the dream within a dream in the movie, A Writer’s Odyssey.