`A Dream of Flying, by Georgina Chapman

"A Dream of Flying" is the story of a girl who will spend her whole life trying not to fly, and a boy who would give his life to teach her. Throughout different stages in their lives, timeless love will bring the couple together and lift them off of their feet.

It's lovely, lavish film.  `A Dream of Flying is, in a way, a literal thing for me.  It's about half-and-half, that is, dreams of flying that were pleasant and magical and those where I felt out of control and in the midst of dread.

For Georgina Chapman, however, flying is a metaphor for imagination and mischief in childhood.  But her film infuses the metaphor with life, so it grows and changes.  In young adulthood, for instance, flying is about unconventionality and escape, even romance and reminiscence.  Finally, in older adulthood, flying is about fantasy, remembrance, and death.  I don't know if Chapman intended this, but the couple ascending into the night sky, off the Ferris Wheel, made me think of Jesus Christ rising to the Heavens in exalted light.