Surreal: a term applied to a film, signifying a distorted or fantastic dream state, a nightmarish or hallucinogenic world, or a subconscious thought or death experience; often expressed by a random, non-sequential juxtaposition of images that go beyond realism. Examples: the eerie Salvador Dali dream sequence in Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), and David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977)
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