Dream Scenario is however a smart film about the uncanny experience of fame, its self-consciousness and self-alienation, in which celebrity creates a sensation of being wary of and secretly astonished by your own famous persona, similar to the weirded-out feeling any of us could have in running into someone we’d been dreaming about the night before. The writer-director here is the Norwegian film-maker Kristoffer Borgli, with a long interest in satirising celebrity narcissism and celebrity hunger, but whose previous film Sick of Myself I found really heavy handed. Yet, as if in some moral parable, Matthews’s charmingly non-threatening persona in these dreams changes when he attempts to monetise the career potential and sexual possibilities.

Matthews experiences actual stardom when news of this phenomenon gets out, but it can’t explain his continuing, nationwide dream celebrity. The NPC in life’s video game has become the ironic cameo star. Through some supernatural, psychopathological epidemic, boring old Professor Matthews has started appearing in everyone’s dreams – but always, to his increasing chagrin, as a hilariously unimportant character in the background of some dramatic or violent dream scenario. His students start paying rapt attention.

Matthews’s problems begin when friends, acquaintances and total strangers start doing double-takes at him, their mouths parted in incredulous half-smiles. Matthews also contains a hint of the unhappy male lecturers from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain and JM Coetzee’s Disgrace. But it is Professor Matthews’s terrible destiny to become a cross between Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street and Leonard Zelig, the chameleon nonentity in the Woody Allen comedy who insinuates himself into every historical situation of the 20th century.

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