Dream of Last Night - Double Termination
Dec. 23rd, 2022 06:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xyzzysqrlSo in this dream I had rented a crappy old movie on VHS from god knows where, one of those thriller movies you got in the late eighties, called "Double Termination". I think Kim Basinger was in it. Anyway it was the story of a twin who worked for the government somewhere, and his other twin who worked for the same government but was ALSO a double agent, and you can imagine how that went over.
Not well.
Except after a couple of very confusing scenes, I picked up the box and noticed I'd rented the British Tourism Board Special Edition of the movie, which was important because the scenes were of a THIRD twin who lived out somewhere in the countryside and rode a bus around Britain, and he'd stop and go "ah yes very good we're in (someplace like "Farttenford-on-Haurshire")" and then he'd go and order a very very large breakfast and talk directly to the camera about how the chicken eggs were from a local farm where all the chickens were very humane to each other, and the tomatoes were from a local garden.
Then he and the cameraman would walk down a hill and go look at the garden and stare at it for a while, and then he'd nod at the camera and the scene would go back to the original two twins trying to kill each other with swords on top of a train.
So I sort of resigned myself to getting hot food tips from this man, and then I was surprised when later he revealed that he was NOT the third twin (which makes sense, because of TWINS) but was in fact British Secret Agent James Bond, and he did some clever thing to kill the evil double agent twin with a windmill and then took the good twin out to have a large breakfast.
Clearly my subconscious isn't very clear what people do in Britain all day besides eat.
Also that's only one termination so I don't KNOW.
Not well.
Except after a couple of very confusing scenes, I picked up the box and noticed I'd rented the British Tourism Board Special Edition of the movie, which was important because the scenes were of a THIRD twin who lived out somewhere in the countryside and rode a bus around Britain, and he'd stop and go "ah yes very good we're in (someplace like "Farttenford-on-Haurshire")" and then he'd go and order a very very large breakfast and talk directly to the camera about how the chicken eggs were from a local farm where all the chickens were very humane to each other, and the tomatoes were from a local garden.
Then he and the cameraman would walk down a hill and go look at the garden and stare at it for a while, and then he'd nod at the camera and the scene would go back to the original two twins trying to kill each other with swords on top of a train.
So I sort of resigned myself to getting hot food tips from this man, and then I was surprised when later he revealed that he was NOT the third twin (which makes sense, because of TWINS) but was in fact British Secret Agent James Bond, and he did some clever thing to kill the evil double agent twin with a windmill and then took the good twin out to have a large breakfast.
Clearly my subconscious isn't very clear what people do in Britain all day besides eat.
Also that's only one termination so I don't KNOW.
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Date: 2022-12-23 01:03 pm (UTC)Trins, if you will.
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Date: 2022-12-23 01:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-24 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-24 07:52 am (UTC)DOUBLE TERMINATION IN NAME ONLY, FOR IT IS NEITHER.
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Date: 2022-12-24 07:52 am (UTC)Okay but the double part still fails though
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Date: 2023-01-02 03:57 am (UTC)-- see, it's the termination of a double (agent) rather than two terminations --