REVIEWED
“Thats what I am, a dreamspeaker. And I can tell when spirits are bothering somebody.” - The Old Dreamspeaker (George Clutesi)
I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter: Peters an extremely disturbed 11 year old orphan (its vaguely hinted at through a nightmare the boy as, that he burnt his mothers house after catching her entertaining a guy). Due to his bad behavior and the fact hes exhausted all his fostering options, even at his young age hes become institutionalized. Peter runs away from his current institution due to being constantly bullied, eventually he hooks up with a peculiar Indian mystic and his mute sidekick. For the first time in Peters life he kinda fits in, only eventually the law and social workers find him and throw him back in care.
Odd little made for Canadian TV drama based on a novel by Cam Hubert (that apparently tells the story much better and in lots more detail, than this teleplay). Sadly Dreamspeaker never really develops its interesting aspects, like what made Peter so damn crazy, and did the shaman really have the ability to dreamspeak. Instead it seems to want to a social commentary about how the care system, can let down those most vulnerable. Mediocre, too soapy, but didn't make such a bad afternoon view.
[Personal Reasons For Remembering]
Peters puzzling little dream sequence, that I'm still not sure if it was intended to be a nightmare or a memory. featured his fat whore of a mother who looked mightily like Divine, and the house filling with smoke. Peters amusing rorschach test replies - thats shit, thats shit, its shit and thats shit.
Originally taken from Letterboxd
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