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film does not include even one dream scene, though the entire movie is about
dreams. This is the story of James, a ten year old kid who lives with his
loving parents in a beautiful hilltop dream house. The idyll is broken when
a storm causes the death of his parents and leaves poor James with his two
wicked aunts, who torture the poor orphan, forcing him to work for them while
they are having a good time. The turning point occurs, thanks to a giant peach
that's been mysteriously growing in their garden. James enters the peach,
which is cut off the tree and flies to the ocean, away from his home. This
is the beginning of a magical journey, that ends up when the Peach lands in
NYC (the place James and his parents have always dreamt of going to), on top
of the Empire State Building. For James, this journey is also a dream come
true. His fantasies of taking part in adventures, breaking away from his aunts
and playing with other kids instead of working, always contradicted the tough
reality he had to face. That is why the happy end teaches him a meaningful
lesson about the important role of dreams in waking life. James learns that
good things can only happen if you dare to dream about them, and yearn for
them. Dreaming can sometimes cause a lot of misery, as one faces the gap between
the dream and real life, but if one constantly keeps up with and follows their
dreams, there is a chance that they will come true. This film is like a fairy
tale -- the realistic and dreamy parts of the film are combined together to
create a dream-like reality atmosphere. The film begins in realistic design
and turns to animation when the Peach adventure takes place. But the so-called
realistic part, just like the fiction, is designed like the drawings of a
legend book. The landscapes, the background images and the structures surrounding
the real actors, are all designed in a way that resembles the animated fiction
world of inside the Peach. This design creates an atmosphere in which real
life looks no different then a legend, and since the theme of the movie is
all about dreams and making dreams come true, it seems that t e creators of
the movie have been putting some life to the real world, by designing it with
s dream like inspiration.
