Bloodyminded

A young woman disheartened by a dystopian society meets a mysterious man who claims to have met her in different worlds.

A Hero's Journey of Enlightenment in 12 Acts. On foggy nights along Pico Blvd, the Shop of Shattered Dreams appears out of the gloom. An alternative film in the key of rhapsody, built of improvs, art, shaman journeys, myth, philosophy, science and the mystic. Framed by ordinary reality, the stories take us via Plato's Cave and the Magic Theatre into cosmology, the Big Bang, the Neolithic revolution, classic Vedanta non-dualism, classic 'from the first not a thing is' Ch'an Buddhism, Zen, Christian mysticism, Sufi tales, the Direct Seeing of the Nature of Reality, and into the sublime view of Life as the Megaverse. The 12 Acts: 1) The Ordinary to The Unsayable, 2) The Shaman Journey, 3) The Transformation, 4) The MetaView, 5) The World Is a Dream, 6) Journeys Into the Way Out, 7) Cognizing Emptiness In the Midst of The Conceptual, 8) The NonDual and History, 9) Beauty, 10) All that is the Case, 11) Into the Void, 12) Direct Knowing of the Nature of Reality Once you see you're in the Shop of Shattered Dreams, everything that happens is in the Magic Theatre, Plato's Cave.

If the truth is told in our dreams then Lotto is a sea of wild imaginings that we may never want to face. There are two sides to every story. In Lotto there are three. Tom Riley successful businessman and Married, is carrying on an illicit affair with a young lady friend named Gina Davis. Tom is struck with a blow to the head causing him to have amnesia. Gina is visiting her brother Henry who has a tumor on his brain and needs immediate attention. Gina stands by as Tom is brought into the room where Henry is lying. Gina over hears the doctors tell Tom he has a loss of memory. Gina takes advantage of this situation and reiterates a whole new relationship between Tom and her. Sam Katz. A poor working employee of Tom Riley struggles with his dilemma as he finds out he has one week to live. Sam fights with his wife over bills and bedroom affairs. After leaving the doctors office Sam stops by Star Bucks to grab a quick cup of coffee. Sam observes Tom kissing Gina by the waterside and wishes he could be in Toms place. Sam follows Tom to a local store where Gina works and purchases a Lotto ticket soon after Tom leaves the store. Sam collapses on his bed and takes us into a sea of wild imagines as he sees himself living the life of Riley. When Sam is awaken by his wife he is totally confused on what just happened. Sam tries to explain that this girl named Gina in his dream murdered his boss and finds himself caught up in a real life drama

Royal Uncle Cao is banished by the emperor because of his criticism. He becomes immortal with the help of other seven immortals, then the legend of Eight Immortals starts.