Is Anybody Here on Rita’s Side?!?

Categories: 3, 4, 9

This dream was set in some idyllic post-apocalyptic valley, lush, some high hills around, with a river running through it, so the apocalypse happened and after a few years or decades or what have you of hell things are doing good. There’s no news as to which particular apocalypse it was that happened, but it is definitely not just a remote value of our society, it is replacing our society. It looked a bit like the idyllic scene at the end of Brazil that Jonathan Pryce imagines under torture.

So life on the other side of the billboards

The main character of the movie starts off as a young teen — about 14 I think — and he is running into the large double-decker bus cafe of a fat lady in her early 40s named Rita. ‘I’m pretty sure I’ve seen Rita in something before, something comedic. He is very excited because the “newbies’ are arriving Rita”

“Of course they are, love. Exciting times, exciting times.”

So this is in reference to some more people moving into the valley and they are called newbies in the dream I guess because of the standard trope of language changing with post apocalyptic changes etc.

It turns out the leader of the newbies is in fact the kid’s Uncle, so his father etc. are happy about seeing his long missing brother again.

But this uncle it turns out causes problems, Rita owns too much of the community by virtue of being one of the first settlers in the valley, he wants a fairer distribution, she wants to hold on to what she has.

So this starts a pattern of fights in the Valley between the two sides lasting slightly more than a decade — maybe up to 15 years.

During this time there are of course lots of changes — Rita moves her family and supporters up to an enclave further up one of the hills with a strategic overview of the valley.

Her double decker bus cafe is gone, replaced by a big open bar near the river, basically just some columns and a roof. Now really this seems to be set in Britain — people’s accents are various British ones — and Britain is not really the place to have an open building without walls or anything but perhaps the apocalypse is a climate change one. I never see the valley in winter.

Our kid grows up, he is big and muscular and likes tribal tattoos as people do in post-apocalypses.

He is maybe not the leader but important in his family group because of his big muscles, they live in a ramshackle collection of shacks around an 18 wheeler. He talks with one of his people, they specifically mention how things have been quiet between them and Rita’s folks for a while and they look up to the encampment Rita has.

Scene Change! Now we are in Rita’s encampment, Rita is looking down at our hero’s 18 wheeler etc. and talking with a henchman about tonight’s the night. Things are evidently going to go off, as if I couldn’t see that coming when he talks about nothing happening for a while and looking up at Rita’s place, foreshadowing is evidently not enough for my dreams, they need to underline things too.

Scene Change! Later that same night, Rita’s folks set the 18 wheeler on fire and remove blocks that were evidently keeping it from rolling because it starts rolling downwards towards the river, knocking over a couple of shacks but I don’t think it killed anyone. But the people in the encampment run around scared in the dark and get killed by Rita’s henchmen, but then our hero comes running out of nowhere and he has a long club with some spikes on the end sort of like that used by a Tusken warrior in Star Wars.

I mean I know that is not the club but sort of, I do know I have seen the club he uses in some fantasy / science fiction setting before. My dreams evidently have a back way into the props departments of a lot of major Hollywood studios.

Anyway this is an exciting adrenaline flowing part of the dream, and he beats a bunch of Rita’s folks, culminating with finding Rita who tries to fight him with a butcher knife which is not a really great weapon against a long club. And he defeats and kills everyone, but he is very amped up and mad and he runs into the open Bar and walks around the bar snarling and yelling and waving his club around and acting like a crazy person while shouting “Is anyone here on Rita’s side, c’mon then, come at me you think you’re so tough. Anyone here” blah blah. It was a little too exciting I guess because that was the point I woke up.

I thought it a bit undeveloped how the protagonist went from liking Rita to hating her, but I guess that’s the benefits of family ties.