Surrealism looks at realism as a limited way of depicting truth. While realism favors interpretations that best mimic our outward visions of what is “real,” surreal filmmaking uses dreamlike states to approach an inner truth that may look strange but does more than just approximate outer versions of reality. Cage, who worked with surrealist filmmaker David Lynch on his 1990 film Wild at Heart, felt that this approach was the way forward for him.
