"I have a recurring vision of being hit by a car and my face being smashed against the pavement and blood everywhere," Felix White says suddenly.
Marilyn had dreams of Boschian witches and demons from childhood onward, and a recurring vision of striding — like Steinem's colossus — over a supine row of church congregants who peered up her skirt.
He especially dreaded a recurring vision of the ocean "paved with innumerable faces, upturned to the heavens: faces, imploring, wrathful, despairing, surged upwards by thousands, by myriads, by generations, by centuries".
For anyone who, in the mid-nineteen-sixties, frequented the smoky, caliginous folk clubs of Greenwich Village, the muscular, smiling Langhorne and his acoustic guitar were a recurring vision: he played with Buffy Sainte-Marie, Richard and Mimi Fariña, Peter La Farge, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Harry Belafonte, and a bevy of other revivalists.
The director of classics such as Bad Boy Bubby and Dance Me to My Song rarely returns to similar storylines; his superb trilogy of films about Indigenous Australians (The Tracker, Ten Canoes and Charlie's Country) arguably the closest he has to a recurring vision and context.
It is a passionate and sentimental film that includes scenes of Ali praying at his Michigan farm, a recurring vision of a pink Cadillac, Ali's first reward from his Louisville sponsors when he turned pro, and evokes Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black youth from Chicago lynched for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955, as part of Cassius Clay's racial awakening.
They include isolation, poverty, recurring visions — Bess said that he merely copied motifs that had appeared to him in dreams since childhood — and even self-mutilation.
"Nutsack" stars Ike Karton, unemployed, "paranoid and maladaptively hostile," the victim of a car crash (he was hit by a Mister Softee truck); and possibly delusional; his damaged head like an attic jammed with all manner of wild detritus: gyrating goddesses and endless epics chanted in his honor and recurring visions of his own, glorious, lonely, inevitable death (at the hands of the Mossad).
But one night he had recurring visions of an underground river he had discovered in a West Texas cave.
IMDB offers the following synopsis for the film: "In a desolate community full of drug-addled Marines and rumors of kidnapping, a wild-eyed stoner named Lou wakes up after a wild night of partying with symptoms of a strange illness and recurring visions as she struggles to get a grip on reality while stories of conspiracy spread".
Who Should Go: A good drum circle in the Canadian wilderness not only appeals to you, but is actually a recurring Utopian vision.
