Need for Speed (Dating) – The imagination series
2014 · 6m · Estados Unidos , Reino Unido
Directed by Mary Nighy
Nate and Polly seem to share a perfect relationship, except that it exists only as a dream. Polly joins a speed-dating event in search of the date of her dreams.
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The premise *sounds* like rom-com tripe—speed dating, dream boyfriend, whimsy—but Nighy's actually doing something weirder with the gap between fantasy and reality, even if the execution doesn't quite stick the landing.
A formally playful take on the speed-dating conceit with genuine sweetness; the film's tonal balance between dream logic and romantic earnestness shows control, though it doesn't quite achieve the structural inevitability that would make it linger.
The real architecture here is how Nighy uses the speed-dating format itself—those compressed, repetitive encounters—to make Polly's dream-memory feel tangible by contrast; that structural echo is what makes the whimsy work instead of just feel slight.