My husband says I dreamed this movie
Ok so I remember my husband getting a Netflix dvd where the movie was in black and white (or a severely limited palette) set in the 40s or thereabouts (all the men wore suits, women wore dresses) that had a protagonist who was living just a miserable life. Wife didn’t love him, but they pretended for the sake of everyone else. I think he lost his job. He got caught up in … something … that was surreal in nature.
A dentist might have been involved but I might be confusing that with a different surreal movie my husband made me watch.
Then someone murdered his wife and her lover. He was charged with the crime. He found out she was pregnant. The kid definitely wasn’t his.
Protagonist goes to jail and I remember him standing in the prison yard when an alien ship picked him up and broke him out of prison.
I don’t remember if that was the end.
I do remember turning to my husband and saying “what the hell did we just watch?”
Now, many years later and the Netflix account is closed so I can’t check the history, he can’t figure out what movie I’m talking about and thinks I might have dreamed it.
I say I couldn’t have dreamed it because I dream in color even for noir stories and also there weren’t enough dinosaurs to be one of my dreams.
Thoughts?