Very Pretty People Dreaming In Very Nice Suits

[redbrunja]

As soon as Inception was released, my flist was full of people squeeing about it. Then I had RL people tell me it was confusing. Then my flist continued to pound out fic, creating a fandom for a movie that was two weeks old.

I decided that regardless of whether it was as good as people said or completely over-rated, I had to see it for myself.

And quite frankly, it held up against all the hype.

Things I liked:

~I loved the recursive nature of the story telling.

~The whole movie felt both dream-like and lucid, which was quite impressive.

~I loved the bits of humor, the clothes, the complex web of relationships people had with each other, the suits.

~The scene were Cobb is talking to Moll about how he could only create a pale shade of his wife was both romance and gave great respect to the complexity of all people.

~The amazing special effects

~The 'worth a shot' kiss.

~The ambiguous ending that had me literally squirming in my seat.

Things I did not like as much:

~How much of a sausage-fest it was. There was only one girl and she was in a very traditionally female role.

I wonder if I'm going to remember my dreams tonight.

Comments

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

~How much of a sausage-fest it was. There was only one girl and she was in a very traditionally female role.

Well, two if you count Mal. But I agree; needed moar ladies. I loved the movie to death regardless, but after my second viewing, I determined that there definitely should have been another lady on the team.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

You're right, Moll (which was the name I heard) does make two. But she is also is a classically female role (the femme fatale) and one of my feminist red flags is when a group is all male or almost all male, and there really doesn't seem to be a good reason for it.

[misora.livejournal.com]

Originally Latin: malus, -a, -um = bad. :D

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's French and Latin for bad.