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

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I definitely agree about it being a "sausage-fest." I thought Ellen Page did a good job but I would have rather seen her in a more action-y role I think. ;]

Agreed. I look forward to seeing her in a role where she's not expected to be adorable, if that makes sense.

I actually didn't care for the ending but then I'm a pretty literal person so I don't always care for ambiguity. Plus I thought it was too easy... they panned the camera and I knew that was what was coming.

Valid point.

Also, it feeling lucid and dream-like at the same time was definitely awesome.

Personally, through the whole movie I kept thinking that his kids were going to turn out to not be real.