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

[arefadedaway.livejournal.com]

Agreed re: the sausage-fest. I adored both Ariadne and Mal to death and loved the movie itself, but I'm extremely tired of how poorly Nolan treats women (if he includes them at all) in his movies. Ariadne was totally a step in the right direction (she is THE BEST out of EVERYONE in a typically male-dominated field and nobody even blinked an eye!). But, still. Sigh.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Ariadne was totally a step in the right direction (she is THE BEST out of EVERYONE in a typically male-dominated field and nobody even blinked an eye!)

The good news is that Nolan seems to be improving - hopefully a couple movies down the line and he'll be making epic movies about epic ladies.