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Very Pretty People Dreaming In Very Nice Suits
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.
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.
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Anyway for being the only girl in the movie, Adriane held down the fort well.
True. And I really loved Mal/Moll, even if she was really only a projection.
The ambiguous ending screamed sequel to me because now I really want to know whether Dom really got out of the dream world or not.
Oh, I think Nolan is WAY too in love with that ambiguous ending to answer that question, even if he did do a sequel.