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

[keirelle.livejournal.com]

I agree with the sausage-fest bit and wish there were more ladies (Nolan has a bad habit of lacking ladies). I actually really liked how Ariadne was presented. It was never pointed out that she was "a girl doing this job, woah", she was just the best, which I appreciated.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Agreed. And yeah, I definitely could tell that it was the same guy who had written Dark Knight, ladies wise.

I actually really liked how Ariadne was presented. It was never pointed out that she was "a girl doing this job, woah", she was just the best, which I appreciated.

This is very true.