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]

Don't worry about it, that's happened to everyone.

I really enjoyed the film, how refreshingly original it was, and not yet another remake of a film.

This is very, very true. And I think I didn't emphasize in my review the sheer skill it takes to write a film about dreams that a.) feels dreamlike b.) isn't so closely tied to how one person dreams that it alienates sections of the audience and c.) is still understandable. I mean, Inception was impressively coherent.

In a mask of a human form she represented Cobb's guilt, the end result of his hubris. The subconscious of part of Cobb that prevented him from being an architect.

Hmm, interesting. While I know she was all a projection of Cobb's, she felt very... active to me, very much a character in her own right. I'll have to watch in again and see if my perception of her changes.