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

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

~How much of a sausage-fest it was. There was only one girl and she was in a very traditionally female role.

Well, two if you count Mal. But I agree; needed moar ladies. I loved the movie to death regardless, but after my second viewing, I determined that there definitely should have been another lady on the team.

[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.

[afigureofspeech.livejournal.com]

Inception kind of blew my mind in the theater, and then I came home and found a budding fandom that just kind of speed-exploded in front of my eyes. It was pretty cool actually. And I agree with all your points. :)

It would have been nice to have another female character who was actually real and not, you know, batshit crazy. But, I liked Ariadne hugely and, like keirelle said, how she was presented. And the whole cast is just so damn pretty lol

[mistaria.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. ;]

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.

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

Now have some Inception memes (http://www.geekosystem.com/inception-memes/).

[blinding-light6.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was afraid it wasn't going to live up to the hype.

It was a visual treat. The ending got me thinking for a little while and at first I was dead set on all of it being a dream. Now, I'm not so sure...

I agree about the sausage-fest. Moll was more of the typical female role but, Marion Cotillard's performance was just wonderful. I don't know why but, Ellen Page's character didn't really pop on screen for me.

[ivy-chan.livejournal.com]

Total agreement with the sausage-fest. I really adored Moll and Ariadne both, with one of my favorite scenes being the one where Ariadne's talking to her in Cobb's subconscious. I would have loved another lady on the team to balance all that testosterone out. I did like that Ariadne played whiz kid architect, since anything math/science/logic related isn't traditionally female. (And she's the BEST! Better than the main male lead!)

I was actually not fond of Cobb at all. I hated, really hated what he did to Moll- mind rape that led to her suicide. They even phrased it like a violation- he went to her 'secret place' and broke in. I didn't like how the film seemed to be telling me to feel sorry for him and his angst over it. To me, that was the major negative point of the film.

[devimelete.livejournal.com]

I recalled a post somewhere that despite the sausage-fest, it can be be looked as a feminist film because there is a strong critique of the trope of "yeah-guys-need-suppress-their-emotions" and the objectivity Cobb has on picturing his wife, trying to "correct" her while not realizing his own bullshit.

But yes. I really enjoyed it, even though it needs moar ladies. Like, if they can give the traditionally-male role of the "math/architect/science whiz" to a girl and doesn't make a peep about it, than they can give the muscle role to a lady as well and not say anything. Like that scene in the hotel where that guy-what's-his-name was fighting all of those dream-agents.

[littledust.livejournal.com]

I liked Inception, but I love the fandom. inception_kink is a fun place, and I haven't even really started filling prompts yet! I'm trying to finish a Mal fic first.

Totally agreed re: the lack of ladies. It's why Nolan will never be my favorite filmmaker, for all his technical prowess.

[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.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Just got back from seeing it, and . . . it was decent. Not bad, but nothing I feel an urge to dive into fandom for. I called that he was in a dream from the start from the point we saw his wife's decision to wake up, and I figure that, somewhere, his wife is wide awake and wondering why he still hasn't followed.