INCEPTIONNN
I watched it twice. Once with my brother in Montreal, then again yesterday with Shake. Both times it was fucking awesome. By far the best movie I've seen all year.
I actually went into that movie knowing nothing about it at all. All I knew was that Ellen Page was in it and Leonardo DiCaprio was in it. And that in one of the trailers, a building falls over. Seriously, that was it. I started off the movie so confused, but everything tied together so neatly by the end, it was very well crafted.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt's hotness is so distracting. It's really hard to concentrate on anything he says. My mind just turns to mush. And omg that fight scene he has in his dream when the world is spinning was one of the most badass things I have ever seen. Lovveed itt.
Ellen Page was awesome as usual. I love her. I've enjoyed her in everything I've seen her in. I was really excited to see her before watching the movie, and I squeed a little when she first came on screen. And I loved that moment where Arthur tells Ariadne to kiss him and she's like "they're still looking at us" and he was like "-shrug-, it was worth a shot". Beautiful. He's so amazing.
I was really happy that Cilian Murphy wasn't super creepy looking. I don't know why but normally he really scares me in every movie he's in, so this was a nice change. It's nice that he can be attractive in a non-terrifying way.
Everyone did an amazing job in this movie. The acting was spectacular all around. What a stellar cast! They're all very talented. I was also happy to be introduced to the actor who played Eames, I'd actually never seen him in anything before, but I quite like him.
I was discussing something with tunaeverynight the other day about whether or not the totem falls at the end and whether or not it was a dream. If it was a dream, the options were:
-> He was dreaming from when he went down to that basement with Yusif and tried the sedative. There is a scene right after he wakes up where he tries to spin his totem but doesn't manage to, and we never see him spin it again until that ending scene. So it's possible that he never woke up from that sedative dream, and everything that happens afterwards is a dream. We figured out that this can't really work because there are things that happened throughout the rest of the movie that Cobb really has no way of knowing about, and unless everyone else came and strapped themselves into his dream, that wouldn't really be possible.
-> The other option is, he was dreaming the entire movie. However, after I watched it again yesterday, I realized that we saw him spin the totem two times before the whole operation went down, and both times, it fell. He did it once right before getting on the helicopter with Arthur and being propositioned by Sayta and once again much later on, although I can't remember exactly when. It was before they went under on the plane though.
So, the only way him managing to get home could be a dream is if the air plane was a dream, which is unlikely since everything that lead up to it was real. Or, if he never came out of limbo, he just thought he did, which we have no reason to believe happened, because as far as we know, limbo doesn't work that way. You're in one dream world, you kill yourself, you wake up. You can't transfer to another one. Of course we don't know if he killed himself or not, but how else could he end up on that air plane again?
Either way, that's the thought process behind me thinking that the totem does fall after it cuts to black. I just don't feel like we have enough evidence to suggest otherwise. I feel like they just put that there because everything wrapped up a little too neatly, and they needed to leave some shred of doubt in the audience's mind. But in my opinion, it doesn't really lead to anything. What was fun was the way everyone in the audience, me included, groaned when it cut to black the first time I watched it. The second time, everyone just laughed.
All in all, a fucking epic movie full of awesomeness. I've seen it twice, and I can't wait for it to be released on DVD and Blu Ray so I can buy it.
On an unrelated note, thank you to whoever sent me that anonymous virtual gift! It was a pleasant surprise! :)