INCEPTION !!!!!!!!!
I finally watched this latest craze and DEAR LORD INCEPTION IS THE MOST AWESOMEST FILM LIKE EVER.
There is nothing that is not awesome about this film.
The concept is original and intriguing, I had thought it would be a lot more confusing but really I thought it was okay to follow, sure there are some things that are a bit strange like can everyone build in their limbo even if they are not a dreamer or an architect- such as how was Saito able to build that palace thing in limbo without being a dreamer or an architect? Is it just because he was stuck in there for a long time?
We never see any people in Cobb's limbo he built with Mal but how come Saito has his henchmen? Maybe, the projections also need to be consciously placed in this limbo reality, hence explaining Mal's 'existence' in Cobb's.
Also, how can Eames make himself look like other people- I don't remember this ever being explained?
Then of course there were a whole load of questions about limbo and following people into limbo- is there only one limbo? or does everyone have their own limbo? How come Cobb and Mal were the only people to build in limbo if there is only one and there are many dreamers in the world? Surely other people have ended up there? If everyone has their own limbo, then how can people dragged into a specific person's limbo? How did Mal capture Fischer and how did Cobb rescue Saito? Is it like SPN's Heaven, as in one limbo but everyone has their own slice? Is there a back way, a 'shortcut through the maze' as it were? SO MANY QUESTIONS, I kinda like that.
Small quibbles aside, this is probably the best film I have seen in a good few years. I know the film can be over thought and picked apart, but the more I think about it the film (like any other science fiction ) is sort of a metaphor for a dream ( in Inception's case a really awesome dream), things are strange but the story carries it forward so you don't notice it.
What was the real clincher for me was the end, it would've been very easy for the film to just fall apart towards the end, especially since it's so long, 2012, for example set up a great premise (albeit a little predictable) but the ending I felt let an otherwise good film down, Inception's ending was really a master stroke. Subtle in tying together the strings, but not creating a brick wall ending.
On a more meta front, it was great to see Joseph Gordon Levitt and Ellen Page in something very different to the ''rom-com with a twist'' genre that I know them from. The others, especially Tom Hardy ( I remember that him from back in the day as in The Virgin Queen which I have to say was a godawful series) were awesome too.
I think I'll have to go and immerse myself in Arthur/Eames fic now. Seriously. those two. such an OTP.