don't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
Okay, so, I went into this viewing with one real goal: figure out the fucking ending. And I have. And I am finally at peace with this beautiful movie.
He was awake at the end.
The children are wearing similar but DIFFERENT clothing. And the main thing? The spinning top is just a distraction. It's his wife's totem, not his own. Which is actually made crystal clear, but he just uses it all the time and it's easy to forget. But Arthur is really specific with Ariadne about how totems work.
Cobb's totem? IMHO? His wedding ring.
In his dreams he's still married. He visits her too often in his dreams, relives their memories and he hasn't let her go there. He's still "with" her. But when he wakes up, his ring is always missing. In reality, he's acknowledged that she's dead.
At the end of the movie, when he spins the top and walks away to be with his children and Grandpa Michael Caine? No wedding ring.
Thank you, Christopher Nolan. THANK YOU.
The first time I saw this, I didn't cry. It's just so overwhelming and in your face and the emotional stuff kind of slowed me down. This time, it was perfect, the pacing and writing. When Time started playing, the tears came and wouldn't stop. All of Cobb's scenes with Mal effectively broke my heart and she is a pretty fabulous villain. I was more able to sit back and appreciate the love story angle this time and god, how fucking tragic and fucked up. :(
Also, I just have to say that I looooove how everyone has gone crazy with their shipping of Arthur/Ariadne. One kiss and there's freaking fanfiction and pictures and art and mixes all over the place. Nice. xD
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is seriously on my list of crushes now. DAYUM.
I could watch this over and over. Best fight scene ever.
This trailer is beautiful.
Jim Emerson agrees with me.
Normally I don't like to watch trailers because they have come to consist of all the high points of the movie condensed into a big spoiler package. I don't recommend watching them for anything you might want to have the opportunity to discover for yourself. But this one (shown before "Inception" this weekend) is more than just a collection of clips from David Fincher's "The Social Network," about the founding of Facebook. The use of a choir singing Radiohead's "Creep" over images from Facebook pages is inspired: an angst-ridden, self-loathing (but aspirational) song about a self-described "creep" yearning to be accepted.* All of us tailor our identities for particular audiences (it's called "living"), and in its first 30 seconds or so this mini-movie encapsulates something poignant (and, perhaps, somewhat sinister) about that process in the era of the online "social network."
Also, instead of telling you the whole story of the feature film (much of which is already well-known Internet history), these two and a half minutes pack more emotion -- related to friendship (in several senses of the word), ambition, success, betrayal, rejection, revenge -- than most features. Rather than simply condensing the juiciest bits into a quick sales pitch, it poetically (and cinematically) suggests what the movie might be... something that combines an entrepreneurial success story with a legal drama and a portrait of a (sociopathic?) misfit who achieves... what? You'll have to see the movie to find that out.
This version of Creep is really fucking amazing.
...
I rewatched Avatar the other night and I already kind of want to watch it again. The story and dialogue make me cringe so hard, but... but... it's so pretty. I am such a sucker for blue and yellow and Neytiri is just freaking beautiful.
...
Apparently I'm in the mood to cuss today.
He was awake at the end.
The children are wearing similar but DIFFERENT clothing. And the main thing? The spinning top is just a distraction. It's his wife's totem, not his own. Which is actually made crystal clear, but he just uses it all the time and it's easy to forget. But Arthur is really specific with Ariadne about how totems work.
Cobb's totem? IMHO? His wedding ring.
In his dreams he's still married. He visits her too often in his dreams, relives their memories and he hasn't let her go there. He's still "with" her. But when he wakes up, his ring is always missing. In reality, he's acknowledged that she's dead.
At the end of the movie, when he spins the top and walks away to be with his children and Grandpa Michael Caine? No wedding ring.
Thank you, Christopher Nolan. THANK YOU.
The first time I saw this, I didn't cry. It's just so overwhelming and in your face and the emotional stuff kind of slowed me down. This time, it was perfect, the pacing and writing. When Time started playing, the tears came and wouldn't stop. All of Cobb's scenes with Mal effectively broke my heart and she is a pretty fabulous villain. I was more able to sit back and appreciate the love story angle this time and god, how fucking tragic and fucked up. :(
Also, I just have to say that I looooove how everyone has gone crazy with their shipping of Arthur/Ariadne. One kiss and there's freaking fanfiction and pictures and art and mixes all over the place. Nice. xD
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is seriously on my list of crushes now. DAYUM.
I could watch this over and over. Best fight scene ever.
Click to viewThis trailer is beautiful.
Jim Emerson agrees with me.
Normally I don't like to watch trailers because they have come to consist of all the high points of the movie condensed into a big spoiler package. I don't recommend watching them for anything you might want to have the opportunity to discover for yourself. But this one (shown before "Inception" this weekend) is more than just a collection of clips from David Fincher's "The Social Network," about the founding of Facebook. The use of a choir singing Radiohead's "Creep" over images from Facebook pages is inspired: an angst-ridden, self-loathing (but aspirational) song about a self-described "creep" yearning to be accepted.* All of us tailor our identities for particular audiences (it's called "living"), and in its first 30 seconds or so this mini-movie encapsulates something poignant (and, perhaps, somewhat sinister) about that process in the era of the online "social network."
Also, instead of telling you the whole story of the feature film (much of which is already well-known Internet history), these two and a half minutes pack more emotion -- related to friendship (in several senses of the word), ambition, success, betrayal, rejection, revenge -- than most features. Rather than simply condensing the juiciest bits into a quick sales pitch, it poetically (and cinematically) suggests what the movie might be... something that combines an entrepreneurial success story with a legal drama and a portrait of a (sociopathic?) misfit who achieves... what? You'll have to see the movie to find that out.
This version of Creep is really fucking amazing.
...
I rewatched Avatar the other night and I already kind of want to watch it again. The story and dialogue make me cringe so hard, but... but... it's so pretty. I am such a sucker for blue and yellow and Neytiri is just freaking beautiful.
...
Apparently I'm in the mood to cuss today.