This just occurred to me: you will not be confused by Inception if you'd ever connected (Remote Desktop, Terminal Service, ssh) to one machine, and used it to connect to another
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I'm not sure what I expected Inception to be about, but it certainly wasn't what actually happened (and so your post made no sense to me). I think back when trailers of it were being shown I confused it with a different film and so expected a completely different plot. Something about people living in a virtual/dream world, and agents/investigators who could manipulate the system searching for a rogue agent of some sort - a bit like the Matrix, but voluntary and without the robot uprising. I forget which film that might have been though.
Anyway, the actual film. All in all very good. At the start of it it did all seem very confusing - the film was cut together with major scene jumps and none of the usual travelling cues, and I had no real idea of what was going on with the first dream sequence. Looking back on this that's all intentional - using the abrupt scene changes even in the real world makes you wonder if the whole thing is a dream, plus there's the bit with the totem at the very end. When the main Inception sequence began I'd sussed out what was going on with the multiple levels, though even then I was never quite clear on how it achieved what they wanted and how it fitted with limbo. I'll have to watch it again at some point.
Oh, something a friend of mine found: this video shows a neat trick they did with the soundtrack in the film.
From the previews, I expected Inception to be more like Paprika (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika_(2006_film)). In fact, since DiCaprio has just been in Shutter Island, I thought that this would be similar: some detectives go into dreams to uncover a murder crime.
But I didn't expect Inception--which is really just an action/adventure film. I like the confusion of abrupt scene changes and cuts--designed to confuse the viewer--but I dislike the confusion about limbo. After reading the forums and combining multiple opinions, I've decided that "limbo" is the 4th level; that the two ways of getting into limbo is falling asleep in the 3rd lever OR dying in any level; and that if you die in limbo then you'll wake up. Knowing that, the story makes much more sense--other than why did the Japanese guy on the plane not wake up crazy.
That's exactly what I was expecting! I've never seen Paprika either - I came up with the detective/dream/murder theory purely from the trailers for Inception.
I didn't think there was any limit to how deep you could go - if you could spend enough time asleep, then you could go down through an infinite number of levels. This'd make limbo not a dream level, but something else off to one side that you'd enter by dying at any level in the dream. But this then doesn't make sense with the guy deliberately entering limbo by falling asleep in level 3.
I'm going to have to watch it again to work out just what's going on with limbo.
Ah, I've (over a year from the last comment) now worked out which film I was confusing Inception with: Surrogates (Tv TropesIMDb). The rough plot summary is everyone lives through robotic surrogate bodies - if your surrogate body suffers some horrible fate, then just move on to the next one (similar to the gangers/living flesh in recent Doctor Who's). Except there's a murder where someone managed to kill a surrogate and through it the actual person, which isn't supposed to be possible. The detectives investigating this end up having to head out in person to investigate the crime.
I've seen just the last 20 minutes of Surrogates (I saw the trailer for it in the theatres, so I already knew what the plot was going to be about), and didn't really like it. Seemed a bit too shallow for me. Let me know what you think if you ever watch it!
I'm not sure what I expected Inception to be about, but it certainly wasn't what actually happened (and so your post made no sense to me). I think back when trailers of it were being shown I confused it with a different film and so expected a completely different plot. Something about people living in a virtual/dream world, and agents/investigators who could manipulate the system searching for a rogue agent of some sort - a bit like the Matrix, but voluntary and without the robot uprising. I forget which film that might have been though.
Anyway, the actual film. All in all very good. At the start of it it did all seem very confusing - the film was cut together with major scene jumps and none of the usual travelling cues, and I had no real idea of what was going on with the first dream sequence. Looking back on this that's all intentional - using the abrupt scene changes even in the real world makes you wonder if the whole thing is a dream, plus there's the bit with the totem at the very end. When the main Inception sequence began I'd sussed out what was going on with the multiple levels, though even then I was never quite clear on how it achieved what they wanted and how it fitted with limbo. I'll have to watch it again at some point.
Oh, something a friend of mine found: this video shows a neat trick they did with the soundtrack in the film.
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But I didn't expect Inception--which is really just an action/adventure film. I like the confusion of abrupt scene changes and cuts--designed to confuse the viewer--but I dislike the confusion about limbo. After reading the forums and combining multiple opinions, I've decided that "limbo" is the 4th level; that the two ways of getting into limbo is falling asleep in the 3rd lever OR dying in any level; and that if you die in limbo then you'll wake up. Knowing that, the story makes much more sense--other than why did the Japanese guy on the plane not wake up crazy.
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I didn't think there was any limit to how deep you could go - if you could spend enough time asleep, then you could go down through an infinite number of levels. This'd make limbo not a dream level, but something else off to one side that you'd enter by dying at any level in the dream. But this then doesn't make sense with the guy deliberately entering limbo by falling asleep in level 3.
I'm going to have to watch it again to work out just what's going on with limbo.
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I'll have to track down a copy at some point.
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