I have this weird issue.
I think I've gotten to the point where I'm feeling horribly intimidated by the fact that I can barely keep up with all the ideas about Inception. (I can hear Eames here, telling me to dream bigger.) And on the other hand, I greedily devour any new interpretation or even PART of one, that comes my way.
Part of what I wrote to idreamedmusic in an email today:
In the end, my arguments are merely me playing devil's advocate to a degree because I absolutely am in love with all the different interpretations (and the fact that the movie pushes you to come up with more and more). I think I cling a bit to the "it's mostly reality" version because I'm not all that interested in Cobb or Mal or Ariadne really. So if it's all a dream, especially if it's a deliberate dream in which other characters are attempting to bring Cobb out of his delusions, then it's harder to just dismiss everything but the characters I'm interested in. I'm having a really strong emotional reaction toward the characters and with fandom exploding all over the place, I'm having a small bit of difficulty keeping some separation between that and the intellectual analysis. =D
UGH. IT'S SO TRUE.
AND THEN I FEEL SO GUILTY.
Because I don't want to be OMG IT'S CLEARLY REALITY, BITCHES, BECAUSE THE TOP WOBBLES AT THE END AND IT NEVER WOBBLED BEFORE THAT. LOL, which is too basic a reading of the film. But all I really want to do at this point is be like, ARTHUR. AND EAMES. WHAT ARE THEIR FIRST NAMES AND WHY DO THEY NOT HAVE MORE SCREEN TIME, NOLAN?!
Okay, just ignore all this because it's all just rambling as I haven't been able to write fic about this movie. YET.
YET, GODDAMMIT.
Part of what I wrote to idreamedmusic in an email today:
In the end, my arguments are merely me playing devil's advocate to a degree because I absolutely am in love with all the different interpretations (and the fact that the movie pushes you to come up with more and more). I think I cling a bit to the "it's mostly reality" version because I'm not all that interested in Cobb or Mal or Ariadne really. So if it's all a dream, especially if it's a deliberate dream in which other characters are attempting to bring Cobb out of his delusions, then it's harder to just dismiss everything but the characters I'm interested in. I'm having a really strong emotional reaction toward the characters and with fandom exploding all over the place, I'm having a small bit of difficulty keeping some separation between that and the intellectual analysis. =D
UGH. IT'S SO TRUE.
AND THEN I FEEL SO GUILTY.
Because I don't want to be OMG IT'S CLEARLY REALITY, BITCHES, BECAUSE THE TOP WOBBLES AT THE END AND IT NEVER WOBBLED BEFORE THAT. LOL, which is too basic a reading of the film. But all I really want to do at this point is be like, ARTHUR. AND EAMES. WHAT ARE THEIR FIRST NAMES AND WHY DO THEY NOT HAVE MORE SCREEN TIME, NOLAN?!
Okay, just ignore all this because it's all just rambling as I haven't been able to write fic about this movie. YET.
YET, GODDAMMIT.