The only thing I've written in the past year was for Yuletide. It's pretty sad.
Eames! Cillian Murphy is ridiculously pretty. They all were, really. I liked Ariadne too. I wasn't sure how much I was going to like Ellen Page as a genius architect but she won me over, as always.
However, I think leaving the audience thinking it could be either, equally plausible, situation makes it a better film. The whole premise is about reality versus dreams and our perception of them, so mucking with the audiences's perception is the next level down.
Yeah, that was really well done (like everything else in the movie).
I read the movie two ways:
1. It was all Cobb's dream. Dream technology is real and the rest of the team pulled a job on Cobb to get him out of dream limbo. Ariadne was his guide through the maze, like in the Greek myth. The ridiculously complicated job they pulled on Cillian Murphy's character was to convince Cobb of the dream reality and to prevent his projections from attacking them (though they did anyway), and Christopher Nolan used the job on Cillian Murphy as a 'show not tell' device to let the viewers see how it was being done on Cobb (there were some obvious parallels).
2. It was all Cobb's dream. Dream technology is something real only in Cobb's fantastical dream, as so are all the crazy events. What is perhaps real is his guilt and grief about something that may have happened in his life, and his dream is his mind's way of trying to process this, which happens for people and dreams normally anyway.
Obviously #1 is more fun, and there are other possible readings of the film too. I haven't read many Inception stories yet but they seem to be playing with the characters and not the concept of dreaming. Either way, there's so much to play with as a fandom!
I was thinking of the top layer of the dream as being Cobb's Alterna!Earth, where conspiracies are against him and dream technology is his job. It's his entry point and then his exit at the end of the film (at the airport and with his kids), and the other layers of the dream go deeper and deeper until you hit limbo (his subconscious). But Sally pointed out to me that the entry into his dream was actually the scene on the beach that leads to old!Saito, which happens again 3/4ths of the way through the movie; and that his dream was actually one continuous dream that looped around, like the Escher staircase that they showed to Ariadne. Sally's smart that way, and her brain thinks naturally in circles, while mine does lines and branches. :)
Eames! Cillian Murphy is ridiculously pretty. They all were, really. I liked Ariadne too. I wasn't sure how much I was going to like Ellen Page as a genius architect but she won me over, as always.
However, I think leaving the audience thinking it could be either, equally plausible, situation makes it a better film. The whole premise is about reality versus dreams and our perception of them, so mucking with the audiences's perception is the next level down.
Yeah, that was really well done (like everything else in the movie).
I read the movie two ways:
1. It was all Cobb's dream. Dream technology is real and the rest of the team pulled a job on Cobb to get him out of dream limbo. Ariadne was his guide through the maze, like in the Greek myth. The ridiculously complicated job they pulled on Cillian Murphy's character was to convince Cobb of the dream reality and to prevent his projections from attacking them (though they did anyway), and Christopher Nolan used the job on Cillian Murphy as a 'show not tell' device to let the viewers see how it was being done on Cobb (there were some obvious parallels).
2. It was all Cobb's dream. Dream technology is something real only in Cobb's fantastical dream, as so are all the crazy events. What is perhaps real is his guilt and grief about something that may have happened in his life, and his dream is his mind's way of trying to process this, which happens for people and dreams normally anyway.
Obviously #1 is more fun, and there are other possible readings of the film too. I haven't read many Inception stories yet but they seem to be playing with the characters and not the concept of dreaming. Either way, there's so much to play with as a fandom!
I was thinking of the top layer of the dream as being Cobb's Alterna!Earth, where conspiracies are against him and dream technology is his job. It's his entry point and then his exit at the end of the film (at the airport and with his kids), and the other layers of the dream go deeper and deeper until you hit limbo (his subconscious). But Sally pointed out to me that the entry into his dream was actually the scene on the beach that leads to old!Saito, which happens again 3/4ths of the way through the movie; and that his dream was actually one continuous dream that looped around, like the Escher staircase that they showed to Ariadne. Sally's smart that way, and her brain thinks naturally in circles, while mine does lines and branches. :)
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