Right on the wire

[urbaninja]

-I saw Inception today. While I don't think my mind was blown as much as others' minds were blown, due to the fact that I'd encountered similar themes in past studies (particularly the works of Jorges Luis Borges), it was a very good movie and I really enjoyed it. I highly recommend seeing it, just don't sit in the second row of the theater. My

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[brittania]

DID YOU SEE IT IN IMAX

ALSO. while you may have encountered it in the literary genre, this is a whole different ball game. think about the last time you saw a smart, widely appealing science fiction film with this much critical acclaim - it's almost impossible. james cameron boasted that he 'changed the scifi genre' with avatar. he didn't, he just wrote a movie about blue people in space. inception is a huge step forward for scifi films because it hits on an oscar level - not the courtesy nominations like cameron and avatar got, but true ones. it's raised the genre's respectability to huge heights. which, i think, is actually christopher nolan's superpower - taking under-appreciated genres (superheroes, scifi) and turning them into big, hollywood...almost art pieces? i think.

anyway. clearly i haven't spent enormous amounts of time thinking about this.

[urbaninja]

No, I saw it in regular because the Imax was sold out.

See, I wasn't thinking about it in terms of it being a Science Fiction film. I was thinking about it in terms of the themes that it presents, about dreams and the levels of dreaming, what is reality, what is the dream? Where are we? Where is the film? Is Cobb, at the end of the film, in reality or has he chosen a dream? There isn't a clear distinction and that leaves the viewer in an unsettled area since there is no clear ending. We never know if the top stops spinning. It makes the audience think, and if you haven't encountered something like that, with the whole dreams and reality thing, it's a mind-blowing effect. I know that when I first read Borges, my mind was blown when I started thinking that way. That's what's literary about the film.

But it's 12:30, so I'm going to stop thinking.