Inception
… was pretty goshdarnedgud! I mean, I don’t think I would go see it four times in the theater… probably not even a second time. But it was a pretty good ride overall.
I’m not sure what’s with the people who call it confusing, because most of it seemed pretty straightforward to me, up until the very end which is (of course) deliberately ambiguous. And then, you have to overlook the fact that there are a ton of things left unexplained: how, exactly, the machines let people share dreams… who gets to control what and why, etc etc. I’m still not really sure what Ariadne’s role (as the “architect”) was… she just designed the dreams at the beginning and wasn’t really necessary afterwards at all, it seemed?
And I’d have to agree that it seemed like a missed opportunity in some ways… could have pushed the dream angle way more and made things actually surreal more often. I read the wiki and one of the things mentioned was how the more unreal a dream was, the more likely it was that the dreamer would figure things out… which I think is a blatant falsehood. My dreams frequently get super unrealistic and I never think anything is weird. Then again, I’ve never personally successfully achieved lucidity in a dream, and whenever I get close, I just wake up, so meh.
As long as you willingly and politely suspend your belief in a few key things, the movie’s great. XP
In other news, omg hiking. x____x
(as well as omg ankle. -____-)
