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velessaI saw Inception last night and it was awesome! You know it's a good movie when you're still thinking about it for days afterwards. It's a little bit Matrix-y in premise, what with not knowing whether you're in a dream or the real world, but it is really way more mindblowing and confusing and complicated than the Matrix movies ever were. There are a lot of things I'm still trying to figure out about it, and I think it's one of those movies you have to see a few dozen times before you actually catch everything that's going on or that happened. Also the cast was really great. Two thumbs up!
Some of the things that confused me...how come every time Mal showed up in the dream, she tried to wreck whatever it was Cobb was trying to accomplish? What was that about? How was that going to bring him back to her underworld?
Also, why did they have to use their little magic box of sedation to go under to get into a dream within a dream? Just because that's how they do it in the real world and they couldn't alter that without throwing things off and having the projections/subconscious come after them?
Did anyone else get lost trying to keep track of whose mind they were in on which level? By the time they got to that snow fortress thing, I didn't know what the hell was really going on anymore.
Oh, and why did Mal think killing herself would send her back to subconscious limbo? If your brain is dead there isn't a subconscious to go to in the first place! Why would being dead bring you back there? How do you know that, even if you do believe the real world isn't real, what makes you think you'll end up back in that same place you left?
Also, Watanbe Ken's old age makeup sucked. I think they could have done a better job with that, right at the beginning of the movie I knew it was wrong.
And the ending = ARGH!!! I hate when movies do that! I want a definitive answer! Boo.
Okay, pondering over. For now. See the movie!
Some of the things that confused me...how come every time Mal showed up in the dream, she tried to wreck whatever it was Cobb was trying to accomplish? What was that about? How was that going to bring him back to her underworld?
Also, why did they have to use their little magic box of sedation to go under to get into a dream within a dream? Just because that's how they do it in the real world and they couldn't alter that without throwing things off and having the projections/subconscious come after them?
Did anyone else get lost trying to keep track of whose mind they were in on which level? By the time they got to that snow fortress thing, I didn't know what the hell was really going on anymore.
Oh, and why did Mal think killing herself would send her back to subconscious limbo? If your brain is dead there isn't a subconscious to go to in the first place! Why would being dead bring you back there? How do you know that, even if you do believe the real world isn't real, what makes you think you'll end up back in that same place you left?
Also, Watanbe Ken's old age makeup sucked. I think they could have done a better job with that, right at the beginning of the movie I knew it was wrong.
And the ending = ARGH!!! I hate when movies do that! I want a definitive answer! Boo.
Okay, pondering over. For now. See the movie!
