Inception

[certainthings]

I watched Inception today. I don't get it.

I mean, it was a good movie ... I guess. And the actors did a good job and the effects/graphics were uh, cool?

But I don't get why people were and maybe still are so flaily over this movie.

Please tell me what I didn't get, what I failed to understand ... what I missed.

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[gretazreta.livejournal.com]

I liked it a lot when I saw it at the cinema, I liked how thinky it was and the blur between reality and dreaming. I actually liked it BETTER the second time, because I could appreciate how everything fitted together whereas at the cinema I had anxiety that I wasn't fully getting it.

I think as well that as a writing premise it's really cool. Not only are there lots of interesting, attractive, potentially slashable characters, but the whole concept of the dream layers and architecture and yadda yadda is a real invitation to write fanfiction about it. So not only are people all excited about the film itself, but about its fandom potential. I think it's a stimulus for lots of good writing online, potentially, by all sorts of people. Which I will love to read.

I'm not sure if I will be writing though. But I love the potential in the movie.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to watch again because I definitely missed things.

If you were going to write fanfiction who would be your main character(s)?

[gretazreta.livejournal.com]

Hee I've been thinking about this a lot (although I haven't been online). There are several characters that interest me, based on what I think are pivotal moments in the film.

First up, Eames. I know he's popular because Tom Hardy is really attractive and he calls people "Darling" but I think what's really interesting to me about him is the idea of the forger - that he makes his living by being the embodiment of what other people want or need. What would that do to a person? I think you'd very rarely be yourself. I also like it that on some levels he's really full-on tough-guy James Bond thing, but also he's got an aura of sensitivity/niceness about him. I like the quick smile he gives to Taito (sp?) when he's dying in the snow level, a really NICE warm one, but also I liked his face when he's hearing the dying father say he wasn't disappointed, right at the end. There's not THAT MUCH of him in the film, but there's CLUES that you could write more of. About how he's an actor. About HIS relationship with his father.

The thing I like about Arthur, apart from the fact that he's so immaculat and controlled, is the moment when Leonardo DiCaprio shoots him in the head and he looks at him and KNOWS he's going to do it. You get the sense that he's almost devoted, loyally, to Dominic Cobb, but that Cobb doesn't think twice about shooting him. Sure, it's in a dream, but I found that kind of sad. Because it would hurt, I think. Also I think he's got an obsessive compulsive attention to detail, which I found quite compelling. And I love that bit when he's fighting in the toppling room. That calls out for a pornographic reinterpretation, but I'm not the person to do that.

They're probably the two I'd write about the most. :)

I have this idea wherein Arthur's is in Eame's subconscious and the projections don't attack him, they kind of come and love on him. And Eames is all - aren't these supposed to be trying to kill me, and Arthur is all... well, I can't control my own subconscious, and tries to pretend it didn't happen.

:)

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Oh. So, now I ask this. Was Eames really Eames or was he a 'character' that Cobb needed in his life/dream life ... whichever it was.