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.

Comments

[je-suis.livejournal.com]

For me, it was their take on dreaming and the question about reality VS dreaming. I'm huge on dreams and I love the idea that you could be in a dream and never know it, that you could be thinking something is reality and it's actually a dream. Plus the visual aspect of the movie was amazing, when they were building the dream worlds and when things began to crumble. But mostly it was the cast. One of the strongest ensembles I've seen in a long time.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

When you're dreaming do you often know that you're dreaming?

The cast was pretty damn good.

[je-suis.livejournal.com]

If it's a lucid dream, yes. I used to be very good at lucid dreaming but I got lazy and let my skills slip, so mostly I just have dreams and don't realize they're dreams until I wake up. But on the occasion that I do become lucid in a dream, it's so much fun because then you really can do some of the things they did in the film, like building these crazy worlds and making things defy physics.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

That sounds both really neat and interesting but also like cheating.

[je-suis.livejournal.com]

I will admit that it was always going to be appealing to me because I'm obsessed with that stuff. "Waking Life" was one of my favorite movies for years and other people find it incredibly boring. But Inception is one of those movies you can enjoy on a surface level just as being quality work and a great cast, etc, but if you're into the nature of dreaming, you get a whole new level of enjoyment from it!