Thoughts on Inception

WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS

After watching Inception, one would think that they have everything figured out, well I really don’t have it all figured out. I do have some theories and ideas about the movie but that’s about it. Before I dive into some of my thoughts, for those who haven’t seen Inception yet, do not read as it will contain spoilers, yeah, last time I said that I didn’t want to say much but now I feel like sharing some of my thoughts and sharing some links on various interpretations. So WARNING: DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN INCEPTION YET. Okay, now moving on. There are many different interpretations for the movie Inception as it is a very complex and deep movie. I want to start off by sharing some links with you that I have gone over and I find very fascinating, here is a great place to start:

NEVER WAKE UP: THE MEANING AND SECRET OF INCEPTION

inception: aftermath theories, thoughts, oscar buzz, and more

Inception Explained: Unraveling The Dream Within The Dream

The first link I really like, and one of the reasons that it sticks out to me is because it compares the idea of Inception performed by Cobb and his group to filmmaking. You think about it, Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the director, Saito is the producer, Ariadne (Ellen Page) is the set designer, Eames is the actor, and Mr. Fischer is the audience. Everyone performing Inception has a certain task that will help plant the idea into the audience. When we think about filmmaking, everyone involved in a good movie (one with a good story and theme) is trying to share the idea with the audience that will help them in their lives, yes filmmaking is about making money (as any job) but it is also to share a good story and good ideas with the world. Eames does say in the movie that in order to perform Inception, you need imagination, and that is very true with filmmaking as well. These ideas do come from the first link, but they are ideas that I totally agree with, so do give that article a read.

Now I do want to cover one part of the movie that a ton of people are debating about, the ending, was Cobb dreaming at the end, this one is easily debatable one way or the other. My opinion is that he is dreaming at the end. Here are some of my thoughts as to why he is dreaming at the end. Lets start off with when he enters the room to see his children, he goes into his apartment that he and his wife had, would have his or her parents kept the place, and the more interesting thing, his children are basically in the same place as they were when he left doing practically the same thing. They also look like they really haven’t aged, and they haven’t aged (which can be a hard thing to dispute entirely as we don’t know how long he has been gone) but they did sound a little older on the phone when he talked to them at the beginning of the movie. Here is another reason as to why I think he was dreaming at the end, for Fischer and Ariadne to get out of limbo they basically fell off the top of the collapsing buildings and kill themselves, and then they would end back in the 3rd level of dreaming. They needed to get out of all the levels of dreaming first before they could officially wake up. It seems like at the end when Saito killed Cobb and then himself, it’s almost as if killing themselves would only get them out of limbo and then back into the 3rd level of dreaming. At the beginning of the movie, Cobb shot Arthur in the head to wake him up but that only brought him back into the 1st level of dreaming.

Of course, this is my own interpretation, and these are only a few of the ideas that have stuck out to me, I could go on for a very long time, feel free to share your own in the comments section. Plus, I do recommend checking out the links provided, if I do find any more good ones, I will put them up.

Inception review

After seeing Inception, one thing is for certain now, Christopher Nolan is now one of the top directors of our time. He knows how to tell a good complex story. Trying to give you a review of this movie is very hard, as I don't want to give anything away really, I was one of those that did my best to stay away from spoilers of this movie, and that included not reading any reviews, except for skimming them to see how people felt about it. So when I went in, I went in expecting a good movie but had myself dedicated to pay attention to what's going on. I would probably say the biggest thing to do when watching this movie is to pay attention and focus on what's going on. I found the movie to be a mind blowing experience. The basic plot about this movie is about going into people's dreams. I don't really know what to say that won't give much of this movie away, the only thing I could really say is to go see it right now. It is a must see!

July update

Here with my recent update. Let me start off with the movie recommendations. Knight and Day, totally funny, unfortunately it didn't too well at the box office, which is unfortunate, as I found it to be a very good movie, and totally worth checking out. Another one that was very good and very funny was Despicable Me. Just a ton of moments where you bust out laughing. Grown Ups is also pretty funny, there were quite a few of those moments in the movie where you laugh pretty good. As for ones that you should avoid (yes, there are a couple of those) first off, Jonah Hex, nothing really good about it, the story just felt pointless, and my figuring was a movie that was only about 80 minutes long would have a lot more action sequences, there weren't very many in it, felt like it just had a ton of pointless moments, just overall not a good movie. The other one was one I bragged about wanting to see, The Last Airbender, I would like to see M. Night Shyamalan make a good movie, but unfortunately this wasn't a very good movie. The sad part was that it had potential to be a good movie, the set designs were good, but unfortunately the acting was terrible, the script had a ton of issues, a huge letdown, especially for Avatar fans. I haven't seen Eclipse or Predators, but I have heard Predators was pretty good, and I am sure Twilight fans enjoyed Eclipse.

As far as Blu-Ray and DVD releases go, there is Percy Jackson that came out a couple of weeks ago. I can't think of any other big releases that have made, nothing very exciting at the moment. I will share one movie that I found on Blu-Ray that came from Hong Kong, being a movie that was released from Japan, called Evangelion 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance. I saw Evangelion 1.0 You Are Not Alone earlier this year, and I thought it was a great movie, while Evangelion 2 is not available in the United States yet, I found a website that was selling a Hong Kong import on Blu-Ray with English subtitles and could play on region A Blu-Ray players, I decided to get it. While the first one was great, I found the new one amazing, very well done. The Blu-Ray was also in great condition, very good video and great sound. In fact, I am very excited for Evangelion 3.0 Quickening when that is released, which hopefully will be soon. The Evangelion movies are remakes of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion that was released years ago. There are suppose to be four movies being released. As far as other Blu-Ray movies I discovered, I got a live concert of Kings of Leon that was performed last year, as I am about to see their concert next week, I decided to see how good they were, and they performed very good. The Blu-Ray was also in very good condition. I will soon have to go through a bunch of Blu-Ray releases within the last while and give you a good idea of what to look for as demo worthy material in your home theater, or just great movies overall.

As far as movies arriving soon. Look for The Sorcerer's Apprentice this Wednesday, and then on Friday, Inception will arrive in theaters, which is Christopher Nolan's (The Dark Knight) newest film, reviews so far have been excellent for the movie, I will share with you my review on the film once I see it.