BEGINNING, START, COMMENCEMENT… That is what dictionary.com tells me is the meaning of inception. MS Word helpfully adds INITIATION.
Ignorant me, I had absolutely no clue about what the movie inception was going to be all about. So the first ten minutes had me totally befuddled. What with flying stalls, shattering glass and bursting buildings and then a beaten young man talking to a weird looking old one, I could make neither head nor tail of the movie.
Suddenly I caught on.
This is his dream and I am within it.
And then we have this whole near believable scientific theory about how you can train yourself to enter another man’s dream and plant a seed of thought there. How you can cajole the dreamer to nurture that thought till he develops a concept that you actually intended him to have in the first place.
Gosh that became a mouthful
Actually you make him think but in such a way that he thinks it was his idea in the first place.
Did that make it simpler??
The direction is superb and the locations breathtaking. Photography and effects. mmmm amazing. You duck to miss the chilling spray of water or veer to escape shards of shattering glass!
I look around me in the theatre. The movie has everyone in a dream like trance. No one, believe me, no one walks out at interval. A hush descends as everyone is glued to their seat.
Soon the shooting, the collapsing of buildings and the unabated violence begins all over again, holding us in its firm grip.
Is this an inception happening?
I see on screen ... Pure violence, gunfire without the visible and deterring aftermath of bloodshed, brutality without license of purpose, aggression that achieved what could easily have been achieved by any other kind of dream…..
Hey what is happening?
Is this a subtle method of initiating seeds of violent thought in vulnerable young minds?
Is this a method of lulling the conscious mind into defenceless acquiescence and inducing it to accept that seed of violent thought?
Inception
Who is really at the receiving end? Poor Fischer? Or the clueless audience?
hey! you watched Inception!! awesome!!
ReplyDeleteauntie this was lovely! i watched inception twice by the way. the first time when i came out, all of us wanted to believe that we understood the movie, but i wanted to watch it again.. and the second time i filled in all the blanks that were left unfilled the first time :)
ReplyDeletehaha, thank you, but some feel uncomfortable that i have been harsh with a truly magnificent film maker.
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