Did you really go see this movie, or is that an implanted memory?
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A lot of people discussed this film when it came out: what was really going on and what happened at the end. My take is that the incepting was one level further up – Leonard DiCaprio’s character’s wife (Marion Cotillard) wasn’t dead in the real world, and that she and everyone else including Michael Caine had dropped into his mind to try and bring him out of the nest of dream worlds he was trapped in (and they ultimately failed).
And then of course at a further level up Christopher Nolan was incepting all of us, making us discuss what was “really” going on when nothing was “really” going on apart from us all getting engaged with his movie.
Thanks, @narmitaj, I remember some of the atmosphere of discussion surrounding the film. One thread I saw as key, but which I did not understand, was the suggestion that one bit near the end was a complete clue to the outcome of a final step within the plot, and who was really alive and who was really awake, etc. I forget the details, but it had something to do with whether a certain disk or coin, given a spin, would actually continue to spin. This was probably set up within the film, in fact, but that doesn’t mean it was easy to understand.
But it’s undeniable, I think, that the special effects were really great! In particular, the one this comic references, the way the landscape / cityscape could just fold up around you!
Didn’t see the movie, did read the Don Rosa Uncle Scrooge comic book that didn’t actually inspire the movie but the internet half-seriously decided it did for a minute about a decade ago.
I saw the movie. Didn’t understand a darned thing. That dream where I was being chased up a tree by a VW bug made more sense to me.
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A lot of people discussed this film when it came out: what was really going on and what happened at the end. My take is that the incepting was one level further up – Leonard DiCaprio’s character’s wife (Marion Cotillard) wasn’t dead in the real world, and that she and everyone else including Michael Caine had dropped into his mind to try and bring him out of the nest of dream worlds he was trapped in (and they ultimately failed).
And then of course at a further level up Christopher Nolan was incepting all of us, making us discuss what was “really” going on when nothing was “really” going on apart from us all getting engaged with his movie.
Thanks, @narmitaj, I remember some of the atmosphere of discussion surrounding the film. One thread I saw as key, but which I did not understand, was the suggestion that one bit near the end was a complete clue to the outcome of a final step within the plot, and who was really alive and who was really awake, etc. I forget the details, but it had something to do with whether a certain disk or coin, given a spin, would actually continue to spin. This was probably set up within the film, in fact, but that doesn’t mean it was easy to understand.
But it’s undeniable, I think, that the special effects were really great! In particular, the one this comic references, the way the landscape / cityscape could just fold up around you!
Didn’t see the movie, did read the Don Rosa Uncle Scrooge comic book that didn’t actually inspire the movie but the internet half-seriously decided it did for a minute about a decade ago.
I saw the movie. Didn’t understand a darned thing. That dream where I was being chased up a tree by a VW bug made more sense to me.