If Chris Nolan didn't make a film that was a metaphor for filmmaking or whatever the theories are - and just made a great action/adventure film, Inception could have been so much greater. Nolan is too obsessed with being smart, and constructing films in a way that make them interesting, but not great. Inception reminds me of 'The Fountain' and also of 'The Village.' This is about a filmmaker indulging in himself; the finished film is not really for an audience. An esoteric mess that only the person who conceived it can enjoy and relate to. And that person, in this case, is Chris Nolan. Why couldn't Inception be about a team of people that enter dreams and the complications that arise that keep them from accomplishing their final goal???? Instead, Nolan has resurrected a film that uses that premise as a thin veil to cover the audiences' eyes; the film is entirely something else, and not at all nearly as interesting as the original premise. The film is all a dream. From the strange names of the characters to the major plot holes and all the illogical things that happen through the course of the film. If one were to argue that the story is not all a dream, then we would be left with a mediocre heist picture that has so many plot holes and illogical goings-ons that it makes this film look closer to something David Lynch has done; a film that makes no sense; just an abstract mess. Can Nolan write a film from start to finish without using a gimmick? What if someone told you the Matrix was all in Neo's head while he was sleeping at his office? Wouldn't you feel cheated and disappointed? Inception is a film that looks to cheat. And if it doesn't cheat and the theory that it is a dream does not work for you, then what is the other alternative? The alternative would be a straight adventure film where everything is real. If so, the film is a major disappointment: there are major plot holes, made-up rules, and a number of incorrect and ludicrous moments. It's too absurd to be real. And too disappointing to be just a dream. Inception is a mess.
How sweet would Inception have been if each character had a huge stake in being part of the Fischer operation and now had to battle his army knowing that if they died they would fall in limbo and be forever lost (limbo has to equal death in the dream world). Instead Nolan's limbo is no threat at all because people can be retrieved and navigate out of it. There is no threat. But I guess it was all a dream, huh? ZZZZzzzzzzz........
How sweet would Inception have been if each character had a huge stake in being part of the Fischer operation and now had to battle his army knowing that if they died they would fall in limbo and be forever lost (limbo has to equal death in the dream world). Instead Nolan's limbo is no threat at all because people can be retrieved and navigate out of it. There is no threat. But I guess it was all a dream, huh? ZZZZzzzzzzz........
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