thisman wrote:I thought it was a cool little Nolan-moment when Ariadne is making her totem. Totally parallels Bruce making batarangs in Begins
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That's a really, really good call.
Pretty much every moment everyone has referenced was at some point huge for me, I think the brillaince of the movie is as you understand it deeper and deeper you really see every moment as Huge if you're understanding it. That said, I'll go with an approach that hasn't been done yet:
The first Saito Cobb limbo scene and by extension: All the flute glass breaks, Cobb finding Mal's totem in the hotel, the setup of the hotel lodges, every elevator in the movie, every time the kids are on, Mombasa sequence, Eames poker chips and their back and forth that made no sense, and by special mention Micheal Caine's plea for him to wakeup, cuz I was never frustrated by that but it became so poignant when I redefined it.
Every last one of these are moments that once frustrated me or almost snapped me out of the movie, and that I considered on some level messy when I was being stubborn about thinking I had the movie down. Because they all became some of the most amazing moments to me as I finally decided to try and make sense of the difference between the two limbos and ended up discovering so much I didn't understand before.
Everything I thought was messy or surrealy convoluted is casually a huge impact emotional beat once understood. Oh and I forget, the unexplained tension between Arthur and Eames and by extension the kid that's part of their team in the first scene that's never seen again. Got me thinking...
But my overall favorite moment is the collective understanding and then experiencing every time that Cobb or Arthur teaches the rules and the tricks, and the exposition about how in general. Because Every single time Nolan is telling you exactly what he's doing to you as you experience it
