review by Mike Harding Crew
Inception 2010
Rewatched Oct 02, 2011
Mike Harding’s review:
BWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMP!
So epic it hurts. I'm willing to gloss over the few plot questions it leaves and just be enveloped by the killer combo of Nolan & Zimmer (whose soundtrack, incidentally, makes *everything* feel epic if you put it on loud enough).
Dream states. You would think it was easier to do in film than books, but no... it's the missed opportunity of this film, but I loved it anyway. If you compare this film to something like (?) Bunuel's "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" you see the advantage of not having to gum up the works with exposition. Bunuel never explains, but relies on dream logic and interesting juxtapositions. Old school surrealist that he was. "Inception" continually pulls the viewer out of the dreamworld by inserting clunky monologues or feed questions so the viewer will know what the hell is going on. I'm all for mashing up genres, but dreams are precarious. Dream states or action movie? Hard to pull off both in the one flick.
Crew
True. I think I expect that a dream would act even less predictably than it does in this film. Dreams can be crazy things, and while there are certainly a few cases where the dream world acts unexpectedly it is in no way as loose as real dreams can be :)
It's a tantalizing film, for sure. I've watched it three times now, each time wanting it to be more than it is. But in each viewing more sunlight leaks in around the hastily pasted-over plot holes. I expect too much. Perhaps I'm trying to recapture my film-viewing youth.
Must have soundtrack.