the best part of this movie for me was that i knew absolutely nothing about it going in. and that is where it really hit home... the plot. It is really hard to think of a movie that has a better premise / plot than this film. Its limits are endless and it is so utterly captivating.
I was seriously on the edge of my seat the entire second half of the movie, after spending the better part of the first half just trying to piece together what the fuck was going on.
The action was great... which both makes me happy and disappoints me. The one problem I had with this movie was that the intellectual side was more "can you actually follow whats going on" rather than "this is a psychological fucking thriller and can you figure it out / how do you interpret it".
By that I mean the movie put no real expectations in your head and everything just kind of unfolded. I am not going to say it was predictable as there were plot twists, but every twist just had me saying "oh thats cool" rather than "wow that's fucked" which is what I want to say in a "psychological" type movie.
looking back and trying to reflect on it, it is hard to. the movie doesn't really pose any real life questions we can take away as the only questions that can be asked must be worked within the framework of the movie (aka the rules). That is pretty much the only reason I can't walk away and say "this is one of the greatest movies ever".
So yeah if you want to be taken on a roller coaster ride filled with suspense, great action, great scores, brain stimulation in trying to actually follow what is going on and possibly the most intruiging plot I have ever heard of in a movie, then you will absolutely love this film, and probably give it a 10/10.
The important thing to note is to not expect some sort of life altering film that will make you think, as like I said it cannot possibly change the way you see the world or put a new perspective on anything, and for that reason it is hard to call it one of the greatest films ever.
I agree with everything here. It's a great movie, but not the kind of movie that changes how you see the world like the first
Matrix was.
However... Best. Story. Ever.
Ok so i just saw the movie with my girlfriend and we kinda had an argument over the end scene.
Did the top fall down or not? I thought it kept spinning meaning he was in a dream, while my girlfriend said it didn't show it falling or not falling so it would lead to a squeal. What do you think?
I think that the ending as it was was the only
proper way to end that movie. That way, everyone can make their own ending, is it real, is it a dream? Choose whatever makes the most interesting story for you.
I don't know why anyone would find this difficult to follow but there were people talking behind my gf and I as we left about their head hurting and being confused. I thought it was pretty straight forward. I almost felt it was too long just because of how much they had to explain.
There was a lot of groaning at the end of the film in my theater because it cut out with the top still spinning but I think it's fairly obvious that it was "real life." The top appeared to wobble a bit before the movie ended and we actually saw the faces of his children. In all the dreams, we only saw the backside of the boy and girl.
Yeah, the plot is very straightforward. I don't see who could get lost on this, assuming of course, you paid attention, which was not difficult as it was a very good story.
In my theatre, when the black screen happened at the end... we laugh our asses off. Everybody was like : « Of
course it ends like that, lol »
My point was that Arthur was asleep in the van; the weightlessness still affected his dream. The weightlessness in Arthur's dream still affected Eames while he was asleep, so it should have affected his dream and the weightlessness should have been there under that theory.
The dream-within-a-dream must have some kind of automatic suppresser to break the chain.
The suppression of gravity in Arthur's dream only affected the asleep eames punctually : at the very instant that gravity went off. The rest of the time, it was as if he was asleep on solid bed. As for arthur, well, his body was still upside down in the van, so that's why gravity did not revert to normal.
As for the limbo thing : they could not let saito die before they completed the mission. Otherwise, he would have died of old age in limbo before the sedative wore off. So he would have come back to reality, but still unable to wake up, essentially in a coma. Then the sedative wears off, but he still do not wake up because he's still in a coma.
Now, for the ending. Cobb has been using Mal's totem all movie long. I'm suspecting that Mal was right all along, and that Cobb is in
Mal's dream. That's why she keep coming after him. Why she wants him to wake up. As Cobb is using Mal's totem, he has no way to find out that he's not in Mal's dream. Also, a huge part of the significance of the ending is to show that Cobb, who adamantly refused to see his children's face in his dreams, stop caring and does not watch his totem fall.
On of the thing I liked most about this movie is that they did not input a ridiculous and out of place romantic sub-plot between Ariadne and someone else in the cast ( especially Cobb, as he's played by Di Caprio ). I'll say it again, what I liked the most in that movie was that it was the best and the freshest story I've heard in a long time.
