Monday, July 26, 2010

Inception


Layout :


the rules of inception are stated to the audience..point-wise with examples. A story is narrated to them.Now, Assuming that the plot is flawless the audience then judges itself based on whether or not they could understand the plot..and voila! most succeed and thus decide that the movie is good.


Narration :


1) Bland; the initial architect was eliminated from the plot so that a new one could be brought in and the rules of the game could be explained to her(and hence the audience)(Matrix's narrative was better acc. to me).
2) It did not strike a chord and the tone was disappointingly impersonal.I mean it would have had the same effect even if a bunch of aliens did this on human species..on second thoughts..that would have been more interesting.


The tricks of the trade were revealed all at once and nothing was left to the imagination of the audience.All they were expected to do was to pay attention.


Plot flaws :


1)the gravity problem: gravity was not acting on level 2 as it was absent in level 1,yet on level 3 the gravity was impeccable.
2)the time was not set correctly..I mean the van was shown to fall real slow but the on level two was at normal speed


not many can be pointed out as maintaining logical consistency was the one thing they worked on.


Laughables :


1)The reason DiCaprio does all this ultimately boils down to the reason that he did not talk to his lawyer before fleeing the country after his wife's death.
2)Why the hell did they not send the Fischer guy to limbo and be done with?( if the reason is morals then frankly, DiCaprio did not have any,he exposed his friends to what was potentially worse than fatal, he also flees the country after his wife's death leaving his infant kids behind)


I guess most of the people are fooled to believe that the movie was good by making them pat themselves for being able to understand the plot.
I would say the direction was started when the movie was at a concept stage not story stage.


Critics (a minority):
"It's not terrible..just lumbering and humorless and pretentious, with a drag of a hero."
"I truly have no idea what so many people are raving about. It’s as if someone went into their heads while they were sleeping and planted the idea that Inception is a visionary masterpiece and—hold on … Whoa! I think I get it. The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype—a metaphor for itself".
-David Edelstein
"But though there is a lot to see in Inception, there is nothing that counts as genuine vision. Mr. Nolan’s idea of the mind is too literal, too logical, too rule-bound to allow the full measure of madness".
-A.O. Scott


One more sad thing :


If one says one did not like the movie, it is assumed that one did not get the plot.True story.


The only good thing :


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo


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