Finally saw Inception

[blamebrampton]

Possibly the last person in the Western world to see this film ... But on a sweltering summer day, it was just the sort of thing that Mr B and I wanted to veg out in front of.

And ... I have a thought ...

That the whole thing is in Cobb's head and they're just all parts of his own mind. Whether or not there is any such thing as Extraction or Inception is open to debate -- he could have lost his wife in any manner. I do believe that he lost her, his guilt is the driving force for everything that follows, but I think that is the only real fact we can be certain of.

The team all function as facets of a personality -- competence, carefulness, charm, compassion ... And the Arthur - Eames dynamic (which I can see leading to A/E all you A/E folk) even has a level of internal irony that you would hope for in a proper grown-up (and which Cobb in the film rather lacks -- because he's not all of himself). That's why Ariadne is needed, because she is the younger, better Cobb, who remembers his life back when he had joy in it.

Does this make sense to anyone else? Or has the heat wholly melted my brain?


To finish the biggest film day in ages, we watched Strictly Ballroom, which may not be as hilarious to people who have never lived in Australia as it is to those of us who have (OH SO VERY!) and, observing the level of spray tan, I was moved to say to Mr B: 'How can he keep his face so straight when his whole body is so orange?'

Mr B looked at me and said: 'Because he's Bill Hunter, and right about now, he'd fancy a beer.'

(Yeah, you do need a high Oz-familiarity for that to be funny, too. But if you have it, it's a corker ;-))

Comments

[tomatoe18.livejournal.com]

Your Inception theory sounds good. But that's the first time, I think, someone has ever proposed it (I used to troll the internet for these theories). It's plausible but admittedly not so much fun (for me, anyway, because I kind of really want Arthur and Eames to be real - LOL). What do you make of Mal's totem that continues to spin at the end?

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

For me it was another of the signs that everything is a dream. I'll need to watch it again to really list all my evidence, but I started thinking this right at the start of the film: Cobb kept being undamaged when he should have been killed or broken; people who had no reason to make conflicts for him made conflicts; there were no journeys between scenes, they just suddenly arrived in the next place; when their colleague was taken away (possibly to his death) there was no serious personal reaction to his loss ... just lots of little things that suggested to me it was all unreal.

By the end of the film I felt that we were watching Cobb on a solo dream hooked to the machine, as the men in the Opium-like dream den had been -- but I also believed that it was possible the whole dream science was a part of his subconscious, too ...