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blamebrampton) wrote2011-01-02 11:19 pm
blamebrampton) wrote2011-01-02 11:19 pm
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Finally saw Inception
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 ;-))
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 ;-))
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And OH! you make me laugh ;-)
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I've also heard that Michael Caine said in an interview that Cobb's totem does stop spinning at the end. Nolan also said that the children at the end were wearing different outfits than they were at the beginning - he seemed surprise people would think otherwise- and seemed to strongly hint that what we are seeing is reality, Cobb is reunited with his family.
Ignoring all this, I groaned when I heard Ellen Page's character was called Ariadne. Really, Christopher Nolan, really ?
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And yes, I sighed, too.
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Really, Mr Nolan is kind of a one trick pony: all his films are about a white shady man with trickster skills and a pretty young dead wife, and about his man pain.
All his protagonists are creating illusions to compensate for the fact that they lack confidence in their masculinity, and why do they lack it? Because their woman is dead. Just look at Batman, the Bale & Jackman magic show, and now Cobb. His narratives are rather predictable. :)
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I think that many fanfic-friendly entertainment productions take fandoms into account when vying for a place in the consumer marketplace. The reason Merlin fails for me as a fandom is because the canon slashiness is too pronounced - it's taking Merlin's pants down and offering his arsehole rather than showing us a bit of his ankle. Slashing stuff is about working your gut responses, not about hard cold fact. For me, Arthur is the key character in Inception. We know too much about Cobb, but Arthur's such a beautifully packaged creative concept, and I find it impossible to watch any scene he's in and take my eyes off him (edited for clarity). To tell the truth I could read Arthur/anyone slash, because he's got the layers. Eames is the icing on the cake, but only because Tom Hardy is a prick tease who likes to post half-naked pics and oil his tattoos, and fandom has enjoyed blurring the point where Eames stops and Hardy begins. Don't get me wrong - I have no issue with it, because fandom is about chucking the rules out of the window to provide the required fix (of in my case, cocksucking, in your case, cups of tea and flirtation!).
I don't care whether it's all in Cobb's head or not, and I suspect not many other people enjoying Inception fandom care either, which is probably why it hasn't popped up as a theme. Mr Cal, for the record, reached the same conculsion instantaneously (that it's all Cobb's dream), to which my response was 'yeah, but did you hear Arthur's voice?!!!'. Fandom ain't interested in Leo. Thank goodness for that!
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And yes, I quite agree that there is no need for a 'right' interpretation, because there are many possible ones, and fanfic can leave all of them behind and exist wholly on fanon, as Draco's well-worn leather trousers testify!
ETA: Cups of tea are DEEPLY EROTIC in some circles!
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And I can currently picture some Inception slash in which Saito performs a tea making ritual using Arthur's quavering stomach as a table ;)
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:D
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I tell myself that Little Red Courgette counts as yours, but really it's only because I am haunted by the slug-sex fic that has been stuck at 500 words for two years.
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Anyway, I wrote you 30,000 words on vegetable legislation. That must be worth a bit of delay on everything else!
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Will Knit Faster! (But you may still have a delay in getting them as I am tempted to make us all big girl Cal-jnr hats ...)
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