It is more realistic, but I watch movies like Inception to be taken away from reality. I get drawn into that world. And if films do a good job of drawing me in like that, then they are pretty good. Inception did this. Films like the original Star Wars trilogy did this. I love good sci-fi films for this reason
How is it not complex when you have many different themes occurring simultaneously. A simple movie would have just focused on the "inception/extracton" concept. A simple movie wouldn't have incorporated: Spoiler Leo's path toward redemption; of overcoming his guilt toward's his wife's death....I'd say ultimately this drives the movie more than the inception plot. Fischer's strained relationship with his father; his ultimate question to earn his father's admiration which helped to cultivate the idea planted into his head of his father's wish for him to be his own person and split the company. And while it may been, for the most part a linear story... Spoiler Each layer of subconscious intertwined with one another. It's not that they were simply jumping for one level to the next...each layer of the mind required heavier sedation, and each layer they passed into required it's own "kick." Each kick had to be timed perfectly in order for them to escape. And if it wasn't hard enough Fischer trained his mind to protect it from extraction. And then throw in the ambiguity of the ending...well you don't have a simple film in the least. The story is as layered as their plan for inception.
im sure theres a 'one' who can say the same thing for quentin tarantino movies what youre saying for inception. "I AM NOT IMPRESSED!"
Spoiler I believe they said in the movie that free fall alone does not qualify as a kick. Great movie. One thing that annoyed me was I found it difficult to hear some of the dialogue due to the blaring sound effects and music. Considering how the movie's ending was open to interpretation, I hope I didn't miss anything real important.
I remember I had the same problem when I watched Dark Knight. However, the second time I watched it in a theater with digital video and sound, everything was so much crisper and the audio was clear. More theaters need to switch to digital...
Watched it on Friday, let's just say it's prob one of the best movies I've seen in my life, Nolan is a genius.
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/inceptions_dileep_rao_answers.html good long interview and analysis on the plot with Dileep Rao (Yusuf the Chemist)
Maybe you were just confusing having a hard time hearing dialogues with Saito's Inggrisu accent. A lot of the times I just quit trying, there needs to be a subtitle when he speaks.
i had the same problem as other posters. Saito was hard to understand but there were a couple of other conversations between Leo and the other characters that i could hardly make out. or maybe it was just the whining baby behind us.
Same here. The levels of the dialogue were too low several times (for all characters). I'm really puzzled how they let this through.
Why do people keep comparing this movie to Shutter Island? Yes, it's got Leo and deals with his characters grief over loss but they aren't similar movies at all, at least in my opinion.
There is a pretty good comment at the bottom of that interview that helps explain who was the host for each "level" of the dreams: Spoiler "I definitely thought Eames was the snow level's host, for multiple reasons: 1) Fischer was always the subject up to that point, and when they said they were going deeper into his subconscious, they meant by having deeper and deeper levels of his subconscious fill other hosts' dreams (Cobb became an accidental subject, as his subconscious was bursting through and projecting things itself). The dreamer-subject dynamic is so that the subject fills it with his projections, which fools them into thinking its their dream and dropping their guard; meanwhile, the dreamer knows the architecture of the world and can stay ahead of the subject and the projections. It was Fischer's militarized projections filling the van and hotel levels, but Yusef and Arthur were the hosts, as they needed to know Ariadne's architecture. But if Fischer hosted the snow level, the architecture would have been his, and no one would have known where they were going. That, at the very least, goes against Ariadne's claim that Eames added the air duct shortcut. 2) Following that thought, the implication was the host dreamer could mess with the architecture a little. This is based mostly on Arthur's paradox staircase showing up in his level, and Eames adding the air duct to the snow level. Taken together, it implies both that they were the respective hosts, and could modify small elements of the levels they hosted. 3) As said in the interview, it made the most sense that the host couldn't go deeper than their own dream, and Eames was the only one in the snow level who didn't go deeper. 4) Yusef put the warning music headphones on Arthur, and the music played everywhere in the hotel world. You'd assume that if they put the headphones on, say, Cobb or Ariadne, only that person would hear it in the dream. Once Arthur brings everyone into the elevator, he places the headphones on Eames - and the music plays everywhere in the snow level."
That's odd, I've watched it twice in two different locations and didn't notice any difficulties understanding the dialogues. Saito's accent was the only problem. I guess I was lucky with the theaters. It has to be the theaters because I couldn't imagine Nolan not picking up on this during the editing process. Good point. I compared it to TDK and Matrix (1st one), and I must say, in terms of blowing me away the first time watching it, Inception comes in second after Matrix. However that's because I had absolutely no idea what the Matrix and Inception was about before sitting in the theater. TDK was bad friggin ass, but I already kinda knew what it was about and what to expect. I suggest comparing this to the Avatar: Airbender movie and you'd be blown away to pieces.
my g/f probably turned to me at least 3 times to say, "what did he say?" i just shrugged because I didn't know either. maybe once or twice the words were distorted by the soundtrack or explosions, dunno. i'll probaby catch another showing this weekend early in the morning to avoid as much of the crowd as possible. hopefully, it's better.
