Do You Have a Theory about INCEPTION

[Mike 03]

Poll question: Do You Have a Theory about INCEPTION

When I first saw the film I thought it was intriguing. The second time I watched it, I thought there might be much more here than meets the eye. The third time... It fascinates the hell out of me, but I can't claim to understand why.

There is something more than meets the eye to INCEPTION, and my nature is to be curious to solve the puzzle, even if it is just a movie.

But I would love to know what you think.

As Madonna once said, "Express Yourself."

[NewJeffCT]

1. good movie

I want to see it again now that I know the secret.

[Mike 03]

2. Other cool what are you thinking?

[Honeycombe8]

3. Inception was made for people who don't know what a good movie is...

that it's supposed to consist of a well written script, a good plot, good acting, and character development. No matter what kind of movie it is, it should have all of the above.

Inception was made for the young crowd, who like computer tricks and think slo-mo of a van falling off a bridge is amazing.

Hate to offend anyone, but seriously, that was a baaaaad movie. I almost walked out in the middle, having become bored to the point of thinking if I needed to buy new shoes. Then I thought..."If I leave, I won't find out what happens with the characters." Then I thought, "But I really don't care what happens to any of these characters." I stayed, though, so my friends wouldn't be able to tell me it got really good after I left. Since I stayed, I know that it didn't get really good in the second half.

Still, it's nominated for awards, and people like computer tricks, upside down rooms, and slo-mo, so...it was an okay movie as far as the techies go.

(BTW...everything I saw in that movie was taken from other movies. The room turning upside down with people in it? I first saw that in an old Fred Astaire movie. At least Fred DANCED when the room turned upside down!)

[siligut]

4. Because I am very interested in the levels of the mind

I believe there is more than meets the eye. I am impressed with Chris Nolan's ability to bring something somewhat esoteric to the screen and do it so successfully. There have been a few tries before Inception. One, the Anime film, Paprika, comes to mind, that have attempted to expose control of the conscious mind through the subconscious and unconscious minds. On a very serious note, this is what hypnosis is, not hypnotherapy, real Milton Erickson hypnosis. Using a dream world, as Nolan did, just made the film that much more interesting. Without curiosity about the other levels of the mind, maybe the film wouldn't be interesting or maybe just too hard to follow, but with it, for me, the film deserves to be #6 out of the best 250 movies ever made on IMDB, The Shawshank Redemption being #1.

[JTG of the PRB]

5. I really loved Inception. Just watched it again this afternoon with my family.

I have a couple theories, though whether or not it's all a dream I can't tell you the answer. By the time it got to the end and Cobb hugged his kids and left the top spinning without watching it fall, he had stopped caring. Whether it was real or if it was all a dream didn't matter him any more - he had accepted it as his reality and no longer wanted to worry whether or not he was right.

The top he spun was never really his - it was Mal's, and he took it as his own when she died. The main principle of the totems is that it's unique to the person who first makes it - anybody else who handles it won't know how it reacts or falls the way the person who made it does. Therefore, whether the top fell or stayed spinning for Cobb, it didn't matter - since that totem wasn't his to begin with, there's no way of telling how it really acted - whether it did fall in the real world, or if Cobb thought it would fall in the real world and that it would spin in the dream world. If he thought he was in the real world, the top might behave differently than in the dream world because it was never his totem to begin with.

That's why I love this movie so much - it's STILL making me think more than 5 months after the first time I saw it.

[Dash87]

6. I feel like you couldn't really understand it unless if you know alot about lucid dreaming.

Otherwise, it would just seem like a weak Matrix rip-off. :)