The Fatherhood of Inception

[sachem_head]

In the middle of Inception, in the second or third dream layer, my phone vibrates. It's the sitter. I walk out into the hall to answer. It's K.. She says A. wants to talk to L. She's getting ready for sleep and wants to say hi to Mommy. So I say Mommy will call back. I walk back into the meeting room (the movie is being shown downstairs in the

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[pkhentz]

We saw Inception at the theater, if not the opening weekend, then the next one. We were in a huge old-fashioned movie palace, with at least 1,000 other people, so hearing the collective gasps and groans of our fellow audience members was very much part of the experience. It was great.

Anyway, not being a parent myself, I didn't latch onto that aspect of Cobb. I was mostly thinking about reliable and unreliable narrators, and was reminded as much of Atonement in that way as anything else. Interesting how differently the same movie can be viewed...