Hey you! How's your summer going? I've missed talking to you!
Inception was really, really good. I watched it with Sally and after we left the theatre we went and diagrammed out all the layers of the dream to see how it all worked. Christopher Nolan must have had something similar to keep it all straight for the screenplay. :)
I liked that the end was left open to interpretation. I can read the film two ways and both work for me. What did you make of it?
I liked all the characters, but my favourite ended up being Arthur, because he was a good sport about being experimented on for chair tipping, and for the practical way he got on with the necessary details of the job in the crazy dream sequences: running up walls, roping together his co-workers and building an elevator bomb in zero gravity. Awww.... <3
Hi! And likewise; I miss fandom and fic and all the people involved. I caught myself thinking about Yuletide the other day, so the urge to write some fic must be creeping back :)
I loved Inception. We came out of the cinema going "wow - so this was this and that was that - or was it...?" Really good, especially the ending, there was a collective "ahhhh" at the end when it fades and the top it still spinning. I was so sure it had all worked out, that Cobb had his kids back and Mal had been wrong, until that point. However, I think leaving the audience thinking it could be either, equally plausible, situation makes it a better film. The whole premise is about reality versus dreams and our perception of them, so mucking with the audiences's perception is the next level down.
The effects were excellent, the zero gravity particularly, and the folding perspectives. I'm a big fan of Cillian Murphy, and I agree with you about Arthur, but I think I liked Eames best, for his snark and charm.
The only thing I've written in the past year was for Yuletide. It's pretty sad.
Eames! Cillian Murphy is ridiculously pretty. They all were, really. I liked Ariadne too. I wasn't sure how much I was going to like Ellen Page as a genius architect but she won me over, as always.
However, I think leaving the audience thinking it could be either, equally plausible, situation makes it a better film. The whole premise is about reality versus dreams and our perception of them, so mucking with the audiences's perception is the next level down.Yeah, that was really well done (like everything else in the movie
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Inception was really, really good. I watched it with Sally and after we left the theatre we went and diagrammed out all the layers of the dream to see how it all worked. Christopher Nolan must have had something similar to keep it all straight for the screenplay. :)
I liked that the end was left open to interpretation. I can read the film two ways and both work for me. What did you make of it?
I liked all the characters, but my favourite ended up being Arthur, because he was a good sport about being experimented on for chair tipping, and for the practical way he got on with the necessary details of the job in the crazy dream sequences: running up walls, roping together his co-workers and building an elevator bomb in zero gravity. Awww.... <3
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I loved Inception. We came out of the cinema going "wow - so this was this and that was that - or was it...?" Really good, especially the ending, there was a collective "ahhhh" at the end when it fades and the top it still spinning. I was so sure it had all worked out, that Cobb had his kids back and Mal had been wrong, until that point. However, I think leaving the audience thinking it could be either, equally plausible, situation makes it a better film. The whole premise is about reality versus dreams and our perception of them, so mucking with the audiences's perception is the next level down.
The effects were excellent, the zero gravity particularly, and the folding perspectives. I'm a big fan of Cillian Murphy, and I agree with you about Arthur, but I think I liked Eames best, for his snark and charm.
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Eames! Cillian Murphy is ridiculously pretty. They all were, really. I liked Ariadne too. I wasn't sure how much I was going to like Ellen Page as a genius architect but she won me over, as always.
However, I think leaving the audience thinking it could be either, equally plausible, situation makes it a better film. The whole premise is about reality versus dreams and our perception of them, so mucking with the audiences's perception is the next level down.Yeah, that was really well done (like everything else in the movie ( ... )
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