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Rewatched Inception. Still holds up well, great music -- I prefer it to the cold Tenet which veered out of human empathy to something very detached and seemed more complex for its sake rather than an attempt to tell a story that connects.
I had to laugh -- I've seen this film SO many times (though not recently), and this time is the first I noticed that Yusuf gives the shooter the finger as he's driving the van backwards off the bridge. It's barely noticeable unless you're really paying attention, and I had to rewind to check.
Speaking of Yusuf, he really doesn't get enough credit. The guy's just the pharmacist who gets dragged along on this reverse-heist, and it wasn't even supposed to be dangerous, but now there's a private army of guys with automatic weapons chasing him. Worse, he's stuck driving the van with everyone asleep, trying to fend off an entire army of this dream goons on his lonesome, and if he screws up, they ALL end up in Limbo with their brains slagged. The entire success of the mission hinges on him -- and somehow without any real training or experience with this, he keeps everyone alive, and his only real screwup is doing the kick too soon. He's kind of a tacit hero of this film that no one recognizes.
I did also check carefully for Cobb's ring, and it only shows up in the parts we do know are dreams, and it is missing in the areas that are generally assumed to be the "real world" -- getting Ariadne, Mombasa, Paris, etc. It also seems clear that DiCaprio was told how to hold his hands because he doesn't carry his hands the same throughout the film, he's literally always hiding his left hand as much as possible, except for certain moments. He will even talk with his right hand (normally most people talk with both when they do that) while purposefully keeping his left hand below the table, in his pocket, or other things. He looks fine if you're not looking for it, but when you are, it's kind of crazy how his left hand is almost always RIGHT off the edge of the screen, in a pocket, hidden, behind something, and so on.
Technically it still doesn't quite mean anything because he's not wearing it in the scenes where he thinks he's in the "real world" ... he's simply distinguishing between his world and what he perceives as dreams subconsciously.
Also, getting back to Ariadne especially in connection to whether Cobb is in a dream state: She is so purposefully written more as Cobb's therapist, than as his architect. I mean, he's led to "hire her" so it seems like his idea, but she literally spends the movie pushing him, challenging him, making him confront his internal guilt over what happened to his wife, coaxing him forward, holding his feet to the fire, and providing justification as to why her opinion matters. Aside from being the "woman leading him through the maze" as per her namesake, she's literally driving him towards catharsis and even pushes him to go into Limbo after Mal when he's about to give up, and when she gets back without him and Arthur seems skeptical, she's like, "No, no, he's going to be okay," because she witnessed Cobb's own catharsis in Limbo and she knows it's done.
Really fascinating character surrounded by fascinating questions.
Edit: heh, yup.
www.cbr.com
I had to laugh -- I've seen this film SO many times (though not recently), and this time is the first I noticed that Yusuf gives the shooter the finger as he's driving the van backwards off the bridge. It's barely noticeable unless you're really paying attention, and I had to rewind to check.
Speaking of Yusuf, he really doesn't get enough credit. The guy's just the pharmacist who gets dragged along on this reverse-heist, and it wasn't even supposed to be dangerous, but now there's a private army of guys with automatic weapons chasing him. Worse, he's stuck driving the van with everyone asleep, trying to fend off an entire army of this dream goons on his lonesome, and if he screws up, they ALL end up in Limbo with their brains slagged. The entire success of the mission hinges on him -- and somehow without any real training or experience with this, he keeps everyone alive, and his only real screwup is doing the kick too soon. He's kind of a tacit hero of this film that no one recognizes.
I did also check carefully for Cobb's ring, and it only shows up in the parts we do know are dreams, and it is missing in the areas that are generally assumed to be the "real world" -- getting Ariadne, Mombasa, Paris, etc. It also seems clear that DiCaprio was told how to hold his hands because he doesn't carry his hands the same throughout the film, he's literally always hiding his left hand as much as possible, except for certain moments. He will even talk with his right hand (normally most people talk with both when they do that) while purposefully keeping his left hand below the table, in his pocket, or other things. He looks fine if you're not looking for it, but when you are, it's kind of crazy how his left hand is almost always RIGHT off the edge of the screen, in a pocket, hidden, behind something, and so on.
Technically it still doesn't quite mean anything because he's not wearing it in the scenes where he thinks he's in the "real world" ... he's simply distinguishing between his world and what he perceives as dreams subconsciously.
Also, getting back to Ariadne especially in connection to whether Cobb is in a dream state: She is so purposefully written more as Cobb's therapist, than as his architect. I mean, he's led to "hire her" so it seems like his idea, but she literally spends the movie pushing him, challenging him, making him confront his internal guilt over what happened to his wife, coaxing him forward, holding his feet to the fire, and providing justification as to why her opinion matters. Aside from being the "woman leading him through the maze" as per her namesake, she's literally driving him towards catharsis and even pushes him to go into Limbo after Mal when he's about to give up, and when she gets back without him and Arthur seems skeptical, she's like, "No, no, he's going to be okay," because she witnessed Cobb's own catharsis in Limbo and she knows it's done.
Really fascinating character surrounded by fascinating questions.
Edit: heh, yup.
Inception Theory: There Was Secretly a Spy in Cobb’s Crew
A fan theory about Inception suggests that a major member of Cobb's crew was secretly working for Michael Caine's Stephen Miles.
www.cbr.com
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