Winception
I'm in a hotel room in Atchison, adamantly insisting on sticking to Pacific Standard Time even though it's past one over here. The Mountain Dew Slurpee I had recently is probably helping me in this regard. Fairly vague spoilers ahead?
As one of my last acts before leaving home, I went to see Inception, mainly on Ben's insistence, but I'm glad I went. It probably lived up to its hype better than Avatar, although I did feel that the dreams were for the most part entirely too lucid and structured and logical. I've had lucid dreams, and while I have been able to change my environment, there is still a huge amount of fuzziness and uncertainty lurking in the periphery. Of course, films aren't dreams in the literal sense, but I still think they could have done something to make the dream bits closer to real-life dreams. Plus which, in my dreams I myself have been able to do things I never could in real life, such as bouncing really high into the air or surviving really high falls. Where was the defiance of the laws of physics, aside from the architectural bits? And for all their talk about making mazes in which to lose projections, I think that that theme could have been brought into play more than the one instance when Arthur was fighting that guy in the hotel.
But that's just me being nitpicky; it was still a really good film. Toy Story 3 had it beat for emotional resonance (for me, anyway, (though I think being sick subdues my emotions somewhat (well, and I was unsure whether I should be rooting for Cobb, because what if he was insane and his kids didn't exist?))), but it was well-scripted, well-acted, etc. And Eames was bloody brilliant, especially in the third level. But then, I'm a sucker for that kind of accent.
Also! The best thing ever happened earlier tonight: Just as we were entering Atchison, “Point of Know Return” by Kansas came on the radio, which was just so appropriate in so many ways.
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