Go See Inception

I feel as though I could say more, but it's hardly necessary. Inception was a fantastic movie. I doubt I'm the first person to tell you that. If you haven't seen it, you need to. Now.

I love movies like Memento, Donnie Darko, and the like that play with your mind, not always telling you what to believe and letting you make some of the decisions for yourself. But Inception has something that a lot of these don't: a personal connection. Most of us have never been stalked by an ominous evil-looking rabbit that told us to destroy things, and anyone who watched Memento that actually had short-term memory loss would have had a hell of a time trying to follow the story. Meanwhile, we all have dreams. And a lot of the elements used in Inception can be connected to the way we see our dreams behave in real life.

Weirdly, the movie also tied in quite nicely with my previous post regarding dreams (which, if you missed, you can see right here). Much of what I said about the dreams being the keys to our subconscious, the way they bring out the most important parts of our memories, the way they can impact us, is all present in the movie. Obviously there are no right answers regarding this sort of thing, so it didn't do much to validate my point, but it was fun for me to see the connections.

I can see some connections being made between Inception and The Matrix in the near future; they're both about false worlds entered from a real one, manipulated by its inhabitants. But I thought Inception was undoubtedly better. The Matrix had some great moments, but Inception used its caveats to their full potential, showed us characters that are engaging and had interesting backgrounds, and possibly most of all, had actors that can actually act and writing that works well with them. Not only was Keanu Reeves a downright pathetic lead, but his shoehorned romance with the one female in the movie whose name escapes me felt completely engineered and like the writers only put it in because they thought there had to be romance. The relationships in Inception felt real and engaging.

Look, now I'm just beating a dead horse. Go see Inception. You won't regret it.

I'm planning on posting every Thursday from now on, because I can't really expect you guys to read more often than once a week, and Thursday is clearly the worst day of the week for reasons I could go into but won't. So I'm hoping to brighten that day up a bit. Please comment, because I like to think that people read this, and that's my only way of knowing if they do.