On the most unrelated note you can possibly think of, I had a stroke of genius moments ago that allowed me to be the only person to understand the point of the Christopher Nolan movie Inception. Yes, I've seen it. Yes, I've seen it twice. It's the event movie of the summer, after all, and I'm an event movie kind of guy. I saw Avatar twice in theaters after my original review. Anyway, the movie ends on a note - spoiler alert, btw - that the reality of the characters is not completely certain. Like in the beginning of dream sequences in the movie, the viewer is left questioning whether or not the vision on screen is a character's dream - and how long the character has been experiencing that dream. Arguments about what actually occurs in the movie from this point onward, are irrelevant. The point of the movie, as is the case with the characters in the film, is to instill an idea that questions the firmness of the reality that we know for the characters, although we're smart enough to know that what we experience is all real. But the idea, as is stated in the film, takes root (mostly because it's a good movie) and leaves you thinking about it just for a little while. And by taking root as it does, it enters your subconscious. I just woke up from a nap involving a dream that basically occurred in the exact same fashion as the movie Inception. I know that dreams tend to be much more absurd than the events of inception, so as the movie entered my subconscious my dreams became more rationalized and once things started getting freaky (my grandmother getting run over by a canoe) I realized that I was dreaming and that I had woken up. It's only after you wake up that you begin to realize the strangeness of the dream... right? Basically what I'm getting at is that the movie gives you a certain way of thinking that causes you to dream as the dreamers in the movie do, which is the most fucking genius marketing campaign I've ever seen, which is how it's remained on top of the box office for so long and for all of its repeat viewings. And when you look at the different analyses of the movie on IMDb forums and the like, you realize that Chris Nolan has created one of the most multilayered movies in... possibly ever. I underestimated this already fantastic movie. By now it's got to be facing the "it's popular so it must suck" backlash already that plagued Avatar and even Twilight (the first movie wasn't half bad, actually, aside from some pacing/dialogue problems and the fact that the source material lacks a plot until the last seventy pages or so), but even with that I proclaim that it'll be a crime if this movie isn't nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award (especially with ten nominees)... and it will win Best Original Screenplay. And it has a good shot at Best Director. I don't know about Sound Editing (Tires squealing in a rainstorm? I don't think so) but it'll definitely win Sound Mixing. It will get nominated for VF/X but not win. I will stick with this for now (but it doesn't look like there'll be a bigger action movie to usurp its position for any of the sound or visual categories so I'm confident with these. I don't see any acting nods though. Whatever. This is mostly just food for thought. Upon having reflected upon many of the subtle details introduced into the plot with short bits of dialogue such as the "leap of faith" thing (which Cobb makes at the end when he finally sees his kids and accepts them as real), among others, I can safely say that this movie has escaped the event horizon of "fake smart" movies (Butterfly Effect, fuck you). This is a ingenious and incredibly well-put-together movie and it's a crime if you don't see it. And I'm sorry it's so incoherent. I needed to write this down fast.
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