My thoughts on the movie...
It was pretty interesting. I enjoyed some of the exploration of dreams and the "rules" involved in "extraction" and "inception." The acting was pretty good, although both of the female characters were rather stiff, I found.
It was uncomfortably reminiscent of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, except replacing the romance / relationship with violence, which I was not supportive of.
The relationships between the characters didn't have much depth, and in fact, none of the characters did, although I got to enjoy the "dream team" and the way in which they interacted with each other as a group.
It was definitely cool to think about the architecture of dreams as connected to "real" architecture, and see how environments could morph in dreams. Some of the special effects here were really awesome, like the environment just being bent and flipped over on itself.
I thought some things were too easy and some were too hard. For example, it was too easy to get the architect girl involved (when she was told the job was illegal, she didn't even protest). And some things were too hard (whose subconscious contains armies with machine guns, anyway???). I think the movie could have used a bit less extremes. I also think the entire purpose of the movie, or of the main dream mission (inception) was pretty lame, although it was very cool how they took this lame idea and gave it psychological depth.
All in all -- some really cool exploration of dreams & special effects, some good acting and group dynamics, too much violence and extremes of simplification / complications
Listening to Philip Glass, piano etudes
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