finally watched it. been following the buzz around it for more than a year now and i finally got to see it in the cinema.
masterfully, brilliant piece of movie. i don't remember a movie which provided so much more than i've expected, and believe me, i've expected A LOT from this. i have no other words, then to express my true anxiety towards Nolan and his future career (baring in mind that someone this young for director's standards, is already pushing the limits).
i don't know why, but to me Leo's role, on the most basic level of obssesion with his wife, was identical to one in Shutter Island and from that perspective he gave almost identical performance of a lost man, to say the least. don't get me wrong he does it impeccably but at the same time i ws a bit
. JGL gave a performance of his career. Marion, oh Marion - i have no words, she has outdone herself here.
nice introduction of Hardy - great sense for timing. Cillian is Cillian.
Marion's outfits and JGL's suits were top top top fashionwise, the sense for colours and the use of it when it comes to scenography is an achievement by itself. also, for the first time, i actually found Leo attractive.
if this movie doesn't get rightful amount of Oscars i will perform a harikiri.
I've seen this movie a few times and I'm with the people who believe it was all a dream, from start to finish. the entire movie.
I felt like there were so many things pointing towards it, and my theory is that when Mal killed herself, she really did get back to reality. We have Mals father telling Cobb to get back to reality, we have Mal telling Cobb he always thinks he's getting chased by big corporations etc (which he is in "reality").. he wants to stay in the dream and keeps finding reasons for it, and Mal is there disturbing him wanting to ruin the dream to wake him up from it. and also about the Totem, didn't he find and take it from their dream, how can you take something from a dream to reality?
and also, his character was the most developed and I feel like it's for a reason, since the others are just props in his dream.. and also the kids looking exactly like in his dreams
but I guess with this movie, every theory has it's strengths and weaknesses, I don't think we're ever going to find the right one since there probably isn't.
totem was a part of reality already, it was Mal's totem from the start when they started "dreaming" together while
she was still alive.
imo, it was
a dream - the kids are, again imo,the only real proof of it, put aside the rolling of the totem. they're stuck in time, they're the same age/size when we first saw them in Dom's memories (also, notice their voices, in the end they are childish voices, while, in the beginning, when they're telephoning Dom Phillipa's voice was sounding much more mature) and they're the same in the end. in my opinion, which i'm not myself totally sure of , is that's Dom's starting to dream from the point of trying of those sedative's at Jusuf's place. but as some of you said it, every theory stops at one point, so...
tho, few things were totally unclear for me:
1.
when they first wake up in that train, Dom gets up and tells how everyone's on their own from now on and how he's going to Tokyo. why in hell is he in Paris in the next scene with Arthur coming to his room?
2.
when Saito picks them in his helicopter, he leaves them on the airport at which point Dom says to Arthur how they should now go to Paris. the flight of the helicopter itself wasn't long and it shouldn't have gotten them so far so they would use a flight to get back, no?
3.
at one point Dom says that limbo's produced by Mal, why are we seeing Saito's place then after Dom (AGAIN, which also bugs me) again is in the sea, wasn't his unconcienceness already limited by that place he and Mal put up? whose dream he entered now?
4.
Ariadne and Paris. his father is a professor in Paris, no? how did he found an American there? okay this is easy to solve nevermind.
5.
at the airport, LAX, everyone's watching at Dom.
...i'll think of few more questions i guess...so bare with me...