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Inception
Ozymandias:
I finally saw this. Aside from all the discussion about the ending, I came away feeling like this movie was the fulfillment of a promise made 11 years ago by The Matrix: that you can have a fun, reality-bending action movie without sacrificing plot or characters. The Wachowskis raised the possibility really well but, until now, no one could truly make it real- especially not them.
KvP:
The more I thought about the movie, though, the more I did feel like it sacrificed a lot of its characters. Aside from Cobb and to a lesser extent Ariadne the bulk of the lifting for the characters is the acting, not the writing. The tricky thing is that you can make an argument that it's more intentional dream logic than weak writing. And like a dream the film really moves too fast for you to really notice how little you know about Joseph Gordon-Levitt or the Chemist or whoever.
scarred:
It was hard to notice at first, because they all seem so realized as characters (both in the acting and in the dialogue) that backstory would seem weighty and unnecessary.
Jimmy the Squid:
Also you can make the parallel with that line about how in a dream you start in the middle of the action, already right in the thick of it and you don't really know how you got there.
Ozymandias:
So Nolan also wrote a story that uses its own logic to justify any flaws in the story.
Which is also pretty impressive.
Suck it, haters.
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