outception
so a quick shitting on inception:
the ending is supposed to be ambiguous. very clever. the plan is that the director goes “see, the people who want a simple movie can say ‘see, everything’s fine at the end’, while people who want a deep movie can say ‘see, he’s dreaming at the end’ and everyone wins. i’m so great send me money”.
the problem with this blatant attempt at starting giant web forum wars on whether he’s sleeping or not is that there’s flaws in physics/timing throughout the movie that make it impossible that it’s not fiction. you can’t argue details when there’s holes in the movie. in particular:
– the timing is off for how much time passes as the van falls from the bridge in the other dreams
– why does the lack of gravity not propagate down the chains of realities?
– why does the music not slow down 20 times in each layer of reality?
– floatie dude uses bombs to propel the elevator without gravity. that’s fine, that works. problem is that the people wake up when the elevator hits the ground, not when the bombs go off, despite the kick being exactly the same in both cases
– and frankly, how do his kids know his phone number?
the only possible explanation of the movie is that he’s dreaming the whole time, which means inception itself is just a dream, and the whole movie is pointless. meh.