Inception
Don’t know about non-programmers, but this movie is quite a nice exercise in building in-memory stacks of states. It starts off on the deepest level of the stack of nested dreams and then moves up and down in quite peculiar ways.
Thinking back now, except for the idea that people can share dreams, I don’t think there is a straightforward plot to this story. It seems like a pure action movie and even Leonardo DiCaprio couldn’t ruin it – it is that good. There are a few ideas hidden behind the action though. Of course they will be different for each and every one of us, as usual.
I literally haven’t notice that the motion picture was actual two and a half hours long. Usually that is very very long, but not this time. Contrast that to any of the Lord of the Rings pieces, which actually do feel long. I think Inception got it right. Keeping the viewers interested and yet tell an exciting action packed story without too many events.
Another thing the creators of inception got right is the mix of the ethnicities and characters of the actors. They didn’t try to represent the entire world and it was heavily geared towards the anglo-saxon world without excluding the rest of the planet though.
The state of having an alternative reality will be familiar to any fiction reader, when reading a really good piece on submerges his whole mind into the authors work, much like Inception has shown it. Often if I keep myself too long in another authors world my mind becomes too tied to it. So after a whole days’ non-stop reading my dreams revolve in the same fantasy world as well. Imagine how it would be like if you were submerged in another world not a day, not an hour, but years.
Anything short of going mad will not do – and that is the thought that made this movie much more worthwhile than just the action and the fighting and the car-chasing and the blizzard and the never-ending rain – I told you it was heavy on the action side.
Please watch it. I hope the world consciousness puts this movie out there, next to Avatar and Lord of the Rings.
