(miss murchison made me do this). Day 69: home again, and riding the cycle that goes nowhere : comments.
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I've enjoyed deCaprio in the last several movies he's done. I never was much of a fan of him before. I thought Inception was a bit long for it's own good and there were a couple of places it could have been a bit more coherent. That said, visually I found it stunning and I always enjoy a poke at the nature of reality.
As to the ending, when the girl tells his friend what happened and the friend says "That's it then, he's lost" and she says, "No, he'll be all right." I drew a lot from that. Because she'd seen him face Mal (and the whole thing about her being a shadow, inherently inferior to the real person really resonated for me) she felt he'd be okay either way, because he'd finaly forgiven himself.
(no subject)
I just felt that the doubt at the end was completely unnecessary.
After all, the point of that powerful conversation with subconscious-projection-Mel was that he CAN tell the difference between reality and dream projections, and can let go of the illusion. So why'd they have to muddy up that point with a fairly obvious suggestion that there might be a Shyamalan-ish 'twist', there, in the last moment?
And yes, there were a lot of times in the second half of the film when it was chase scenes or fighting on skis, etc., when I was thinking to myself, "If this was on TiVo, I'd be fast-forwarding right now."