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trickykittyI thoroughly enjoyed reading these two articles on the movie Inception.
Intro Post
The Ultimate Explanation
I really like this:
A true Baudrillard Matrix would be a single fake world that became so real that you no longer needed the original. The whole world becomes a fake; there is no recourse to the real world.
In the argument presented in the second article, the point is that reality isn't about the dream versus the real, but about the experience. The top Cobb keeps turning is irrelevant to whether or not Cobb is dreaming, because it's not his totem. Even if it were to fall over at the end of the movie, that doesn't tell anything about whether or not Cobb is still dreaming or not.
My favorite "resolution" to Inception is kind of a Thirteenth Floor way of looking at it. You start off thinking that the primary "reality" presented to you is the real. For Cobb, it is real. His love of Mal and his need to see his kids are real.
But what if he is dreaming and you find out there is no Mal at all? No kids? No family? What if Miles (Michael Caine) is Cobb's boss back at some dream research lab? What if Mal is the chick he has the worst disagreements with and actually hates, in which case he wakes up to find he was actually having a nightmare of being married to her? What if Ariadne and Mal are actually gay co-workers in the lab? (Ellen is gay in real life, so I think that would be a hilarious twist to the background created by Inception thus far.) Although, I think I'd rather find out Arthur and Fischer are the gay co-workers and see a kissy scene between Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Cillian Murphy, because Why the Hell Not? Eames could be the 3rd of a love triangle, and I wouldn't complain.
Speaking of Eames (well, not exactly), Tom Hardy is playing Mad Max.
Intro Post
The Ultimate Explanation
I really like this:
A true Baudrillard Matrix would be a single fake world that became so real that you no longer needed the original. The whole world becomes a fake; there is no recourse to the real world.
In the argument presented in the second article, the point is that reality isn't about the dream versus the real, but about the experience. The top Cobb keeps turning is irrelevant to whether or not Cobb is dreaming, because it's not his totem. Even if it were to fall over at the end of the movie, that doesn't tell anything about whether or not Cobb is still dreaming or not.
My favorite "resolution" to Inception is kind of a Thirteenth Floor way of looking at it. You start off thinking that the primary "reality" presented to you is the real. For Cobb, it is real. His love of Mal and his need to see his kids are real.
But what if he is dreaming and you find out there is no Mal at all? No kids? No family? What if Miles (Michael Caine) is Cobb's boss back at some dream research lab? What if Mal is the chick he has the worst disagreements with and actually hates, in which case he wakes up to find he was actually having a nightmare of being married to her? What if Ariadne and Mal are actually gay co-workers in the lab? (Ellen is gay in real life, so I think that would be a hilarious twist to the background created by Inception thus far.) Although, I think I'd rather find out Arthur and Fischer are the gay co-workers and see a kissy scene between Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Cillian Murphy, because Why the Hell Not? Eames could be the 3rd of a love triangle, and I wouldn't complain.
Speaking of Eames (well, not exactly), Tom Hardy is playing Mad Max.
