I am writing this blog post in response to Michael Tsui’s posting a while back. I encourage readers to visit his blog at <https://blogs.ubc.ca/mtsui1/>
As someone who has also watched Inception, I can definitelyrelate to the scrambled, unorganized way in which Christopher Nolan directed this film. However, the key sentence which I took away from Michael’s posting was the last one: “I fell asleep 5 times in the cinema watching this”.
In the movie’s defence, even the greatest directed, acted out movie would be meaningless for a spectator if he were missing 5 chunks of it.
My memory isn’t that great, so I can’t really refute or prove the logical flow of the movie, but I imagine that Inception/Leonardo Decaprio fans would be eager, if not desperate, to defend this movie from the contradictions that Michael has pointed out. However, my memory of my personal satisfaction level when walking out of the theatre was pretty mediocre. Judging the experience from what I expected definitely was underwhelming; those great ads about entire cities crumbling, zoomups to Decaprio’s face, it was all enticing, but did the movie actually deliver?
The biggest marketing point that was advertised everywhere was the fact that Christopher Nolan was the director of the hugely successful Dark Knight film. Brand loyalty, anyone? I think I can speak for Michael and myself that, in the light of our not so great experience, that Christopher Nolan “got away” with this subpar movie from his earlier billing. And that’s completely fine; in fact, it’s marketing at its best.