Friday Fancy…. Inception
Anyone who knows me will be more than familiar with my peculiar habit of telling them all about my crazy dreams. In fact you can bet your bottom dollar I am quite likely to start off a conversation with the phrase, ‘I had the weirdest dream last night…’
Once I dreamt I was Spiderman swinging through the streets of New York with the Green Goblin hot on my tracks. Then that weird thing that can only happen in dreams happened and suddenly I was standing in a loft apartment with a camera round my neck being yelled at by my boss for arriving late to a Page Three shoot (I may have still been Peter Parker, I’m not quite sure). Anyway, as they had begun without me I just stood there awkwardly and watched the naked girls pout seductively whilst the other cameramen clicked away. I kept wanting to jump in and begin taking snaps though. (Decipher that one if you will.)
Random dreams aside however, you can imagine my delight when I heard about Christopher Nolan’s new film Inception; a surreal sci-fi fantasy set in the world of dreams. Unlike my peculiar mind this world, it seems, is much more like the every day world - only with more things collapsing if the trailer is anything to go by. Still, compared to Vanilla Sky or The Sandman Graphic Novels its populated with a lot less freaky-deaky shit. Nolan himself states that ‘everything in Inception has a basis in reality, except for the technology’; a direct reference to the lack of metaphysical questioning. (Not that I don’t appreciate the freaky-deaky mind you, like in Vanilla Sky when Tom Cruise wakes up and looks in the mirror and he’s all disfigured and whatnot, and then he’s not, and then he is again, and then he’s not… how fun was that!)
The quirkily cool Ellen Page
Nolan is without doubt an extremely talented film-maker. From the backwards Memento to the more sinister film The Prestige, and of course his excellent remakes of the Batman movies, Nolan has a way of making things that don’t actually make sense seem like they er, make sense. And judging from the trailer, Inception looks set to be no different.
I must say I’m very much looking forward to seeing this film. The musical score alone is jumpy and suspenseful enough to have me intrigued. Add to that a stellar cast of Di Caprio, Michael Caine and Joseph Gordon Levitt and I am already there. And then of course there is Ellen Page, whose deadpan humour and subtle vulerability in Juno melted my heart. I’ve yet to see Whip It, but Page very much strikes me as a quirky, independent actress who denies the conventional Hollywood roles and clichés. For that reason alone, Inception is worth a watch. And if not, well I’m sure I can pick up some more settings for my own peculiar dreams.
Inception is out for general release on 16th July. For all you big screen lovers already gooey with anticipation you can book IMAX tickets here.
This actually looks potentially pretty amazing. I think I’d watch someone throwing a crumpled ball of paper into a bin if it was directed by Nolan though…
It’s a great idea…though I think it might easily tip from being ‘entertaining and weirdly plausable’ to ‘OMG look I can go invisible n fly n shit becos I’m dreamin innit’.
Can’t decide whether Ellen Page is buff or not…
found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more later
I happen to have watch this film . Some very talented performing but allot of explaining to the audience to understand what´s going on…as if the audience was stupid witch that is just it in most cases etc.
This is serious entertainment. This is like uploading am amazing mermaid graphic of your dream into your ocean.
And being woken up by a million histeric lesbians with no dreams.
Shit film,really.