Leo entered my mind and stole this
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Inception came out last week and my good friend Katelan Cunningham reviewed it on The District. I did an illustration to accompany her write-up, and to experiment with some new tools. Go and read her article!
One of my favorite scenes that usually ends up as an afterthought for most people is the one where Cobb tells Ariadne that you can never really remember the beginning of a dream. He asks her how they ended up at the cafe, and all she can say is, “Well we came from the.. uh..”. I really like that idea so much, especially because it is a scene in a movie. Movies have scene after scene strung together, and sometimes they jump time. We don’t always get to see what happens in between scenes where a character might be getting ready in his bathroom, then ending up at work in the next scene.
Nolan points out that movies aren’t real and that they mirror our dreams more than they mirror life. It’s references itself by pointing out that Inception is just a movie, by not showing us exactly how they got the cafe: just that they ended up there. And as seriously as some of us take our movies, deconstructing plausibility and finding plot holes, you have to keep in mind that movies have no reason to make sense. My dreams never do.
