Oh, kid, I do believe that our dreams are wrong

[sovay]

Inception (2010) is an incredibly intelligent film. I loved its play with genres, with film and surrealism, with ghosts, and I loved the one sequence straight out of Cocteau's Orphée (1949).

I am never seeing another film at a Jordan's IMAX.

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[sovay]

And it seemed to me that the one place where perhaps it was, or was trying to be in a way that had an honest chance of success -- the placing of the spinning top in the safe at the center of her being, and the whole storytelling complex intended to support that moment and arising from it -- is also the one place where the film collapses. It really really does not stand up to close analysis.

How so? I agree that Mal's totem is integral to the story, but I'm not sure I would have called that one gesture its emotional heart; and I did not feel that the film collapsed there or elsewhere.