WDEL Blog: Lights, Camera, Reaction! with Rachael Samuels
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Inception
“You create your own truth and reality, watch your thoughts.”
A long time ago I saw this quote on a coaster, of all things, and ever since I’ve thought about the significance of such a grouping of words. Then I saw Inception and I think I understand now, or at least I’m convinced Christopher Nolan saw the same quote at some point in his life.
The movie centers around a team of extractors who work to implant or steal ideas from a target’s mind. As we’ve been repeatedly taught over the years, the mind is a terrible thing to waste and Nolan leads us down the frightening path of what would happen if our own thoughts and dreams weren’t ours anymore.
What’s so great about Inception, as with much of Nolan’s work, is the want, no need, to make you think. You can’t leave the theater or get up from the couch without the final reels of one of his films still playing through your head like the spinning top Leonardo DiCaprio’s character carries with him throughout the movie.
Soon you find yourself pushing the barriers of reality. What’s real and what do we create simply by wishing it into existence? Do our dreams spill into our waking lives and blur the ever pliable barrier between truth and reality? If so, can we handle it when we realize our sleeping dreams have become our waking realities???
See the movie and dare to think…..dare to dream, bigger. Just be careful of what you might find. Not only does the movie take you to the deepest parts of the subconscious mind but warns us we may pass the point of no return.
As that coaster pointed out so many years ago…
“You create your own truth and reality. Watch your thoughts.”
Posted at 10:50am on July 24, 2010 by Rachael Samuels
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Comments on this post:
| Mike Young |
Tue, Jul 27, 2010 9:57am |
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Keep in mind that everything you're reading on this blog is not real. You're reading this as part of a dream sequence.
By the way --an oasis in the summer desert of movies: Dinner for Schmucks opens Friday!!!!!!! |
| Rachael |
Wed, Jul 28, 2010 4:46pm |
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| I know! I'm going to see it. Look for a review soon! |
| Mike Young |
Mon, Aug 2, 2010 8:28am |
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Ever meet someone who was trying too hard to be funny? That person may occasionally provoke a mild laugh but, for the most, is working very hard to become a contrived, funny character and instead ups with long-winded, lame jokes that make you cringe?
That, in a nutshell, is the problem of Dinner for Schmucks.
While the movie is purportedly about genuinely idiotic people invited to a dinner, Steve Carell comes across as a movie star trying very hard to portray a goofy character. As a net result, "Dinner" may yield its occasional laugh (usually from a character besides Steve Carrell's character), but you must sit through long stretches of boring, unfunny, pointless dialogue where Steve Carrell is trying too hard to portray a quirky character. (Again, he comes across as a movie star who is acting out the role of a goofy character).
Perhaps, the only genuinely funny person may be a bit player near the end of the movie---a woman who can communicate with dead animals, including a communications with the lobster who has been steamed for the aforementioned dinner.
Please don't waste your $10 on this one, and please don't let a slick, tightly packaged 60 second trailer mislead to you into thinking this long, two hour, rambling, unfunny borefest is worth your time.
Dinner for Schmucks?
Movie by Schmucks. |
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