Stannis wrote:
Sure. While I was watching it I thought that it seems as if Leo's wife might have been attacking people to wake them up. I thought she might have been helping them in doing that, as the dream world seems like a place where you could imprison someone for malevolent purposes. I thought that Leo was a bad guy, who was trying to trick himself into thinking he was a good guy. This makes sense up to a point, and it would have been a better movie if they had followed through with this.
Interesting!
Mal is so intricate and hard to understand. Especially because the movie was so detail oriented and they didn't give us much background into the characters. We don't know who Mal was in real life other than that Dom loved her and Arthur saw her as "lovely".
I can easily see people being imprisoned in the dream world. There is so much good and bad that can be done there, so much further they should have gone, they could have made an 8 season tv show out of that movie.
I don't see Dom (aka Leo) as a bad guy at all. He was responsible for the idea that essentially killed his wife, yes, but he was trying to bring her home, to reality, so they could get back to their kids with some of their brains still there. His guilt for what he did consumed her. The act of inception wasn't studied or known. He thought he found a way to convince her that their world wasn't real, and it backfired.
I also have a strong theory that the totem idea completely is backwards. "Didn't you notice how much time Cobb spends doing what he said not to do" (or something like that). It was Arthur who initially said that a totem of one person mustn't be touched by another, but later when Dom asked to see Ariadne's totem, it's shown that he knows that rule...yet he carries his wife's totem. He touched his wife's totem in the dream. Therefore, my opinion is that her totem was no longer valid to her because he touched it, nor was it valid to him because it had been hers. It was void.
Then you'll notice the fact that in dreams he wears his wedding ring (till he's able to let go of her) and in reality he does not, such that his ring can be seen as his totem. But then what's his totem at the end if you believe the top and ring no longer have any reality detection? Why are James and Philippa wearing the same clothes and looking the same as they did at least two years before, and Phillippa on the phone sounded about 7 or 8 years old and James 4 or 5.
I can go on and on and on but have no proper thought coordination and anything I say comes out incredibly choppy despite my intelligence and effort.
Thanks for listening!
14 Jul 2014, 2:14 am
