trevelyan on March 2, 2011
@jyh,

We may have been tongue-in-cheek with the dialogues, but I genuinely enjoyed Inception and would have given it best film, director and screenplay. Certainly best screenplay.

My somewhat unorthodox reading is that Michael Caine plays God and we're meant to understand the film as Cobb's allegorical journey towards faith. The short version is that limbo represents the mortal world and Matthew 7.24 explains why building castles on the beach is such a bad thing. Throw in the sophisticated water imagery (it represents the subconscious) and a films-are-dreams-too subtext and Nolan has given us a film that's not only fun as a mind-twisting heist film, but amazingly intelligent too. It absolutely rewards repeat viewings.

I've chatted with people who couldn't identify emotionally with the characters, which is a fair enough critique. And Echo keeps referring to Leo as 怪叔叔. But I didn't have either problem and suspect that the issues most people have with the script are really failures to understand what it is doing.

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