Movie #119 Inception *2010*

This is going to be a brief post about Inception.  I have already blogged about this movie (Movie #98).  And in this review I noted that there is a excessive amount of exposition.  I seemed to be even more aware of all the explaining going on with this viewing.  Perhaps this is the case due to watching it with my father and step mother.  I felt like I needed to explain the movie in order to ensure that they were getting everything.  In doing so I noticed some of the nuances of the film that I had missed in my prior 3 viewings.

This is clearly a film that rewards repeat viewing.  In my last blog about this film I stated that "the movie thinks that it is smarter then it really is".  I am afraid that I may be stupider that I thought I was.  Some of the details that I had missed before made for a much better and well rounded film.

So why did I miss these lines?  Probably because I was paying so much attention to the visuals.  A few other things that I noticed this time around:

The is the best dressed movie of the year.  The team is dressed in designer clothes throughout the entire film.
The score for the film is really good, but totally all-up-in-your-face.  Blind people would have no trouble telling when something important is happening on screen.  Not only the score, but the back ground noise is well constructed and woven into the action very tightly.

My final observation is about the use of slow motion.  I find it fascinating that Nolan found a narrative use for slow motion.  Most movies have scenes in slow motion because it looks cool.  In Inception the slow motion serves a purpose.  When the van is falling off the bridge it is doing so in slow motion.  But in actuality this isn't true.  If you were to view the van falling from the dream within the dream it would be falling at that rate because time slows down the further you get into a dream.  The slow motion is actually used to represent the decelerated passage of time in the dream state.  That is genius!

I guess this wasn't that brief of a post.  Sorry.  Maybe it would be a shorter blog if you were reading this in your sleep.