{"id":136,"date":"2010-07-22T15:46:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T15:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2010-08-18T20:31:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T20:31:27","slug":"inception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/inception\/","title":{"rendered":"Inception or Confusion?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, 17 July, 5 P.M.: <\/strong>We decided to watch Inception and not Tere Bin Laden as the latter didn\u2019t gather good ratings from the critics. Here, I\u2019ve to mention how my husband and his friends check reviews, without failing, every time they head out to the nearest movie theater.<\/p>\n

\"inception\"<\/p>\n

Well, we were 5 mins late! The action had already started because I could see buildings crumbling, a string of bomb blasts and yes water flooding the buildings (from where did all that water come?) \u2026In the midst of the annoying action scenes on the screen I turned to my husband who was sitting next to me (poor guy!) and swamped him with questions \u201cWhat\u2019s happening?\u201d, \u201cHow much did we miss?\u201d<\/p>\n

I started looking at my watch and to my horror another 2 and -a -half hours were remaining!! (While I am writing I try my best to not exceed more than two exclamation marks.) So, I was in for more madness and yes more head scratching and that very thought made me unutterably helpless. Because 190 bucks gone and I was sitting in the dark theater with confused junta<\/em> (who were trying their best to comprehend what was going on) and super-confused characters on the screen.<\/p>\n

I put away these distracting thoughts from my mind and tried to focus on the movie\u2026You see I have a can-do attitude. “I can understand this mind boggling shit” with this attitude I focused on the screen. The scene had shifted to Paris where \u00a0Leonardo was meeting an architect to build dreams for his new assignment \u2013 \u00a0implanting an idea in some corporate honcho\u2019s mind (OK so those buildings in the first scene were designed and it was a dream sequence) Gosh! Eureka! I understood it\u2026I felt like jumping. But my excitement was short-lived because I heard Leo discussing something like “multiple layered dreams”. As if one layer was not enough to torture us. But again my can-do attitude came into the picture. You can understand multiple layered dreams, can’t you? (To be honest, the word “multi layer” reminded me of the delicious six-layered chocolate cake I had at my friend’s place last year.) Do not think about the cake Abhi, think about the movie, instead – \u00a0that’s exactly what I thought at that particular moment.<\/p>\n

Aside from\u00a0building\u00a0dreams, Leonardo was following \u00a0his wife who was dead. Truly speaking I didn’t understand who was following whom. I mean whether he was following\u00a0her or was it the other way round? And yes I’ve to mention something here – the Fischer guy (I mean the son and not the father) is actually drop-dead handsome.<\/p>\n

Anyways after 3 hours of befuddling actions ( shooting at people who were not people but projections of mind, drowning, skiing etc) the movie ended leaving all of us with one question \u2013 did someone plant an idea into our minds that we watched the movie but actually we didn\u2019t? I would have loved if that happened! To be very honest my can-do attitude didn’t quite work here. The movie left me with a crazy headache and I didn’t understand 1\/4th of the movie and 3 long hours were excruciating and agonizing. The only relieving factor was that Fischer guy with deep blue eyes \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Crux of the 3-hour drama- Critics are not always correct. Some even write reviews in their dreams!<\/p>\n

P.S.<\/strong> If you\u2019ve watched Inception and didn\u2019t understand what you saw for 3 hours, then, don\u2019t worry. Check this<\/strong> link<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong>It really helped me. <\/em>Now, I know the Fischer guy’s off\u00a0 screen name;)<\/em>
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