tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215453650790315598.post4668699580954867961..comments2023-09-30T06:10:26.989-05:00Comments on Lick Creek Photography Blog: Inception: Multi-faceted Sleight-of-HandRandy Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06540523017189377954noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215453650790315598.post-55601356985077831542010-12-17T14:21:22.740-06:002010-12-17T14:21:22.740-06:00I was checking on the meaning of the pinwheel in t...I was checking on the meaning of the pinwheel in the subsubsubsub(?)dream sequence in Inception because I just had a dream last night of my oldest brother and father (deceased 2009) holding up glasses of wine for a toast. When I looked past them, on the wall was a picture of them together with something abscuring their faces. I went up to it to get a better look and they were pinwheels. Thank you litdreamer for such a precise interpretation. I suppose issues between my brother and Dad are being sorted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215453650790315598.post-47936793887927222092010-08-11T22:06:02.675-05:002010-08-11T22:06:02.675-05:00[Note: Some slight spoilers are in this comment]
...[Note: Some slight spoilers are in this comment]<br /><br />Hi Randy,<br /><br />I wonder if, indeed, Cobb planted more than those two inceptions (though only those two are successful ones). Certainly there are only two times in which he plants something in someone's safe, but the second of the two refrains above is said to Saito, so when Saito is lost in limbo, this is what he imagines his reality to be, which Cobb said to him at the beginning of the movie. And yet, when he realizes that Cobb was the one who thought up that "reality," as it were, for him, he is able to escape to the real world. In other words, like Cobb mentions, the inception doesn't hold because Saito traces its origin to somebody outside himself.<br /><br />Also, I wonder if Mal is short for "malice."<br /><br />And now you've got me wanting to see it again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215453650790315598.post-40078729585431625552010-07-21T22:31:23.569-05:002010-07-21T22:31:23.569-05:00Thank you, Hasnain, for commenting.
The pinwheel ...Thank you, Hasnain, for commenting.<br /><br />The pinwheel toy in the safe is an important point. I missed it mostly in the first viewing. I miseed the setups, certainly.<br /><br />It's first seen in the framed picture that Fisher's dad sweeps off of the bedstand. It's seen again in a wallet version of that pic in the wallet that the team steals on the airplane. The team sees that, and then manipulatively places it in the safe for Fisher Jr. to find. By finding the pinwheel, he does release his pain - which helps the team achieve the positive planting of an idea rather than a negative planting. He now loves his father, and now knows his father was disappointed that he tried to be him. Now he positively attaches to the Will, which will allow him to break up the company to be his own man. Mission achieved.<br /><br />But, it is an emotional catharsis for Fisher Jr., manipulated or not.<br /><br />That's what I got from the two viewings.Randy Mastershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06540523017189377954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215453650790315598.post-56190537962986557992010-07-20T01:10:54.509-05:002010-07-20T01:10:54.509-05:00A good article, someone did need to point this out...A good article, someone did need to point this out as I myself hold the same perspective on most of Nolan's work<br /><br />I too was arguing with a friend about the exact same points that you had mentioned here. Most of Nolan's movie is criticized because of their lack of emotion. The Prestige is about revenge, jealousy, pride. As you mentioned above this movie is about loss and regret and redemption. <br /><br />I would also like to point the sub plot of Jr. Fisher's father's disappointment with him seeing it as a failure. What a wonderful way Nolan uses the second Inception upon that character by placing the little toy inside his locker to free him off his fear as a failure in the eyes of his father. In this way Cobb not only frees Jr. Fisher of his pain but also redeems himself of his own failure of his previous inception.<br /><br />Maybe the narration and the story at times gets in the way too much between the actual story of regret, I feel that it is intentional. Nolan is not the sort of director who would use cheap tricks like slow motion to evoke a feeling for the sake of it, in this movie he only uses it to show the relative difference in time passed in reality vs. the dream state (even the scene where he is kicked from his initial dream into a tub full of water), he only makes it dramatic because it adds up to his story. Similarly he uses shaky camera only when they woke up from a dream to make it seem more realistic.Hasnainnoreply@blogger.com