Five Reasons to Watch ‘Inception’ Again

Five Reasons to Watch ‘Inception’ Again
roderick16 / 02 / 2011, 18:37


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by Fr. Roderick

I must be one of the few people not to have seen the movie ‘Inception’ when it was in theaters. I watched it last night and was very impressed by the story, the acting, the special effects but most of all by the ability of the movie to have me think about it for a long time afterwards. I did a spoiler-free review of Inception in this week’s episode of The Break, and after some thought, came up with (at least) five reasons to rewatch Inception more than once:

1. Inception involves you right from the start by constantly challeging you by the complexity of the story. So many blockbusters are mindnumbingly dumb, with one-dimensional characters and predictable storylines, “because that’s what people want”. This movie never becomes predictable and keeps you wondering about what is really going on until the very last moment.

2. Inception has a lot of subtext. You can watch it as an intelligent action movie like the Matrix, as a philosophical puzzle about the foundation of reality, as a metaphor of the relationship between this world and the afterlife, or even as an analogy of the moviemaking and storytelling process.

3. Inception is a movie that you can enjoy on many different levels. Amazing special effects; a combination of many different styles (from the mind-bending Matrix-like manipulation of the environment to a James Bond style winter action movie in the last part of the movie; good acting and an intriguing plot that is open to many different interpretations. In short, it is a movie you will want to rewatch multiple times.

4. Inception contains no nudity or excessive swearing. I thought the only movies left without these ingredients were Pixar/Disney movies; it’s great to see that Hollywood can make adult movies without insulting our intelligence or our moral standards.

5. Inception is a perfect conversation starter. It is one of those movies that you just HAVE to discuss with friends or relatives that have also watched it. It is rare that a blockbuster movie inspires so much discussion and debate about its plot. This is no Transformers 2! In a way, Inception did what Lost did so well on TV: for every answer it gives you, it generates another question that keeps you thinking.