Tuesday, July 20, 2010

I saw Inception and I said


Holy moly that's an amazing movie! The intricacy and precision, the complexity and detail, and yet also a compelling storyline about human frailty. I'm still in the wooing of it and can't quite see the snags yet (there always are some, aren't there?) but dang - that's the kind of oeuvre I aspire to... Does this not say it all? "Inception is a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind." (from the Warner Bros. website)

I'm fascinated by inner and outer architecture -- the spaces that we inhabit and how we experience them. I think there are a lot of parallels to be explored between the places spaces we (as individuals, as communities) are drawn to and the organization and contours of our inner minds.

Here's a trailer: