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bluegargantuaHey,
So I saw Inception last night.
It was probably one of the better sci-fi movies I think I've ever seen. It draws on many of the best parts of The Matrix and Blade Runner and still manages to be its own thing.
The basic plot is that there are devices that let you (and your friends) enter the dreams of another person. As you might guess, this technology is quickly turned to nefarious ends. Leonardo DiCaprio (sporting a very unfortunate whisp of goatee), plays Cobb, the leader of a gang of thieves who invade people's dreams and steal their secrets. This isn't as easy as it looks because while the device can create a dreamscape for the dreamer, the dreamer's subconscious populates it with people -- and those sub-conscious projections eventually detect the intruders and kick them out. So the intruders have to work fast and quiet.
Cobb gets hired to plant an idea into the head of a target, a task considered nearly impossible. He assembles a crack team and sets out to stage an elaborate con game to trick the target's subconscious into accepting the new idea. Part of this involves a dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream. At each level down, the mind speeds up, so what takes five minutes at level one is 5 days in level two and so on. This allows for some neat multi-dream-level story-telling that's very well handled and lets you track multiple storylines pretty easily.
The movie is chock-full of little touches where they don't try and explain every last detail of how the dream tech works (in particular it's never clear how much control any intruder has over the dreamscape), but they sprinkle in all these little, throw-away details that really convey how the whole thing fits together.
I encourage folks to get out and see this one, it's a really well-done piece of cinema.
later
Tom
So I saw Inception last night.
It was probably one of the better sci-fi movies I think I've ever seen. It draws on many of the best parts of The Matrix and Blade Runner and still manages to be its own thing.
The basic plot is that there are devices that let you (and your friends) enter the dreams of another person. As you might guess, this technology is quickly turned to nefarious ends. Leonardo DiCaprio (sporting a very unfortunate whisp of goatee), plays Cobb, the leader of a gang of thieves who invade people's dreams and steal their secrets. This isn't as easy as it looks because while the device can create a dreamscape for the dreamer, the dreamer's subconscious populates it with people -- and those sub-conscious projections eventually detect the intruders and kick them out. So the intruders have to work fast and quiet.
Cobb gets hired to plant an idea into the head of a target, a task considered nearly impossible. He assembles a crack team and sets out to stage an elaborate con game to trick the target's subconscious into accepting the new idea. Part of this involves a dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream. At each level down, the mind speeds up, so what takes five minutes at level one is 5 days in level two and so on. This allows for some neat multi-dream-level story-telling that's very well handled and lets you track multiple storylines pretty easily.
The movie is chock-full of little touches where they don't try and explain every last detail of how the dream tech works (in particular it's never clear how much control any intruder has over the dreamscape), but they sprinkle in all these little, throw-away details that really convey how the whole thing fits together.
I encourage folks to get out and see this one, it's a really well-done piece of cinema.
later
Tom
