{"id":642,"date":"2010-08-03T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2010-08-03T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T10:33:00","slug":"inception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Inception"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A very clever film, and very enjoyable, and even has an emotional punch, but… not sure. There’s something not quite perfect about it (might just be that I don’t like Leo very much). Perhaps the overall balance wasn’t completely right. Not enough emotional substance? Perhaps I’m just being too picky – it’s certainly a cut above most films.<\/p>\n

It was also not as confusing as I had thought it was going to be, though I’d kept clear of various reviews so as not to prejudge things, which probably helped. I look forward to watching it again when it comes out on DVD.<\/p>\n

I think – in sum – it’s a contrast between two things for me – the end shot (reproduced above) which reminded me so much of the end of Tarkovsky’s Mirror (no higher praise) with wonderful ambivalence – and the distraction of some of the action sequences (some were phenomenal, but the snow-battle was a distraction I feel). Hmmm. Still thinking about it – must be a good sign.<\/p>\n

4.5\/5
PS I think this review says it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A very clever film, and very enjoyable, and even has an emotional punch, but… not sure. There’s something not quite perfect about it (might just be that I don’t like Leo very much). Perhaps the overall balance wasn’t completely right. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-am","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}