Ahahahaha YES! I linked to that article on twitter yesterday! I think it's insightful and spot-on for most of the analogy. I neglected to clarify (and was taken to task for it) that I do disagree with his opening statement -- I don't think that "in a couple of years this will become the accepted reading of the film, and differing interpretations will have to be skillfully argued to be even remotely considered."
I don't think this is the ONLY interpretation, or even the "most right" one or anything. The best part of open-ended movies is that you get to speculate and theorize and use this detail to support this idea and that detail to support that idea. And though you can argue the plausibility or likelihood of one idea over another, and how to explain this or that detail, none of them are wrong.
*gets excited all over again*
I do think that his interpretation about the movie-as-metaphor for filmmaking was pretty darn awesome. Something I hadn't (and probably never would have) thought of myself. A friend pointed out a hole or two in the analogy (4 dream levels =/= 3 acts of a movie; why would the director [Cobb] make sure the screenwriter [Ariadne] keep him in the dark?), but I think they're somewhat explainable, and even if the explanations don't completely satisfy -- well, it's somewhat unrealistic to expect a 100% perfect analogy/metaphor down to the itty bitty details, especially when all the rest of it works so well.
I mean, it's not math! ^_~
(Sorry for the tl;dr!)
Didn't hear about the JGL-as-Riddler rumor, but that would certainly be interesting! ...and now I'm imagining Inception/Batman 3 crossover fic.... LOLZ!
BTW, I wanted to mention that Dean/Cas just clicked for me recently, and if you have any recs in that direction, I'd love to read them. <3
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Date: 2010-07-23 03:11 pm (UTC)I don't think this is the ONLY interpretation, or even the "most right" one or anything. The best part of open-ended movies is that you get to speculate and theorize and use this detail to support this idea and that detail to support that idea. And though you can argue the plausibility or likelihood of one idea over another, and how to explain this or that detail, none of them are wrong.
*gets excited all over again*
I do think that his interpretation about the movie-as-metaphor for filmmaking was pretty darn awesome. Something I hadn't (and probably never would have) thought of myself. A friend pointed out a hole or two in the analogy (4 dream levels =/= 3 acts of a movie; why would the director [Cobb] make sure the screenwriter [Ariadne] keep him in the dark?), but I think they're somewhat explainable, and even if the explanations don't completely satisfy -- well, it's somewhat unrealistic to expect a 100% perfect analogy/metaphor down to the itty bitty details, especially when all the rest of it works so well.
I mean, it's not math! ^_~
(Sorry for the tl;dr!)
Didn't hear about the JGL-as-Riddler rumor, but that would certainly be interesting! ...and now I'm imagining Inception/Batman 3 crossover fic.... LOLZ!
BTW, I wanted to mention that Dean/Cas just clicked for me recently, and if you have any recs in that direction, I'd love to read them. <3