Deep Thoughts: all we are is dust in the wind, dude.

[osaraba]

From morganwolf: BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT INCEPTION. It's hysterical. Watch it.



Other, actual thoughts after seeing the movie for the fourth time, yesterday, with Cathy (who was THE BEST movie watching partner!):

1. I already knew that the kids are definitely different in the beginning and the end, but when Cobb sees Philippa and James in the second dream layer, right outside the hotel bar limbo toward the end (when he's there with Ariadne, and Mal calls the children and Cobb looks away so he doesn't see their faces), it's the older girl, but she's dressed as the younger. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, CHRISTOPHER NOLAN?
   
   
2. This has happened to me since the first time I saw the movie. Every time Saito or Cobb (or both) say the lines "...or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone...", I think of the "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquy from Hamlet, specifically this part: "...it is a tale/ Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/ Signifying nothing." AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO MAKES THIS ASSOCIATION? The Inception quote isn't in iambic pentameter or anything, so I'm trying to figure out why the cadence of it makes me think of the soliloquy EVERY TIME WITHOUT FAIL.

Comments

[idreamedmusic.livejournal.com]

Man, I still haven't managed to see it again (fail!)

But good point about the soliloquy from Hamlet. I think it's more the parallels in what it says and the essence of it than a similarity in cadence or format. Though it does parallel the structure - "tale" = "old man - a (life) story. "idiot" = "regrets" - missed opportunities, too stupid to see something good when it was about to hit you in the face. And "signifying nothing" = "waiting to die alone" - all that went before, is meaningless. A life squandered. I know it's not exactly what old Shakey was prolly trying to say, but when you put these two quotes together, it does work for me.

Also interesting about the kids - will look for that!

[osaraba]

It may be more pathetic that I've seen it four times already and may possibly be going this Sunday for a fifth.

Hmm, yes, I see what you're saying about the comparison to the Hamlet quote and I think it works in a way. But there's also something about the 3- or 4-word phrase, the pause, another short phrase, another pause, and then another short phrase--- that pattern, I guess, is what gets me?

THIS MOVIE. IT HAS TAKEN OVER BOTH MY WAKING AND DREAMING MIND.