I've been vaguely griping here and there that it wasn't as good as I thought it might be, but actually I found it really scary! And I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be that scary (suspenseful, yeah...) XD But it seems it's the fact of normal physical rules being suspended that frightens me, rather than the supernatural per se. I mean, Mal isn't a ghost, but she's constructed out of the same emotional forces that birth ghosts in Japanese horror movies, so what's the difference?
I think I would be more interested in fic that touched on the script's odd portmanteau of heist and psychotherapy. XD Like, setting Cobb's storyline aside, the emotional climax was actually when Junior regressed subconsciously to the point where he was able to understand that his father cared about him - EVEN THOUGH IT WAS ALL A LIE, rolling. I mean, it was really well done; the whole thing felt exactly like the sort of dream one has that springs from RL stress and ends with some sort of huge embarrassing subconscious revelation. If nothing else the movie never made me doubt the professional qualifications of dream extractor dudes. XDD
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Date: 2010-09-16 03:11 am (UTC)I think I would be more interested in fic that touched on the script's odd portmanteau of heist and psychotherapy. XD Like, setting Cobb's storyline aside, the emotional climax was actually when Junior regressed subconsciously to the point where he was able to understand that his father cared about him - EVEN THOUGH IT WAS ALL A LIE, rolling. I mean, it was really well done; the whole thing felt exactly like the sort of dream one has that springs from RL stress and ends with some sort of huge embarrassing subconscious revelation. If nothing else the movie never made me doubt the professional qualifications of dream extractor dudes. XDD