I wanted to see it anyway, but the tons of discussion here strongly reinforce that. Hopefully I'll see it soon, before I cave and start reading whitefont.
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
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Volans - Jul 20, 2010 1:05:53 pm PDT #10039 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Strega - Jul 20, 2010 1:11:03 pm PDT #10040 of 30000
I have mixed feelings about agreeing with Salon, but I'll take it. I’m sad they didn't mention that projections are basically the audience. (Screw around the world you've established, and people notice. And get pissed off.) The other simple example is Arthur's "give me a kiss" thing. It's funny only because we've seen that in other movies.
I definitely agree that the ending is meant to be ambiguous and that trying to come up with a definitive "answer" is good fun, but... we can't know for sure, and neither can Cobb. And I think that's the actual point; it's not meant to be a puzzle you go through frame-by-frame to solve.
Polter-Cow - Jul 20, 2010 1:15:30 pm PDT #10041 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Strega, I agree. As Rao said, the important thing about the ending is that Cobb walks away without looking to see whether the top fell. He's going to accept this as reality, regardless. Just like me.
Strega - Jul 20, 2010 1:25:12 pm PDT #10042 of 30000
Well... I have trouble with that as well. If that was what we were supposed to hold on to, the camera would follow him out instead of moving back to the top.
Polter-Cow - Jul 20, 2010 1:29:59 pm PDT #10043 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But we've already seen him walk outside. He made his choice. The camera goes to the top because the audience has not, but then, in a sense, forces us to make the same choice Cobb did: not knowing.
Strega - Jul 20, 2010 1:50:37 pm PDT #10044 of 30000
How would that be different from following him out? Either way, what we know is incomplete.
And Cobb has an option we don't: he can come back to the table later. Except he can't, because his movie ended.
Polter-Cow - Jul 20, 2010 1:55:13 pm PDT #10045 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I imagine that Cobb comes back to find the top fallen over. Except there's a cat on the table so he can't know whether it fell over on its own or not.
tommyrot - Jul 21, 2010 6:11:10 am PDT #10046 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This YouTube video won't play for me, but supposedly it's cool:
It's recut as a horror trailer.
Jon B. - Jul 21, 2010 6:16:00 am PDT #10047 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Even better is Mary Poppins recut: [link]
tommyrot - Jul 21, 2010 6:17:57 am PDT #10048 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, that's the one that started the whole "recut trailers" thing, right? It's still a classic.