Hey fans, this is my first two-part blog! Due to so much that I've written, one big blog would've been clearly too excessive. One part is geared towards entertainment and a general audience, the other is geared towards the Christian audience as a whole.
I've recently gotten my hands on Inception. Before I yap on the psychological action beast that this movie is, let's look at the word itself. By definition, it is, "the establishment or starting point of an institution or activity". Its synonyms are, "beginning, commencement, start, birth, dawn, genesis, origin, outset; establishment, institution, foundation, founding, formation, initiation, setting up, origination, constitution, inauguration, opening, debut, day one; informal kickoff".
You would think at first that all this was about was a mission to prevent a corporation from stealing and manipulating ideas from a corporate heir in order to being a corrupt superpower. We are sorely mistaken. It isn't so much even about a man who's doing this one assignment in order to see his kids again after his wife died and he was pinned with blame.
This film dealt with the issue of identity, guilt and fixation. Mr. Fisher has a fixation with trying to be worthy of succeeding his dad and measuring up. He discovers that his dad's disappointment was that he tried being him instead of being his own man and his own way of leading. This reminds me a lot of Iron Man 2. Dominic Cobb, on the other hand, feels responsible for having delved so deep in dreaming that he got his wife lost in the mix and in turn, she committed suicide, thinking they were in the dream world when in fact they were back in reality.
After very close analysis and even some researching other perspectives, it is safe to say that the ending is, in fact, a cliffhanger. Recall that Dominic usually spins his totem so that he can be sure that he's in reality or dream. He was too distracted by reuniting with his children and seeing their faces that, while it is spinning, we never saw him determine for sure. This brings to question whether or not he's been so involved in this kind of work that he's lost touch of reality.
I also noticed a lot of Illuminati/Freemason allusions here and there. For instance, the elevator -- a symbolism of a person's mind and fragments of personality. Constant checkered or uniformal black and white. Even the As Above, So Below reference in a scene where Cobb is training someone. Mind manipulation is, in fact, part of the greater plot of the film too.
Ah yes, and I got Scott Pilgrim vs The World. By far, one of the more creative teen movies this year. If you're looking for a good story, good luck with that. Plain and simple, a dude in a crappy indie/rock band dates a high schooler until he sees and falls in love with another girl. To permanently keep her, he's gotta kill all 7 evil ex-boyfriends.
I love this movie for its creativity. Its action was fun and so were all the crazy references to video games form the 80's and 90's. Ramona's hair reflects the vg sounds in the movie (red/purple hair = Mario sounds, blue = Sonic and green = Zelda/rpgs).
I found it interesting how the director decided to tame the film a little. How so? To those who've never read the graphic novel, Sex Bob-Omb's singer comes out of the closet and at one point, Knives and Kim have a little fling. That would've added to some of the minor homosexual undertone that's already present with Scott's gay best friend, Wallace.
I also noticed that there were references to Illuminati/Freemasonry. The black & white checkerboard floors, the pyramid in the Chaos Theater, the flash of the Eye of Horus by Ramona's first evil ex-boyfriend and even mind control by Gideon on Ramona.
Finally, The Warriors came out to playyyyayy on my XBOX 360. It felt awesome to finally see a cult classic I've never seen. It's a movie that goes by so fast you won't see it coming. Gang wars is all you need to know about it, plus seeing the MTA subway system in 1979 in stark contrast to our current system.
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