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Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus

Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus

NEVER WAKE UP: THE MEANING AND SECRET OF INCEPTION This entire article is a major spoiler for Inception. Please do not read it until you’ve experienced Christopher Nolan’s film for yourself. Every single moment of Inception is a dream. I 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. The film makes this clear, and it never holds back the truth from audiences. Some find this idea to be narratively repugnant, since they think that a movie where everything is a dream is a movie without stakes, a movie where the audience is wasting their time. Except that this is exactly what Nolan is arguing against. I believe that Inception is a dream to the point where even the dream-sharing stuff is a dream. She asks him that in a scene that we all know is a dream, but Inception lets us in on this elsewhere. Watching the film with this eye you can see the dream logic unfolding. That leaves two key figures.

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