Is It Wrong To Dislike Inception (And Other Stupid Questions)
This is the latest thing. When people exhaust talking about Antenna Issues or Facebook privacy concerns or the Oil Spill they move onto talking about Inception and Contrarianism. “Is it wrong to dislike Inception?” they ask. Certainly some of the reviews published have been deliberately contrarian. Roger Ebert recently rounded the argument up in a blog post written far better than mine, so I suggest you read his, but he pointed out some of the more contrarian approaches. I have a problem with this. What I don’t have a problem with are the people who eloquently, carefully, and objectively point out flaws and weaknesses. I don’t want to write a review of Inception, and the closest I’m going to get is coming later, so I don’t want to go into details, but there’s some very clever deconstruction and interpretation by critics that leads them to suggest that Inception is flawed and…
I can’t go on. All of the above was me wearing my Movie Reviewer Hat, which is infinitely inferior to my Movie Watcher Hat, complete with popcorn holder and ‘person-in-the-row-behind-annoyer’ *. And while what I said above was probably correct - was certainly correct, my heart and soul is screaming a different answer to the question ‘Is it wrong to dislike Inception?’
Yes! Yes! Of course it is! The movie is fucking amazing. It’s brilliant. Every bit of it is brilliant. The bits where they fight are brilliant. They bits when they talk are brilliant. Di Caprio falling off a chair into a bath is brilliant. Spinning tops are amazing. As are worlds that fold. It’s got Ellen Page in, for goodness sake! The score is brilliant! The ending is doubly brilliant!
And clearly people who say otherwise are stupid.
* It has three floppy daisies on the top made of foam, and a tinny speaker that plays the first three bars of La Marseillaise. It’s great.
