MIND IS BLOWN. I feel like I need to watch Inception again just to appreciate this. That alone justifies this post, I think *g* I love doing that.
Do you have any other words of wisdom about its themes and symbolism? Oooo, boy. It's been awhile. I remember being impressed with how much the movie played with the same ideas as Moff Who: what that movie did with dreams and the idea of building in dreams bears so much resemblance to the role of storytelling and time travel in Who. The ways that both made identity and reality about the choices of people and both the problematic and the liberating aspects of that. I thought there were a good number of parallels between Doctor/River and the relationship between Leonardo DiCaprio's character and Ariadne/Mol--that play of mutual supervision and excess, obsession, being almost trapped together in a mutual story, death being used as a transition between worlds, their attempts to rewrite the story to their own wishes. The Ariadne/Mol divide plays on the same dualities and the relationship between conscience and beast that keeps coming up--the reconciling of those divides.
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Date: 29 Jan 2012 02:29 am (UTC)That alone justifies this post, I think *g* I love doing that.
Do you have any other words of wisdom about its themes and symbolism?
Oooo, boy. It's been awhile. I remember being impressed with how much the movie played with the same ideas as Moff Who: what that movie did with dreams and the idea of building in dreams bears so much resemblance to the role of storytelling and time travel in Who. The ways that both made identity and reality about the choices of people and both the problematic and the liberating aspects of that. I thought there were a good number of parallels between Doctor/River and the relationship between Leonardo DiCaprio's character and Ariadne/Mol--that play of mutual supervision and excess, obsession, being almost trapped together in a mutual story, death being used as a transition between worlds, their attempts to rewrite the story to their own wishes. The Ariadne/Mol divide plays on the same dualities and the relationship between conscience and beast that keeps coming up--the reconciling of those divides.