Inception – A letdown

Inception, to me, was a huge let down. After having spent a better part of the fortnight looking forward to see the movie, I feel cheated. I had even blogged stating my intention to watch it multiple times to understand the plot! Biggest Letdown: I have been denied the opportunity of multiple viewings. I mean, how can anyone portray such a complex concept in such an appealingly simple fashion? Thank Heavens Nolan isn’t Einstein; we would have been learning relativity in 1st grade otherwise.

Inception was a letdown because even at places where exaggeration is accepted, nay expected, it stuck to the laws of physics. Thus you have a scene where the lift “falls” not because the lift cord was cut but because of the explosion that followed. Small detail, but a noteworthy one….. Inception was a letdown because in an age where the best movie is decided by the technology used, it stuck to the old ways – of telling a story right. Inception was a letdown because it didn’t talk about any new concepts; it was the depiction that left you speechless. Inception was a letdown, only because I was forced to scale up my thought as the movie went by; scale up in spite of all the prior warning.

Hardly ever do you get to see a movie that doesn’t need to set the adrenalin pumping to ring in cash counters. Hardly ever do you get to see a movie that doesn’t need the sagging assets of its lead to support it. Hardly ever do you get to see a movie that doesn’t feed on jingoism, chauvinism or any other such “-isms”. Hardly ever do you get to see a movie where cinematic expression is given predominance over the cast. Hardly ever do you get to see a movie like Inception.