More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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12 August
NB Spoilers in the Tweets immediately below !
Absent - even according to what *Cobb* says happened - sabotaging one's wife's happiness for one's own ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 4, 2020
Here, and in Interstellar (2014), there is (somewhat laboured) rumination on being a father who is no longer present to his child(ren)*.
* Boyhood (2014) does it better...
But we were ever here before, with the Bernard Williams of 'The Makropulos Case : Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality'*, Leoš Janáček, and all their avators, reflected in and by Borges (https://t.co/H0mizrm3H6) :)
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 4, 2020
* Problems of the Self (CUP [https://t.co/pLwZJBgHMj]). pic.twitter.com/rLaxTeehOX
Dædalus proper :
In Inception (2010), dreams - and their putatively calculably different rates of passing (as premise) - are only ever a proxy for the effluxion of time, and, with it, the effacement or extinction of 'memory' [sc. memories] ~ Philip French
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 10, 2020
By contrast with Tarkovsky (whose films are alluded to under the title), one of the premises of Inception (2010) - stated when Cobb is telling Ariadne* why he needs her to design a certain type of maze (and, rather obviously, Cobb / Nolan is all along really referring as much to cinema) - is that its complexity serves to conceal the fact that a dream-world has been fabricated, not dreamt per se.
Nolan only ever means cinema when Cobb tells Ariadne that designing a maze can hide a dream :
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 22, 2020
A chance to see a tenth-anniversary screening of Inception (2010), which few took up (I was one in an audience of four), might not suggest that seeing the trailer will draw people in ?
Angel Song from 2011 Xmas Show https://t.co/CXixpTjNO6 via @YouTube
— ezio lunedei (@eziolunedei) November 20, 2020
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Set-up : Contact (1997) ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 31, 2020
Planet 1 (Miller's) : Waves / surf
Planet 2 (Mann's) : Frozen / ice
Black hole (Gargantua) : Tesseract / bookcase
Planet 3 (Edmunds') : Habitable
+ Plans A and B
'Computer, map onto Inception (2010) and spot significant differences !' pic.twitter.com/CnC0nFvCGq
End-notes :
* Of all people, given the signification of her name !
Nota bene - Level -8
Appendix of spoilery stuff ! :
Wild how many thinkpieces still go over Inception, in particular the ending. It doesn’t matter if Cobb is in a dream at the end. What matters is that he walks away from the spinning top towards his kids - *he* doesn’t care whether he is or not. If there is a point, that’s it.
— Jim Ross 🏴🎞️ (@JimGR) February 17, 2021
Wild how many thinkpieces still go over Inception, in particular the ending. It doesn’t matter if Cobb is in a dream at the end. What matters is that he walks away from the spinning top towards his kids - *he* doesn’t care whether he is or not. If there is a point, that’s it.
— Jim Ross 🏴🎞️ (@JimGR) February 17, 2021
We don't even *know* where 'this spinner' came from, except that Cobb** - in explication to Ariadne (i.e. to us) of what it's for - baldly contradicts his own advice and tells her it was Mal's.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 17, 2021
** And Cobb, as in cobweb, is a spinner of webs (probably rooted in Le Guin's Cob).
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
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