I think this might have been a love letter

Rating: 9/10 (28 May 2019)

I think this entire movie was a love letter from Chris to Emma. I'll try to explain.
The most crucial scene in the whole movie is when Leo has to seduct Ellen into the intoxicating dream universe. We're in his mind, and we're in Paris, what appears to be the cafÃ© set from "Irma la Douce". I remember reading somewhere in an interview with Chris, he explains that movie is his wife's favorite movie.
In the scene mentioned, the environment deconstructs. It doesn't so much as explode as it does unwind the very fabric of space and time, and it penetrates her skin. When she wakes up, she's hooked forever.
Try to penetrate the dream layers all the way down to the level of the soul, the very last layer, where Leo constructed an entire metropolis to live in with his wife. A kingdom ruled by the two of them.
The bombs, guns and explosions are incidental. This movie is about seduction.