You just don't get it because you're not smart enough

Rating: 6/10 (7 August 2012)

Have you ever read the story about the Emperor's new clothes? It's about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those unfit for their position, stupid, or incompetent. When the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, a child cries out, "But he isn't wearing anything at all!"
A dream within a dream within a dream with Cobb's (played by DiCraprio) wife as an intruder in his subconsciousness, and if something goes terribly wrong you enter the state of Limbo where you're stuck in one's raw subconsciousness. Sounds really deep and complicated, right? It really isn't.
The plot of this movie may as well be a new metaphor for those clothes that nobody could see. There isn't a deep philosophical meaning behind it. It's just made sound complicated enough for the viewer to be expected to draw a philosophical meaning and "understand" it. The viewer who is able to do that is "smart enough".
People pretend to extract some philosophical meaning out of it and therefore continue praising it. They do not want to be the "stupid ones". The truth is, it is only an OK action movie, it has good fighting scenes and good acting, but is too long for its own good. It's time for people to admit that the Emperor is really naked.