A few minutes of fun. The rest is just madness

Rating: 2/10 (6 August 2010)

Dear Mr. Nolan.
I am writing to you about that movie you made, "Inception".
I am sorry but I have to tell you that I find it really annoying.
The only part I liked is when Leo and the girl sit in the café and he explains to her that it is a shared dream they're creating. Then she walks around and tinkers with the dream world as she pleases.
Which means doing stuff that is interesting to look at yet ultimately totally pointless. While people walk by and stare at her. Yeah, seriously. That's all they do. What an interesting dream. You know I can have that (the staring part) in real life whenever I want to, I don't need to (or want to) go to the cinema for that.
Some physics experiments later Leo goes on to tell her that, for some reason, he doesn't like it when she recreates large chunks of her real memories in the dream world.
Huh you say? Yeah, I say that too.
Supposedly it is because that sort of creative action "makes her lose grip on what's real and what's not".
Uhm. You know what? That is just nonsense. You can create dream worlds all day long and it does not make you lose any grip on anything.
Sadly, the movie goes steeply downhill from there.
Music that is supposed to sound ominous sets in and never stops for the rest of the movie. It's the kind of atmosphere that tells me right away that whatever happens on screen is not worth watching because it's just frightened clueless people telling each other "serious stuff". Kinda like politicians talking to each other. I hope you forgive me that I skipped through most of this while watching the movie.
After a lot of that BS a guy who is in way too many movies (Michael Caine), appears and the flick ends.
Here is the larger picture.
"Inception" is part of what I call the "New American Madness". Movies of despair, disjointed, logic falling apart, stories making no sense. Everything always seems dangerous and ominous, but nobody knows why and nothing leads anywhere.
The cinema worlds of the New American Madness can be seen as a reflection of America's wars in Iraq (halfway past), Afghanistan (current) and North America (upcoming) which are really nothing but large-scale implementations of insanity. You really shouldn't think about this stuff too much lest you like to go insane yourself.
To sum this up, Mr. Nolan: Please find a proper story writer for your next movie. "Memento" was so, so, so good. wtf happened to you after that?
Nevertheless! You are without doubt a talented artist and I wish you the best of luck for future endeavors. You might want to consider joining the peace movement which I happen to be spearheading.
Greetings, New Spirit Jazz