How has this show never done a Christopher Nolan film before? Today your hosts rectify that and discuss his 2010 film INCEPTION, a $800 million-grossing summer blockbuster with no pre-established IP, unless being the next film by the guy who made The Dark Knight somehow counts. In this episode, Renan and Bill discuss: whether this and other Nolan features are truly mindfucks or mere puzzle films; whether they work on a second time viewing; how Nolan uses time, editing, and music to achieve his ends; defending Nolan from the haters on film Twitter; whether it's OK for the dialogue to be pretty much all exposition; whether Mal is actually a villain and if Dom should be considered one—in fact, isn't Dom a little bit like Red Dead's Dutch van der Linde?
Episode links:
- Inception on IMDb
- Inception on Wikipedia
- Roger Ebert review of Inception
- AO Scott review of Inception
- Vulture interview with Dileep Rao
- Christopher Nolan's hand-drawn dream map
- Itzkoff interview with Christopher Nolan
- Deadline interview with Nolan
- Bilge Ebiri on the end of Inception
- Christopher Nolan on the film's ending
- More Nolan explaining the films ending
- ScreenRant video on the ending
- Big Other critical evaluation of Inception
- The Ringer on Inception's legacy
- The Ringer Rewatchables episode on Inception
- Alissa Wilkinson on Nolan's career overall
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