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| - Inception - |
I was happy and very excited the day I went to the screening of the last Di Caprio movie, in one of those huge cinema, where one can easily confuse the pop-corn queue with the ticket one... Was raining, as usual in London, and nothing else to do. I watched the trailer before and it looked amazing. It actually reminds me of this insane pleasure I had when I first watched Matrix (Im not ashamed, at all, I liked Matrix 1, Matrix 2, Matrix 3, I will like Matrix 4 and Matrix 5).
My excitement disappeared while I was watching the movie. I looked for it (my excitement, yea yea yea I'm a very literal person), on the floor, under my seat, in the pop-corn box of my neighbor (actually, was nachos,a bit sticky..), but..Nothing. I was totally deluded.
I'm not criticising the amazing surrealistic concept that Christopher Nolan develops there with talent. But. Exactly the same feeling as the one I had when I watched the last Batman. Contrary to what I was expecting, I wasnt deeply moved, nor enchanted, nor discombobulated, nor I-can-keep-on-finding-right-words-I-still-wont-be-right-in-what-Im-trying-to-say. I kept on "trying" during the movie. "Trying" to be savouring it. "Trying" to convince myself that it can't be that bad. I was thinking : "ok Adeline, maybe you were expecting too much from this movie, so now you can't even enjoy it. Or maybe you don't understand everything/anything. Or maybe you think you understand but it's much more complicated than what you think so you are bored, but Actually you would love it if you get the whole concept", blablabla.. While I was thinking, I realised I had been actually thinking for too long and I missed 5 minutes of the movie and I wasnt even panicked cause anyway, I was too bored to regard this movie as being a piece of art., a "CheF d'Oeuvre". I wasnt even disappointed because of the movie by itself, I was desappointed to feel so deluded. Im a bloody dream person! Ive been walking in the clouds since the age of 5. I am the one who, for a time, hasnt been able to stop expecting too much from the "dreamland" she built for herself..
Some newspapers were talking about "THE 2010 movie". That wasnt even my "august 2010 best movie...".
I had a nice time though. Not amazing but nice. Wasn't awful. Just nice.
Now that I talked with people who loved it, Im wondering why I didn't like it.
I think that it didn't nourish me with surrealism and amazement. I was still hungry. Still empty of intelligence and beauty. I was expecting fabulous images, I needed to be surprised, astonished. I needed to be violented by the vision of a surrealistic realism. But Ive seen it all before in the trailer. Nothing new in the movie. Ive seen it all before. So disappointing. Can people be taught, PLEASE, how to make trailers ? seriously ? Can they stop trying to attract people, selling a whole movie in a 2,5 minutes trailer ? seriously ?
Then, now, I'm still thinking :" What would I think of the movie without watching the trailer?". No idea. But I still don't think it's a piece of art, maybe because its naivety makes it kind of déjà-vU.
My excitement disappeared while I was watching the movie. I looked for it (my excitement, yea yea yea I'm a very literal person), on the floor, under my seat, in the pop-corn box of my neighbor (actually, was nachos,a bit sticky..), but..Nothing. I was totally deluded.
I'm not criticising the amazing surrealistic concept that Christopher Nolan develops there with talent. But. Exactly the same feeling as the one I had when I watched the last Batman. Contrary to what I was expecting, I wasnt deeply moved, nor enchanted, nor discombobulated, nor I-can-keep-on-finding-right-words-I-still-wont-be-right-in-what-Im-trying-to-say. I kept on "trying" during the movie. "Trying" to be savouring it. "Trying" to convince myself that it can't be that bad. I was thinking : "ok Adeline, maybe you were expecting too much from this movie, so now you can't even enjoy it. Or maybe you don't understand everything/anything. Or maybe you think you understand but it's much more complicated than what you think so you are bored, but Actually you would love it if you get the whole concept", blablabla.. While I was thinking, I realised I had been actually thinking for too long and I missed 5 minutes of the movie and I wasnt even panicked cause anyway, I was too bored to regard this movie as being a piece of art., a "CheF d'Oeuvre". I wasnt even disappointed because of the movie by itself, I was desappointed to feel so deluded. Im a bloody dream person! Ive been walking in the clouds since the age of 5. I am the one who, for a time, hasnt been able to stop expecting too much from the "dreamland" she built for herself..
Some newspapers were talking about "THE 2010 movie". That wasnt even my "august 2010 best movie...".
I had a nice time though. Not amazing but nice. Wasn't awful. Just nice.
Now that I talked with people who loved it, Im wondering why I didn't like it.
I think that it didn't nourish me with surrealism and amazement. I was still hungry. Still empty of intelligence and beauty. I was expecting fabulous images, I needed to be surprised, astonished. I needed to be violented by the vision of a surrealistic realism. But Ive seen it all before in the trailer. Nothing new in the movie. Ive seen it all before. So disappointing. Can people be taught, PLEASE, how to make trailers ? seriously ? Can they stop trying to attract people, selling a whole movie in a 2,5 minutes trailer ? seriously ?
Then, now, I'm still thinking :" What would I think of the movie without watching the trailer?". No idea. But I still don't think it's a piece of art, maybe because its naivety makes it kind of déjà-vU.
