tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post9195077634339827263..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: What Dreams May Come...and Come...and ComeSJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-53657528883907453392010-08-11T14:42:16.165-05:002010-08-11T14:42:16.165-05:00Well...I think the rape metaphor is there if you w...Well...I think the rape metaphor is there if you want it to be there. However, the film plays it more as theft--theft of intellectual property, which makes more sense to me. <br /><br />If I really want to go the "facile, PoMo grad student route," I could probably suggest that just about anything I don't like is a metaphor for rape.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-25618286381579869152010-08-08T13:55:25.717-05:002010-08-08T13:55:25.717-05:00I haven't seen "Inception" yet, but ...I haven't seen "Inception" yet, but had been wondering whether it was an amped-up version of Dennis Quaid's "Dreamscape." Based on your review, the answer appears to be "yes and no."<br /><br />Kudos to you for not taking the facile, PoMo grad student route and ranting about "dream-invasion as a metaphor for rape" or some such. (I recall that argument being made about Spock's violent mind-meld in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country." There, at least, the argument was at least partly justified, but since the goal of the mind-meld was information extraction, the scene might have been less about rape and more about simple torture.)<br /><br />Interesting to see that Nolan veterans Caine and Murphy (both from the Batman films) are in this movie. I've been a fan of Nolan since "Memento," another film that requires one to pay close attention. The second Batman movie, "The Dark Knight," also had that play-with-your-head feel, much more so than the first Batman flick by Nolan.<br /><br /><br />KevinKevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com