I could blog about Inception all day — I think it’s a great movie, really I do, although it has a couple of fundamental flaws*.
This, though, blew my mind:
As the Onion Av Club points out:
The further the heroes dive into a person’s subconscious-into a dream within a dream within a dream, and so on-the more slowed-down time becomes. So if composer Hans Zimmer is playing us a super-slowed-down version of “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien,” then the implication is that we’re still submerged deep within the dream, far from the kick that will wake us up.
Whoa.
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* The biggest problem is the flagrant breaking of Chekhov’s rule about guns in the first act having to go off by the third act. We get a huge, amazing set piece with Ariadne showing how architects can bend the dream cityscape to their will, but they never ever really use that ability — which could have come in handy during the whole third act.