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IsRude t1_j9xcb0g wrote

Reply to comment by LeePT69 in Which movies definitely require more than one viewing? by Delta_Geminorum

I had no trouble keeping up with Interstellar, Inception, and The Prestige, but they definitely benefit from repeat viewings because there are certain things that you pick up on new watches.

Tenet was absurd. If you have to sacrifice most of the emotion of your movie in favor of expository dialogue and your movie is still hard to follow AND even after "understanding" it, it's still ridiculous, maybe you've just made a bad movie. Even during the final emotional dialogue between Pattinson and Washington, there was so much poorly written exposition that the emotion turns to comedy. It felt like a satire of Christopher Nolan movies. I've seen it 3 times because I thought I was missing something, but it was just unfulfilling. It may be the only movie I've liked less upon a rewatch, other than movies shrouded by nostalgia.

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LeePT69 t1_j9z0xwr wrote

The first time I saw the film I came out of the theatre angry. I felt like it was hard to hear and hard to follow what was going on. The second time was better until about half hour in. Then it lost me again I agree. It’s not a good film if most people can follow it. The visuals were fantastic. But does not make up for it overall.
Love the concept. But frustrating to watch

Inception I can follow about two levels down. Once it’s a dream within a draw within a dream and into the fugue state. I can’t do that 3D chess

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IsRude t1_j9z8v7c wrote

Their goal is to introduce into the target's head, the idea of dissolving his father's company. They have to be subtle, or else he'll know that the idea came from someone else, so they separate these 3 ideas into 3 separate dreams:

>First dream: "I don't want to follow in my father's footsteps."

>Second dream: "I want to create something for myself."

>Third dream: "My father doesn't want me to be him.

Each time they go deeper into a dream, the amount of time they'd be stuck in the dream if they fail is increased. Which is why they need to manually get themselves out of the dream, and why they need the music as a queue to help time everything correctly.

What they're timing is "kicks". They need to fall at the right time so they can wake up. If they fall in the first layer while they're all the way in the third layer, they'll be in too deep a sleep to wake up, and they'll just die and end up in limbo. So they have a series of kicks to wake them from the third dream layer, then the second, then the first, in succession.

I can explain more if that doesn't make sense. It's been a long while since I've seen the movie.

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