A note on Inception

Dreams. Inception tells us that dreams are about violence and shootouts and destruction. We all know that dreams are not that, movies are. So once again, Hollywood delivers a movie about movies, with endless references to other movies (we should make a point in calling it self-referential, as it is an industry referencing itself, its past achievements, the kind of which the same industry would not dare produce anymore). Inception creates an intricate web of pseudo scientific information to justify the world in which the action takes place. The movie, all its two and a half hours, alternates between the characters explaining retarded ideas, and pointless violence. But it is a movie designed to fool people into thinking it is intelligent. Just as in the Dark Knight, the other absurdly overrated movie by the same director, Inception is filled with plot intricacies that make the viewer believe that if they get distracted for a second they will miss on something important. The truth is they won't. All that verbal diarrhea, delivered very seriously by industry acting professionals, says nothing. Nothing. What it is doing is setting up the visual effects people are about to see in the next scene. I want lots of visual effects! the world seems to be screaming. So the filmmakers set up a world in which they can deliver that demand. And audiences used to watching fantasy movies that are even worse than this (although perhaps not worse since they do no pretend to be more than mere vapid entertainment) choose to believe this is an intelligent movie, even a masterpiece. Really? Dreams within dreams within dreams... what is reality? Oh, what an interesting question... but excuse me, someone is about to kill me... Oh! and time is running out. Yes, let's get the hell out of the theater now, time is running out indeed.