Inception: unreal for Golden Goble?
The Golden Globe, drew its final curtain on the date of January 16, 2011, smashed the dream of Inception, which had nominated for Best Motion Picture-Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score.
Inception, would be another masterpiece from Christopher Nolan, a British filmmaker known for his puzzle films, is a fantasy that portrays Leonardo DiCaprio as a dream “extractor” whose position is to spy and invade some other’s dreams, and make rule for that persons to follow.
The thing is that, guilt for his wife’s death, DeCaprio always ecstasies his wife’s existence that interferes the work sequence.
To make it work, he hires young “architect”, Ellen Page (from Juno), to build more layers, for which he hopes if he could get a rid of “his wife”; as a result, he could go home to see his children after finishes the task。
Nolan, never lets his audience sit relax, instead, more likely challenges audience’s logical minds. (I bet if he is not a filmmaker, he would be either a philosopher or a mathematician.) From his film Memento, audience has begun to familiar with his code – a loop that pulls you to follow, or otherwise. As a filmmaker, Nolan probably never worries if a big studio has a concern with financial returns since his The Dark Knight becomes a big hit monetarily.
However, his box-office success cannot always guarantee the rewards. In this 68th Golden Globe, Nolan and his film lost the weighs to the competitors, David Fincher and his film Social Network.
Based on the true story of young entrepreneur Mark Zuckerburg, Social Network gives its swift cuts between the lawsuit and the flashback paralleled in two different timelines, but the film edited seamlessly. As today, the digital life becomes enormous, when everybody, regardless the age, yells for “Facebook me in, please”, the Golden Globers, of course, don’t want to leave behind, for which it is more or less to give Social Network a sedan ride-in.
Was Golden Globe really unfair to Inception? Perhaps not. It probably got Nolan to think if he should consider some more character-driven power than an intensive calculation. Although the film has a complex to reflect people’s mental stage, it lacks some emotional attachments as human beings – perhaps he was too busy for that. As a matter of fact, the film actually has the base for a sensational heartbreak between Cobb (DeCaprio) and his wife. It would be more convincible if Nolan got more written on it. Social Network, if this is how to get the film to win, has a little more develop on this part, though it needs more work, too (in my opinion – sometime I wonder if the era of the Forrest Gump has long gone…).
Regardless, the film Inception has done its work by delivering a message that makes us to think twice: what’s real or unreal. To Nolan, it is another master thriller that will be appreciated from generation to generation.
