Yes, I have to start with the obligatory: the first time I watched the movie I was disappointed, but upon rewatch I realized how deep the rabbit hole goes, and after tens of hours of studying this movie, I can finally see what a masterpiece it is.

After having spent tens of hours with this movie, I’ve finally sorted out most of the major questions and have a pretty good idea of what’s actually going on. The movie is so hard to wrap your head around though because you basically have to think in four dimensions, and you have to build a mental model for a crystallized universe and keep track of all the actors at all times, and their motivations. Our brains are not made to comprehend stuff like this, so it’s understandable that people were frustrated with the movie. However, I think I reduced my odds of developing Alzheimers by 95% during the process of studying this thing and the process itself was very gratifying. Still though, I’m not done building more intuition for the movie so I will definitely be spending even more time grasping the details. I highly recommend committing yourself to the process 👍

It’s without a doubt my favorite movie of all time.

come at me brah (or just throw me some questions idk)

  • edricEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Same. It’s hard to appreciate a film if you can’t hear the dialogue half the time. My other complaint is the dialogue itself is like 90% exposition. I get that you need to explain the mechanics of a complicated plot, but the characters are literally just explaining the entire time instead of actually having a conversation. At least do it in a way that it comes naturally in the dialogue. To be fair, Nolan has that issue in a lot of his movies.