This particular blog
post isn’t an
analysis, or a
description, so much
as it is a
confession: I found
myself more or less
entirely baffled
by Inception. I
tried, I really
tried, to figure it
out, but I just
couldn’t get the
hang of it — not
really. For
approximately two
out of every three
minutes the movie
was unfolding on
screen, my honest
experience is that
it was vague,
obtuse, scattershot,
puzzling,
confounding – and,
finally, maddening.
There were moments,
of course, when I
was dazzled. How
could you not be?
Yet even then, I had
the feeling that
those moments would
have provoked
virtually
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