First of all, you’re misunderstanding my point and then arguing against a point I didn’t make. I commented on Cobb’s character development, what happened with his wife, and none of the details except the ending, as well as DiCaprio’s performance. I didn’t bring up the matrix, and no, life doesn’t always have answers or concrete details. There are plenty of stories that exist in literature and cinema where you don’t get answers and you don’t get concrete details. I’m not really sure why you’re trying to insult my point of view on a very complex story that doesn’t even have a definitive ending. Maybe to make yourself feel better?
Further, now you’re making up scenarios about your daughter being beat up and accepting that as a reality trying to argue against a point I didn’t even make, and I’m still talking about a movie.
Slow down, homie.
Oh, and since you brought up the Matrix, I thought I’d just say that the Matrix wasn’t about love at all. That being in the script was an after thought, particularly in the last two movies. The Matrix was about explosions and action scenes. The things that existed in the script for the Matrix were designed to facilitate the story’s momentum and nothing else. That’s why the films have so many inconsistencies, and why the series as a whole doesn’t even adhere to it’s own set of rules established in the first film. Inception is a significantly deeper film that is based around an event that lead to Cobb being broken. At the end of the film he isn’t broken any more, despite whatever circumstances exist or what we believe his reality to be. Everything that happened to Cobb’s wife moves the story forward. What happened to his wife is why he isn’t able to architect, it’s why he needs some one else to do it for him, it’s why he can’t go home, it’s why he makes the deal with Watanabe, it’s why Ellen Page finds out about him, why he hooks himself up to that machine, it’s why he knows inception is possible, etc. What happened to Cobb’s wife is why he does EVERYTHING.
You’re paying attention to a lot of the details from the movie, so how did you miss that one?
On the other hand, love, as a theme or a catalyst in the Matrix isn’t why Neo becomes “The One”. It isn’t why he has his powers, it isn’t why he can control the matrix, it isn’t why he can defeat an agent, love isn’t what makes Morpheus into a raving lunatic by the end, love isn’t what allows Neo to go outside the matrix and control things. Love is a small footnote in that story to give a familiar hook for some people to grab onto, and it isn’t even executed very well.
Again, you argued against things I never said. Perhaps it’s because you want some deeper meaning from this film, and enjoy discussing whether or not Cobb had a wedding ring on at all times, or how old his children were. That’s fine, but I would really suggest re-reading what I wrote next time you decide to argue with things I didn’t say. I get that you don’t like it when you don’t have concrete answers. That’s fine. But I’m not a brain dead, and what I took from the film isn’t a copout because you don’t like it.
Slow down, homie. It’s not that serious.
