SXE3: INCEPTION

Enter The Void

How has this show never done a Christopher Nolan film before? Today your hosts rectify that and discuss his 2010 film INCEPTION, a $800 million-grossing summer blockbuster with no pre-established IP, unless being the next film by the guy who made The Dark Knight somehow counts. In this episode, Renan and Bill discuss: whether this and other Nolan features are truly mindfucks or mere puzzle films; whether they work on a second time viewing; how Nolan uses time, editing, and music to achieve his ends; defending Nolan from the haters on film Twitter; whether it's OK for the dialogue to be pretty much all exposition; whether Mal is actually a villain and if Dom should be considered one—in fact, isn't Dom a little bit like Red Dead's Dutch van der Linde?

Episode links:

• Inception on IMDb
• Inception on Wikipedia
• Roger Ebert review of Inception
• AO Scott review of Inception
• Vulture interview with Dileep Rao
• Christopher Nolan's hand-drawn dream map
• Itzkoff interview with Christopher Nolan
• Deadline interview with Nolan
• Bilge Ebiri on the end of Inception
• Christopher Nolan on the film's ending
• More Nolan explaining the films ending
• ScreenRant video on the ending
• Big Other critical evaluation of Inception
• The Ringer on Inception's legacy
• The Ringer Rewatchables episode on Inception
• Alissa Wilkinson on Nolan's career overall

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