Reply #2: Hm, didn't think of the drowning angle. [View All]

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It is a movie about our times, though. A couple of times I thought of Moore's comments at the Oscars, about us living in a fictitious times. That the audience doesn't want to know the secret, and doesn't care about the man in the box.

Batman had a lot of modern commentary, too. Not as heavy-handed as the Wachowsky brothers, with Matrix and Vendetta. More mature, more complete. It was a comment on the difference between extreme measures and complete extremism. That's what I like about Nolan's films--they aren't just about the pretty movies he can make, they have a message, or at least the exploration of an idea, behind them. The difference between Thomas Kincaide and Pablo Picasso, in a way.

And on top of the complex storyline, he can make his pictures very pretty, too. I didn't like Insomnia much, but he seems to be getting better.

It was funny after the movie hearing people leaving the theater, trying to explain what had happened to people in their groups who missed it. Ten minutes after the film, I heard a woman in the parking lot trying to explain to a couple of guys what had happened. And I was still working on bits of it when I woke up this morning, remembering a line earlier in the film that foreshadowed the conclusion. I didn't get the bird trick, or the little kid figuring it out, until hours later (Don't want to give a spoiler). Not many movies can do that for me anymore.