Nanaya was finally able to get rid of this feeling of ice and fire after the movie started.
Perhaps he felt that watching his daughter's performance on the screen was more important to Mr. Wettin than staring at this wild boy.
In short, when the lights in the theater finally went out, the movie officially began.
Nanaya found that the gaze that had been making him feel stressed had disappeared.
This made Nanaya feel a little relieved. He also thanked Nolan and then watched the movie attentively.
Nolan's films are among the few commercial films that are worth revisiting multiple times.
Although "Inception" has always been advertised as a science fiction film during its promotion.
But to be honest, there is very little science fiction in this movie.
To be precise, the so-called science fiction elements only exist as the premise for the film's story to take place.
In this movie, there are neither spaceships nor high-tech weapons such as laser guns.
The only sci-fi element in it is the ability to enter other people's dreams.
But it is also because of this that the movie "Inception" can bring the audience a sense of reality that other science fiction movies do not have.
However, compared to other realistic movies, "Inception" gives people a sense of illusion.
This feeling of truth and falsehood is more in line with the elements of movie dreams.
In Nanaya's previous life, many people praised "Inception" as being miraculous.
Many people even think that this movie is obscure and difficult to understand.
To be precise, it should be said that the movie is somewhat exaggerated and difficult to understand, in order to praise Nolan and myself who thinks I "understand" the movie.
In Nanaya's opinion, "Inception" is a commercial film that couldn't be more standard.
The core of the story is your standard "protagonist learns [the truth] from [a lie]" trope.
Nolan even presented the lies of the protagonist, the "dream stealer" Cobb, to the audience in a very intuitive way.
As for the main axis of the story, it is equally simple. Although the multiple dreams seem complicated, as long as you follow Nolan's rhythm, there will basically be no deviation in your understanding of the plot.
To summarize it in one sentence, the story of "Inception" is that a team of dream stealers led by Cobb is hired by a wealthy Japanese businessman to give his competitor's son the idea of dissolving his father's company.
With this summary, you can see that the story of "Inception" is not much more complicated than Michael Bay's "Transformers".
But due to Nolan's superb narrative techniques, it is difficult for the audience to see the whole story at first glance.
Especially the flashback in the first paragraph makes the audience feel confused.
But as long as you watch the entire movie quietly, I believe that anyone with normal comprehension ability will not have any doubts about the story of this movie itself.
This is also a technique that Nolan is very familiar with. He likes to throw the story to the audience first.
Then the setting and background are revealed to everyone bit by bit in a peeling-off method.
This is also the reason why Nolan's films are always interspersed with various flashbacks and interpolations.
For audiences who are accustomed to those straightforward commercial films, Nolan's novel way of storytelling will naturally attract a large number of audiences.
Coupled with the suspense elements and shocking visual effects, the audience will naturally be addicted to the entire film.
But in fact, apart from the open ending, Nanaya doesn't think there is anything unclear about this movie.
And the spinning top is suggesting that Cobb is still in a dream or has returned to reality.
There is actually not much point in discussing this issue.
Because as long as you touch upon this topic and discuss it with other people, you are indirectly helping the producers promote the film.
For an original movie like Inception, topicality is the most important thing.
When audiences start discussing the film's ending, they themselves become part of the film's promotion.
This is also Nolan's brilliance. He could have ended the movie with a traditional commercial movie's happy ending.
But in that case, it might still be successful, but it would definitely not be as popular as it originally was.
The ending, although bold, left a deep impression on the audience and a topic that can be discussed for a long time.
Anyway, in Nanaya's previous life, this pyramid scheme was very successful.
Countless fans have made countless bold inferences in order to confirm Cobb's final outcome.
Even go through the movie frame by frame to look for clues.
Then use the clues you discover to prove your inference.
But the filmmakers ignored the audience's speculation and did not announce the answer until much later.
As a commercial film director, Nanaya is very clear about Nolan's ideas.
After all, "Inception" is a commercial film. No matter how alternative it is, it cannot deviate from the established rules of commercial films.
Just like "The Dark Knight", although it has a dark style and a bleak ending, it still has some shining points of humanity.
As long as Nolan does not challenge the unspoken rules of commercial films, the ending of the movie will definitely be a perfect family ending.
What's more infuriating is that Nolan just kept it to himself and never said it out loud.
This shows how bad this British man who likes to "kill his wife" is.
But Nanaya has to admit that Nolan may not be the most successful commercial director, but he is definitely the most stylish commercial director.
Nolan's films have always been thoroughly commercial films and have nothing to do with art films.
However, through the use of film colors, narrative techniques, and open endings, he elevated the quality of the originally vulgar commercial film to an infinite level, even approaching the level of art.
But it's not art after all.
Although the brains of those old men in the academic school are as stubborn as stones, they are not stupid after all.
Nolan's movies will be very popular with audiences, especially young audiences.
But if Nolan wants to win the favor of the Oscars, he is still a little bit short of it.
Nanaya's "Madoka Magica" actually has a similar situation, but the advantage of "Madoka Magica" is that it is the creator of the box office champion in film history.
This title adds so many extra factors to Madoka Magica.
However, Nanaya believes that neither Warner nor Nolan is interested in whether "Inception" can win the awards season.
Otherwise, they would not have chosen to release the movie during the summer vacation.
Judging from the enthusiastic applause from the audience after the movie, Inception's approach was undoubtedly successful.
"Lily."
Mr. Wettin smiled at his daughter with a look of satisfaction, an expression Nanaya had never seen before.
"You did very well."
Mr. Wettin praised it this way.
"Thanks, Dad."
Lily responded.
The scene became so warm in an instant that Nanaya was so moved that he almost cried.
No way!
Nanaya had expected Lily to perform well.
So even though Nanaya himself was very happy, he was not moved to this extent.
There was only one reason why Nanaya was about to cry: Mr. Wettin's hands were tightly clamped on her shoulders like a pair of pliers when he said this.
He was in so much pain that he almost cried.
"Then we have to go back."
Mrs. Wettin smiled and grabbed her husband's arm. Her skillful movements immediately made Nanaya know who Lily learned it from.
"Aunt, aren't you guys going to stay for a while? There should be a celebration party for the crew later."
Nanaya asked hurriedly when he saw two people about to leave.
Although he himself hopes to get out of his father-in-law's sight as soon as possible.
But since Lily debuted in the entertainment industry as an idol, the Wettin family has not had many reunions.
Especially after Ryan followed him, the Wettins hadn't seen either of their two daughters for a long time.
If possible, Nanaya still hopes that Lily can spend more time with her parents.
"Yes, Mom." Lily also tried to persuade him to stay, "Aren't you guys leaving too hastily?"
Mrs. Wettin shook her head slowly. "Well, it's good enough to see you alive and kicking. This is better than anything else for us. If I stay any longer, I will be kicked by the horse."
"…"
Nanaya remained silent.
"…"
Lily looked shy.
"…"
Mr. Wettin had no idea what was going on.
Anyone who interferes with others' love will be kicked by a horse.
As a Japanese, Nanaya certainly knows this very famous saying.
[Sure enough, this mother-in-law must have noticed something. ]
"Then we'll go first."
Mrs. Wettin waved goodbye to Nanaya and Lily.
For some reason, Mrs. Wettin glanced at Nanaya at last and winked at him.
"Nanaya, next time we meet, I hope you can change your name~"
Seeing this, Lily lowered her head in embarrassment.
[Why are you so shy? ! ]
"Well, see you later. Nanaya, Lily, give Ryan my regards."
After a gentle exhortation, Mrs. Wettin took her husband away contentedly.
"Boy." Mr. Wettin reluctantly said, "You must treat Ryan well. Also, if you dare to attack Lily..."
The other party just made a gesture of wiping his neck.
[Father-in-law, you are a British nobleman, is it really okay to threaten me with this kind of thug? ]
In short, after a thrilling premiere, Nanaya and the couple finally separated.
This made him breathe a sigh of relief.
Because the pressure from this couple was too great, from both of them.
"Brother-in-law, you are really useless."
Lily commented on Nanaya.
"If you can't handle this, what are you going to do when you hug me and my sister?"
Nanaya was very clever and pretended not to hear this.
"Brother-in-law~~"
Lily kept yelling.
Nanaya sighed and asked helplessly, "Are you going to visit the night scene later?"
"Okay! I'll take you to see the most beautiful place in London at night."
Lily, who had been looking depressed, suddenly smiled brightly. That smile was more charming than any other actress at the premiere.
And Nanaya,
While marveling at Lily's beauty, he also further realized that he was an animal.