Tangled, Bowling, Inception

[stevenpiziks]

At the last minute last week, I took the boys out to see TANGLED.  It was a really cool outing, and all three of the boys enjoyed it.  Partway through, Maksim changed seats so he could sit by me and snuggle in closer.  He's been even more touchy-feely since Kala left, which is very understandable.

 

The next day, the boys finished their jobs and I took them to the bowling alley.  It'd been a long time since we'd done that, and the boys like that very much.  Afterward we went out to lunch, which they also thought was pretty cool.  And it was all funded by a small check I got from Amazon electronic sales.

 

Right after that, I went over to my friend Kurt's, and we watched INCEPTION on DVD.  Kurt had seen it in the theater, but the film malfunctioned partway through, destroying the show's momentum, so this was the first time he'd seen it without interruption.  I hadn't seen it at all.

 

I liked it quite a lot, and (SPOILER) realized about halfway through that the entire thing was a dream cooked up by Cobb in an attempt to wake himself up.  Numerous clues show up the end.  His children don't look at him.  His wife keeps telling him it's a dream, but he refuses to believe her, thinking she's insane (but he's insane, not her).  As Cobb is leaving the airport at the end, everyone turns to stare at him (as we know dream constructs do to intruders) several times.  The huge clue is that the passport guy stamps Cobb passport with the same circle-and-aroow symbol Cobb drew for Ariadne earlier (you can just catch it in freeze-frame).  We don't see if the top stops spinning at the end, providing some ambiguity, but it's quite clear the whole thing is Cobb's dream.  Pretty cool.

 

The boys called twice while I was there.  They get nervous if I leave them alone for more than a couple hours.  So I slid back home for them.