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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i just don't see it. not trying to be a dick or anything but i honestly don't know what those would be. don't spy on people? (if you're talking about the one w/ the cellphones)
you're a huge batman fan, so you'll want to like it more than most, but i think without that bias it's just a great show with no doubt some great actors but kinda "thin".
same with inception. looks great, good actors, some nice ubik-like plot, but mostly spectacle-- great CGI though.
i'll check out interstellar. but my favorite of his remains memento, so far.
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and to the spielberg comparison: can't be. spielberg is all about "everyman." he's kind of like an ideological descendent of frank capra. he comes from an era that was more optimistic and outward-oriented. the world was "out there." and "everyman" has to face its dangers, and survive, often almost naked.
nolan on the other hand is the master of self-absorption. a solipsist. the adventures are not in the world but inside the head-- and you don't even know if they're real. i can't see nolan bringing to life someone like indiana jones. he's a fucking brooder smoking pot in his room wondering if he actually exists.
spielberg deals with the concrete world-- sharks, or japanese airplanes, or space aliens in your closet-- shit you can touch and everyone can see and verify. a.i. was the exception but it wasn't his project-- maybe nolan should have done a.i. instead.
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Stil thoroughly disagree about Dark Knight, but don't want or need to press it and also have no intention of coming off like a dick. (Oh, but in answer to your question, I think the themes are mostly sociological and moral, somewhat psychological. Questions about the existence of evil and why people make the decisions they make that lead to those labels. I don't actually think spying was a very major part of the plot at all. I think it's a film about the chaotic nature of life and how much control we have vs. how little we believe we have in how we react to traumatic events.)
Anyway, oddly, what you just said about Spielberg ("everyman" and "out there") makes me think you should see Interstellar even more. Really. You eerily hit the nail on the head there by identifying exactly why I see a parallel with Spielberg.
But again I didn't mean Nolan was successfully "doing" Spielberg. I just think he wants to. That's all.