Part of our CINEMA IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS series. Saturday, June 27, 2020 @ 7p, Netflix Streaming Service: INCEPTION (2010, Warner Brothers, dir by Christopher Nolan, streaming, 148 mns)
HOW TO: While we all work to be socially responsible during the age of coronavirus, Secret Movie Club is experimenting with news ways we can all come together as a community and watch great movies.
We want to keep this very reasonable since folks have to have Netflix to start with. So donate whatever works for you. $1 is fine with us.
Just make sure you download NETFLIX PARTY on a Chrome Browser. You'll see the initials NP in the upper right hand corner of browser after a succesful download.
Secret Movie Club will email the link for the Netflix Party at 30 minutes before showtime using the email you provide here. Click that link then click the NP in upper right hand corner. This will synch you to our screening. We will start the movie at exactly 5 minutes after the hour.
There will be a chat function that allows everyone to comment as we go.
The Secret Movie Club team will be offering trivia, history, insights, articles, deep dives throughout the movie(s). We're going to work to make this as rich a feast as possible utilizing the technology at hand.
Then we'll want your feedback immediately on how we can improve/make it better! This also will allow Secret Movie Clubbers from all over the world to join in on a virtual screening!
This final week of June 2020 we’re screening a mini fest of great recent speculative sci-fi movies. On Saturday 6/27/20, we close out the series with one of the biggest blockbusters of the last decade: Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi action adventure Inception.
Cobb, a professional thief, uses a special kind of technology to enter people’s subconscious through dreams, to steal intellectual property information. But then he’s hired by Saito to try to do something completely new: “inception” or the act of planting an idea in someone’s subconscious so they actually follow through with an action. If Cobb can do this, Saito promises Cobb he’ll fix things so Cobb can return home to his children whom he hasn’t seen since being banned from his country.
Anyone who has seen this movie knows the images and visuals that defined a decade of blockbusters: the hotel hallways that defy gravity, the cities that bend in on themselves when being designed from dreamscapes, the “dreams within dreams” approach of the thieves to bypass and trick their marks.
The movie has a powerhouse ensemble including Leonardo Di Caprio, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, and Michael Caine. And Nolan appears to be having the time of his life seeding every sequence with references and homages to his favorite movies including 2001, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and others.
Inception is as much an autobiography of Christopher Nolan (Di Caprio is made up to look exactly like Nolan) and love of cinema as anything. But it also uses the sci-fi genre to totally break the laws of physics in visually exciting and new ways.
Possibly most interestingly, Inception really takes dreams and the nature of dreams seriously. Here dreams become a beautiful metaphor for moviemaking and generating ideas about moviemaking.
Come revisit one of the biggest hits of the last decade. See what you think of Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi approach and how the movie feels 10 years later.