When the oscar nominees were announced recently my eyes immediately and quite by reflex devoured the entire list and stopped at the best director's list for a closer scrutiny.
Something seemed wrong.it was not a list any person in his right mind would make at all.
A best directors list with no place for nolan is like cricket in India
without Hugh Laurie (or something like that).
Frodo seemed to think it was a good idea to write about it anyway,So i sat down in front of the pc,leaned back and set my music player to play the incredible soundtrack of inception on loop,(you know, just to set the mood).
Talking about inception-well, when i left the theater after watching the film,i knew i had seen something unreal,something truly pathbreaking.I’ve watched a lot of movies and i can tell you,i haven't felt that way after a film my whole life.We have been making motion pictures now for like atleast a 100 years and it felt like all those years of film making,all the great films of its times right through Hitchcock, Fellini, Bergman,Coppola, Kubrick, Spielberg,The Wachowski brothers, all those years of triumphant filmmaking had culminated in one scintillating spectacle-Inception.
From the incredible mind of Christopher Nolan,the man who makes it a point to introduce novelty in every one of his movies ,the man who has reminded us to bring our brains along when watching a movie,for him this movie was no different yet somehow this one stands out from the rest.
Yet the panel chose to honour David Fincher for a film that has its claims to merit but is not even close to being in the same league as Inception.From Fincher’s point of view this is a recognition long overdue since he was denied the award twice for Se7en and Fightclub with the latter going on to garner cult status after its release and fetching Chuck Palahniuk from whose book the movie was adapted immediate world wide acclaim.
The fighter (which is a mediocre film at best) is a surprise entry too.The film is just another boxing movie and not a watchable one at that either with Christian Bale looking like an exhumed corpse in what is widely considered the highpoint of his career.And lets face it ,True Grit (the other movie chosen ahead of Inception) isn’t a movie for the ages and I can tell you that by just looking at the basic plotline..
Its almost as if Nolan was deliberately overlooked,Perhaps the oscar panel has a fetish for insulting great films and genuinely awesome movie makers. Maybe they just take themselves a little too seriously,maybe they see some sort of pretentious greatness in choosing crappy films over brilliant ones.Nolan has truly outdone himself in this insanely brilliant modern-day classic..To quote imdb
“In a decade ‘incepion’ may be a religion” and I couldn’t agree more.
