Incepted

I have a lot of real things to tell you, but it's very late and I have to get up very early to get a lot done before the superheroes leave town for Labor Day tomorrow after lunch.

Instead of doing some of that work tonight, I watched Inception. 

For a while, it was innocent enough.  I was folding laundry for the first hour.  And everyone knows all your laundry has to be folded and put away before you can pack.

But then it was just me, sitting there, watching a movie I had seen in the theater.  Because it's amazing, that's why. 

And because Drew, one of our People, had suggested that the totem Cobb carries around--his wife's pewter spinning thing--is not really his totem.  His real totem is his wedding ring.  Drew said that he fiddles with it conscientiously in some scenes, and in other's, it's not even on his hand.

So in the last scene, we should not be staring at the pewter thing, we should be studying whether he's wearing his ring. 

This blew my mind.  This rocked my world like an explosion from the third layer reaching down into Limbo.  No way could this be true. 

So I watched for it, in that first hour when I was folding laundry.  And it's not true.  Nope.  The Director totally and completely sets up the story around that pewter totem and how Cobb uses it now and then we'll learn later how he used it to plant an idea in his wife's mind. 

I had the answer.  An hour into it.  This little theory about the ring must be just an internet rumor.

But I couldn't turn away!  I had other things to do--still do!--yet I had to watch it through to the end.  It's like Drew planted that idea in my mind.  Inception! 

Darn him. 

Off to Wyoming tomorrow.  Plan to be home Sunday.  We're feeling pretty clever about getting ahead of the traffic on both days. 

I'll be back Sunday evening to blog all about it, and about other half-remembered dreams of these past missing months.