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Inception : a surrealist tale about lost love

  • Agnieszka Piotrowska

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Abstract

In the video essay we focus on the similarities between Inception (2010) and the surrealist classic Un Chien Andalou (1929) by Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel. In particular, it was the filmic language of unattainable desire, love and loss that we wanted to explore in visual terms[1]. Inception has been one of the most successful movies of the last ten years. The film was a great commercial success but it has had a mixed critical reception. Mark Fisher in Film Quarterly (2011, n. 64. Vol.3), for example, rightly accused it of being, at least in part, a capitalist ‘commodification of the psyche’, both artistically and ideologically.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies
Volume4
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2017

Keywords

  • surrealism
  • Film

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