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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.

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Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
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Original language

English

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies (Volume 4, Issue 4)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/12/2017

Publication status

Published - 01/12/2017

ISSN

2469-4312

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  • handle.net: 10547/622939

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