giuseppe-lippi

I used to be a fan of the black & white Perry Masons, but this was a more than unexpected surprise. As a television drama, it works exceedingly well, with an almost faultless screenplay and great acting. I LOVED Mr. Burr's Perry, all the more so because of his real suffering with a leg and difficulty at walking; and was pleasantly moved by this story of old romance, three main characters out of five that never married, decent people committing themselves to awful behavior, treason and deceit... All in all, what you used to call a very good yarn. Watch it and admire Jean Simmons, one of my favorite actresses in the Fifties and Sixties, doing her best to enthrall us again.

What a bore, all these fighting, pursuing, exploding sequences in a film that purported to be a descent into dreams and the unconscious mind! The adult moviegoer inevitably says: ENOUGH of such simplistic shortcuts to box office. Hollywood films are not interesting anymore for the general audience AND the thinking viewer. All this said, "Inception" is not a terrible film: it is that hybrid creature, the ambitious potboiler. So the screenplay, the actors, even some special effects (see the weightless sequences towards the end of the movie) are interesting enough to make us sigh at the thought of where a mature treatment of the same subject could have led. On another level, one cannot stop wondering why the film's dreams are so visually banal. Nobody is asking here for another dream sequence painted by Salvador Dali like in the Hitchcock masterpiece, "Spellbound", but it seems absurd that nothing in "Inception" looks even remotely surreal or fantastic (some of the weightless scenes excluded). All in all, another disappointing fantasy that could have been a much more interesting film -- if only it had avoided to include such an embarrassing amount of platitudes.