Sunday, August 01, 2010

Inception

Inception is proof positive that video games are now the most culturally significant form of entertainment medium.

After decades of chasing Hollywood, struggling to adapt cinematic concepts, structures, and tropes in the effort to make them meaningful within our interactive paradigm, we finally see an ingenious work of linear storytelling that is really only possible because 30+ years of video games have groomed a mass market audience capable of grokking the movie's game-like structure and terminology.

So, not only is Nolan's work a brilliant piece of storytelling and filmmaking, it's also something of a landmark, a milestone in the development of our medium.

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