tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19836501.post984752498485157812..comments2023-10-22T12:21:47.291-04:00Comments on Geoffrey Philp: Inception, Dreams, and Caribbean CultureGeoffrey Philphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13442948340176713964noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19836501.post-16238379962803691592010-08-05T15:30:08.198-04:002010-08-05T15:30:08.198-04:00JDID, and dancehall as a different set of beats et...JDID, and dancehall as a different set of beats etc. is very exciting...Geoffrey Philphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13442948340176713964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19836501.post-4132162180076830352010-08-05T15:29:05.433-04:002010-08-05T15:29:05.433-04:00Summer, yes it was brilliant...so much so that it ...Summer, yes it was brilliant...so much so that it xtended the dream-world feeling...<br /><br />I was also invested in Cobb's happiness which is why I wanted him to wake up.<br /><br />I think Nolan, as a director/storyteller, ended the film where he had to end it...for the viewers , it's a different dynamic.Geoffrey Philphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13442948340176713964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19836501.post-87147122043067322182010-08-05T12:08:45.944-04:002010-08-05T12:08:45.944-04:00interesting thoughts. the slavery meme vs the danc...interesting thoughts. the slavery meme vs the dancehall one. i think you may be right, not alot of uplifting going on these days in dancehallJdidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19836501.post-25877760822515251532010-08-04T23:05:05.651-04:002010-08-04T23:05:05.651-04:00Yeah, Nolan, the director, is a boss at playing wi...Yeah, Nolan, the director, is a boss at playing with multiple meanings. The last scene of the movie couldn't have been more ingenious. Did you realize that once they all wake up in the plane, there is absolutely no dialogue between the characters of the Inception team?! Those actors pulled off that closing dialogue (both between themselves and between them and us, the viewers) without a single word! <br /><br />I couldn't help but be invested in Cobb's happiness, but perhaps that is because of my own personal investment in this question of what it means to be happy or at least contented here on this earth.Summer Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11584502486619830476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19836501.post-13290894807979510702010-08-04T22:57:07.758-04:002010-08-04T22:57:07.758-04:00I think much dancehall music has strayed away from...I think much dancehall music has strayed away from the uplifting mission that your friend alludes to. Of course there are some dancehall artistes and songs that continue in the social justice tradition, but unfortunately, these artistes and their memes are being pushed to the background by the counterproductive, more popular memes Geoffery described. You can say that those negative ideas have and are spreading like a virus overtaking and contaminating the purer ideals of dancehall. Sad, but true. Just look at warped patriarchal dynamics of the passa passa dances/culture.Summer Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11584502486619830476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19836501.post-79758410795124924372010-08-04T11:33:34.728-04:002010-08-04T11:33:34.728-04:00Summer, I don't think the question was never a...Summer, I don't think the question was never about Cobb's happiness because the question was "Am I awake or asleep?"<br />That question is never answered, which is what makes it frustrating...and pleasurableGeoffrey Philphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13442948340176713964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19836501.post-10782931057594862712010-08-04T11:21:13.868-04:002010-08-04T11:21:13.868-04:00Hi Summer,
I think the problem is that we have in...Hi Summer,<br /><br />I think the problem is that we have invested so much in whether Cobb is awake or sleeping that to leave it open-ended was disappointing. I understand why he did it--any other ending would have been anti-climatic.<br /><br />I'll look at the clip now.<br /><br />Thanks!Geoffrey Philphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13442948340176713964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19836501.post-9253698803678646842010-08-04T11:15:17.493-04:002010-08-04T11:15:17.493-04:00After watching the show, I had to conclude that si...After watching the show, I had to conclude that since Cobb did not care to see if the totem stopped spinning or not (in the last shot of the movie) , the message is essentially that your reality is what you make it, or perhaps, whatever makes you happy at the end of the day.<br /><br />Have you seen this Inception discussion with an explanation of the end? (the explanation favors the view that Cobb has woken up in the end and is back in an objective real world.)<br /><br />http://screenrant.com/inception-spoilers-discussion-kofi-68330/Summer Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11584502486619830476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19836501.post-62054949815483528162010-08-04T08:31:31.703-04:002010-08-04T08:31:31.703-04:00Annie, great to hear from you!
I will admit to no...Annie, great to hear from you!<br /><br />I will admit to not being immersed in dancehall, so let me say that the music that reaches my ears is usually about sexual prowess. Also, the music does not promote itself, esp. here in South Florida as a music that promotes social and economic injustice.<br /><br />The benefits that Marley's music have brought to Jamaica are immeasurable. From the singers who greet us at the airport, to the guy making a selling paper with Marley's photo, to the kid who sold my daughter a t-shirt at the foot of the Himalayas--Marley makes a (part) of living for them.<br /><br />I think the burden is now on us. Marley was a producer who sold and managed his product. The models are their and as a follower of Garveyite principles, we could learn. There are things InI can do to make Ja better (yes, global forces, America), but it is up to InI.Geoffrey Philphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13442948340176713964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19836501.post-84883846993920261602010-08-04T07:42:53.062-04:002010-08-04T07:42:53.062-04:00After such a sophisticated reading of Inception an...After such a sophisticated reading of Inception and Caribbean writers you surprised me with your ultra simplistic Reading of Jamaican music. Dancehall is hardly reducible to songs abt sexual prowess. More than half are songs about social and economic injustice. Also why is it that with all the positive menes in Marley's music things haven't changed at all for the average ghetto dweller?Annie Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18002716362243335338noreply@blogger.com