It is important to remember that each visual appeal
communicates to viewers the cinematographer’s concept of beauty. Camera angles,
lens choices, composition, costume choices, music, editing/effects, and even
the narrative and screenplay should all be designed to heighten our emotional
reaction to what we are watching.
Withholding my affinity for the chemistry between Marion
Cotillard and Leonardo DiCaprio onscreen, I would like to point out how Nolan uniquely
taps into human attraction toward the authenticity and power of creation. Viewers
are walked through the art of dream architecture by Cobb alongside his apprentice
Ariadne. How fascinating she finds the ability to alter her surroundings; and
how fascinating a scene for many American viewers, many of whom have merely had
the exposure to American simulacrum representing France! Not to mention, Edith
Piaf’s “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” not only symbolically and harmoniously fits the
film’s narrative, but composer Hanz Zimmer incorporates the tune in to the deeper
levels of dream worlds as time slows down by slowing the song down. Genius.
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