"important buildings"

Film An entertaining bit of ineption about the architecture in Inception:
"the architectural set pieces grow increasingly trite and familiar. The bulk of the dream sequences take place in the following spaces: on the streets of downtown Los Angeles, including a wide intersection in front of a Famima store; the inside of a van; a hotel room; hotel hallways; an elevator; an elevator shaft; and a quasi-Brutalist mountainside complex where, in the deep snow, you can make out the boot-prints of both James Bond and Jason Bourne."
What this writer has missed is that Ariadne has to create unfamiliar versions of the familiar and that loop back on themselves. If she had gone about creating the architectural marvels this writer was hoping for, the mark would have realised his dreams were being interfered with.

Plus in criticising Cobb's world, he's neglected to realise that this is Cobb's world, the buildings of his memory. These are the important buildings in his life.

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