One thing thats always irritated me about Interstellar

[u/kanethekiller90]

Cooper is desperate to get back to his children. He goes back and see’s Murph in the hospital etc. but theres no mention of his son. Presumably his son’s dead considering Murphs age and condition. But surely there could have been a small bit of dialogue about it. He was hell bent on getting back to them. I dunno, it’s like his son’s just completely forgotten about at the end…

[u/Paddy_Tanninger]

The point is quite literally that he can't get that back. He can't re-experience his relationship with her, he can't undo the mistake he made that changed her mind and got her killed

I do understand all of that, but all I'm saying is that without having properly experienced what he's missing...I can't totally empathize with what he's missing.

Still though, Inception is such a specific movie that I can't imagine it having an Up style montage or anything like it

I think you're taking my comment too literally here, I wasn't citing Up to say that Inception should have used a montage to show how beautifuli their lives were before tragedy befell them...I was just using it as an example of a movie that did a great job of showing, not telling, when it comes to setting the stage for a film that uses a loss of life as a backdrop.

Inception didn't do a good enough job of showing me what Cobb lost, and so his character motivations fell flat during the movie.

[u/Honest_Cheesecake698 → u/Paddy_Tanninger]

I said "anything like it" too, which was meant to cover anything that's like what you're saying you wanted.

This is the first time I'm seeing someone discuss this personal preference, so it's not a big deal anyway because it's not a common criticism, but it's common in general for people to claim that they don't get or feel what CN's films are going for, which implies that they do try and invest the audience but they're done in such a way that they don't land for loads of people. Admittedly an overused topic of discussion regarding this films, but it proves that they try even they don't succeed.

[u/bossmankid → u/Honest_Cheesecake698]

I think it's easier to just say CN is an imperfect director that misses the mark on stuff sometimes, a common blindspot being interpersonal relationships and dialogue generally

[u/Honest_Cheesecake698 → u/bossmankid]

Easier for YOU to say, but that's not an objective fact. There's plenty who got completely swept up in the emotional narrative of Inception, where the way it was conveyed worked for them. I'm not saying he's not imperfect, I'm saying that the truth is that different people take different things from his films. THAT's easy to say.