Inception is enjoyable, but it is not a dream movie. It does not accurately represent dream states. Inception uses its version of "dreams" as a plot device. (Its "dream states" are really more like alternate worlds/dimensions than dreams.) It is much more comparable to The Matrix series than it is to Waking Life.
Waking Life is the only real dream film I've seen. If you've seen others, I'd like to hear about them.
Agreed, well, kind of. Only a few scenes in Inception felt like actually it actually took part in a dream (JGL sneaking behind the grunt using the stair trick, the tidal wave in the mansion and a few scenes in Limbo).
I think Inception is more enjoyable, and is a decent contemplation on the nature of ideas and free will. It explores areas that WL doesn't, or doesn't explore in such detail. But for its dreams sequences, well, it was just too coherent.
Waking Life's complete lack of coherency and disregard for a plot, even within the same scene, makes it much more like a dream than Inception.
And I would put Alice in Wonderland (The Disney animated version) as a another film the has the same lack of coherency and dream like visuals/ atmosphere
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