This still plays to me like one of Nolan's more personal works; an impressive technical feat of collaborative vision and design in the name of the working professionals who construct the fake worlds we project our feelings onto. A movie about a workaholic whose craft costs him irreversible time with his loved ones but who believes wholeheartedly in the value of fabricated/simulated catharsis as a form of world-changing therapy. As someone familiar with film editing I am blown away by a new cut almost every time I watch it, frequently having to move through plot construction, literal layered logistics of action, and fractured, subjective feelings and memories simultaneously.

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