Life imitates art?

For Black Friday, Mom and I decided to go to the movies.  Neither one of us had seen "Inception" yet - probably the last two people on the planet not to - and luckily there was ONE movie theatre left in the area that was still showing it.

I'd been wanting to see it since it first came out and EVERYONE started talking about it.  But somehow I never had a ride, or time, or money, or whatever, so I was looking forward to seeing it.  Traffic was a little crazy getting to the theatre, so we made in just as the previews were wrapping up, and before we knew it, we were wrapped up in the story.

Let me just say that all of the hype I'd heard about the film was not unfounded.  I was enthralled.  I was confused.  I was wondering if I would possible age as well as Leonardo DiCaprio (I mean, the man is nearly 40, and still looks amazing - and WHY hasn't he won an Academy Award yet??!).

So we're watching the movie and we get a little bit more than an hour and a half into it, and suddenly, just after the characters got to the "second dream level" and Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (aka my future husband ;)) are trying to dodge the subconscious projections, the filmstrip goes all wonky-sideways, and stops, and the corner of the film begins burning.  At first I thought, "Oh, crap."  And then I thought, "Oh!  It must be part of the movie - whoa, this film really IS deep!"  But the film remained stuck, and the burning corner began to turn black.....

About 5 minutes later, some audience members that had left to check things out came back in and said that the film was broken and wasn't going to get fixed, so they were giving free passes for us to come back.  All I could think was, "WHAT HAPPENS???!!"  Yeah, there was no way I was going to get any sleep until I found out the ending.

Thank goodness for IMDB, and the generous soul who posted an all-in-depth, spoiler-alert-filled synopsis.  I may know how it ends, but I still need to see it.  Hopefully January will hurry up and get here so that I can rent it.  At least I got to see the first half, so I can at least tell people that when they asked if I've seen it.  Even better, I not only got my brother's awesome reaction when I called him to tell him about it, but I now have this awesome story as well.
It's yet again one of those experiences that make you wonder, "Seriously?!  Seriously??!"
Then again, maybe it was all only a dream...... ;)