Christopher Nolan ruined movies. He has the whimsy of 4 year old trapped in the aesthetics of a sexually repressed “apolitical” British Gen-Xer.
His inner child has no room to breathe beneath the looming, shifting steel and glass.
His idee fixe is a manic murder-suicide mastermind who forces you to make the ultimate gamble night after night: face the “real world” (kill yourself) or live in the endless dream (kill yourself) …. Which leads you to pretentiously scratch your chin…