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Peter is currently completing his honours year in film and television at Monash University, writing his thesis on the history of zombie films and their interpretation.
Walking through the little streets of Melbourne – trying impossibly to find the location of a poorly signed club from a hastily scrawled map – while ever wondering if the night’s film will even make it to the screen, one cannot help but be reminded – in the heat of this excitement – of that astute observation once made by Georges Bataille: that “the successful transgression…maintains the prohibition in order to benefit by it”.
Inception operates at the cutting edge of contemporary narrative comprehension, spectatorial skill and processing speed: a position that will diminish, without fail, over time. But for now, raising this bar is a film that incites as much contempt (or at least, misunderstanding) as devotion.
