La femme du Vème (The woman in the fifth)

Polish – French production, European style…which is a bit difficult to watch, but extraordinary twist at the end. Although it lacks that open space cadre, it’s a bit closed and dark, but all European movies have that.
At first the arrival of Ethan Hawke (the troubled writer) in Paris, to see his daughter was just a sequence of his “mental illness” that didn’t even go noticed. But a sympathetic feeling from the audience of a poor man, his wife is such a bitch who divorced him, fly over the ocean just to separate him from his child, or is it something more to the story? He writes letters to his 6 year daughter every day, promising soon to be together, and to compensate for lost time.
The progress of the story also didn’t indicate any soon resolution to his problem, although he was trying desperately. He found a place to stay in a suspicious and poor café in, found a job in an even more bizarre place…
and almost at the same time he meets two woman, or two woman shows interest in him, which gives you the sense that he just might get out of his mess, and reestablish his life again… the first one young Polish girl, the works in the cafe, and the second mature elegant and mysterious that lives on the fifth.  He spend time with both of them and up until the very end he realizes that the one of them is a pure figment of imagination, his alter ego. More so that she is the initiator for resolving his fears in a most extreme way. The other woman, the real one is a stone or element that gives balance to the story, and to his sanity. When he realizes his “sickness” and his behavior from it, from his alter ego he chooses the only logical thing for saving his daughter, saving her from him... he chooses to leave.

Bravo Pawel Pawlikowsaki.  

INCEPTION

This could be the second or the third time for me watching this movie, and then it occurred to me that it’s been years since I put my thought at this blog of mine. So here it is:

The idea is genius, I like it from the beginning to the end. The soul thought of something that can be initiated to someone else via mind manipulation is ancient from the time humans could think, but put it in a very creative way like this on the screen is even more exciting. I was expecting a twist at the end, to tell you the truth. I was hoping that the character of Cobb would trick Saito at the end that it was still some way of tricking him into reviling his company secrets, but this was ok ending to. 
The details when they sink deeper and deeper from one dream, to the next was super, especially the van flying moments parallel with the hotel scene with no gravity effect. Like the one idea is fully transferred in the next dream. Although I would expect the same outcome even in the third dream. But I assume that it would be difficult to film that.
 And especially I liked the last scene with the kids, when he rolled the humming top, basically telling us that the all movie was Cobb’s own dream. That he didn’t even woke up from it the all time. Which imposes the question did he even had a wife? Or did he even have children? Was Mal just a structure in his own design?
In my humbled opinion I would think that everybody will contemplate or sense the movie of its own way. And will get a different message then I. Take a breath and see if the world you created for yourself is real or not? Or is it just a figment of your deeper inner self?