Nolan has said this is definitely inspired by Dark City and The Matrix.
Nolan has said this is definitely inspired by Dark City and The Matrix.
"I think ours is of an older school, ours is more of 'The Matrix' variety and the concepts of different levels of reality," Nolan said. "The whole concept of avatars and living life as someone else, there's a relationship to what we're doing, but I think when I first started trying to make this film happen it was very much pulled from that era of movies where you had 'The Matrix,' you had 'Dark City,' you had 'The Thirteenth Floor' and, to a certain extent, you had 'Memento' too. They were based in the principles that the world around you might not be real."
Speak for yourself. Nolan has disappointed repeatedly..
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