And ignoring questions about whether Alice is the Red King's dream or the Red King is Alice's*, the feeling I get now is a sense of cautious yearning from Arthur's need to check his totem. He wants to believe that Eames would be nice to him and help him get dressed, but he thinks he's making it up and so he checks. And Eames understands that.
(Then, of course, both of them ignore it in favor of sex, because they're men.)
I'm rather embarrassed to say how much time I spent thinking, "Eee, Arthur/Eames" during the movie, but let us say, it was a lot.
*From Through the Looking-Glass, where we're presented with the idea that Alice is the Red King's dream, and she'll "go out -- bang!-- just like a candle" if he wakes up instead of the other way around. For the purposes of fic, I'd rather believe Arthur and Eames are real because that's more fun than banging bits of Leonardo DiCaprio's subconscious together.
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And ignoring questions about whether Alice is the Red King's dream or the Red King is Alice's*, the feeling I get now is a sense of cautious yearning from Arthur's need to check his totem. He wants to believe that Eames would be nice to him and help him get dressed, but he thinks he's making it up and so he checks. And Eames understands that.
(Then, of course, both of them ignore it in favor of sex, because they're men.)
I'm rather embarrassed to say how much time I spent thinking, "Eee, Arthur/Eames" during the movie, but let us say, it was a lot.
*From Through the Looking-Glass, where we're presented with the idea that Alice is the Red King's dream, and she'll "go out -- bang!-- just like a candle" if he wakes up instead of the other way around. For the purposes of fic, I'd rather believe Arthur and Eames are real because that's more fun than banging bits of Leonardo DiCaprio's subconscious together.