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Punished_Blinx posted...

Cliffhangers are a narrative device to get people on the hook for the next thing. I would say that immediately differs it from an ambiguous ending. The ending of Inception is a proper ending that resolves the story and the development of the protagonist. There's nowhere else for it to go.

I do agree it doesn't matter when it comes to these awards though. It's a direct sequel to a superhero movie that already made an impact and won. The Boy and the Heron likely being Miyazaki's last movie gives it an importance that isn't really going to be overlooked for this sort of thing.

Not saying that's the only reason why it won but obviously there's a lot of politics, subtext and industry discussions that happen outside the movies themselves too. The nominees and winners tell a story themselves and are supposed to represent the discourse of that respective year.

Yeah plus no point getting into the whole "the Oscars are a joke" thing when it's always been known that the best movie is never the one that wins. They gave the Oscar to rango for crying out loud when even Kung fu panda 2 was much better in every single way. Brave won over wreck it Ralph, an obvious but still no less insulting snub. And thats just for one category, let alone the others