Inception Explained – HTML + CSS Experiment

I love Inception (a genuine masterpiece), but wish people paid less attention to the details of the plot and more attention to the literary subtext! Because the plot is very straightforward, while understanding why the film is structured the way it is (and why Nolan does smaller things like naming the children as they are), is a genuine revelation.

This is whatever the 2013 equivalent of "requires flash" is.<p>&#62; HEY THERE! INCEPTION-EXPLAINED.COM IS AN EXPERIMENTAL SITE WHICH USES INTERACTIVE SCROLLING TO ANIMATE THE PAGE. UNFORTUNATELY, AWESOME MOBILE DEVICES LIKE YOURS DON'T HANDLE THAT VERY WELL :( PLEASE DO CHECK IT OUT ON YOUR COMPUTER USING CHROME OR FIREFOX, I LIKE TO THINK IT'S WORTH IT!

Posted a while back: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3735039" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3735039</a>

This didn't work with my scroll wheel very well. Once I just grabbed the scroll bar, I had some better luck. It looks neat though, I just suggest making it so the scroll wheel is more graceful.

Inception Explained uses Scrollorama, my jQuery plugin for doing scrolling animation. I have an updated version of this plugin, Scrollorama2: SuperScrollorama:<p><a href="http://johnpolacek.github.com/superscrollorama/" rel="nofollow">http://johnpolacek.github.com/superscrollorama/</a>

I found trying to follow this a more difficult experience than watching the actual film.

It's neat, but flicking my scrollwheel that many times gave me RSI. :)

Thankfully I have a trackball mouse, or that scrolling probably would have been really awkward. (It didn't feel right with arrow keys, too much latency.)

Would be much better with some click based animation rather than scrolling to give this parallax effect.

Beautiful - now if somebody can just make one of these for <i>Primer</i> I'll be all set.

nice try, good graphics, but i still find it confusing and boring after a few pulls.

Scrolling on my N7 was a hit and miss experience

this is a lot more interesting than the actual movie.

Too many spoilers for someone that hasn't seen the movie. I doubt your affiliate link will get much traction because of it.