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What is deep, where is that substance? Well, watch Memento, The Prestige, TDK or Interstellar again... Pay attention to themes in those films, to dialogues and monologues, to ways how protagonists react to and reflect situations around them.What is deep and ground-breaking about Nolan in contrast to what Tarantino has done? Because to me Nolan's movies have very little substance.
Pay attention to intentions of characters, how they put their ideas into action, what they sacrifice to get what they want, look at consequences of their actions. Heed the obsessive behaviour of Leonard, Angeir, Borden, Wayne... Those films are full of psychological and philosophical ideas you can think about for the whole rest of your life.

IMO those films are ground-breaking, I've never seen things like that put together in such manner. Entertaining yet so clever, sophisticated, emotional and original. To me they are amongst the best artistic endeavours I've ever experienced. Maybe because I'm psychologically flawed in very similar ways the protagonists of Nolan's films are. His films speak right to my core. I can understand those obsessive somewhat self-destructive idealists... I can understand them and I feel their struggle.
Baffled Leonard, going for revenge again and again, unable to tell what's real, what's some reflection, what's illusion of his mind. Angeir and Borden, giving everything dear in their lives and their lives themselves to achieve their, for other people incomprehensible, goals. Wayne's obsessive adherence to rules and ideas over pragmatism and self-preservation. Cooper's standpoint between the species or the individual. Etc., etc.
On the formalistic side, pay attention to structure of Memento or The Prestige, because their structures reflect the main perspectives of those films, i.e. loss of short-term memory and three parts of any proper magic trick. And watch how multi-layered their narration is. How sophisticated scripts for those films are. It's just mind-boggling. The amount of detail and complexity. I think scripts for TDK and Interstellar are just brilliant (it's like the borderline of human script-writing capabilities

I have to see Inception again to take some standpoint.
I would love to discuss your observations from watching those films, there is so much to talk about. So if you want, just write here where's the subtance missing and we can look at that in detail.

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