Inception – a review
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Dear faithful readers,
yesterday I saw Inception. Almost suffered a sun stroke while doing it, but that’s another story. But you know what? It was soooo worth it.
Given I was a bit prejudiced since I don’t really like Leonardo di Caprio. You can’t deny his talent but he is just not my cup of tea. But I am huuuge sucker for anything made by Christopher Nolan.
To give you a brief outline – di Caprio stars as Dom Cobb, highly skilled Extractor, a man who invades your head while you sleep and steals secrets buried in the subconscious. This particular technique is mostly used as means of corporate espionage. But then a businessman Saito hires Cobb to pull an Inception – a process that is essentially reverse and almost impossible to pull off – to plant an idea into a subject’s head so he/she will think it originated from them rather then by an outside influence.
Trust me it is best if you know as little as possible about the plot. And this comes from someone who abhors going into movies without knowing what to expect. But it is best that way as it will give you an open mind to gorge on the intricate details of the plot. And it is intricate. For 2 and a half hours you are forced to pay attention. Because details are important. Until the last second before the credits role you have to focus because you might miss something. Kind of like Lost just on the movie screen. It’s layer upon layer upon layer and just when you think there couldn’t possibly be more off you go even deeper. It’s intricate and fast and bizarre. And it will challenge your brain. And yes you are forced to think.
The cast is superb – Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy and Marion Cotillard – all have delivered brilliant performances and are little cogs in the wheel of plot.
While I love the whimsy of Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland I found Nolan’s dream world equally compelling – vast, stark and the rules of physics do not apply – it will take your breath away. I also loved the score by Hans Zimmer.
Inception has the speed of Dark Knight and if you pardon my French WTF?! of Memento. And I’d love for it to be hugely successful because we need more movies likes this one. We’ve got lazy. You get your tickets, get your popcorn, go in on auto pilot and want to have things explained to you in simplest terms possible.
Inception is anything but simple. It would be nice to stop with the dumbing down and just roll with something that yes might be complicated to the extreme but to have a sort of vision and creativity like Nolan does? That does not come by very often so let’s enjoy it while he is willing to share it with us.
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