Before I get into this review, I wanted to reiterate what I said yesterday. Thank you for reading and enjoying. Keep coming back, though, because I will write more. Just not as often. And now, let the review begin.
Remember, I might spoil different parts of this movie for you, blah, blah, blah, don't read unless you want. There.
When I first heard about Inception, I had a lot of preconceptions. I assumed that it would be visually and mentally spectacular because of Christopher Nolan. As a director and a writer, Christopher Nolan takes everything you know about reality and turns it on its side. And that was the exact thing that needed to be done with the movie Inception. I can tell you now that I have a feeling that this movie will get several Oscar nominations, including Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Visual Effects and possibly even Best Supporting Actor for Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
First of all, a little background. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Cobb, a man with the ability to enter people's dreams and manipulate and discover information that is hidden deep down in the subconscious. However, he has to do it within certain time periods or else bad things can happen - like being stuck in the dream state forever. But Cobb is not alone. He has his trusty number two (I cannot use that phrase without imagining Dr. Evil speaking to Robert Wagner/Rob Lowe in the Austin Powers movies). Anyway....Arthur is good at protecting his boss and friend, but Arthur doesn't know all of Cobb's secrets. In fact, it takes a curious "dream architect" to discover what Cobb is really hiding.
After messing up an information extraction, Cobb and his team are hired by the same man they tried to get information from. Except this time, he wants to join them to ensure that his investment is worth it. And the job is no longer an extraction, but an inception, hence the title. An Inception is the act of planting an idea into the subconscious and letting the subject think that it was theirs in the first place.
Throughout the rest of the film, you go from dream state to dream state attempting to get the mark - Cillian Murphy - to accept the idea that needed to be planted.
As usual, there is a lot more to the story than the main plot. I found that Cobb could represent a lot of people that are "running" from their own realities. Cobb's wife had died because she could not live in the "real world", having lived for a long time in a dream state. And she thought the dream world was reality and reality was the dream. But Cobb knew better. He knew that the dream world was not a place where he could live. He knew that the dreamworld that he and his wife created was only a shadow of where they really belonged.
Everyone dreams at one point in their lives or another. Some of us feel as if we are living our dreams and some of us feel that we are living in waking nightmares. All of these aspects are considered in this movie. The concept that we have the ability to control our dreams is something that has been discussed by scientists for ages. Is it possible? Sure. Is it as effective as what we see in Inception? Maybe. Who knows. Only you do.
What I'm trying to say is that no matter what dreams may come (thank you Mr. Shakespeare) to you in your head, you do have the ability to avoid the bad ones. Bad dreams come from stress and bad things happening in your life. Avoid the bad things and the stress and you can avoid bad dreams. And as long as you don't have any deep, dark secrets, there should be no reason for Cobb and his team to infiltrate your mind looking for them.
Sweet dreams everyone.
Until next time.
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