In Your Dreams
by Arbie T. Baguios on July 19, 2010
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard and Ellen Page
Inception sucks and let me tell you why.
It sucks for the other movies showing in the cinemas because no matter how colossal they make their stories out to be (OMG vampires and werewolves) they will seem like petty barber’s tales beside Inception. It sucks for the actors because they will probably not star in another movie as epic as this one for the next five years. Inception sucks because it’s really, really good.
It is no wonder Inception’s writer, producer and director Christoper Nolan took ten years writing the film’s script. What started out as a simple “dream thief” concept was blown out of universal proportions to create the reality (or perhaps non-reality) of “Inception”. It has everything a typical heist movie should have, only raised exponentially— imagine the entire city of Paris folded like thin paper, or creating gravity in the absence of it. By the end it, Inception would’ve defied a dozen of Physics laws, and created twice as many new ones.
Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is an idea-thief maneuvering in the realm of dreams hired by Saito (Ken Watanabe) to implant an idea on corporate rival Robert Fischer Jr. (Cillian Murphy). This process of planting an idea is called “Inception”. In this mission, he assembles a team composed of a researcher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a forger (Tom Hardy), a chemist (Dileep Rao) and an architect (Ellen Page) — all playing vital roles in ensuring the team’s success.
The film was truly a dream, and no other word can be more fitting. And like a dream, too, Inception was a labyrinth which you can only figure out and see wholly near the end. The film explores the theme of reality, something we’re no stranger to (Matrix, Shutter Island which also stars DiCaprio). Nolan had tried to answer, too, some of the perplexing dream phenomenon we encounter in real life— the the “kicks”, raining in dreams (which is apparently caused by the urge to pee), and music’s effect on sleep. In the real world, science has unmasked little about the phenomenon of dreams— why they happen, what triggers them, and has even tried to control them. Inception has provided a cohesive, refreshing, and believable (despite its unrealism) alternative explanations on the subject. Surely, the film will keep you in rumination long after it has ended.
g says: 5 out of 5 stars
