It is ingenious but not crafty, knotty but not duplicitous. To contrast it with the latter, in particular fine film though that is , is to appreciate the difference between stage-magic and a real miracle. The director-as-magician analogy feels least tired when applied to Christopher Nolan, given his body of work, its formal and mental layers and precisely engineered reveals.
At best, this approach can be exhilarating. At worst — as with the narrative drip-feed of Insomnia, his weakest picture — it is obfuscation masquerading as artistry, aka not half as bloody clever as it thinks it is. Instead, marvel at the effrontery of a filmmaker who asks you to emotionally invest in avowed mental constructs — and succeeds.
In one sense, admittedly, this is what every filmmaker asks us to do: engross ourselves in their imagination. This is about life and death and what might be beyond and between. The muscular action that distinguished his Bruce Wayne pictures is again in evidence, but whereas Gotham in the Nolanverse is bound by at least some constraints — you know, little things like physics — here all bets are off. Funny, though, how moments that make the memory boggle when you recall them pass naturally in the moment because you are rooted in the world Nolan has created, in the reality s of the characters.
Nolan created a world of genius. At the same time, away from all the sci-fi, he also managed to create a touching story between Cobb and Hal. The scene when she jumps down from the roof is of course especially haunting, but also how we never see their children's faces in the dream because Cobb refuses to until he sees them in reality.
And does so in the end. Happy end? And finally Cobb can, thanks to the Asian's help, get back to America and see his kids and then we see the swirling totem.
Hal's totem. Does that mean we are indeed in her dream still. It could be with Nolan poking fun at unrealistic in the truest sense of the word rushed endings and nothing we saw was reality. Was Hal right all along? That's the good thing here. Also have you ever asked yourself if you are in a dream yourself because when you are dreaming, then you usually don't know, so who says it couldn't be one we are all in right now. Anyway, this should be almost enough now with the review.
You hopefully understood how much I liked this film. Just a few more snippets of information: was an amazing year for DiCaprio because he also appeared in Scorsese's "Shutter Island", another brilliant movie about the distorted human mind. I just mentioned the idea of totems. That I like as well, also with the additional idea that you should not let anybody touch your totem and how Cobb puts Page's character to a bit of a test there.
Oh yes, another really smart reference the proportion. There is so much to like here, it is pretty unreal. I am generally not a huge action film fan, but the very action-packed sequence in the icy region was good too. What can I say? I just like snow. Even if they had preferred an island in the sun or so. Another comedic moment. I think I'll leave it at that, even if there are another dozen moments at least so full of wit and creativity just like myself that they deserve elaboration on, but I won't because you need to watch it yourself instead!
In the future, the industrial spy Cobb Leonardo DiCaprio has the ability to steal secrets from the dreams of executives. When his beloved wife committed suicide in the past, he was falsely accused of murder and now he is an international fugitive that can not return to USA to be with his children. When Cobb meets the powerful Saito Ken Watanabe , the executive offers a unique chance to him to clear his records.
In return, Cobb shall plant an inception in the mind of the heir Robert Fischer Cillian Murphy to avoid that the company he had inherited from his father becomes a monopoly in energy in the future. Cobb lost the capability to build dreams and together with his partner Arthur Joseph Gordon-Levitt , they team up with the trainee in architecture Ariadne Ellen Page ; with the expert Eames Tom Hardy ; and with the chemistry Yusuf Dileep Rao to enter in different levels of Robert's dream and plant the inception.
I do not understand the hype surrounding this film, probably the fruit of the market campaign of smart producers that lure naive viewers that seem that does not think and understand how flawed and stupid this story is. The plot is developed in fast pace to force the viewer to not think, with incoherent rules that do no make sense and that change in each layer of the dream in accordance with the intention of the writer. The best part of this film is the hilarious IMDb User Rating that reflects how brainless the Hollywood cinema has become in the contemporary days.
My vote is six. Not all the hype suggests but still an enjoyable action thriller built on a good concept and encourages thought afterwards bob the moo 2 August The important thing to start out with is to distance yourself from the hype about this film because it will not help you when watching it, nor is any of it totally justified. It seems that any mainstream film especially at summertime that manages to at least do something different or clever will be hailed as a masterpiece simply because it is not Transformers 2.
So watching it expecting to be amazed is probably the wrong state of mind to be in. Likewise it is probably not great to be expecting something impossible to follow, because again the film is very clearly constructed and even when action is occurring across several "levels" at once, I still found it easy to follow.
The film is a thriller and, like many great thrillers it is one that is built on an imaginative and clever concept. The world of dream infiltration is well constructed and is also well delivered to the audience; some people near me were muttering and asking confused questions throughout, but personally I found it easy to follow for the most part — and not because I'm smart but because the film does a good job of bringing the viewer into the ideas and concept.
In terms of being an action movie, the second half of the film does pick this up well and the race against time across all of the dream levels, with the editing bringing it all together well so that you don't lose what is happening and indeed the movement of time and the importance of the relative events are clearly understood to produce tension. Although the dream worlds are a bit too "ordinary" at times most of our dreams are filled with things that don't make any sense or have echoes of things, rather than detailed cityscapes and gun battles there is creativity in the visual design and in particular a Matrix-esquire battle in a spinning corridor is thrilling to watch.
To its credit the stepping up of the action aspect does not mean that the ideas that got us here are abandoned because they are not. The importance of Cobb's subconscious and in particular his own gnawing guilt over the death of his wife initially appears to be just a way of having a repeatable "baddie" turning up in various places throughout the film, but actually she is well used to introduce doubt and alternative interpretations to the film.
As everywhere else, the ending of the film was met with groans that there would not a confirmation of the ending. Personally I think that "was the real level actually a dream" is just an idea planted by the director to keep the audience from simply finishing the film and walking away from it and that the presented reality was actual reality. I can understand why some have disliked this because it could appear like Nolan is going "or was it? The cast deliver well.
DiCaprio manages to produce an engaging character who emotionally makes sense and it is his performance that helps the deeper material in his subconscious work well and be more accessible to the viewer.
Gordon-Levitt is memorable for his action scenes but he is also a good presence generally even if he has a lot less to do. Page provides the viewer with someone to "come in" with and she works that angle well. Hardy, Watanabe and Rao round out the team well.
Some of the bigger names had the potential to be distractions by virtue of "oh look its x" but Caine, Berenger, Haas and Postlethwaite didn't really do that even if their actual screen times were minimal compared to the recognisability of their faces. Cotillard works very well to have her character vary across levels and contexts and I liked her better than I thought I would.
I'm not in agreement that Inception is a classic perfect film but it is a very good one. If anything the elevation of this film is more to do with how average and uninspiring the vast majority of films released are, but I suppose that the success of this one is a good thing in some ways to maybe counter that. The concept and ideas are well constructed and presented to the audience and the film itself is not hard to follow but does challenge the viewer to do the one thing that a blockbuster normally doesn't — pay attention.
Doesn't quite live up to the hype but it is still a very good and engaging film. If you didn't like the Matrix, you might skip this one. Dicaprio is man who is an expert at entering dreams and extracting information for corporate espionage. He has a problem in that there is a price on his head. He is a wanted man.
A Japanese business man wants Dicaprio to enter the mind of a competitor and place an idea in his head to break up his empire. In exchange Dicaprio Dom Cobb would be allowed to go home to his family. Cobb first gets an architect Ellen Page who can design a complex location, such as a dungeon master creating the stage. He then must assemble a team of people with different skills to navigate through the dream world.
The beginning of the movie is a bit confusing as you don't know what is real and what is a dream. However this shortly clears up. Dom Cobb has a lot of issues concerning his past life and dreamworld which jeopardizes the mission.
His dead wife keeps showing up to foil his plans and he just hasn't the heart to kill her. The dreamworld works like a narcotic. Once you go into it, reality becomes boring. This movie is more brilliant in its complexity and script than it is in entertainment, but it worked for me. So is it the most clever movie ever made or is it all just bogus? Don't expect me to answer that. Don't expect the movie to be everything. It can not be.
Nor just assume that you can pinpoint every viewer or put everybody in 3 categories. People are far too complex to analyze and put into one category. What I mean by that, is that you can like this and Transformers.
Or hate both. You can also over-analyze this movie and list it's flaws yes it has them as every movie has them and depending on your view of it, you might spot them and care or not , but apart from being visually stunning, it has a breathtaking story.
And an ending that has been spoofed at various internet sites , but that works very fine for the movie. Of course you could also feel that the end is a cheat. But again, I cannot tell you how to feel about this movie or any other movie for that matter , I can only tell you, that it looks amazing and it made me chuckle for quite a few minutes in a breath-taking sequence.
And no I did not get everything when I first watched it. I watched it a second time and there are still questions unanswered. Does or would something like that bother you? I didn't bother and the movie fully matched the expectations I had this was my number 1 expected movie for , the second most expected being "Wall Street 2".
To me, Nolan is more than just a visionary filmmaker. He's a great artist. Unless you're willing to commit and remain fully engaged, it's best to put off watching this film until those conditions are met.
That's because the picture moves across various levels and back again over the course of the story, and though it may seem confusing, you'll be OK if you keep in mind the premises offered by the inception team - DiCaprio, Levitt, Hardy, Page and Rao. I'm purposely leaving off Watanabe because he was by his own admission a 'tourist' and had a stake in the outcome. In a movie universe that's virtually impossible to crack with something original, this is the most creative picture I've seen in a long time.
Like an intriguing time-travel story, this one grabs hold of the imagination and allows one to consider the possibilities of an alternate reality. The closer technology brings us to these cutting edge barriers of time, space and mind, the more fantastic becomes the possibility of turning virtual reality into the real thing.
The movie's strongest feature is it's exposition. The characters both show and tell the viewer what to expect, quite unusual when it comes to the 'tell' part, because we usually rely on the development of the characters and the events they experience to bring us along for the ride. The concepts here are much more esoteric, especially when attempting to layer the events of the story in a 'dream within a dream' construct.
For the most part, I think this was all done quite cleverly, but again, you have to pay attention. It would be tough to come up with the most interesting concept touched on by director Nolan, but the one that intrigued me the most was the idea of the dreamer having the ability to block an extraction.
In Fischer's Cillian Murphy case, his training foresaw the need to 'militarize' his subconscious against attack, thereby creating 'projections' that in turn attacked the inception team.
Another clever idea involved the zero gravity effects of participants in the Level Two dream during the Fischer inception. This is all done with such frenetic skill that it's sometimes tough to keep up with, although repeat viewings clear up what may have been missed the first time around. Another hint - use the captions on your DVD to capture all the dialog.
The players tell you a lot of what you need to know to follow the story. I don't want to go too far out on a limb and tell you this is the greatest thing since sliced bread, because I know the film won't appeal to everyone. However enthusiasts of good science fiction will find a lot to like here, as it invites the viewer to expand one's consciousness and dream of the possibilities. Seriously folks, no one had to plant the idea, it just came out like that.
That is unheard of. Not to say it is not a great film, but I am a little shocked by this. I give it an Long story short, Christopher Nolan is a genius. He has a ton of films on the top list, and still has along career ahead of him. This film was both written and directed by him, and the story and visuals are striking.
Some of the story I think is a bit iffy if you are too critical it might have major holes but if you are accepting its basic premise, it is a solid concept that has not been explored before. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Cobb, and Leo is always a good lead. The family issues here tread close to where "Shutter Island" tread, but this only shows where that other film fell short as much as I enjoyed both.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Arthur, and was for me the most pleasant surprise of the film. I still have a hard time accepting him as a legitimate actor and not just a cheesy, comedic character.
And Inception still holds up, the rare movie that manages to be two steps ahead of its audience without ever really losing them. But in Inception , it happens at the beginning, in the middle, in the part right before the middle, in the part right after the middle, in the part right before the part before the middle. The whole thing is so filled with reveals that I once did a post on the only two times it was okay to take a brief bathroom break during the movie.
But I looked forward to each viewing. Never forget: This non-franchise movie was so popular that they had round-the-clock screenings of it throughout the night. The notebooks filled up. Of course, all these reveals, all that exposition, has led to accusations that the movie has too much talking. Though I rarely find anyone who thinks so the first time. For many, that first viewing requires all this exposition. Nolan himself has taken this criticism to his heart, it seems, as evidenced by the vast, gloriously wordless stretches of Dunkirk.
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