After seeing Inception, my opinion of Avatar has been downgraded to a “meh”. That’s how powerful Christopher Nolan‘s masterpiece is. It is without a doubt the best movie in years. If you haven’t seen Inception yet, but are planning to watch it, I give you permission to expect something extraordinary. You won’t be disappointed.
Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is an extractor. He invades your dreams and steals your ideas and secrets. With the help of an architect (Ellen Page), a point-man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and a few others, he faces a new challenge – to plant an idea in someone’s mind. Director Christopher Nolan takes us into a rich world of dreams within dreams, bringing surprises and confusion at every turn. For a very long movie, this one doesn’t feel like almost two and a half hours. I was dead tired going into the movie, but never struggled to stay awake due to a gripping plot, characters with depth, and a fast-moving, relentless pace. While a lot of movies offer either visual or intellectual stimulation, Inception offers both. This results in a block-buster that makes you think. And in some ways the movie plants an idea in your head while you’re watching. I don’t think anybody leaves a screening of Inception and stops thinking about what they just saw. It will stick in your mind for days to come.
While Nolan has already achieved some remarkable work (e.g. Memento, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Prestige), I feel like he’s still improving. Watching Inception is like getting an insight into the mind of a genius. It shows that Nolan honed the concept for many years to achieve near perfection.
One of the most intriguing aspects of Inception is that you are left to draw your own conclusions about the movie’s end. And the end is what has people talking the most. Already people have come up with dozens of theories to explain certain events in the movie, but ultimately everyone will have to decide for themselves how they see Inception’s conclusion.
I could say a lot more about Inception, but I don’t want to reveal too much about the plot or character development. But if you haven’t seen it yet, you owe it to yourself to watch it ASAP! There’s no other movie like it. Inception will become a reference-point and yard stick by which a lot of future films will be measured.
Everybody loves Summer. And it’s no different for Tom Hansen. When Summer is employed in the office where Tom works, he finds love at first sight. But Summer is no ordinary girl. There’s something about her, and Tom can’t put his finger on it. It’s no surprise, then, that she’s all he can think about. I should state, though, that this is not a love story. This is made clear right at the beginning of the movie.
