"An an idea is like a seed, when it's planted it grows, it becomes a cancer." This movie is absolutely brilliant. When a giddy Christopher Nolan announced this movie at a press conference, I don't think anybody expected what was coming. This movie is Nolan's baby, he wrote it, directed it and produced it, he has been working on this thing since he started filming "Memento". If you are film nerd, (like me), you would know that means he's been working ten years on this film, has it payed off? What Nolan has produced isn't only a blockbuster action film but it's an endearing drama with amazing depth.
Leonardo Dicaprio plays Cobb, a man who's profession involves going into someone's mind while they sleep. He's a master at creating a world within a person's mind masking it as a dream, he's a spy that steals secrets from people without the person even knowing. This very idea is the most creative idea in film since Tarantino released "Pulp Fiction". Cobb also has lost the privilege of having a family and he's haunted by a lady named Mal, played by Marion Cotillard. This movie is driven by Cobb's guilt of what happened between him and Mal, and what happened has separated him from his children whom he's trying to get back to. This movie is about him getting back to his kids and grieving his wife, it's an emotional roller coaster of a movie as well has an impressive action flick. The supporting roles are impressive as well, Ellen Page plays Ariadne, a young brainiac who becomes Cobb's dream architect. Joseph Gordon-Levitte plays Arthur, Cobb's right hand man, Cillian Murphy and Ken Watanabe also join the already remarkable cast in this movie. The cast carries this movie so well, each bringing a different energy to the film but kudos has to go to Marion Cotillard and Dicaprio. These two are at the center of the movie and Cotillard is so haunting, she plays Mal with such tenacity every time she's on screen there is such a tension and fear driven within the audience. Dicaprio plays Cobb with determination and some sort of guilt that eventually gets figured out in the movie but there is something within Cobb that is filled with regret, something that he just wants forget and move on that is what this film is about.
Inception is the act of planting an idea into someone's brain and making it seem like it's their own idea. Arthur thinks it isn't possible but Cobb later says that it is, it's just highly dangerous because a single idea can grow and become a cancer. This highly lucrative mission is the key, for Cobb, to get back to his family again, planting an idea into a son of a dying tycoon to get rid of the company. What later happens is crazy, the movie slowly sets up the rules and universe that Inception is immersed in. Nolan has created a flawless world here, all the rules are believable and every idea going into it is just flawless filming and creative design. You can tell that this film took Nolan ten years to perfect. Everything is thought out and complete, Nolan has created a dazzling spectacle and when the action sequences take place we actually care about what actually happens to these people. It makes the action so intense and visceral and the deeper they go into the dream world the crazier things get. Visually, emotionally, and dramatically spellbinding. When this movie reach the end; the end sequence is so dramatic and intense, what Nolan has picked for a climax to this film is breathtaking. As Cobb gets off the plane and into the place he's been banned is so thrilling, and when he see's his kids for the first time in many years is breathtaking. Nolan's idea of redemption is so poignant and is a perfect ending for this movie. Nolan has created such a complete movie experience that should be adored by film buffs. His vision is complete, creative and bold, hopefully he sticks around.
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