Inception

I have been hearing of/about Inception since 09’, when it was touted as the film to watch out for this summer. At that time, the tag line –‘set in the architecture of mind’ seemed like a very weird thing .After watching inception, most certainly not.

You won’t be able to watch inception with the comfort of sliding down the reflexive cushion seats in the plush cinema plexes .You will sit straight lean forward and try to understand the very challenging plot that spews across the screen because the whole 148 minutes engage you in. After it was over, my close friend and I, both had an expression of what the fuck just happened ? written over our faces.

The world labyrinthine is thrown around a lot to describe inception but it is a movie that you can enjoy superficially too. Just don’t try to understand too much and let it take over you .For the science-fiction action thriller enthusiasts who can’t do that …multiple viewing will enhance and affirm the brilliance of the film. It’s complex certainly but can be understood in one sitting, however the more times you watch it ,you will get the points that probably would have escaped the first or second viewing.

Speaking of which, I do have a question.

How the hell would the actors have understood the screenplay in first place??

The basic premise is that Leonardo DiCaprio does the most sly version of industrial espionage by entering into people’s dreams and stealing their thoughts and ideas. However the challenge is to do the reverse- plant an idea into a mind by entering his dreamspace i.e. inception. DiCaprio has to do that so that he can get back to home to the only thing he cares about – his 2 young children.

Inception is tricky because an idea has to planted in the deepest subconscious level by not being intrusive and let the person think that the idea has originated in his mind’s own recesses on its own. It can be done, but DiCaprio has a troubling past too, which pops up in his dreams ,and on which he doesn’t have as much control as he would like to have.

Christopher Nolan explains a lot of how it all works when DiCaprio is recruiting Ellen Page and while training her in the shared dream workshop. You can make a great movie, but it boils down to how you close it, Christopher Nolan closes Inception in tantalizing way..

Inception is a brilliantly realized science fiction thriller that delivers theatrically and visually, accompanied by a thunderous score by composer Hans Zimmer.