it’s been awhile since i’ve walked out of a movie theater knowing that the film has become one of my favorite movies. there’s none of that “watch it for what it is” nonsense here, inception is a complete acid trip that you can make sense of in the end when you are out of your time loop. the concept of the matrix has been one of my favorite ideas of all time, but with no disrespect at all, inception has bitch slapped the wachowski brothers. with all the remakes and sequels lately, christopher nolan brings a truly original script to the screen and mind fucks us all for 148 minutes.
first off, i have read that christopher nolan has been conceptualizing inception for the last ten years or so; this should tell you this is no half assed screenplay. this is one of those films that i saw a trailer for nearly a year ago and refused to look further into, not because it looked bad, but because i refused to have any notion of what i was getting into. the story and characters are well developed and the effects aren’t what drive the movie, the emotions of the characters do. unlike shutter island, the concept of reality is pretty straightforward to determine and even though you know what is going on, you don’t feel it.
if you haven’t already seen the $150 million dollars worth of marketing for the film, inception is about a simple idea that can be extracted through a dream. this simple idea makes the movie as complex as the human mind. the storytelling is superb, well shot, and loses you in a dream. many aspects of dreaming are carried over well into the film and although nothing that complex can be completely accurate, it is enough to make you lost track of time.
enough with the basic mumbo jumbo that all sounds the same and down to what i really feel. the movie is bad ass and the amount of detail in the story and on screen was excellent. the characters were well casted and i was quite surprised to see ellen page in such a major motion picture. it is hard to explain the story and the emotions to someone who hasn’t already experience inception but the feel closely resembles a black hole. the closer you get the more time seems to slow down to someone who is watching from afar. this is established in the introduction of the movie and i feel the film has used this idea to drive the storytelling and cinematography.
they say that a person may have multiple dreams throughout the night and they only dream for a fraction of the time spent sleeping. inception goes in depth with this fact and unleashes the creativity and full potential of the mind under a dream state. this is my only issue with the movie where a dream world that becomes unstable would bring forth infinite possibilities of ridiculous madness, yet it seems very logical and structured. this small little thought of mine quickly vanishes as you are trapped in a time loop watching every detail on screen pulling you into the story. the characters have to dive into multiple layers of dreams and the smallest details put me in awe. every time you start feeling lost nolan reminds you what is going on while referring back to the initial dream stage the character is in. confused? inception is a stabilized mind fuck that will make you feel all sorts of feelings and will definitely make you walk out of theater questioning your full potential in life at the least.
the movie intrigues me because christopher nolan wrote the script and has been messing with it for the last ten years. it has been revised and tossed around in his head and further edited for six months before the final shooting. inception is the raw idea shot to life by nolan from a simple idea in nolan’s head. one of the concepts for inception is that a simple idea is all it takes for the mind to grasp and develop into something more. in a dream state the mind will access more of its potential and five minutes asleep will amount to an hour within a dream. your mind alone starts thinking of the possibilities and runs along with the film letting the story sink in. all the concepts of time, dreams, paradox, limbo, totems, and even mazes start sinking in and you let yourself go into the masterpiece nolan has created.
hopefully anyone that reads this will have already seen the movie but for those who haven’t, this is nolan’s greatest creation to date in my opinion and can’t wait for the next creation, which will probably be batman. i am glad he has waited for experience with larger scale movies to incorporate into inception. the movie isn’t necessarily perfect in every aspect, but it is great to see a director that truly portrays that storytelling as an art is not lost into the world special effects and blowing shit up.
my apologize for the lack of summary of the actual movie and probably the constant repeating of myself. it’s late and wanted to squeeze in something about the movie. i also noticed the poster reminds me of the dark knight, i wonder if he christopher nolan had anything to do with the design of the teaser posters…
