Inception

OMG! This movie was incredible. Leo does it again!! This is another one of his psychological thrillers. I saw Shutter Island earlier this year but this was hands down one of the most complex and interesting movies I have seen all year. I had my doubts when the first trailers came out. I didn't understand it at all but after seeing this movie, I'm so glad I went with my gut and bet on Leo to produce another amazing movie.

Inception starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cillian Murphy and Marion Cotillard was a mind-bending thriller where the mind is a powerful tool. DiCaprio plays Cobb, a man who has built his entire life on being able to enter a person's dreams, to find their deepest darkest secrets and extract them. This has kept him away from his two young children and has made his reality more difficult to live with. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, plays his partner Arthur who is just as skilled as Cobb in extraction. A huge part of Cobb's job has cost him his relationship with his wife that as the movie goes on, has a deeper meaning than initially thought. Cobb wants to return to his children but can't go back to the States because he is under suspicion for murder, the only way for him to get back is by the help of a Japanese businessman named Saito (Ken Wantanbe) with connections. The only problem is that Saito wants something in exchange, not an extraction but something called Inception. He wants Cobb not to steal a thought from someone's mind but to plant an idea which would in turn change the person's whole being to conform to that idea. It is next to impossible but Cobb assembles a team including Ariadne (Ellen Page), a college student who is a gifted architect, the one who assembles the dream world.

There are many layers into what constitutes a dream, with the subconscious playing a big part in filling the dream with things with projections of people, places etc. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish was it real and what is a dream. That's why the character carry totems with them, little items to remind them of what state they are in, a dreaming state or in reality. The only way to get out of a dream is to wake up, wake up to a kick (see the movie to understand) or kill yourself in the dream. It seems kind of straightforward, but as the movie goes on, it gets more complicated, with more layers, and dreams upon dreams. Cobb struggles with his past, and with his relationship with his wife Mal (Marion Cotillard) and this takes a toll on him.

I absolutely LOVED this movie. It really made you think about dreams, my subconscious, what is real, what isn't real and the price a person are willing to pay to discover those truths. The acting was superb and some of the dream sequences and fight scenes were incredibly well done. The timing and complexity of this movie is spot on and I'm going to see it again. Such a fantastic movie with a steady pace and the director Christopher Nolan has done it again. This is my favorite movie of the year so far. I honestly can't think of anything wrong with this movie, so this deserves special recognition.

Overall, I give this movie 9.0/10 totems! Go See It!