Inception

One of the latest movies I saw and it was nothing short of fantastic. With Inception Nolan has created a movie beyond brilliant. The movie makes the audience exclaim, raise their eyebrows, sit up on their seats and most importantly... it makes them think.

Inception requires extreme concentration as it presents complex ideas and situations. Now, it may be complex to understand, but simply put it is one of the most amazing movies of this year and maybe many more before that.

It was only Nolan who could have made this movie. It is not for the idea alone that I give credit to Nolan, but more because he was able to explain the movie within the 2 hours allotted to him. I would expect other directors to hand out brochures to the viewers to help them decipher the plot. The movie creates a lot of ambiguity, raises a lot of questions and leads to many a discusssions. But that is what Nolan intended to do anyway. The plot is clear, it is the piecing together that is left to the audience. The director made sure that the movie did not leave our minds for a long time. Heck! it has been almost 2 weeks since I saw the movie and I am still here. I plan to watch the movie again. He creates magic similar to The Dark Knight but with an entirely different cast, plot and direction.


The protaganist of the movie, Cobb, is an Extractor. His job is to enter people's dreams and steal their sub-conscious thoughts. He is wanted by law for murder. He is given a task, by Saito, to enter a person's dreams and put in an idea - Inception. Doing this would get him freedom and he can go back, free, to his children. The movie explores controlling dreams, designing their layouts, shared dreaming and the most powerful concept... of layered dreams. In the movie, Cobb creates 3 levels of dreams (dream within a dream within a dream) to be able to successfuly plant an idea in Fischer's mind. To design the dream scenarios, one needs an architect who would create the dream worlds. She would be the only one who would know about it. Also, there needs to be a dreamer for each level. When the participants in plot move ahead a dream level, the original dreamer needs to stay back. The story revolves around the entire execution of this plan.

The ending of the movie though not twisted, twists the viewer's mind. It was a bold decision that Nolan took. The ending is not concrete. For a second, one is not sure if the movie is indeed over. But the sheer magic that Nolan has created through the movie takes over and just leaves you in awe.

Inception is a movie like you have never seen before and it will make you want to see it again and again and again.