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Title: 'Inception'
Release Year: 2010
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine, Tom Berenger.
Plot: Dom Cobb, a skilled mind extractor, teams up with the most prepared professionals to achieve a mission that could give him his life back: performing an Inception. But while he's preparing for the complicated journey, a mysterious enemy who he fears and misses at the same time starts threatening his plans.
Review: When I talked about a blockbuster with 'brains' while reviewing 'Avatar', I was referring to 'Inception', Nolan's impressive masterpiece after crowning himself as one of the most innovative directors of our time with movies like 'Memento' (2000) or the more mainstream installments of the popular Batman saga.
Seventy years after 'Citizen Kane' marvelled the critics and the audience with a more-than-usually complex, perfectly constructed script, 'Inception' knocks it out of the park. Not only Nolan does an impressive immersion in the world of the dreams (Your mind is the scene of the crime), but the massive number of intertwined layers and the mixture of guilty and regrets through all of them makes of 'Inception' a groundbreaking movie. And yes, it uses some of its large budget in special effects, but unlike Cameron's movie, it doesn't let that part be the most important of the film.
Add to that a powerful soundtrack and compelling cast led by the assuring figure of Leonardo DiCaprio, constantly tortured by its self-created worst nightmare, Mal (played by Marion Cotillard, my favorite actress), and Nolan's picture becomes one of the smartest, most dragging and haunting films of the last decade.
Cotillard as a femme fatale: Cobb's guiltiness over the death of his wife is one of the movie's main plots and explains his troubled behaviour
"You keep telling yourself what you know, but what do you believe? What do you feel?" Cobb reveals he planted the idea that would change his life...
It was such the obsession I had over this movie the first time I saw it, that I have seen it again thousands of times, writing down every level Cob's team goes through (and who stays in each of them) and to the date I still ask myself the same question...:
Seventy years after 'Citizen Kane' marvelled the critics and the audience with a more-than-usually complex, perfectly constructed script, 'Inception' knocks it out of the park. Not only Nolan does an impressive immersion in the world of the dreams (Your mind is the scene of the crime), but the massive number of intertwined layers and the mixture of guilty and regrets through all of them makes of 'Inception' a groundbreaking movie. And yes, it uses some of its large budget in special effects, but unlike Cameron's movie, it doesn't let that part be the most important of the film.
Creating a world easy to get lost in, Inception really tests its audience abilities as one of the few challenging blockbusters done nowadays
Add to that a powerful soundtrack and compelling cast led by the assuring figure of Leonardo DiCaprio, constantly tortured by its self-created worst nightmare, Mal (played by Marion Cotillard, my favorite actress), and Nolan's picture becomes one of the smartest, most dragging and haunting films of the last decade.
Cotillard as a femme fatale: Cobb's guiltiness over the death of his wife is one of the movie's main plots and explains his troubled behaviour
"You keep telling yourself what you know, but what do you believe? What do you feel?" Cobb reveals he planted the idea that would change his life...
...After wobbling a bit, does the top stop spinning in the end? Has Cobb really escaped limbo and returned to reality? Or it's just another dream created by his mind to be able to see his kids at last?
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