‘Inception’ is a Sience-Finction-Heist movie published in 2010; it’s written and directed by Christopher Nolan and has won 4 Oscars. The storyline is set in our times, and the movie includes a lot of prominent actors and actresses like Leonardo DiCaprio as well as Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotillard.
The main character of the movie is Dominic ‘Dom’ Cobb, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. He’s a thief who steals people their valuable secrets and thoughts while they’re dreaming, by taking part and ‘breaking in’ into their dreams, which is called extraction. He has two children but he had to leave them and flee because the police thinks he has killed his wife. Now he has to earn his money by doing extractions for wealthy companies because he can’t go back the USA because they would put him in prison forever. One day a rich businessman offers him a job: ‘Inception’ meaning not to steal but to implant a thought into the mind of someone else, in this case to split up the heritage of his father in the mind of the next boss of a rival company; this seems almost impossible. If Cobb fulfils this job, the man would guarantee that he could return to his family. For this reason, Cobb creates a team consisting of the best experts like Arthur(Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Eames(Tom Hardy), a forger, and Ariadne(Ellen Page) an architect to help him with this very difficult job. On their way through the human mind, there are of course a lot of difficulties to overcome, like Mal(Marion Cotillard), Cobb’s dead wife, who is still stuck in his head and tries to sabotage their plans through his subconscious and the possibility of forgetting what’s real and what’s surreal.
The surreality of the dream sequences is very well done in my opinion, like the fight sequence between Arthur and the security man in which the hotel corridor is rotating because of changes of gravity in the reality, and also the following fight scene in absence of gravity. These effects make the viewers believe that everything is possible in these dreams and that there are no borders for the human mind while we’re dreaming. Another very impressive example for this is the dream sequence when Ariadne manipulates the dream by cheating on physical laws.
All in all, I can really recommend this movie to everyone else, although it’s a movie to which you really have to pay strong attention to understand every connection between the different sequences .It’s also a movie with a lot of tension and action. Especially the parts that make you question the human mind and the physical laws are breathtaking. ‘Inception’ is a movie you can also watch twice and you will still be fascinated. I would give this movie nine out of ten possible points.
I totally agree. The effects are great, I think the scene when Ariadne constructs her first dream and plays with the laws of physics is just awesome. I like the idea of the story to make a dream within a dream, but I still did not get the whole plot, for example what really happened to Mal and what is real and what is just a dream, especially the ending when they wake up. Where are the ‘dream-connector-cables‘? And does he really get back to his children? That is the reason why I only rate it 7 points. I just can‘t stand it being left with questions but the way it is made, really got me thinking - What is reality?
Svenja, you explained the definition of ‘Inception‘ pretty good so that everybody is able to make sure he or she understood the movie and in generell what inception is. I fully agree to your point of view. The effects were great and it is a 148 minutes long breathtaking movie rife with exciting scenes. Especially the turning point at the end when Dom and his crew of experts want to execute the ‘Inception‘. I expected that it will work at one go, but i was highly surprised that Robert Fischers is mentally schooled and countered with an armee. I won‘t reveal the whole plot and just want to add that I was left with question open - what is reality?, as Karl mentioned.
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ReplyDelete‘Inception’ is a Sience-Finction-Heist movie published in 2010; it’s written and directed by Christopher Nolan and has won 4 Oscars. The storyline is set in our times, and the movie includes a lot of prominent actors and actresses like Leonardo DiCaprio as well as Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotillard.
The main character of the movie is Dominic ‘Dom’ Cobb, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. He’s a thief who steals people their valuable secrets and thoughts while they’re dreaming, by taking part and ‘breaking in’ into their dreams, which is called extraction. He has two children but he had to leave them and flee because the police thinks he has killed his wife. Now he has to earn his money by doing extractions for wealthy companies because he can’t go back the USA because they would put him in prison forever. One day a rich businessman offers him a job: ‘Inception’ meaning not to steal but to implant a thought into the mind of someone else, in this case to split up the heritage of his father in the mind of the next boss of a rival company; this seems almost impossible. If Cobb fulfils this job, the man would guarantee that he could return to his family. For this reason, Cobb creates a team consisting of the best experts like Arthur(Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Eames(Tom Hardy), a forger, and Ariadne(Ellen Page) an architect to help him with this very difficult job. On their way through the human mind, there are of course a lot of difficulties to overcome, like Mal(Marion Cotillard), Cobb’s dead wife, who is still stuck in his head and tries to sabotage their plans through his subconscious and the possibility of forgetting what’s real and what’s surreal.
The surreality of the dream sequences is very well done in my opinion, like the fight sequence between Arthur and the security man in which the hotel corridor is rotating because of changes of gravity in the reality, and also the following fight scene in absence of gravity. These effects make the viewers believe that everything is possible in these dreams and that there are no borders for the human mind while we’re dreaming. Another very impressive example for this is the dream sequence when Ariadne manipulates the dream by cheating on physical laws.
All in all, I can really recommend this movie to everyone else, although it’s a movie to which you really have to pay strong attention to understand every connection between the different sequences .It’s also a movie with a lot of tension and action. Especially the parts that make you question the human mind and the physical laws are breathtaking. ‘Inception’ is a movie you can also watch twice and you will still be fascinated. I would give this movie nine out of ten possible points.
I totally agree. The effects are great, I think the scene when Ariadne constructs her first dream and plays with the laws of physics is just awesome.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of the story to make a dream within a dream, but I still did not get the whole plot, for example what really happened to Mal and what is real and what is just a dream, especially the ending when they wake up. Where are the ‘dream-connector-cables‘? And does he really get back to his children?
That is the reason why I only rate it 7 points. I just can‘t stand it being left with questions but the way it is made, really got me thinking - What is reality?
Svenja, you explained the definition of ‘Inception‘ pretty good so that everybody is able to make sure he or she understood the movie and in generell what inception is. I fully agree to your point of view. The effects were great and it is a 148 minutes long breathtaking movie rife with exciting scenes. Especially the turning point at the end when Dom and his crew of experts want to execute the ‘Inception‘. I expected that it will work at one go, but i was highly surprised that Robert Fischers is mentally schooled and countered with an armee. I won‘t reveal the whole plot and just want to add that I was left with question open - what is reality?, as Karl mentioned.
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