Christopher Nolan is one of those few directors who consistently makes inventive, bold films while still working within the studio system. Nolan is the man who has brought us such high concept studio films as The Prestige and the blockbuster The Dark Knight, and here with Inception he continues to wow audiences by crafting an audacious, wild, and original film that dares to remind you why we watch movies at all.
Inception is a film about a world where we have figured out not only how to infiltrate dreams, but to create them and share them in order to steal secrets from the unconscious mind. The film follows Leonard DiCaprio as Cobb, a man who cannot return to America for a crime he claims to not have committed and uses the dream sharing espionage in order to hopefully find a way home. The rest is a wonderfully detailed web for you to unravel and I will leave you to it if you are one of the six people who hasn't seen it.
The wonder of Inception is the way it weaves a seemingly convoluted narrative into something wonderful and fresh. It uses its characters and wondrous uses of montage to deliver exposition while also detailing and building its world and characters. What many people will continue to talk about is Nolan's visuals within the film, which granted are some of the most astounding and breathtaking things seen on screen since The Matrix came about. People will talk endlessly of the "hallway scene" as shown above or the way the world of paris seems to roll upon itself. Inception delivers on its promising premise by building all of its spectacle on the grounded performances of its actors, most notably to me are Marion Cotillard and Cillian Murphy, though many will point of DiCaprio, not unjustly. Go see it and figure out what the hype is about.
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