Inception

"The most resilient parasite is an idea", a famous quote from one of the greatest Thriller/ Adventure/ Action (Sorry but i couldn't decide the genre in which i could group this classic as this movie can itself be treated as a GENRE!!) of all time directed by one of the most intellectually artistic directors , Christopher Nolan. This movie can be treated as a bench mark for  scriptwriters for its original  script by Jonathan Nolan and such a complicated yet engrossing movie has hardly ever been made before.

The movie has every ingredient in it and in the requisite proportion, all combining to make it an ALL- time classic. In simple words you can say that inception can be equated to the product of "James bond " with "Matrix", adding Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" to it and the result you get is a complete mind-boggling Inception. Shot in six different continents, nine different countries and over a budget of more than $160 million. The movie's origins lay in Nolan 80-page "Dream Stealers" project which he presented to Warner Bros in 1999, a decade before it was actually purchased by the House. The delay was mainly due to his inexperience with large-scale film production due to which he halted this project and began working on "Batman  Begins" and  "The Dark knight" but in my view it was a much needed delay as this movie required the audience to grow intellectually and open their mind to such cinema.

This Science Fiction film starts of with Dom Cobb (Leanardo Di Caprio) lying unconscious by the beach and is taken by a mob to meet a sick, old man. Just when you start realising the context of the first few scenes then all of a sudden the frame is shifted to an ongoing settlement between a leading Japanese businessman Mr.Saito (Ken Watanabe) and Dom Cobb, in the same room where he was initially taken by the mob, accompanied by his colleague cum friend Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) about some information they wanted to extract from Saito. When things  start to fall apart, it causes Dom to take a major step only to be interrupted by his ex-wife Mal (Marion Cotillard) who shoots Arthur but in spite of all this, Dom still manages to get the info but as he does so the building starts collapsing, only to be brought to life again in a totally different region and it is then that you realise that ALL THIS WAS A TWO-TIERED  DREAM.

Even though they succeed in retrieving the information, Saito eventually finds out that he had been robbed of his secrets by a former Dream Architect (Dom) using an experimental military-developed machine to infiltrate his subconscious. After knowing this, he catches Dom and Arthur in their effort to sail away discreetly from Japan and instead of killing them, he offers to set them free and that if Dom would succeed in helping Saito then he will be made free from his alleged murder charge so that he could return home to his children whom he haven't seen for quite a long time.

Saito plans involves breaking up the energy conglomerate of his ailing competitor Maurice Fischer, by planting this idea in his son and inheritor Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy) to disintegrate his fathers company. Seeing this as his last chance to meet his kids, he takes this as his last job. For need of a creative Dream Landscaper he goes on to meet Ariadne (Ellen page) and also includes Eames (Tom hardy), a specialist forger to his team along with Yusuf (Dileep Rao),  a chemist to create such a compound that would allow them to have a stable dream. Here comes the kicker, this job also stirs up dangerous memories in Dom of Mal (his wife), who sabotages his plans by entering his dreams at every point. From this point on, the movie metamorphoses into a total entertainer with twists and turns galore and the eventual shaping of the climax (which i assure that  will be praised by you to the highest height!!). Ethereal concepts are presented such as the use of totems, a personalised small object whose behaviour is only predictable to its owner, carried by each extractor, that serves the purpose of identifying dream-state or reality and that getting killed in a dream is the best way to wake up and yes, in reality it is. You all might have had this experience.

Leonardo Di Caprio did a momentous job dwelling in the role of an emotionally challenged widower Dom Cobb. His psychological issues borne out of his  love for his wife and his desire to reunite with his children was clearly evident through his facial expressions in the entire movie and have been shown as one of the main sabotaging factors of their plan. To his support were some great actors such as Joseph-Gordon Lewitt, who has done a splendid job playing a mission researcher and a good friend to Dom.


Ellen Page has done a splendid  job playing the role of a college girl and her expressions of amazement after learning about inception from Dom is one thing you should all carefully watch. "Whose subconscious are we in now, exactly?" she asks at one point. You may feel her pain and at the same time you may enjoy her despair. Marion Cotillard also does a decent job as the mystery women. You should watch this movie for all its twists and tangles and mind-teasing plot written by the Nolan brothers, adding to it the sophisticated direction of Christopher Nolan supported with laudable cinematography by Wally Pfister. All the actors and actresses have delivered a power-packed complex mind blowing performance culminating in a movie that is as entertaining as it is significant.

Putting it briefly, Nolan through this movie takes you through an epic, cinematically unforgettable journey where the destination is complete entertainment and I consider myself fortunate enough to have been through that journey. Whoever INCEPTED this idea in Chris Nolan's mind has succeeded in his mission as Nolan then plants these ideas skillfully in our heads disturbing and dazzling us to the core. The result is a complete quietus. Not watching this epic will be a sin if you are a fan of intellectual cinema.