What people do when they are asleep eh? We all know what happens when people talk in their sleep. Some people that I know have had to come up with some insane excuses for explaining what they have said. And if you think that is bad I have even had the pleasure of knowing one young female that would be walking through her favourite high street store doing her shopping of all things. As a young kid I used to love watching my pet moggy sleep – and cackle with laughter I saw her legs kick as if she was chasing a squirrel up a tree.
The sleep state remains a mystery to most of us. It holds the happy times the bad times and even our darkest, deepest secrets. No wonder so many movies have been about it. What would happen if someone could come into your dream – not like the Freddy Krueger variety but a normal average man, a friend perhaps? What if they could steal your secrets? Take your ideas? Or even implant new ones? That is the exciting idea behind Inception.
Leonardo Dicaprio is Dom Cobb, a master dream thief who enters the dreams of others to obtain information that his targets for one reason or another keep hidden. His skills and abilities have cost him everything that is dear to him, but one day he is given a second chance to turn the situation to be turned around by doing one last job. However, it is not going to be easy. Typical of Christopher Nolan’s style of direction there are unforeseen enemies, critical moments where everything matters. In a world where reality and dream are the same this mind bending film not only pushes Cobb and his team of specialists to the limit but the viewer as well.
So how good or bad is the film? Well in my opinion the film is great. Dream films have been around for a while, check Nightmare on Elm Street, The Cell, even Supernatural has done it. But none so well, the dream world is truly expansive. Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures reportedly spent $160 million on this film and trust me – it shows.
Not since the Matrix have you been able to appreciate a virtual world like this.
Being a film by Chris Nolan you have all the tight camera shots and compelling characters that you would expect. The storyline according to some reviewers is that it is too mind boggling – and yes it is to some degree, sometimes it is just a bit too confusing, I would have had better luck trying to explain the offside rule to my girlfriend than trying to explain the film to her after wards, I think she had eyes for Caprio more than the movie itself, but thankfully being a matrix fanatic I found it amazingly easy to grasp.
For me though this is a no brainer, it is one of the must see films of the summer.
Go and watch it.
By Junior Smart.