(Above: Joseph Gordon Levitt floats in "Inception").
This movie review is going to need not one, but two reviews because it's that awesome and it's that confusing.
Inception, Christopher Nolan's lucid and mind-warping sci-fi-drama-thriller finally opened in theaters and opened to a warm reception. Standing out in the usual fare of blockbusters that treat audiences as if we had the mental capacities of four year olds, Inception challenges and almost demands for its viewers to think.
And for the duration of Inception you will be thinking so much that your head will hurt. From every angle of this film, with it's gorgeous shots of destruction (fans of disaster-porn like 'Life After People' will be thrilled) and painstaking attention to detail. Everything from Hans Zimmer's score to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's impressive wardrobe is pitch perfect.
As far as the plot goes, Inception is hard to really describe (in the movie when characters explain it--it's also difficult). In a nutshell the process of Inception, and the plot point is that the mind-criminals (Leonardo DiCaprio, Levitt, Watanabe and Page amongst others) go inside the mind of another person to plant an idea.
The human brain is a tricky, layered labyrinth of memories and emotions which make the process of Inception so difficult.
Nolan has done a really excellent job of finding his actors, using Wanatabe and Cillian Murphy from Batman Beyond. It may also have been the start point for where the rumors that Levitt will play the Riddler in the upcoming third installment of the Batman flicks. Marion Cotillard is devastating as the mysterious ingenue, and Page leaves behind the quirky roles of Juno and Whip It and shows a level of maturity worthy to convert even her naysayers (I was one of them). The actors disappear into their roles and you feel Page's confusion when she asks "Who's subsconsicous are we in now?"
But the real promise of "Inception" is that long after its viewed, you will want to talk about it, navigate every twist and every turn that Nolan has set up. It's almost as if the dream is on the audience, with Nolan planting the idea to dream big in the viewer's mind.
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