Directed and written by Christopher Nolan
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio as Dom Cobb
Ken Watanabe as Saito
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur
Marion Cotillard as Mal
Ellen Page as Ariadne
Tom Hardy as Eames
Cillian Murphy as Fischer
Tom Berenger as Browning
Michael Caine as Professor
This film is not a simple film that easy to follow. You need to think quite hard, open your eyes and stay focus. The cinematography is innovative and the stars can play the characters are praiseworthy.
The story of Inception is about a man called Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), a criminal as well as a genius, who can steal ideas through extraction of other people’s minds. By using sophisticated technology Dom can access mind in the dream. Once an important man offers him a job that can free him from an accused crime. The job is inception, putting an idea into somebody’s mind. Cobb, with a team of experts, accept job. Cobb and his team create a dream world, luring their victim to enter it and fill it with secrets. The team infiltrates the dream to search the secrets. So, it creates conflict in the mind between the normal state and the infiltration. The team then is introduced to some men who patiently wait for hours every day to enter life in dream state. Being in the dream state, they look like dead because of the chips attached in their body, but actually they are still alive. These men dream to be brought back to reality and to be asked what is going on in their dream. However, their dreams have become their realities, and for these men, real life is not worthed anymore.
Cobb’s wife the later, named Mal, keeps haunting him in his dreams and wants him to stay with her in the dream forever. Cobb tries hard to fight his feeling about his late wife, his dream, subconsciousness, but he knows that in reality his wife has already died. On the other hand, his team members all possess totems that can distinguish reality from dreams, but Cobb is always in the state of dream.
If you like shooting, guns, or fighting movie, Inception is not the one you would like to see. It is a story which is rather complex. The best parts of Inception is exploring the stages of dreams that someone would like to leave reality and live in dreams.
