By: Amanda Millea
In a world where reality and fiction collide, an innocent dream can become a nightmare. “Inception” may be the title of this mind-boggling movie, but in the movie, inception is actually the premise of extractor Dom Cobb’s (Leonardo DiCaprio) job. Cobb, through the power of extraction is able to steal other people’s secrets from any individual’s subconscious. The problem is that the job proved to be more dangerous than the extraction team had bargained for.
A simple slip of reality into the dream can inhibit the team’s ability to tell what is real and what is a part of the dream state. This one job is Cobb’s last chance to make up for his fugitive charges, but throughout the extraction process, his goal changes from stealing an idea to placing one in the figment of the mind.
Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan (“The Dark Knight”) wrote and directed “Inception.” Aside from an award winning director, the cast includes academy award nominees DiCaprio (The Aviator), Ken Watanabe (“The Last Samurai”), Marion Cotillard (“La Vie en Rose”), Ellen Page (“Juno”), Michael Caine (“Cider House Rules”). Other stars include Joseph Gordon- Levitt, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Dileep Rao. The musical score was written by none other than the famous Hans Zimmer, who also worked with Nolan in “The Dark Night”. The music really added to the intensity of the action sequence and at times was the only thing heard in the film, and at times caused the audience to jump.
DiCaprio truly draws the viewers into the story line with his character’s pressured lifestyle. The movie begins with his character washed up on a shore of an unknown place. From the very beginning of the movie, imaginations are set up to wonder what is and what could be really happening. “Inception” is one of those movies that requires a large attention span, or the viewer will be completely lost. This movie involves a lot of thought or it will make no sense.
After this movie, there was a significant change in the way I dreamed. The night after I saw this movie, I went to bed just fine. However, waking up the next morning I felt almost disoriented. Thinking about this movie, there are still more questions arising every day. Just when it seems like the movie makes perfect sense, the human mind starts coming up with even more possibilities. I think the movie’s tagline says it best : “Your mind is the scene of the crime.”