Friday, July 16, 2010

Movie: Inception. No spoilers, I promise.


Here's the thing. I saw this thing last night at 12:15, in West Hollywood's Arclight, in the cinema dome. Pretty awesome set up. Once the announcer told us the movie ran at 2 hours and 35 minutes, there was huge collective, "Oooohh!" as in "no way!"
Written an directed by Christopher Nolan, I bet you're wondering just as much as I did exactly what this movie is about since the trailers can only explain so much and it's a very mysterious, did-he-just-say-what-I-think-he-said? concept. And here's the gist simply put: Agent Cobb (Leo DiCaprio) and his team (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, and Ken Watanabe) enter the dream of a young heir named Fisher (Cillian Murphy) in order to plant an original idea, which is, in dream terms, the most difficult task you can ever take on. That's right, there are easy and difficult ways to spend your time in dreams. Although, in order to do this task, they cannot enter only into Fisher's dream, but they also must enter into three other dreams while in that dream, getting deeper and deeper into the subconscious. As Cobb puts it, "a dream within a dream within a dream."
Fisher's dream takes place in a rainy town. One by one, the team captures Fisher and his Godfather, who knows a very important detail in order to plant this idea in Fisher's mind, and they all gather in a rape-van. But wait! Fisher's subconscious knows they're in there. He's been trained to kill off any intruders, and the assassins come in the form of men popping out of buildings trying to shoot the driver of the van. BUT. They must go to sleep inside the dream, so they all go under once more and wake up in yet another layer of Fisher's subconscious. The driver of the van stays awake on that level so he can keep them all alive and the dream does not collapse.
The civilians in Fisher's hotel-dream are constantly watching the team members, following them down hallways like robots out to destroy, and glaring at Cobb as he explains to Fisher that he is in fact in a dream and that he must shut off his subconscious security so the team is not shot. He obeys, but the security only subsides a little.
Gathered in a hotel room, the Godfather is captured again and they go into a sleep state once more to enter yet another layer of dream, but inside the Godfather this time. One team member stays awake to keep the balance of that dream level, just like the van driver.
The next layer looks like the icy Himalayas. There's an icy temple containing Fisher's dying father where the original idea will be planted in Fisher's mind once he relives his father's death, only this time, he will go as nature intended and finish the half-heard sentence Fisher could not decipher in reality.
I am leaving a massive layer here involving Cobb and his family life, but I'll leave that part up to you to see. In the end, vous n'avez aucune idee si sa realite est reellement un reve ou pas.

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