Inception

There are 2 words that can be said about Inception. Best Picture!! Another 2 words: Game Changer. Every ten years or so a film comes along that is so original and brilliant it changes the face of film and how things are done. Avatar did only come out last year, but that changed things in another perspective: 3D. Inception, however, is gonna do what the Matrix did in 1999. It felt at times like The Matrix, in the fact that the "rules" of the dream are bendable. In The Matrix they are trapped in a program. Inception is alike and completely different at the same time. With a run time a 2 1/2 hours it's a risky bet to place on the RLS ridden American nation. What I did notice when watching last night was, when I noticed the time lapsed on the player had just reached an hour I was really excited to know we had 90 more minutes left of this brilliance. I had also heard that once it was over you would feel extremely satisfied with what you had seen, but at the same time, extremely confused. I don't know if that info helped my mentality going in, but I was so invested from minute 1, I don't feel anything was lost on me. Sure after a major sequence inside the 20 minute mark, A-Bomb and myself locked eyes and both stated, "I don't know what just happened,  but it was awesome." That was the last time we were confused. So, like the Matrix the majority of this film takes place in a non reality, people's dreams. In a person's dream their subconscious is working overtime, and extractors like Cobb (DiCaprio) and Aurthur (JG Levitt) enter the dream of the mark to extract ideas that can make people rich or bring people down. Whatever the financier wants with the info. There is way too much going on to explain in written word. That's why it took Nolan 2.5 hours to explain. The Direction of a film is often lost. People usually just think of the story and the actors on screen. Inception makes you think about all the things going on and how they were even possible to do. Nolan is a master of his craft, and when you look back at his work: Memento, The Prestige, The Batman movies, and now Inception he is a rising star that viewers will soon go to anything with his name attached, much like Spielberg and Tarantino. I don't see anything beating Inception in the Oscar race, but that is what is wrong with that particular awards program. I have disagreed with the Best Picture winner more than I've agreed with it. The film could be sequeled, because there are always missions available and never ending story lines, but Nolan is smarter than that. He will put it to bed and be done with that idea altogether. I also feel Joseph Gordon Levitt finally got the role that will thrust him to super stardom. I think if he went with my name for him JG Levitt it would happen even faster,  but that's just me. A couple of surprises showed up on screen. By surprises I mean actors I did not know were in the film. Nolan's favorite Michael Caine is in two scenes, Tom Berenger is an intricate part, and Cillian Murphy from Batman Begins is the brain the extraction team is focused on for most of the film. I'd also like to add that with such a complex script, Nolan did not water it down with the team going through job after job after job, only to be offered an "impossible" job. It really only deals with two minds. The financiers and The Mark's. Not diluted at all, only perfection. I cannot find anything I didn't like about the film. Just remember, if I wrote this post from my dream state, it would be way smarter, with bigger words, and would probably go on for all eternity. I do wish I had known more people who watched it in the theater to urge me not to miss it. I was going to go watch it on 3 different occasions, but never quite made it. If I had known then what I know now I would have made time. It makes me happy to think about what I saw, and I will continue to think about it until I watch it again, which will be soon.

**One last Matrix reference. When JG Levitt is fighting in the spinning hallway it is quite reminiscent of the Neo/Trinity shootout in the Lobby. This scene is shorter, but just as powerful.

 

NBM rates Inception - A Work of Cinematic Art

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