Year: 2010
Director: Christopher Nolan
Country: US
Language: English
A thief who steals corporate secrets through use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO.
Most of us have plenty of ideas -good and bad, practical and impractical- but we don't always act on them. So how exactly would we know if the inception was successful or not? Even if the idea was successfully imprinted into the CEO's mind it doesn't mean they will act upon it. Plot holes and inconsistencies aside; despite the fact that the characters are inside a dream (within a dream, within a dream) it doesn't look or feel like it aside from strange architecture and zero gravity some of the time. The mind is far more complex than Inception gives credit, dreams are also far more surreal and random.
Credit should be given to the editor, who must have had a tough job in the editing room trying to make the convoluted plot make a lick of sense. The score is memorable, likely because it's being used for almost every gritty superhero reboot. The acting is poor at best; even Leonardo DeCaprio's performance just doesn't stand out. It was hard to care for any of the characters because of the wooden dialogue and un-established subplots. Sorry Cobb, but I just don't care about your dead wife. Was that a spoilter? I can't tell.
Inception is a film I haven't watched, talked about or even thought about since I viewed it once in 2010. Every film about dreams has the potential and permission to be as abstract as it wants to, but this was far too conventional and even cliche at some points. For such a popular film, it has very little redemptive qualities. Piss on it! 0.5/5
You clearly only watched the film once and while at the theatre, you didn't pay any attention to it. All of your squabbles are answered in the film, including why while within the dream, they have to maintain the illusion that it's not a dream. Without that aspect of the story, you wouldn't have this film at all.
ReplyDeleteNolan never claimed the 10% brain activity fallacy, and neither does INCEPTION. It mentions the conscious and unconscious minds, and that's it.
And no, it doesn't really have any plot holes. it took me one viewing and two hours afterwards to piece it all l together. It's surprisingly flawless. All subsequent viewing were done for entertainment purposes.
Lastly, the story is character driven, not plot driven. The story revolved around not only incepting the mind of Murphy's character but making sure that while there the job WILL BE DONE. The job was the plot; the intricacies and emotional heft was the story.
It was a con job, it was entirely based on playing to Murphy's empathetic needs, and that's how the plan worked.
I'd rank it an overall perfect score because the film worked like magic. All the pieces fit, the plot was character driven, and the cinematography, which was comprised mostly of practical special effects, was excellent.