Inception
Inception is a 2010 American science fiction action film written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, and Cillian Murphy. The film is inspired by the experience of lucid dreaming.[5] The film, a variant on the heist genre, centers on Dom Cobb, an “extractor”, who enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible.[6] His abilities and questions about the death of his wife have cost him his family and his nationality, but he is promised a chance to regain his old life in exchange for planting an idea in a corporate target’s mind.[7] This process of planting an idea, known as “inception”, is less familiar and far more difficult than Cobb’s usual job of “extraction”.[7]
Development of Inception began roughly ten years before the film’s actual release when Nolan wrote an 80-page treatment about dream-stealers.[8] After presenting the idea to Warner Bros. in 2001, he felt that he needed to have more experience with large scale films.[9] Therefore, Nolan opted to work on Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. He spent six months polishing up the film’s script before Warner Bros. purchased it in February 2009.[9][10] Filming began in Tokyo on June 19, 2009 and finished in Canada in late November of the same year.[11][12]
Inception was officially budgeted at $160 million, a cost which was split between Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures.[3] Nolan’s reputation and success with The Dark Knight helped secure the film $100 million in advertising expenditure.[3] Inception premiered in London on July 13, 2010 and was released in both conventional and IMAX theatres on July 16, 2010.[13][14] The film grossed over $21 million on its opening day, with an opening weekend gross of $62.7 million.[4] The film received very positive reviews with an average of 87% on Rotten Tomatoes .[15]
Dominic Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) washes up on a beach and is brought by guards into the chamber of an elderly man. The scene then cuts to a dream in the mind of Saito (Ken Watanabe) where Cobb, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and dream world architect Nash (Lukas Haas) are on an extraction mission, in which an individual’s mind is infiltrated through dreams and information is stolen. Extractors and their victims sleep in close proximity to one another, connected by a device that administers a sedative and share a dream world built on their mental projections. In the dream world, pain is psychologically experienced as real but death results in awakening. Cobb carries a spinning top called a “totem” which either spins unceasingly or topples, to determine whether he is dreaming or awake, respectively. Saito reveals that he is in fact auditioning the team to work for him and the mission is aborted. He takes Nash away and asks Cobb to perform the act of “inception”; using dreams to secretly implant an idea. Realizing the extraction mission failure and the consequence of being eliminated by their employer, a mysterious firm called Cobol Engineering, they accept Saito’s arrangement.
The target is Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy), son of Saito’s terminally ill corporate rival Maurice Fischer (Pete Postlethwaite). The objective is to convince Fischer to break up his father’s empire, preventing it from threatening Saito’s. Cobb recruits Eames (Tom Hardy), a forger who can manipulate his appearance inside dreams; Yusuf (Dileep Rao), a chemist who develops sedatives; and student Ariadne (Ellen Page) whom he and Arthur train as their new architect. Along the way, Cobb barely escapes Cobol agents out to kill him. Due to the plan involving powerful sedatives and creating multiple dreams within each other, death will not awaken a dreamer but instead send them into a limbo dream world where the mind will be stuck for an indeterminable amount of time. In Cobb’s mind, Ariadne discovers that a vision of his deceased wife Mal (Marion Cotillard) continually haunts him, sabotaging his missions. Cobb reveals to Ariadne that he and Mal spent many years in a limbo forging their lives. After waking, Mal remained convinced that she was still in a dream and committed suicide in order to be awoken from the supposed dream. She attempts to force Cobb to join her in suicide by incriminating him in her death. Cobb refused and was forced to flee the U.S. and leave his children to avoid murder charges. In return for completing the mission, Saito promises to clear the charges and reunite Cobb with his children.
When the elder Fischer dies in Sydney, Saito and Cobb’s team share the flight with Robert Fischer back to Los Angeles and drug him. They force him to enter into Yusef’s dream, a rainy downtown area, and kidnap him. The team comes under attack by Fischer’s trained subconscious projections and Saito is badly injured. Eames takes the form of Peter Browning (Tom Berenger), Fischer’s godfather, to try and suggest ideas to Fischer. The team then enters a van and sleep into the next dream level, a hotel where the team tricks Fischer into believing that the kidnapping on the first level was orchestrated by Browning. Cobb convinces Fischer to enter Browning’s subconscious in order to find out his motives, but in fact the team enter deeper into Fischer’s subconscious. The third level is a snowy mountain fortress, which Fischer must break into to reveal the planted idea. Fischer is killed by Mal, causing him to go into limbo. Ariadne and Cobb follow Fischer to this fourth level in an attempt to salvage the mission and confront Mal. Mal attempts to convince Cobb to stay in limbo by making him question his reality as he was chased by agents that could have been projections. Cobb reveals that he planted the idea in Mal’s mind to wake, making him indirectly responsible for her suicide. She attacks him, but Ariadne shoots her. Fischer and Ariadne are able to return to the mountain fortress, where he reaches the intended understanding that his father had wanted him to be his own man.
A team member is left behind on each dream level: Yusuf driving the van, Arthur in the hotel, and Eames and Saito in the fortress, to protect those in the next level and fight off Fischer’s forces from attacking the bodies. Ultimately they are running out of time, since at each level, timed “kicks” to help them return to reality are imminent: explosives in the mountain fortress, the hotel elevator carrying the bodies hitting its shaft, and the crashing of the van into a river. A wounded Saito dies at the snow fortress and Cobb remains in limbo to locate him. Returning to the first scene in which Cobb locates an aged Saito, he tells him to escape back to reality. Cobb suddenly awakens to find everyone on the plane, including Saito, up and well. Saito honors their arrangement and Cobb enters the United States, reunited with his children at home. Cobb spins the top to test reality, but is distracted by the reunion. The top begins to wobble, but the scene cuts to black which leaves the question of whether Cobb is awake or still dreaming.
Recommendation: 5/5 I may watch again! Well, I wish Inception really occurs. But of cos, I was a good dream. =X
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Is the totem still spinning or did it drop? I wanted to get everyone’s impressions of the ending for inception. If you have seen the film you will know that it ends with Di Caprio’s Totem left spinning, indicating whether he is in reality or a dream. Whether the Totem did indeed drop raises many questions about the legitimacy of the ending. If you had your ending, what would happen and why??
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