Inception - Movie Review

Inception , is the fourth Christopher Nolan movie  that I have managed to watch after Memento,Batman Begins and Dark knight.  Memento had already introduced me to his non-linear story telling screen play , where two parts of story move in opposite direction ( unlike the the traditional start to climax way).  With Inception, the director takes the screen play and story telling abilities to a whole new level of complexity.  The theme of movie revolves letting somebody into your unconscious mind , i.e, Dream , where extractors can steal your deepest secrets. True to this, Nolan turns out a edge of seat thriller, heist film.

The main character of the movie , Cobb played by Leonardo DiCaprio is dream stealer however ,he is wanted in US for murder charges.  The movie opens with scene where DiCaprio is trying to break into mind of Saito , a Japanese businessman.  However, Saito is able to differentiate between dreams and real world to Cobb's frustration . Later , DiCaprio is offered an deal by Saito where if he manages to implant an idea on his Corporate rival, Tom  Fischer that he will not take after his father in his business ; Saito  would in turn help him return to US without facing the murder charges. Cobb who is longing to see his son and daughter takes the bate. He quickly assembles a team for this task . Subsequently the rules of dream world such as a kick i.e, a free fall that wakes one  out of the dream , totem , a hand held  object which a person could use to distinguish the difference between reality, compounding of time for a dream within a dream and eternal dreaming state called limbo are explained.All the dreams are remarkably shot in spite of keeping the graphics to the bare minimum, especially the kick scenes when the person wakes out of a dream with the world in his dream collapsing.

The screen play really starts gaining pace once assault on Tom Fischer's sub conscious mind starts.  There's the story that is happening in the plane in the real world and another  new story  that starts at each level of dream with previous stories moving in parallel with the new ones. As if this wasn't enough , to do an inception , where the dreamer's mind thinks its his own idea rather than a implanted one, Cobb and co must go into a recursion of dreams up to three times, where things can get pretty unstable as we go deeper. Ellen Page who plays the architect of the dream, discovers there's more to Cobb than what meets the eye, on seeing his dead wife's projections in dreams.

Cobb's plan of turning Fischer against his own consciousness goes according to plan until level three, where an unexpected encounter with his wife prevents inception on Fischer. To undo what his wife had done, he goes onto fourth level of recursion . At this point there four different stories all running in tandem, with events happening in upper dream affecting the world at a lower level. The final moments of film where the time taken by the falling van, gets compounded at multiple levels with the kick setting in , the unwinding of dreams, dreamer's popping out are thrilling quite literally. Like in Memento, Nolan leaves the ending of the film to the interpretation of the end user with totem top spinning , but the bottom slowing down to halt or Is It?? 

Far cry from the movies where Director's present every thing in Black & White to the viewer's , Its remarkably refreshing to see Nolan to challenge viewer's intelligence throughout the film. When the movie does end,  viewer's are left with more questions and then answer's unable to keep track of which world the movie ends in, thanks to Nolan's recursive screenplay . To put it in Computer  terms, Inception is like multicore processor  with  thread going into a recursive loop  and coming out, in addition to new thread at each recursive level . It is truly for this creative story telling and innovative screen play I am going with  

Rating : 4/5

for Inception , a must watch  mind blowing experience for any movie buff.

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