INCEPTION – A movie review

If I were to use just one word to describe the movie I guess I would choose – BIZARRE. Because basically, the plot is just so different from any other movie that I have watched in my lifetime… it just blows my mind to think that something like this could really happen. It’s a step into a realm of the unknown – stepping into a person’s psyche but thankfully the directors and writers were able to craft this movie in such a way to make it fully riveting and still quite intriguing. But let me start at the beginning…the movie is a story about espionage thieves led by Dominic Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) who infiltrate the subconscious of their targets and extract the needed information while dreaming. But this time around, instead of just getting information, Cobb had the difficult task of ‘implanting an idea’ into a target’s mind. The movie introduces the ‘dream within a dream’ concept that some may find confusing. The plan they devised to execute their mission was well-crafted, the players all ready to play their parts…but there was one hitch. Cobb had left the memory of his wife (who committed suicide while in the dream) in Limbo and it is her memory that has kept disrupting the plans they have made…Cobb explains to his newly-recruited dream architect Ariadne that the reason why he cannot go home is because of her…Mal committed suicide and put the blame on him so he is wanted for murder. The team executes their plan to ‘implant’ while onboard a plane and Ariadne helps Cobb get over his guilt over his wife’s death thereby ensuring that their mission is a success. The ending of the movie shows Cobb getting off the plane in Los Angeles and successfully getting through customs and he knows that his client made good on his word to give his life back in exchange for his successful ‘inception’. Cobb gets to see his children once again but before he does, he takes out his totem – a black top – and spins it…but before it fully stops, the top wobbles slightly and then the screen goes black. This ending, I think, was meant by the writer and director to confuse the moviegoers and at the same time, give the moviegoers something to talk about…it lends a sense of mystery not knowing if, indeed, in that last scene, Dominic is REALLY with his children or if he is still in a dream. It’s a brilliant brain-twister ending to what is already a very confusing and mind-bending film! (picture grabbed from IMDB)