Inception by Christopher Nolan

Let’s start by the most important, I love this movie, I wanna watch it again and maybe after I’ll rewatch it once more… so :

I have been one of the lucky few to watch this incredible movie last week-end on its premiere in Paris. After hearing the cast and crew saying how beautiful their journey have been, I have been able to watch one of the most mind-blowing movie of this year.

I’m new at reviewing movies, I read today on the bus that this was a “James Bond meets Matrix” kind of movie. Well what more to add to make you want to see it like I did ! Maybe that it comes from Christopher Nolan’s mind, who also did Memento (very tricky already), Insomnia, The Prestige and of course he gave a new edge to the Batman storyline. Nolan has a real genius to let you enter a world with different rules that you can feel right away.

We follow Dominic Cobb, a brilliant unordinary thief in industrial espionage that tries to steal the most treasured knowledge of a man by entering his mind in his own dreams.Via a “mise en abime” you can follow his team chasing this secret, creating dreams into dreams to deceive the owner’s mind.  So far their work has been about deceiving minds but what if they were to do the opposite in order to conceive an idea into someone else’s mind:  could the “inception”, or the art of making someone believe he thought by himself what his worst enemy would want him to do, be possible. For Cobb it is the only way to restore his name and return to his children and country.

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio)  is the extractor, the extraction takes place in a “dream share” where you build a dream world in which you will put a subject that will see this world as real and will lead you through his subconscient to the thing you are looking for. In order to take the journey he will need a point man, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) taking care of all the details of execution and disposals to awake the dreamers; an architect, Ariane (Ellen Paige) freshly arriving to their dream experience she is the anchor point to reality, she builds a similar universe to trick the subject experimenting with laws of physics. Adds up to that the forger, Eames (Tom Hardy), a cameleon able to make believe what he wants to the subject;  a chimist, enabling the team to go further in limbo and a “tourist“, Saito (Ken Watanabe) their client insisting to observe everything. The team is now ready to put a simple idea in the mark‘s mind, Robert Fischer Jr (Cillian Murphy) who is about to inheritate his father’s legacy. But they will have to deal with a darker entity in Dom’s life, Mall, the shade (Marion Cotillard) his late wife that keeps living in his mind and thwarting Dom’s plans.

The cast is stunning, Nolan’s team has the right calibre to carry the film as far as it can go, DiCaprio’s interpretation shows much refinement, all these plots into plots keep stacking up without ever making you feel lost in the process. If your mind is the scene of the crime you will keep wondering for a long time if what you think is really what is or if you’ve been wrong all along.