INCEPTION: Christopher Nolan's Masterpiece

My rating: 10/10

PERFECT!

This movie is AMAZING! I couldn't find another word to describe it..well maybe the other words would be COOL, or OUTSTANDING, or even MAGNIFICENT.

*spoiler alert*

So the story started with Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), lying mysteriously on a beach, when a flash of two children playing in the sand appeared in front of him. As the camera moved to his back, a private soldier speaking Japanese came, then took him to an old man. As Cobb eating, the old man saw two different things in front of him: a spinning top and a gun.

As the old man speaks that he remembered the spinning top, we moved flash back to the beginning of explanation about Cobb's job. At the time, Cobb and his friend Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Lewitt) was entering the mind of a Japanese man named Saito (Ken Watanabe), and in a pursue of an information in Saito's mind. The plan didn't went well, as a woman (Marion Cotillard)--who seemed to be known by Cobb--appeared and ruin the plan. The mission failed, as Arthur was forced to be shot in order to wake him up (if you die in a dream, you'll wake up), and Cobb himself has to be pulled down into a bathtub filled with water to wake him up. When they woke up, Saito is already too, and Saito almost give the information under Cobb's gun, if he doesn't realize that they're all still in a dream.

The mission failed, Cobb and Arthur went away separately...for a while.
In this while-moment, it appeared that Cobb is actually a father with two children waiting for him at home. Their mother seemed to be mysterious as Cobb only tells his children that 'mommy's not with us anymore', and before he can answer his daughter's question of 'why?', the phone end. Arthur came in, and they both went together on a helicopter, which surprisingly contains Saito.

Saito offers him a new job: inception. If Cobb's earlier job was to stealing information from someone's mind/dream, now Saito's boss (never mentioned) wanted him to get into someone mind, and plant a new information inside it. Arthur refused, but Cobb took the job as he wanted to do this last job with Saito's offer of clean his name so he could come back to his children.

So the recruitment begin. Cobb gathered his team by adding 4 other member, which are: Ariadne (Ellen Page), Eemes (Tom Hardy), Yusuf (Dileep Rao), and Saito.

Their mission is to make sure an energy company owned by Fischer Sr. to pass to his only son, Fischer Jr. The mission is to make sure Fischer to split the company.

This mission has been a challange, since inception itself has almost never been done before (only once, by Cobb), and in order to fulfill the mission, they need enough time (10 hours, which then solved by Saito in a 10 hour flight from LA-Sydney, and also buying the entire flight company), and also they have to do what they never done before: getting inside a triple-layer dream. And the main problem also: how to wake them up all together so they could get back to the real world and not end up in some place-of-lost-in-mind called Limbo.

The other main problem is the appearance of Mal, Cobb's wife--the woman on the firs scene--who was dead (by suicide), as the result of Cobb's strange obsession to keep his wife is his own dream.


As for me, the first extraordinary point from this movie is the originality of its script. The script was written by Christopher Nolan himself (also most of his other movie), and then the second point was the unending and unexpected imagination of him, as we can see in the 'zero gravitation hotel'.

The next point is how he actually explain his weird-slash-confusing concept in the whole movie, so the audience could understand the world of the movie by only focusing on what they said and what they do.

And the last one, is how he end the movie. I think it's enough to make you walk out from the theatre while thinking whether you are dreaming of you not, and eager to find your own totem to proof that you are awake...in the real world. Of course pinching wouldn't enough.


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