Inception

I saw Inception last night, and it completely blew my mind. I've had a day to think about it, and I just love everything about it. The concept of dreams within dreams, and being able to construct, dictate and manipulate them is incredible - it has so much scope and possibilities for so many things. The acting and cast - all of which play incredible characters very well, Dicaprio at his best again, playing incredibly complexed, multifaceted and an ultimately flawed character, it also has an amazing script, but my favourite part is how Nolan touched on reality. I know it's not what most people have talked about in the film, but it's the concept of what plays on Dicaprio's wife and leads to her ultimate demise that I found really interesting.

The only way you can describe and remember your life is through memories, and reality and your identity is determined through the thoughts that you have and the past things you have done. That's why it's so horrible when people loose their memory because that means you essentially can't remember who you are and you loose your identity - even though you yourself hasn't really changed.
But what I am getting at is, if you determine reality by memories and you were able to relive those memories, add or change them - who's to say that this isn't reality either. Ok you have to have lived them first to be able to go back to them. But with the number of levels that can be gone through, you can get lost in a maze of memories within memories and dreams within dreams which is quite an exciting thing to think about.

I know that was a bit of a stream of conciousness, but I think it kind of makes sense.




Another interesting aspect which was written very well by Maria Bustillos here is that Inception is infact a film about making films. All the componants you need to make a film are embodied by the characters. Dicaprio's wife, Mal is the inspiration, which although is incredibly attractive is also incredibly selfish, and with inspiration alone you cannot make a good 'Blockbuster' film. You also need a producer, a voice of Reason, experience and conscience, represented by Arthur - played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Actors, represented by Tom Hardy in the character of Eames showing characteristics of creativity, daring, playfulness and invention. You also need a writer, played by Ellen Page as the architect, and a production designer which comes in the form of Yuseph played Dileep Rao with all his chemicals. Dicaprio plays the role of director - and Chris Nolan himself, and last but not least you need an Audience which comes in the form of the character Fisher played by Cillian Murphy, and he is the person the team are trying to reach with this idea of inception. This is a brief over view and of what Maria Bustillo wrote about, please read her original piece.

"You're waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't be sure. But it doesn't matter - because we'll be together."