How do you determine what is real?
If your mind is flooded with tender memories but your reality is void, wouldn't you rather live in the fiction?
An alternate reality is just a dream away...
Inception, unlike extraction, is about putting something into your thoughts rather than taking it out... and this film surely plants a pot to be pondered.
A workout for the brain, no doubt. That is one way to describe sitting through this film. You feel yourself getting lost in the story... but in a good way, like being blindfolded on a roller coaster. At times you feel dumbfounded and even up to the end you might feel like you don't comprehend everything, but then comes the satisfying jolt at the end of the ride and the lap belt releases. Did I really just experience that?? Let's do it again!
It almost felt like floating in zero gravity - like some of the characters, ironically enough.
After the dust settles - or rather appears to settle - the film sticks with you like a tantalizing meal leaving you craving dessert (maybe an infinity layer cake with zero calories).
The visual effects are truly something to behold with certain moments that are just plain trippy. Sadly, there was one scene in particular where the computer generated effects go a bit over the top for my taste. Luckily, many of the film's most effective visual elements are achieved without the use of CGI. That's just creative filmmaking, plain and simple.
Sleek, sexy, and modern, Inception is a well-oiled ensemble machine, bursting at every seam with talent - without allowing one to outshine the other. It was a bit light on the emotional side but in no way devoid of feeling. Nolan's truly original script is a gasp of fresh air in this age of rehashed and resold cinematic garbage. A compelling thrill ride, hands down... Inception beckons revisiting, again and again.
