Summary:
Dom Cobb (DiCaprio) is offered the chance to regain his former life in exchange for attempting an ‘inception’ - the act of planting an idea into the unconsciousness thoughts of a human target. Along with his group of specialized con-men and agents, they attempt to penetrate the levels of the unconscious mind of their target by travelling through various dream states.
Analysis:
“The film is nearly bewildering in its depiction of life-like dream states, dreams within dreams, and dreams within dreams within dreams. Inception imagines the forces present in a man’s various levels of conscious much like TRON imagined the inner workings of a computer system.” (Ring, 2011:98)
Ring, Robert C. (2011) Sci-Fi Movie Freak USA:Krause Publications
Release:
2010
Director:
Christopher Nolan
Screenplay by:
Christopher Nolan
Produced by:
Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas
Genre/subgenre:
Science Fiction, Action, Spy Thriller, Heist
Country:
United States
Cast:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine
Selected Director Filmography:
Following, Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises
Related Films:
The Matrix Trilogy, The Truman Show, Ghost in the Shell, Dark City, The Thirteeth Floor, TRON, Total Recall, Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Minds, Videodrome, Altered States, James Bond franchise
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