Inception

Today I'm talking about the movie "Inception", by the director Christopher Nolan, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page.

DiCaprio represents a lonely man that knows a way to get into someone's mind. While the person is asleep, he connects himself and the person to a special machine, and as soon as he falls asleep, the gets to dream with the person - he goes inside the other person's dream. That is his job. He uses his knowledge to discover things (e.g. passwords) about the person whose dream he invaded. Generally he does that because someone paid him to.

In a certain moment of the movie, DiCaprio is asked not to discover something about the person - but to make them think something, to make an inception. He says it's a tough job, but it can be done. Later we get to know why he is so secure about that.

The interesting things about the movie, in my opinion: how they plan to do the inception and what the dreams mean (because everything that happens in the dream has a reason and reflects what the dreamer thinks of that, of feels about that; even the people in the dream are projections of the person's subconscious).

DiCaprio formed his own team to do the inception, and they trained a lot before entering someone's mind. The team concluded that, to make and inception; they had to be very subtile, and they had to do things in a way to make the person think it was their idea (the inception's intention). So, they had to know a lot about the person's life, mind and personal opinions; their family; their job; so that the idea would seem more realistic.

While planning about the inception, Ellen Page gets really close to DiCaprio because she gets into his dreams and discovers many things about his past (e.g. how he lost his wife). She discovers that being in a dream with DiCaprio is very dangerous because a projection he does of his wife - the wife always tries to ruin everything they plan, and she knows how to do that because she's a DiCaprio's projection, therefore, they share the same knowledge about everything. The reason that makes her try to ruin everything is explained during the movie.

The movie is really dense and creative; and you have to pay attention all the time 'cause everything that appears in the movie has its importance. It's sort of confunsing because in the end of the movie they are in a dream that is inside a dream that is inside a dream that is inside a dream of a person who is travelling on a plane; and sometimes the three dreams are shown one after another; it's difficult to follow the rythm of the movie.

But, in spite of all that complication, it's a great movie, it makes you want to keep watching (even though it's a long movie - 2h30min) and the end makes people hold their breath.