Inception
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Warner Bros, 2010
Christopher Nolan became a filmmaker to watch almost a decade ago with Memento. Despite that being still of my all-time favourite films, naturally he remains best known and most popular for his reigniting the Batman film series. What I like about Nolan is that despite the new heights of mainstream popularity he’s reached, he still takes the time to do his own projects. Which brings us to Inception, his project in between his caped crusader adventures.
Inception is sci-fi/action film about a world where it is possible for people to enter and manipulate the dreams of others. Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is one of the best extractors in the business. He and his team break into people’s minds and steal their hidden secrets. One day, a powerful businessman (and former target) named Saito (Ken Watanabe) asks Cobb to enter the mind of his rival Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy) and instead of extracting information, Saito wants Cobb to plant an idea into Fischer’s brain (hence the “Inception” of the title). Cobb then proceeds to assemble his team: Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is Cobb’s right hand man and researches the target, Ariadne (Ellen Page) is an architect and designs the dreamscapes, Eames (Tom Hardy) is a forger and can disguise himself as anyone within the dream, and Yusuf (Dileep Rao) is a chemist that makes the sedative drugs required to put the team into a deep sleep.











