Let's just say 'Christopher Nolan is a genius.'
I never like pure action movie, so this one is just perfect for me. It leads you to a status of wondering, wondering with imaginations and possibilities. There is no rule but logic. But how much we 'think' we know about subconscious? How much do we think we know about our dreams?
This doubt induced Christopher to make this movie. Through the imagination, his thoughts about subconscious was inputted in our minds and caused expected discussion and studies after. This is what you called an art. It causes ripples of new thoughts, new feelings, new creations.
For one of his old movie that I love, Memento, it was about memories. This
time, it's about dreams. Another level & challenge of trying to understand those hidden areas of human brains.
For those haven't seen the movie, you should stop right here and go checking out the movie. I believe it's that kind of movie you better have no expectation and no ideas what it's about before you watched it.
I especially like the motion parts inside when the chairs floating in the room cuz lack of gravity. And Joseph's(Arthur in the movie) fights with Fischer's subconscious in the hotel hallway. The room's special spinning way really get me obsessed with the scene. The city bends over upside down was pretty cool, too. But I liked that better in trailers. It was expected would be something big but actually not in the movie. Besides these, there are still many interesting scenes in that movie. But those are just the decorations for the movie, the best part of this movie in my opinion is the idea. The idea about dreams. The idea of a different definition to make the dreams come true.
Stories (Posted from IMDB.com)
Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible-inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming.
In the mission, they fell asleep on the 1st class of the plane and started to dream.
1st level
It was raining. They joked that's the consequence of Fischer wants to go to the bathroom. The plan was to kidnap Fischer with a taxi. They asked him for the codes of his father's safe but he doesn't know. So they put him in a room together with his father's wingman who was actually Eames (one of the team member of Cobb) with make-up. I think the original plan is to inject something to let Fischer fall in sleep so they can start the next level. But out of expectation, Fischer was trained to protect ideas to be stolen in his dreams/subconscious. They ended it up have to move the hostages and got him fall in sleep in the van. So Yusuf stayed awake in this level to keep driving to the going to close bridge in order to get away from the attack from Fischer's subconscious. And to wake up and back to the reality, Yusuf will drive the van off the bridge.
2nd level (my favourite)
It's in a hotel that Ariadne decided. Fischer was sitting in the hotel bar with this lady talking to him (The lady is again, Eames with make up). Then Cobb showed up besides him telling him that it's actual a thief after the lady left. After gaining Fischer's trust, Cobb told Fischer that somebody put him in sleep and they are in his dream. He is there because someone wants to steal something from his dream. Then he though of someone was trying to ask him about the safe codes. Then he brought him to a hotel room where they fall in sleep together with Cobb's team members in order to find out what's really in his father's safe by himself.
Arthur stayed in the room to make sure the team member be woke up before their bodies felf falling' in the first level. If the sequence messed up, it may cause a tragedy that they can never wake up to reality.
It looks like a military center in mountains. Probably because Fischer's heart feels cold by just noticed some people around him might want to steel something from him. It's heavy snow in the dream. The plan is the team will cover Fischer to get into the building and open the big safe inside to find what's in there. It turned out that it's his father in the safe on the bed dying just like what he remembered. The difference is he finally gets to hear what his father tried to say before he past away clearly this time. It was not disappointed of his son is not like him, it's disappointed of he even tried to be like his father. So Fischer's father told Fischer to be himself and told him to open the safe, it was the pinwheel he remembered in one of the very few pictures that he took with his father.
Light summer dinner
