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In-cep-tion: noun. beginning.
I finally got with the program and saw Inception last weekend. At first, I had no intention of seeing it, but I feel for peer pressure after everyone was telling me just how amazing it was.
So, there is Dom (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and Arthur (the hot Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Both are amazing thieves, Dom being the one that started it all, and then pulled Arthur and company aboard a world of corporate espionage by way of extraction—stealing secrets from someone's dream.
Together, and with the help of some weird looking metal briefcase machine, they've figured out how to construct and move through dreams to get what they want. They create layered dreams, full of mazes and people, and have even timed the proper "kick" when the sleeper jolts awake.
But the team is on their biggest mission ever: inception—to plant an idea in the dreamer's mind instead of taking it. For starters, they bring aboard a new team member, Ariadne (Ellen Page). They teach her the ropes of dream-building, which brings aboard plenty of opportunities for the movie's great batch of special effects. She learns about the rules of dreaming; that often, things don't make sense, the architecture doesn't fit together, and the people are strangers.
I was thankful for Page's character, as she caters to the audience by asking questions and getting an explanation of how extraction and inception works.
Everything is glitter and gold until Dom's past creeps up, ruining his efforts of inception. His past? His children and his wife, who I will say, is one creepy bitch. I don't want to ruin the movie with the details of the wife and kids, so I'll stop there.
In the film, Dom explains that everyone must have a totem, something only they carry and touch, that helps them know they are in their dream and not someone else's. Dom's totem is a spinning top. So, I've been wondering, what should my totem be? Maybe a weighted key from my keyboard (possibly the @ or the 3), or maybe a Monopoly piece (the hat), or maybe even a beer cap. Now that that's settled...
My favorite part of the movie was the meat of the final chance at inception—the triple-layered dream which involved an amazing scene of Gordon-Levitt "swimming" through a hotel room and an elevator shaft.
When I left the movie, I had a few freak out moments. I was convinced the elevator in the parking garage was going to end up in China, and I was really concerned the road was going to spilt, dropping me into the unknown.
However, I did end up liking this movie—very mind boggling. If you haven't had a chance to check it out yet, do it before it's too late!
