Inception Movie directed by Christopher Nolan Review

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Inception Movie Review
Introduction
Dreaming is one of the life’s most interesting solitary escapades. Whatever pleasures a state of dreaming provides are experienced alone within the confines of a person’s mind. But what if other people could literally invade our dreams? What if a technology existed that enabled interlopers to create and manipulate sleep with an objective and goal of stealing our secret thoughts? What if intruders started implanting ideas in the deepest parts of our subconscious states and making us believe they are our own? Welcome to the world of “Inception” a tremendously exciting science-fiction movie, which is written and directed by the authoritative and masterful Christopher Nolan. The movie is interesting since the director exploits it in a story that is working on more than one level of consciousness. This paper will evaluate the effectiveness of the Inception film by examining the scope of the movie, its features, and character development.
The film is about a thief who has the abilities to enter into other people’s dreams. Unlike the ordinary thieves who steal tangibles, Leonardo Dicaprio (Dom Cobb) takes other people’s ideas. He projects himself into his target’s subconscious and gathers information which even the best computers hackers cannot obtain. Cobb is a weapon. Even weapons have their weaknesses and this was demonstrated when he lost everything, being forced to undertake his final mission which is aimed at redeeming himself.
This movie is written and directed by Christopher Nolan. The actors include Leonardo DiCaprio (Cobb), Tom Hardy (Eames), and Ken Watanabe (Saito), Ellen Page (Ariadne), Dileep Rao (Yusuf) and Cillian Murphy (Robert Fischer Jr) among others . The movie was released in 2010 and grossed $825 million, making it the third biggest release of the year. Some of the awards won include best visual effects, best cinematography, and best sounding mixing.
Inception is not about the dream state, it is about how it plays on the screen in a dream-like way, which means that it is easier to follow its storyline than to explain. The specifics of the plot may be difficult to pin down for first-time viewers and this can result in guessing about what will happen next. Additionally, viewers may also wonder if the characters are in a dream or in reality. Even though the literal understanding of the movie can be tantalizingly out of reach, audiences and viewers always intuitively understand what is going on and why.
The relationship between movies and dreams have always been subtly predetermined. Previously, movies have been produced which replicated the uncanny and image-making power of the mind. However, over the course of the twentieth century, cinema provided an extensive and expansive, perpetually replenishing reservoir of raw material for the fantasies of millions of people. Nolan has employed visually-arresting ideas and allusions to create amazingly pretty things such as cities that fold in on themselves. Other aspects include pulsing, three-dimensional maps, chases and fights that defy the laws that usually govern space, motion and time.
In Inception, the big idea ...