1. Inception
Christopher Nolan spent around a decade rewriting and rewriting this script and finessing the concept in this film. What Nolan spent ten years doing paid off because this is the only film I went back to the theater to see a second time. The cerebral ecstasy provided by this film -" the respect the film had for the intelligence of its audience and the "maze" nature of the film from beginning to end -" had me eager to experience the film again.
The premise is, for the most part, original. A profession known as extraction (that in reality does not exist yet) involves people raiding other people's minds and extracting information usually on behalf of very powerful people in the world who are tied to huge corporations. Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the main extractor in the film. He has a right-hand man, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who helps him coordinate extractions. Cobb assembles crews for each extraction and the way an extraction works involves finding time when the subject with the idea can be put into a "dream state" with a device that hooks up the crew conducting the extraction to the subject who has the idea that needs to be extracted.
That would have been enough of a premise for a story. But, Nolan doesn't stop there. Moments into the movie he inverts the concept as Cobb and a crew agree to carry out a high-risk job known as inception. And, the idea and dilemma of planting ideas into people's minds becomes a key element of this intellectual thrill ride.
For more, here's my previously posted review.
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