Inception (M)

Richard Jones sent us his latest movie Review:

Inception (M)

WE all dream, with some of our reveries scary while others are fuzzy, warm and full of fluffy white clouds.

Imagine, then, a time not so far in the future where there’s a technology allowing us to enter and control our dreams.

So-called lucid dreams: the types in which we are completely aware we are dreaming.

In Christopher Nolan’s new film Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is an inception expert. He’s able to steal ideas and secrets from the minds of his subjects by entering their dreams.

It’s something of a double-edged sword for Cobb. He’s haunted by the memory of his dead wife (Marion Cotillard) who continually infiltrates his own dream scapes.

Unaware of this problem businessman Saito (Ken Watanabe) hires Cobb to break into the innermost recesses of a rival, the heir to a business empire.

Saito wants Cobb to plant an idea in the brain of Fischer (Cillian Murphy) which will result in the collapse of his corporate world.

It’s an elaborate and costly form of industrial espionage, but Saito is prepared to foot the bill.

Cobb, however, can’t do the planting of an idea without a skilled team. He assembles a group which includes his regular assistant Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), set designer Ariadne (Ellen Page) and an identity forger (Tom Hardy).

Nolan lets the story unfold in a quite complicated way. He plays with the concept that his characters could be in their own real world, somebody’s else’s mind or perhaps a fantasy of their own making.

Be warned, though. This is a film like Hidden or even 2001: A Space Odyssey you’ll want to see more than once.

But the first viewing is amazing enough as we try to work out just exactly what’s happening among the many layers of consciousness.