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“What's the most resilient parasite? An Idea. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules. Which is why I have to steal it.”
While the world waits for the next Batman film to follow 2008’s spectacular Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan satisfies with Inception, a thought-provoking thriller I expect will keep movie-goers talking for weeks to come. Imdb.com users currently have Inception scored as the third greatest film of all time, a little generous I think, but it proves the sheer excitement the public is gaining for an original film.
The film’s plot involves Cobb (Leonardo Dicaprio), an expert in dreams who possesses a gnawing guilt that drives him to use his craft for stealing the deep thoughts only found in our dreams. He is soon asked by a client (Ken Watanabe) to do the unthinkable: create a thought in someone’s mind. The payment is key to Cobb, and he accepts this request with the help of a newly assembled team including his partner, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a student of dreams (Ellen Page), a quick-witted con-man of sorts (Tom Hardy ), and a chemist (Dileep Rao). The cast is full of names and familiar faces, but the screen never feels cluttered with stars. Though Gordon-Levitt and Page are young stars in comparison to the rest of the cast, they hold their own; both portray their own maturity and intelligence in their performance. Ahh, intelligence, what a rarity in recent years.
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