Hey Guys,
So I finally went and saw the movie "Inception" yesterday and here I am with the full review. Warning! Spoilers ahead!
Alright, first of all, the film isn't as "mind crazy" as everybody is saying.
Sure it has it's moments where you just scratch your head and say "Mr. Nolan, you simply have too much time on your hands!" But really, there's nothing much here that you haven't seen before.
Concerning the plot itself. Basically the story takes place in the near future where brains have stopped being able to generate certain vital brainwaves (some sort of evolutionary failsafe to keep species from getting too prolific I think).
The story centers around four "Dream Jumpers" who's job it is to the obtain these vital brain waves at whatever the cost (moral or otherwise).
In order to accomplish this they kidnap special children (teen agers more like) who for whatever reason have brains that produce these vital brain waves when they dream.
They take these chidlren to their lab which (for some reason) is in a giant decrepit ocean liner that looks all grimy from the outside but inside is really super high-tech.
The thing is, they kidnap this one kid who isn't really a kid at all but another brain agent (played by who else but eternally cherub faced Ellen Page). And guess what? She's got her own agenda.
Page plays along for awhile, allowing the four men (Dicaprio, Watanabe et al) to enter into her young mind to try and steal her thoughts or something.
The creepiest part of it is the strangely sexual manner in which Nolan treats these mind "insertion" scenes.
The men all climb into this long -and remarkably phallic- train-like device and then, following this CGI odyssey, somehow manage to transmit their mental algorithms INTO little Ms. Page who lies in a weird gynocologist's chair biting her lip in what anybody who hasn't watched the lead up would assume to be a rape scene. Hmmm....what could it all mean?
The four men end up inside Page's mind and things just deteriorate from there. Of course Dicaprio ends up falling in love with Page's mind. Feels guilty about kidnapping her and mind-raping her and tries to save her.
But of course Page isn't any angel herself and there's this series of predictable double crosses which essentially amount to the "mind bendy" version of the Rom Com meet-cute.
Eventually Page (her mind's version of herself anyway) decides that she loves Dicaprio and escapes through her own mind with her mind's version of Dicaprio as they're chased by Watanabe and several other guys armed with mind guns.
I honestly sort of slipped in and out of the movie. At one point there's a scene where Dicaprio is fighting Watanabe on top of this CGI pyramid with, can you believe it, broadswords while Ellen Page somehow manages to conjure this fucking Golem out of the sand of her own mind to fight him.
And get this: the Golem is made up of all the negative thoughts Page's character has been keeping locked inside for so long which sets up the final kicker:
(Warning Big Spoiler ahead):
Ellen Page wakes up and...
It was all a dream.
Or rather, it was all one big psycho-therapy session for Page's character to come to terms with, you guessed it, getting raped by four men five years earlier.
Of course her psychologist is none other than dreamy Leo himself made intellectual here by wearing a pair of ridiculous spectacles.
Now while some might call that sort of surprise ending "revolutionary" I, for one say that any movie that ends with the main character waking up only to find that the whole movie we've become vested in is a dream is simply lazy story telling and it's got more in common with M. Night what's-his-face's latest trends of sudden, un-earned endings than anything else.
Still, beats the rest of the swill out this summer.
Check back next week for a review of Toy Story 3
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