A few months ago the Christopher Nolan movie, with star actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Inception, came out in theaters, and was immediately praised by most average citizens. The No. 1 box office hit, around the time of its release, made $43.5 million in only two weeks, according to reportnews.com. Inception has been compared to many great movies such as, The Matrix, Shutter Island, and any other great movie some idiot wants to punch down a couple hundred of levels by comparing it to Inception. However, Inception was just shit.
One of the more interesting movies Inception has been compared to is the classic Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club. Fight Club was an interesting film that came out in the late nineties about a guy who makes a friend with another guy and they start a fight club and then etc. (Fight Club has a great story line that I would never ruin for anyone like I will for Inception). If you have not seen Fight Club, you are fairly unlucky and need to go see it immediately to have some part of your life revolutionized.
Where on the other hand, if you haven’t seen Inception you are a fairly lucky individual to have not had to sit through two hours of overdone slow motion, distractions from how horrible the movie was, boring tricks, and, for lack of a better word, all around bullshit.
Christopher Nolan really out-did himself (or under-did, depending how you look at it) with a beginning that leaves the audience wondering “what could this mean?” and an ending that blows you away because its the beginning! Inception does really blow ones mind at the very ending until you step back and think to yourself about how they just showed a scene that they showed at the beginning of the movie except with a little more that left the question “ooooh is he in reality or is he in a dream?”.
To some up Inception very quickly, it’s a whole lot of dreams. The actors go into a dream in a dream thats in a dream that could be in a dream which just acts as a distraction from how there is barely any progress being made towards the ending where some guys supposed to get robbed and Leonardo DiCaprio gets what he wants. However, it seems all the hype from this movie comes from the movie itself.
The main characters in the film are in the future where people have created a way to put yourself in someone else’s dream (but be careful because if you screw around too much their zombie subconscious army will come kill you). This future technology was really intriguing, and it could have gone somewhere so much better. However, it appears that Christopher Nolan must have suffered some severe writers block as he only re-revolutionizes this revolutionary technology that revolutionizes theft that then needs to be re-revolutionized to be more revolutionary to make a revolution or something. But its a stretch.
Christopher Nolan seems to really love putting anything flashy in his movies even if it doesn’t have anything real to it, hence Leonardo DiCaprio. This flashy part of movies made to awe the audience is what I like to refer to as “bullshit”. Nolan includes a lot of “bullshit” in his movies going anywhere from soulless Leonardo DiCaprio to neat special affects that have become to normal in present day movies to really shock anyone, and even to neat slow motion scenes (it was cool when the matrix did it, Inception is just making a one minute scene into a twelve minute scene). However, if you sifted your way through all the “bullshit” you were left with the “plot”.
A guy is really good at dreaming, he’s so good that he can make people think they’re awake while they’re dreaming. Then, he gets an offer to get a bunch of guys and a little girl to kidnap and sleep with a rich guy to get some money from and go home to his children who he is not supposed to see, because he killed his wife with thoughts and got kicked out of America. At the end, the audience doesn’t know if he’s sleeping with his kids or if he’s just with his kids. And the moral of the story is thoughts are dangerous, reality is tricky, and don’t try to get your wife to kill herself (EVEN HYPOTHETICALLY). Overall, the movie leaves its audience with nothing but, for the easily tricked, it seems like something.
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