A stationary glass sees its watery contents inexplicably tilt 45 degrees. A corridor spins like a hamster wheel as two antagonists are flung onto its ceiling. A city street literally curls in on itself as if it were being rolled up like a carpet. Buildings crumble. Bridges arch themselves up over rivers. Bodies are suspended then fluidly rotated in mid-air.
Welcome to the brain-sizzling, mind-altering world of Chris Nolan’s Inception, an existential blockbuster set – as the blurb goes – “within the architecture of the mind”. Or, if you like, a cerebral netherworld in which dreams and reality are inextricably meshed, one where you no longer know if you’re awake or asleep.
And you thought Memento was a headfuck…
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FBJJohnson
Jan 31st 2012, 12:40
I'm pretty sure Marion Cotillard's character name was Mal, not Lisa.
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MattMaytum
Jan 31st 2012, 13:56
^ Well-spotted, that has been amended now.
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SiMan
Jan 31st 2012, 14:57
This is what i want from a summer blockbuster. Amazing visuals, engaging story but enough intelligence to make you feel like you're being spoken to as an adult rather than just having things explode for no reason. What are the chances that this will become the norm though? Have there been any other truly intelligent blockbusters since Inception?
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Ali1748
Jan 31st 2012, 17:27
I still can't believe Hans Zimmer didn't win an Oscar for his score work on Inception.
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nkutzler
Jan 31st 2012, 18:21
I can't say I know why this feature was just made, but I love it nonetheless. Especially because I was talking about Inception when I opened Totalfilm.
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aleks989
Jan 31st 2012, 21:20
I am in love with the architecture of the mind of Chris Nolan.
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drbond1978
Feb 1st 2012, 9:59
Would like to know the inspiration for the empty city/tower blocks and decaying cliffs - def have a Ballardian edge
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Hadouken76
Feb 2nd 2012, 12:20
Surely it should have been a 'best adapted screenplay' nom, seeing how Memento was adapted from his brothers' short story 'Memento Mori'. But how can you take the Oscars seriously, when they give one to Akiva 'Batman and Robin' Goldmans for a fabricated and bowdlerised version of John Nash' life and Diablo Cody for a screenplay where everyone talks in sound bites?
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