Inception

It's been a long time since I've seen a movie that's been good enough to talk about, let alone one that was interesting enough to write about. A few weeks ago, however, I saw "Inception", and it happens to be one of those movies that's good enough to say something about.

The story, settings, action, and effects of the movie are all excellent; the movie itself is very entertaining to watch. It is a movie that takes some thought and insight to really grasp the concepts and details that went into its making, but once everything comes to light it's not a difficult movie to enjoy at all. It's a few parts exploding Bruckheimer, a little Doug Liman, and even a dash of Tony Gilroy (a la Michael Clayton). With all this going for it, though, the part I found most intriguing was the movie's ability to replicate the feeling of a dream.

Without giving away too much of the story, I'll say the movie is about people that go inside others' dreams in order to steal/plant secrets/ideas. The entire movie revolves around a group of people being conscious within various dream worlds. This aspect, that of taking part in a dream, is where the movie recreates the feeling of a dream. When all is said and done, the dream and movie finally over, I got those same feelings that I do when waking from a particularly intense dream: is this real or am I still dreaming? Was it all just a dream? Am I finally awake?

The ability of the movie to recreate something so complicated and insightful as a dream is what sets it apart from others in my opinion, and it's this part of the film that makes it great.