Edgar Allan Poe said; "Is all we see or seem but a dream within a dream?" Christopher Nolan's film Inception raises the same question. The film blurs the line between dreams and reality so that it becomes difficult for the audience, as well as the characters, to distinguish between the two. Like real life, the dreamer has the ability to construct their own dreams. Also, in many scenes, Nolan re-created some visual aspects of my dreams, so I felt that it was entirely possible that there could actually have been others inside my subconscious just like the characters in the movie are, so even the fictional events of the movie seemed like they could have really happened in my suspension of disbelief, if that makes sense. These visuals were aesthetically stunning as well as eerily familiar.
However, the story itself is unique and unfamiliar. Nolan's dialogue poses existential questions and is emotional like a drama, yet it also contains fantastic action sequences that keep the audience watching despite whatever confusion they might have during the film. Only rarely do action movies contain the level of emotionality that Inception reaches. Leonardo Di Caprio effectively brings the emotion of his character to the surface, and is at his best here. Cillian Murphy is also surprisingly believable and holds his own with the rest of the terrific cast. Inception is so enthralling and complex that it will keep audiences up all night thinking about it, if they aren't already dreaming.
Rating: A
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