Inception (2010)

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	Year of first release: 2010
	Director: Christopher Nolan (Memento, Interstellar)
	Actors:  Leonardo DiCaprio (The Beach, Titanic), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Looper), Ellen Page (Super), Cylian Murphy (28 Days Later, Sunshine, In Time), Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises, Mad Max: Fury Road), Marion Cotillard (La Mome)
	Country: USA, GB
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 17.04.2018, VOD, 10" tablet screen.
Synopsis: Cobb (DiCaprio) is specialized in the retrieval of secrets from people's minds. When asked to perform an inception (planting an idea), the chance to see his family again outweighs the risks and he starts to gather a team and formulate a plan.
Review: After several critical and public successes, director Christopher Nolan was at his best in 2010. And I have the feeling that with Inception, he brought us something quite fresh at the time, a screenplay apparently original and indeed refreshing, an entrancing music, good young actors around the star DiCaprio whose acting I liked, and nice Action and SF scenes in a movie that doesn't seem adequate for that in the first place: the building bending, the zero-G dance by Joseph Gordon-Levit... Surprising that I didn't watch that movie again since its release (or at least after 2012 as it was not yet reviewed on this blog). It is for me a tour-de-force that he managed to mix all of that seamlessly as he did. And it may have been the first movie since The Matrix that made me realize that nowadays ANYTHING is really possible in Cinema, and the director can show any possible Universe by including it in someone's Multiple Personality Syndrome (Identity) or imagination (Sucker Punch) or dream (this movie) or Virtual Reality (the recent Ready Player One), and still stay anchored in reality. Nolan properly spends the first half hour of the movie going through the rules of the dream-invasion game, which seems like a tedious process but necessary for the audience to accept everything it will see afterwards, and not question whether it makes sense or not. Meanwhile he clearly describes the stakes and the background of the main character (nice small role for Michael Caine by the way), not so much of the others (except for Ellen Page's Ariadne maybe). So that by the time the Inception starts, the audience is ripe. It is definitely worth watching on a big screen unlike I did, but just watching it again in any condition reminded me of the first impressions I got of it: it was and still is a damn good movie.
Rating: 8 /10