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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Fretless Bass reviews: Inception

The other day, I decided that if I didn't see Inception and find out what the heck the spinning hallway was I would have to be demoted to asking my friends what it was about, and neither one of them gets out very much.
So I saw it, and it blew my mind! (no pun intended)
The movie follows Dominick Cobb, a man with a really strange talent, preforming corporate espionage by putting a subject to sleep, entering his dream, and stealing his secrets while inside. Usually, he and his team steal people's ideas, but in exchange for a chance to go back to America (where he is wanted) to see his kids again, Cobb agrees to preform inception, which is to give someone an idea without them knowing you gave it to them, a process that has been called impossible.
The thing about dreams is, during them, you can do anything, but you find out in this movie that if you mess with dream physics too much, the subject's subconscious projections will kill you. When I found out about that, I said, "What the heck? What's the point of going into a dream if you can't create images of your jerk classmates and have them stand in their underwear in front of congress?" or in this case, create a gun big enough to blow up all of your problems. That was my only problem with the premise, but besides that, I really liked the idea of dream sharing.
Cobb's internal conflict (Internal conflict always drives the plot) is the guilt over his dead wife, and the really cool thing is that in the dream wold, the character's internal conflicts become projections in the dream world, so Cobb's internal conflict becomes a physical entity, in the form of his dead wife screwing up all his missions in the dream world.
My favorite part of the movie was when due to inner ear function in the dream world, a hallway started spinning around while two guys were fighting in it, and it made some fight-scene history! This fight scene is better than the one in Spider-man 2 when they were on the train!
My final review of Inception, this is the best movie of the summer so far, and you should see it twice if you want to fully grasp it in all it's glory. 8/10.

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