What do you think about inception

For all we know, Cobb is still dreaming at the end of the movie, so this is a meaningful quote. As we know, it turned into one of the greatest movies in recent memory. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you. Six months the second level down, and the third level Who would wanna be stuck in a dream for ten years? Not feeling persecuted, Dom?

Chased around the globe by anonymous corporations and police forces, the way the projections persecute the dreamer? So, choose. Choose to be here. Choose me. Ben Sherlock is a writer, comedian, and independent filmmaker. Cobb Leonardo DiCaprio is a corporate raider of the highest order. He infiltrates the minds of other men to steal their ideas.

Now he is hired by a powerful billionaire to do the opposite: To introduce an idea into a rival's mind, and do it so well he believes it is his own. This has never been done before; our minds are as alert to foreign ideas as our immune system is to pathogens. The rich man, named Saito Ken Watanabe , makes him an offer he can't refuse, an offer that would end Cobb's forced exile from home and family. Cobb assembles a team, and here the movie relies on the well-established procedures of all heist movies.

And there is a new recruit, Ariadne Ellen Page , a brilliant young architect who is a prodigy at creating spaces. Cobb also goes to touch base with his father-in-law Miles Michael Caine , who knows what he does and how he does it.

These days Michael Caine need only appear on a screen and we assume he's wiser than any of the other characters. It's a gift. But wait. Why does Cobb need an architect to create spaces in dreams? He explains to her. Dreams have a shifting architecture, as we all know; where we seem to be has a way of shifting.

Cobb's assignment is the "inception" or birth, or wellspring of a new idea in the mind of another young billionaire, Robert Fischer Jr. Cillian Murphy , heir to his father's empire. Saito wants him to initiate ideas that will lead to the surrender of his rival's corporation. Cobb needs Ariadne to create a deceptive maze-space in Fischer's dreams so that I think new thoughts can slip in unperceived.

Is it a coincidence that Ariadne is named for the woman in Greek mythology who helped Theseus escape from the Minotaur's labyrinth? Cobb tutors Ariadne on the world of dream infiltration, the art of controlling dreams and navigating them.

Nolan uses this as a device for tutoring us as well. And also as the occasion for some of the movie's astonishing special effects, which seemed senseless in the trailer but now fit right in. The most impressive to me takes place or seems to in Paris, where the city literally rolls back on itself like a roll of linoleum tile.

Protecting Fischer are any number of gun-wielding bodyguards, who may be working like the mental equivalent of antibodies; they seem alternatively real and figurative, but whichever they are, they lead to a great many gunfights, chase scenes and explosions, which is the way movies depict conflict these days.

So skilled is Nolan that he actually got me involved in one of his chases, when I thought I was relatively immune to scenes that have become so standard. That was because I cared about who was chasing and being chased. If you've seen any advertising at all for the film, you know that its architecture has a way of disregarding gravity.

Buildings tilt. Streets coil. In Inception , too, everybody has their box — be it a safe, a fortified hangar surrounded by armed guards on skis, or a stop on an elevator on which no one is allowed. Cobb defeats his regret by finally telling Mal that the two of them did grow old together in their shared dream.

In other words, he fulfilled his wedding promise to her. So, is Cobb being pulled back to reality by this thought, or is he being prodded further into his dream? That depends, perhaps, on how you view the very end of the film: At this point, Cobb seems to be finally freed of his regret and of his memory of Mal, and has been reunited with his children.

The final shot seems to indicate that he may be still dreaming because his totem keeps spinning. If so, then he has either lost himself in Limbo entirely, or Mal was right all along, and his world was always a dream.