{"id":9627,"date":"2010-08-15T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T03:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=9627"},"modified":"2010-08-15T23:40:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T07:40:10","slug":"inception-christopher-nolan-2010-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=9627","title":{"rendered":"Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed at Camino Real Cinema, Goleta, CA.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0 Washing ashore on a foreign land, Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is pulled from the water and\u00a0brought before an elderly Japanese man whom he has been searching for.\u00a0 Though his memory is a bit cloudy, in a matter of seconds the scene shifts to Cobb working as a safe cracker stealing important documents, and then plunging into a tub of water as everything comes crashing down.<\/p>\n

Cobb works\u00a0as a corporate spy, or pirate if you will, stealing valuable info by extracting it from the minds of competitors through their dreams\u00a0and delivering it to the client.\u00a0 He is highly skilled and the best at what he does, until Saito (Ken Watanabe), a client, hires him with a special request, not to extract but to implant an idea instead, known as an Inception<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The challenge is accepted only\u00a0with\u00a0a guarantee\u00a0that he\u00a0will be reunited with his family back in the States once the\u00a0task is complete.\u00a0 Cobb then\u00a0recruits a skilled team to assist him in the dream process, but as they set about on their mission he is repeatedly\u00a0hindered by the dogged behavior of\u00a0his wife Mal (Marion Cotillard).<\/p>\n

Moving at a fast pace from beginning to end,\u00a0racked with\u00a0thrills,\u00a0twists and turns,\u00a0the film has\u00a0wonderfully appropriate CGI and terrific special effects – particularly the hallway scene.\u00a0 As the film comes to a close, Nolan manages to implant ideas into the minds of\u00a0his audience, or at least it seems so – it’s easy to lose track of the characters.<\/p>\n

Marion Cotillard gives a chilling\u00a0standout performance,\u00a0and Cillian Murphy, as the target, is equally entrancing.\u00a0 Inception<\/em> is also\u00a0a study in screenwriting, as Christopher Nolan has outdone himself and surely deserves an Oscar nod for his efforts.\u00a0 It is difficult to find a flaw, and believe me, seeing it twice –\u00a0I’ve tried.<\/p>\n

Unlike the horribly depressing\u00a0 Batman sequel, The Dark Knight<\/em>, with its splashy over the top\u00a0pyrotech special effects and nightmarish Joker domination,\u00a0Inception<\/em> is a\u00a0decisive (9 years in the planning stage) masterpiece of writing and directing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lastly, it would be remiss not to mention the brilliant and haunting score by\u00a0Hans Zimmer, Composer for Gladiator<\/em>, Green Card<\/em>, and many many\u00a0more, where the film and music work congruently.<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed at Camino Real Cinema, Goleta, CA. \u00a0 Washing ashore on a foreign land, Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is pulled from the water and\u00a0brought before an elderly Japanese man whom he has been searching for.\u00a0 Though his memory is a bit cloudy, in a matter of seconds the scene shifts to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}