I watched Inception with my friend in theater yesterday .
Inception
The film opens with Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) unconscious on a beach. He is found by an armed guard and brought into the chamber of an elderly man, who speaks to him cryptically. Cobb is carrying only a small, metal spinning top and a gun.
The plot cuts back to an earlier time, to reveal a crime inside a dream arranged by Cobb and his team, including a point man, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and an architect named Nash (Lukas Haas) who design and fill a dream world designed to have the victim's mind reveal real-world secrets. Objects and characters in the dreams are projections of the dreamers' minds, and may be lacking in unconsidered details. They are currently inside the mind of Saito (Ken Watanabe), who, unknown to them, is aware of their deception and is auditioning them to work for his own dream crime.
The rules of the dream world are explained: if an individual is hurt in the dream world, they will experience pain in a very real sense. But if they die in the dream, they will merely wake up. Dreamers use "totems" or small, self-made artifacts like a metal top or loaded dice, to test whether they are awake or merely dreaming. A "maze" or world contains the other shared dreamers -- all sleeping in a special drug-induced state in close proximity to each other. Dream crimes usually involve "Extraction" of secrets from a target's mind, but Saito wants Cobb to perform the much harder act of "Inception" -- creating new thoughts in the target, which he later accepts as his own idea.
The team and Saito are brought back to the real world (in Japan), where they have a device in a briefcase that lulls people into a shared dream experience. The team escapes, apparently eluding capture by Saito, but Cobb and Arthur are confronted by Saito when attempting to leave the country. Saito convinces Cobb to take the difficult job of inception (using a dream to implant an idea within a person's mind) by offering Cobb a way to get home to his children.
Cobb recruits Eames (Tom Hardy), a forger who can shift his identity inside a dream, as well as a highly talented architecture student named Ariadne (Ellen Page), who is trained to construct dream worlds. While Ariadne trains inside Cobb's mind, she sees and slowly comes to understand what is haunting him: a vision of his deceased wife Mal (Marion Cotillard) that continually disrupts his dream world.
The team's target for inception is Robert Fischer Jr. (Cillian Murphy), son of Saito's late corporate rival Maurice Fischer (Pete Postlethwaite). The idea is a complex emotional suggestion that will ultimately lead Fischer to disband his father's empire. To achieve their goal, Cobb's team will have to pass down through several levels, each a dream within the last. Time slows down with each level, so that five minutes of real time would appear as an hour in the first dream, which feels like 10 hours in the next level, and so on.
Because of the strong sedatives used and the depth of the dreams there is state of "limbo" that will be entered if a person dies within a dream while too sedated to wake up. The time within limbo is compounded so drastically that even a few moments of real time could seem to be decades.
We learn that Cobb and Mal spent many years in the limbo state, before coming back to reality as their younger original selves. They clung to totems, tiny personal objects carried to check that the dreamer is in his own dream, and not in someone else's or reality. Mal's totem (which is now carried by Cobb) was in the opening scene, a small spinning top which appears frequently. He suggests that in his dreams, it spins indefinitely.
Mal suffered a psychological breakdown after waking from limbo, convinced that she was still in a dream and that the real world was still to come after her death. She leapt out a window with Cobb watching but unable to intervene, leaving the police a letter indicating her mental state, and his supposed guilt. Cobb subsequently fled the country, rather than face murder charges in his own wife's death.
The team boards a Boeing 747 transporting Fischer, drug him without his knowledge, and enter into a dream with him. They have help from Yusuf (Dileep Rao), the chemist who developed the compounds specific to the multi-level dream state they are attempting. Inside the first level of dream, the team locates Fischer and kidnaps him only to be assaulted by a group of mercenaries created by Fischer's trained subconscious to protect him from dream-crimes. Saito is injured badly, but not allowed to die for fear that he would lose his mind within the limbo state. Eames takes the identity of Peter Browning (Tom Berenger), Fischer's godfather, to try and extract information from him. At level one the team, while inside a moving van being chased by mercenaries, pushes down into the next dream level. The second level is a hotel where the team lulls Fischer into their confidence, and convinces him that he must find out why his own right-hand man is turning against him. The third and final level (designed by Ariadne, so that Cobb has little advance knowlege of it) is a mountainous compound where the secret is stored, and Fischer must break in to find it.
During the third-level attempt to break in, Fischer is killed by Cobb's projection of his dead wife Mal, and so is lost into the limbo state before any idea has been planted. Cobb and Ariadne follow him down in an attempt to salvage the mission. They are confronted by Mal, and it is revealed that Cobb knew that an inception was possible because in limbo he had planted the idea in his wife that the world Mal was in was fake, causing her to leave limbo in the first place and retain the idea of a false world in real life, with tragic results. Mal attempts to convince Cobb to stay in limbo, but Ariadne shoots and kills her. Following this, Fischer and Ariadne are able to return to the third-level mountain compound. When Fischer confronts his father in this dream state, he understands (as intended by the criminal plot) that his father had wanted him to be his own man and make his own choices. During this time Saito has died in level three, and Cobb remains behind in the limbo state to locate him and bring him back. When Cobb finds Saito in limbo he is now an old man, and the context of the opening scene is revealed.
Everyone wakes up successively through all the levels of dream, alive and well. As per his deal with the powerful Saito, Cobb is given leeway to re-enter the United States, and is reunited with his children. The final shot shows his totem, spinning but beginning to wobble. The scene then cuts to black.
Ratings: 8/10
The story of Inception is very complicated, need to watch it over and over again only understand the meaning of the whole story .
Cast
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur, the Point Man – the person responsible for researching the team's targets.
Ellen Page as Ariadne, the Architect – a college graduate student who constructs the world of the dream.(She's Sexy !!!)
Tom Hardy as Eames, the Forger – a sharp-tongued team member who impersonates the target within the dream world and forge an identity in a physical form.
Marion Cotillard as Mallorie "Mal" Cobb, the Shade – Cobb's deceased wife, who manifests in the dreamscape beyond Cobb's control.
Cillian Murphy as Robert Fischer, Jr., the Mark – the heir to a business empire and Dom's latest client and target.
Ken Watanabe as Saito, the Tourist – a businessman who employs Cobb.
Tom Berenger as Peter Browning, Robert's godfather.
Dileep Rao as Yusuf, the Chemist – the team member who formulates the drugs needed to enter the dream world.
Pete Postlethwaite as Maurice Fischer, Robert's dying father.
Lukas Haas as Nash, Dom's previous Architect.
Michael Caine as Miles, Cobb's mentor, teacher, and father-in-law, and Ariadne's college professor. Miles is also the guardian of Cobb's children.
Talulah Riley as Blonde .
Bought Naruto Shippuden The Movie 6: Inheritors Of The Will Of Fire disc . 
Every Rose Has Its Thorn,
Just like every night has it's dawn,
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song,
Every Rose Has Its Thorn .
Eating Dim Sum right now xD
bye
1 comments:
the poem ...
u need to change a little bit...
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