Nolan seems to be on a roll.
After the dark knight many would maybe have expected something that didn't quite hit the bar. Especially since we are talking only 2 years on, where others might have taken much longer to bring the next masterpiece.
But Nolan doesn't seem to do these things for the reputation, he seems to enjoy a challenge and takes on the projects that hold something new or different for him. And we as the audience seem to reap the benefits in some excellent and unique experiences.
And Inception seems to have been the best yet for me. All the hype and secrecy around it didn't build it up for me to a level that it was never going to meet, and for me i was most pleased with how uncomplicated it was. You will find many who will want to analyse this film to death for the deeper meanings and theories that i am sure can be drawn from this, but on even a surface level it had an excellent script that made sense and never tried to deliberately deceive or twist until you didn't know where you were.
The plot is around Dicaprio's character Cobb, and his 'job' of stealing information from peoples dreams. He is then drawn into another job which is much more of a challenge... the concept of implanting an idea in someones mind through the dreamworld, or what they call 'Inception'.
To tell you more than that would be to take away the beauty of experiencing this film on your own, but just take note that you will need to be following the story at all times, because although things are explained well, they aren't hammered home (and rightly so) so as the many layers of the film being to play out you need to be fully alert.
The mark of a good film is not realising the time passing, and this film had me enthralled from beginning to end.
A must see film for 2010, you wont be disappointed.
After the dark knight many would maybe have expected something that didn't quite hit the bar. Especially since we are talking only 2 years on, where others might have taken much longer to bring the next masterpiece.
But Nolan doesn't seem to do these things for the reputation, he seems to enjoy a challenge and takes on the projects that hold something new or different for him. And we as the audience seem to reap the benefits in some excellent and unique experiences.
And Inception seems to have been the best yet for me. All the hype and secrecy around it didn't build it up for me to a level that it was never going to meet, and for me i was most pleased with how uncomplicated it was. You will find many who will want to analyse this film to death for the deeper meanings and theories that i am sure can be drawn from this, but on even a surface level it had an excellent script that made sense and never tried to deliberately deceive or twist until you didn't know where you were.
The plot is around Dicaprio's character Cobb, and his 'job' of stealing information from peoples dreams. He is then drawn into another job which is much more of a challenge... the concept of implanting an idea in someones mind through the dreamworld, or what they call 'Inception'.
To tell you more than that would be to take away the beauty of experiencing this film on your own, but just take note that you will need to be following the story at all times, because although things are explained well, they aren't hammered home (and rightly so) so as the many layers of the film being to play out you need to be fully alert.
The mark of a good film is not realising the time passing, and this film had me enthralled from beginning to end.
A must see film for 2010, you wont be disappointed.