A legend is being born under our lucky eyes

Rating: 10/10 (29 July 2010)

If only I were alive when Tarkovsky was alive, to see his movies in the theaters and know that he is alive and well. Too bad he was killed so young! The world would be a much richer place now if Tarkovsky would have had the chance to make more movies.
But luckily geniuses are still being born. Those who believe that only Tarkovsky, Bergman, Hitchcock, Kubrick and the rest of the cinema pantheon were able to make great movies are obviously wrong.
Christopher Nolan has always been great at making movies, but his latest work, Inception, is beyond words. Movies are usually beyond words because what can be shown cannot be put into words, but when I say beyond words referring to Inception I mean overwhelming, perfect. Of course, it may not address the ultimate questions like Tarkovsky did in all his movies, but Nolan's art takes a relatively simple phenomenon like dreaming and works it into a wonderfully complicated experience that keeps your brain hooked on and leaves you breathless when it ends.
They say that this movie is invulnerable to spoilers. It may be so, but I see no reason in trying to say what it is about. Suffice to say that this movie is one of the best movies ever made and that we are privileged to know that Nolan is alive and well and he may still have good things in store for us, even though with Inception he may have set a standard so high he may reach it never again in his live. But even if Nolan will not give us in the future anything at least as good as Inception if not better, we should still be grateful that he was born. We are witnessing a legend being born! And speaking of legend, Leonardo Di Caprio is on his way to becoming one as well. He is young and he already has an impressive list of titles he has powered with his acting. I am sure that he is becoming the next Bogart or Al Pacino if not bigger than these two giants.