Knowing Nolan

Rating: 9/10 (18 July 2010)

It all started with a single idea from one man and that with the name of Nolan, Christopher Nolan that is. He loves to play around the human psyche and able to convene hordes of science-fiction audience that cannot help but to play with him in return. Far from the specs of The Dark Knight, but without further ado make way for a new mind bending activity called Inception.
A film that is intelligently and exuberantly plotted, directed, acted and delivered by the cast, crew and again by the clever as ever writer / director, Christopher Nolan. How can anyone not drool from curiosity in such a film that mainly pertains about the Thieves of Dream? To simplify it, it is nothing less than about stealing or instilling an idea to a marked man's dream by six simultaneous dream experts, doing it within as much as 3 layers of dream. Well alright, it (plot) does sound complex and so as the film but I'm telling you, absolute justice is done.
From the start, no wasted time for maestro Hans Zimmer, doing his inception of music to the audience that resonates till' the final credit. Original score for films is his masterpiece as Nolan to his storyboard, excellent collaboration. That's why I'm not thinking twice that an Academy Award for best direction and musical score are in this film's grasp with some other following.
It wouldn't be nice to expound more about this film, for all the accolades it receives can already depict how real is this dream. It should also not be compared to other science-fiction films, for this film is in a superior league of its own. Nolan has his own distinct touch that roots since Memento.
This film sets Christopher Nolan as his "Leap of Satisfaction". From the ingenious, but budget tight Memento, he retained his own element and enticed Warner Brothers to make Inception as a film superlative of its kind. Now, ambitious as it can be, it has been a medium for him to tell the world that "It pays to be a dreamer".