Inception: Slightly Dazed and Totally Amazed

Rating: 10/10 (12 January 2018)

To my astonishment, Inception managed to surpass my greatest hopes. Watching it for the first time was one of the most profound movie experiences of my life.
Action movies are supposed to take us on a roller-coaster ride. But rarely does a film take us on an intellectual roller-coaster ride. Rarely does the plot captivate us so thoroughly that we feel as if we are a young child experiencing the joy of movies for the first time. That's what Christopher Nolan attempts with Inception, and in my opinion, he's achieved his goal. It is a genuine mind trip.
Inception is a surprisingly current movie, exploring what it means to live in the 21st century with different levels of reality.
Inception is a meditation on the modern society where wealth and technology enable us to create our own dream worlds, escaping from reality. Every one of us lives in a world of the Internet. We play endless hours in make-believe virtual worlds through video games. We have almost unlimited access to movies and television that take us constantly into fiction. We interact with friends in virtual social networks. We have blogs which act as a sort of avatar, a representation of ourselves. We wear clothes that make us into made-up characters. We play and watch sports that simulate the drama and thrill of warfare. And we have created companies that are pseudo kingdoms, where business leaders act as modern-day royalty.