Inception, an exception

Rating: 10/10 (22 July 2010)

Everyone creates art. Very few create masterpieces. Some masterpieces are created with such strokes of intellect and ingenuity that you are drawn into their imagination forgetting your own existence.
The web was spun more intricately, no loopholes, no pitfalls, no goof-ups. Bloody brilliance, talk about Hans Zimmer's very apt background score, or the cinematography or screenplay.
If madness is like gravity, and all it needs is a gentle push, Nolan pushes you off the cliff, and you keep falling down and down, dreaming, until you get a kick towards the climax and then you realize, that you are not a projection which Nolan had cast but you are yourself. In simpler words, you get absorbed into the movie only to realize that you are not in the movie, towards the end.
The movie is surreal, it's a chimera. But what makes this even more interesting is the involvement of a human element, the emotions and the haunting memories, and their limiting the construction and controlling of dreams, at will.
All the actors perform top-notch, may not be an Oscar winning performance by DiCaprio, but definitely a well deserved supporting actor to be won by Joseph Gordon Levitt, though Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy leave their mark too. In fact, they appear nothing in front of Nolan's absorbing screenplay.
Nolan may be no Coppola or Hitchcock or Scorsese or Spielberg. These men are absolute charmers, amazing story tellers who have inspired thousands of other such men. But, even if Coppola made a Godfather, Hitchcock a Psycho, Spielberg a Schindler's list in 2010, all of them would be swept away by this so called phenomenon 'Inception', the reason, all of them can take you to level one of imagination or dream. Nolan can take you to not one or two, but four nested levels down your mind.
Logic, dissidence, cynicism, skepticism, common sense will be put to test. Buckle up your belts and enjoy the movie of a lifetime. A must and should watch.
The conception of Inception is an exception in the art of contraption, a perception of a never ending deception of your apperception within a circumscription, a preemption of your mind with no redemption. A propositional ascription to Nolan, this is a prescription to befit your mind's consumption. The Inception is just an inception.
After coming out of the theater, remember one thing. Nolan has put an inception inside your head.