Inception is a movie that stimulates the imagination

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2015)

Inception is a movie that ends with a beginning; the beginning of your imagination. Christopher Nolan makes movies that appeal to movie goers but also to that side of us which in the digital, fast food age, enjoys reading story books and the stimulation it gives to the mind. Inception is another example of Nolans' style to stimulate both the senses with great visuals and a great story; yet you are left at the end with your imagination in overdrive. What happened? What did you experience and what will happen next to the characters with whom you went on the journey? That last question is the teaser that is symptomatic of his style and defines this movie. The movie poses that we only use a fraction of our brain's true potential when we're awake. When we're asleep, we can do almost anything. Leonardo DiCaprio gives another fine performance as the main protagonist supported by a brilliant cast on journeys that to all intent and purpose take place in other people's minds and souls. For all those questioning whether it is too early to rate Nolan alongside the great Directors...who cares? Do you think Spielberg really cared about that when he made popular movies that didn't get the acclaim of the industry? He made incredible movies and the "credible" ones followed. Nolan will be the same. Inception is incredible as Nolan's style goes, perhaps not mainstream. But it will get young people thinking about movies rather than just ingesting them. My teenage son was actually stimulated to read books after Inception because movies like the Transformers franchise had become only visually stimulating. We all at some point like to dream and need to dream....well Inception takes you there.