Obviously a masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (24 April 2019)

I watched this for the fourth or fifth time tonight. This is the first time I remembered the details of the plot from the previous watches, and that I had no difficulty in understanding all the fast and complicated explanations the characters give. I'm sure there are a couple of holes, but all in all it makes sense, and it doesn't matter anyway.
Inception is a freak, absurd movie, of course in a positive way. How they did imagine such a story and got it into production is just unbelievable. Even some years later, it stands out for its originality.
The personal story of Cobb is very interesting, and every time (from the second time on) I can't but cry when there's that particular shot at the end.
Inception explores the perception of reality, but while Matrix did it from some kind of rebellion/resurgence standpoint, and The Truman Show did from an emotional/human point of view, Inception's take is deeply existential, and that's a huge plus. Reality, desire and their conflictual relationship is the true subject of this story.
There are, unfortunately, a couple of minor flaws. Nolan could have taken the chance of using a language that would be a bit more oniric, I mean letting weird things happen as they actually do in dreams. Instead, the actions and flow are just too realistic, as they would happen in the real world, and the movie puts a great effort into making things play out in a realistic way. This is surely a missed opportunity.
Secondly, it is apparent here the tendency of the Nolan brothers to explain, explain, explain. Every action needs an explanation. While here it's a minor shortcoming, it became annoying later in Interstellar.
Apart from this, Inception is surely one of the masterpieces of this era, for its originality, execution, and powerful imagery.