Too crisp and clear

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2010)

A dream within a dream within a dream within a dream readies the mark for defibrilation and sheds from Cobb the guilt for inceiving into his late wife a yearning for joint suicide (her mistaken intention being to wake up from reality back to meta-reality). Kicked out of that fourth level dream by a defribrilator the mark deludes himself by constructing a deathbed encounter with his father that implies his attempts to emulate have only disappointed where rejection and restructuring would instead have impressed. The client is rescued from exsanguination and all wake up on board a flight inbound for the USA where Cobb's arrest warrant on suspicion of defenestrating his wife is quashed by the client's great influence and the mark seems benignly resolved to demonopolise his inherited empire of energy companies, averting hostile takeover of the client's rival energy corporation.
Too precise and clear are the dream sequences presented to us in the seats of the cinema, enveloped in crisp surround sound. Yet mist and defocusing are eschewed in a departure from that well-trodden path, favouring the paradoxical constructs of Escher to evoke reverie.