By Isaiah Ruby
Reporter
“Inception” is easily the best movie I have watched in 2021. Although it was released in 2010, the visual effects, music score, camera work, and the overall experience are top notch. It is set in 2010, in multiple countries.
“Inception” is a movie following the main characters, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, and others, on a mission through their collective dreamscapes. Directed by Christopher Nolan, this mind-bending thriller took me through an exciting adventure of human consciousness.
In this movie universe, the military has developed a device capable of allowing dreams to be shared, called the PASIV, which connects multiple people intravenously allowing them to exist in the same subconsciousness. Dom Cobb, played by DiCaprio, is a masterful thief who specializes in stealing corporate information out of his targets mind using this device.
Due to an incident involving the PASIV years ago, Dom is now banned from returning home to his children in the United States. However, a businessman approaches him with a lucrative offer, with the promise of freedom upon completion.
Inception is the goal that the businessman wanted Dom to achieve. Instead of taking information from someone, as he normally would, he needed to put new information in the competitors mind. This is widely considered impossible due to the complexity of the minds inner workings.
To complete the mission, Dom and his team would have to go multiple “levels” deep, a dream inside of a dream. Each member of the team has their own device, which they can use to prove if they are in a dream, or truly awake. To allow the most amount of time alone to complete the job, they board a flight with the competitor, and drug him before hooking themselves to the PASIV.
Anxiety builds as Dom faces his demons while asleep through the PASIV, and the fate of the team seems uncertain. After many trials, the teams complete the mission, and they begin to wake up out of the dream. The businessman holds up his end of the deal, and Dom gets to go back to his children.
The final shot reveals a scene which I did not expect, and it was a major plot twist. The setting, scenario, and hints at the viewer’s worst nightmare make this final shot anxiety ridden.
I recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys action or wants to stretch their mind in new ways. The complexities of “Inception” make the storyline pull you in, so much so that you can really feel the emotion of the scene.
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