It’s stunningly beautiful, both visually and mentally; a darkly intricate storyline of dreams and inception, where the subconscious can be manipulated by the conscious.If you’re not questioning yourself and your surroundings by the end of the film then you may need to watch it a second time. This movie is fantastic for film-lovers who like to be challenged; who like to watch a movie that makes you really work to understand and therefore enjoy the entirety of the film.
WHERE DID THE IDEA COME FROM?
Christopher Nolan explains the birth of the ideas featured in Inception come from hi
s own dreams and experiences.“There are times in my life where I experienced lucid dreaming, which is a big feature of Inception. The idea of realising you’re in a dream and…trying to manipulate it in some way. That’s a very striking experience.” – Nolan, E! News.
ZERO GRAVITY!
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars alongside DiCaprio; in one scene we see Levitt literally climbing the walls and ceilings of a hotel whilst fighting off an attack. The scene involved creating a 100 foot long hotel corridor which worked via a rotational device enabling the set to turn a full 360 degrees six times every minute! Scenes like this one are reminiscent of The Matrix with the zero-gravity fight scenes, yet Inception offers something much more exciting and striking visually.
Levitt said: “I couldn’t think of the floor being the floor and the ceiling being the ceiling. I had to think this is the ground…Now this is the ground…and now, this is the ground. That was the mind game I had to play to make it work.”
ALL WORK AND NO CGI?
Nolan did want extensive use of CGI, like in the Zero Gravity Levitt scene where the set was built from scratch instead of being green screened. "However sophisticated animation is, the audience can always tell difference between something that has been photographed and something that has been animated,” says Nolan. CGI was used of course but with a photographic foundation which is built upon.
LEO’S DREAMS
“I’m not a big dreamer. I never have been. I remember fragments of my dreams.” Says Leo; whereas his character Cobb spends his life within the subconscious in vivid illuminations.
Leo spoke of meeting with Nolan every other day for two months to talk about the concepts, structures and rules of a dream world.
NO FUNNY BUSINESS!
Nolan steered clear of the comedic side of dreams, an aspect that we have all experienced whilst dreaming, because he wanted a specific tone to the movie.
"A darkly intricate storyline of dreams and inception, where the subconscious can be manipulated by the conscious." V
