Inception
2010 saw the release of the science fiction action movie Inception, which was written and directed by Christopher Nolan. He and his wife, Emma Thomas, also served as producers. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a professional burglar in the movie who collects information by breaking into his victims’ minds. In exchange for implanting someone else’s notion into a target’s brain, he is given the opportunity to have his criminal history removed from record.[7] Ken Watanabe, Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are among the ensemble cast members.
Following the 2002 release of Insomnia, Nolan submitted an 80-page written screenplay to Warner Bros. for a horror movie about “dream stealers,” a concept derived on lucid dreaming.[8] Nolan halted the film, deciding he needed more experience before taking on a production of this scale and complexity. Instead, he focused on Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006), and The Dark Knight (2008).[9] Warner bought the treatment in February 2009, after it had been updated over the course of six months.[10] Filming for Inception took place in six nations, starting on June 19 in Tokyo and concluding on November 22 in Canada.[11] The official budget for the film was divided between Legendary and Warner Bros. at $160 million.[12] The Dark Knight’s success and Nolan’s notoriety made it possible for the movie to spend US$100 million on advertising.
The film Inception debuted on July 8, 2010, in London, and on July 16, 2010, it was distributed in regular and IMAX theaters.[13][14] With a global box office total of approximately $837 million, Inception ranked fourth among all movies released in 2010. Regarded as one of the greatest movies of the 2010s, Inception [15] was nominated for four additional Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Score) and took home four Oscars (Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects).
Plot of the Movie
Cobb and Arthur are corporate espionage “extractors” who use cutting-edge dream-sharing technology to penetrate their targets’ subconscious and gather intelligence. Saito, their most recent target, finds Cobb’s ability to stack many dreams within one another impressive. He proposes to engage Cobb to do the seemingly difficult task of instilling a thought in a person’s brain. Robert Fischer is the son of Saito’s rival, Maurice Fischer, and Cobb is to perform “inception” on him, giving him the notion to ruin his father’s business. Cobb will be able to go back home to his kids if Saito clears his criminal record in exchange.
Cobb takes the offer and puts together his group, which consists of a college student named Ariadne, a scientist named Yusuf, and a forger named Eames. The architecture of the dream is to be designed by Ariadne; Cobb is unable to undertake this himself for fear of being undermined by the projection of his late wife, Mal, in his head. After Maurice Fischer passes away, the group induces Robert Fischer into a trip to America in a jet that Saito purchased, based on a three-layered shared dream. Dreamers on all three levels are awakened simultaneously by a single member sticking behind on each tier to execute a music-synchronized “kick” (using the French song “Non, je ne regrette rien”). Time on each layer runs slower than the layer above.
On the first level, the squad kidnaps Robert in a metropolis, but his trained subconscious projections turn on them. Following Saito’s injury, Cobb discloses that although dreamers would often awaken upon death, Yusuf’s sedatives will transport them to “Limbo,” an infinite subconscious realm. Eames poses as Peter Browning, Robert’s godfather, in order to propose the notion of a substitute will for dissolving the business.
Cobb informs Ariadne that he and Mal went into Limbo to experiment with dream-sharing, and that because of the time dilation with reality, they experienced fifty years in a single night. Mal was still convinced she was dreaming even after she woke up. She attempted suicide in an attempt to “wake up,” and she set Cobb up so he would have to follow suit. Cobb left his kids behind and left the United States.
As the group is hypnotized into the second level—a hotel that Arthur has imagined—Yusuf takes them around the first floor. Cobb leads Robert to a third level deeper as part of a ploy to get into Robert’s subconscious by convincing Robert that Browning has abducted him to halt the disintegration and that Cobb is a protective projection.
In the third level, where the inception may be carried out, the crew sneaks inside an alpine fortress that has a projection of Maurice within. When Yusuf drives off a bridge too soon, though, Arthur and Eames are forced to create a new set of kicks timed to coincide with their landing in the ocean by setting off bombs in the fortress and elevator, respectively.
Cobb and Ariadne have to find Robert and Saito in Limbo in time for Robert to be inducted and for Eames to kick him when Mal shows up and murders Robert before he can be exposed to the inception. Cobb tells that Mal refused to come back to reality during their time in Limbo, so Cobb tricked her into believing that the actual world was still a dream world. Cobb accepts responsibility for his role in Mal’s demise. Robert is knocked out cold by Ariadne’s projection, and she kicks him awake.
When he awakens at the third level, he finds the planted idea: his father, who is dying, is encouraging him to do something for himself. The others ride the synchronized kicks back to reality as Cobb looks for Saito in Limbo. Cobb reminds him of their commitment after discovering an elderly Saito. On the plane, the dreamers all wake up, and Saito calls someone. Cobb gets to Los Angeles, gets through border control, and his father-in-law goes with him to his house. Cobb tests if he is really in the real world using Mal’s “totem,” a top that spins endlessly in dreams. Rather than seeing the outcome, Cobb decides to join his kids.
