Inception

Inception

BY

Kevin s

ARTH 334

Bryan Brown

In the movie inception we take a leap of faith with Leonardo DiCaprio in what turns into a grand rollercoaster of a movie. The movie is based on extracting ideas or secrets from a person’s mind through dreams. Randall Cobb played by Leonardo is the best in the business at entering a person mind and extracting these personal secrets and ideas. Inception is not a movie that you can simply get up from and come back ten minutes later to continue watching as you may easily be lost. Cobb is forced to leave the country and his children due to a murder charge. Cobb needs to do one last job in which is employer will erase all the charges against him. The scene is set for Cobb and his team to dismantle a multinational company, but troubles can play a role when the victim has been prepared for such an attack on his mind. This movie is full of twist and turns and will keep you on your seat for an ending that can leave you guessing.

In Inception there can be many ways to analyze this film, as it is up to the viewer to pick which one best suits them. There are often many times in Inception where you could say “Well look at his wedding ring?” or “Why can he see his children at the end of the movie?”. These are huge triggers in the movie and where most people analyze the movie from. My analysis of this film is that Cobb is not doing a job at all and he is actually the one having inception being done to. It is a trickier concept to follow, but there are many hints that have lead me to this conclusion. I will only name one and that is the comment from his father asking him to come back to reality. The surrounding cast could just be friends trying to help retrieve him from this dream or prison of the mind.

The critic picks up on a few things in particular and the one thing he finds the most interesting is the way director Christopher Nolan always uses raw emotion of the character to bring you into their...