INCEPTION will confuse you if you allow it to, but will leave you pleasured all the same.
"Your mind is the scene of the crime." Essentially, this movie tells the story of Cobb (Leo diCaprio) and his team's mission to access somebody else's mind through his dreams, and perform extraction or inception. With mind-invaders backed-up by no-nonsense people who practically dictate the lives of commoners, this film's plot could easily be mistaken for revolving around organized crime.
Not quite.
We are greeted by a scene, so easy to disregard, which cuts to another scene with our main characters working their way deeper into the mind of their subject to steal something from his subconscious. It is then revealed to us that if it is possible to extract an idea from somebody's mind, then it is also possible to impose one.
The technicalities are then laid out, exploring the feasibility of constructing dreams within dreams, so as to plant an idea deeper into the subject's mind. The Point Man, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) researches about The Mark, Fischer (Cillian Murphy). The Architect, Ariadne (Ellen Page), builds the physical aspect of the dream like structures for mazes; in which The Forger, Eames (Tom Hardy) and The Extractor, Cobb, will work their way deeper into The Mark's subconscious. For them to plant the idea deeper, they need adequate sedation, courtesy of The Chemist, Yusuf (Dileep Rao). Their mission begins, and we get sucked into an indefinite adventure.
While almost everybody has been debating about how the story actually went and how it ended, here I am, simply fascinated by the philosophy behind Inception. It got me thinking more about the possibilities of the science behind it, rather than getting me spend time discussing how I understood the movie. Besides, that kind of narrative wasn't designed to have a definite beginning and end, or a definite conclusion. I could easily declare that it ended conventionally and that everything fell into place, or I could claim that every scenario in the movie were merely bits and pieces implying something else.
(Spoilers)
INCEPTION was simply designed to point out that "reality" is what the subject chooses to believe in. The film was constructed to initiate various interpretations, mostly steering away from the obvious and superficial. And in case you don't find the story amusing, the movie's production value and musical score will keep you entertained, at the very least. Execution is the key. There's Gordon-Levitt's zero-gravity scene, for one.
Christopher Nolan has already bended too many conventions of science with Inception's storyline, that when he got to the ending, he still had the viewers debating whether or not what was presented was what it seemed.
"Who are we to say otherwise?"
