Inception (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Has anyone seen this, or does anyone plan to see this? It's about lucid dreaming and the ability to change other people's dreams.
Sounds like something "right up my street" as well. Years ago there was a short lived series on American tv called "Sleepers." I think it only lasted 2 or 3 episodes but it was about a group of guys who did experiments with lucid dreaming where they entered other peoples dreams as a form of therapy.
I watched "Inception" last night. It's a good film if you don't analyze it too much. The premise is that a group of people enter a person's dreams to steal information about their international corporations. When one target catches on to what they're doing, he hires them to convince the son of another international company, who is about to inherit it all from his dying father, to break up his father's company in order to stop it from having a monopoly on the earth's resources, hence, so he can have total control. The act of implanting that idea is inception, as opposed to stealing information, or extraction. It has some spectacular special effects but the film makers don't over do it. You can tell it was directed by Christopher Nolan of "The Dark Knight" fame. He has the same switching back and forth of scenes during the climatic end as he did in TDK. My favorite part of the film is near the beginning when Cobb, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, trains a novice in the art of dream sharing. There's a moment when Cobb reveals to her that they are actually in the dream lab and she starts to panic and the whole dream scape breaks apart. As one who keeps a dream journal, I found the discussions about how the subconscious has many layers and projections fascinating to.
I absolutely love this movie. I went to see it in theaters and, like sweet slumber, one of my favorite scenes was when the dreamscape began to fall apart.
I think the effects are great, and some of the ideas are brilliant, but as a story I'm not so sure now I've seen it. It's a bit of a no-go cliche in movies to say it was all a dream at the end, so basing a whole movie on that theme can be very difficult. Having said that I'm not sure how it could have been done better, and I'm glad someone was brave enough to give it a try.
I don't think DiCaprio's character choosing to stay behind in limbo while the rest of his team make it out alive counts toward the "it was all a dream" cliché. Or maybe I'm reading it wrong. Personally I think Nolan does a great job with his movies. The Prestige is my favorite film from said director but Inception is pretty good as well.
I was talking about other movies using the 'it was all a dream cliché' at the end being a taboo. Inception turns the taboo on its head and makes it so nearly all of the movie is a dream and the audience knows it's a dream. The reason it's a bit dodgy ground to work with is because you don't have to suspend your belief to watch Inception in the same way you do with other movies because with dreams, as we all know, absolutely anything can happen so absolutely everything in movie is believable in terms of visual effects and such. I'm just saying it's difficult to pull off because of this. Having said that, I've only watched it once and, knowing me, I'll probably love it the second time I see it.