You’re asking me for Inception. I hope you do understand the gravity of that request.
The idea of dreams in movies is a concept that we’ve seen done before. In the Nightmare on Elm Street movies we see the fear that comes in our dreams (nightmares) when we sleep, and how vulnerable our mind, imagination, can make us. The foreign film, The Science of Sleep, shows us what it’s like in a dreamer’s mind when he falls in love and wants to show the girl his dream world, while seeing things in reality as they would in his dream. There are more movies and episodes of t.v shows where everything is revealed to be a dream, but nothing has quite been done like Inception. The writers of Inception have taken the idea of dreams to a whole new level. A place where you aren’t just vulnerable from a horror movie icon, but from thieves who can find and steal your secrets and most intimate thoughts, if they wanted to. Then there’s the idea that if you go so far in a dream (or dream within a dream) that you can become lost forever in the dreamer’s mind if you were to die in it.
After only the midnight release of Inception, the movie has already made it to the #83 spot on IMDB’s top 250 list, and with good reason. Everything about this movie was incredible. The effects, cinematography, directing, score, and of course the acting. Even the actors who weren’t in much of the movie, Michael Caine and Cillian Murphy, deliver excellent performances, but then again I wouldn’t expect less from either one.
I’m not sure if I can say just who was my favorite actor in the film, since everyone did such an amazing job, but I can easily identify my favorite scene. This would be the scene with Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character Arthur in the hotel. He’s in the dream within the first dream, while the others, aside from Yusuf (Dileep Rao), who is still in the first initial dream, are in the new dream of Robert Fischer Jr (Cillian Murphy). As the effects of the first dream start to move effect the world of the dream that Arthur is still in, the physics of the world start to change in the form of there being no gravity. 
The fight between Arthur and the ‘security’ in Fischer’s mind has easily made one of my favorite fight scenes in any movie. Yes, you know that it’s a scene filled with special effects, but even so it seems so real while also giving off that feeling that you are within a dream
The fight between Arthur and the ‘security’ in Fischer’s mind has easily made one of my favorite fight scenes in any movie. Yes, you know that it’s a scene filled with special effects, but even so it seems so real while also giving off that feeling that you are within a dream
4 out of 5 Stars
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