Monday, August 23, 2010

Inception




Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), alongside pointman Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) are on an extraction mission within the mind of powerful businessman Saito (Ken Watanabe); a form of corporate espionage through dreams. Extractors enter their mark's dream, with architects constructing the world, all sleeping in close proximity connected by a sedative administering device. Cobb carries a spinning top which either spins unceasingly or topples to determine whether he is dreaming or awake, respectively. The mission is aborted when Saito reveals he is auditioning the team to perform the act of inception, which is using dreams to implant an idea.

The target is Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy), son of Saito's terminally ill corporate rival, Maurice Fischer (Pete Postlethwaite). The objective is to convince Fischer to break up his father's empire. Cobb recruits Eames (Tom Hardy), a forger who can change appearance inside dreams, Yusuf (Dileep Rao), a sedative chemist, and Ariadne (Ellen Page), a student whom he and Arthur train as their new architect. Due to the plan involving multiple dreams within each other and stronger sedatives, death will not awaken the person but send them into limbo, where their mind will be stuck for an indeterminate amount of time. Cobb's mind is continually haunted by his deceased wife Mal (Marion Cotillard), who sabotages his missions, and he reveals to Ariadne that he spent years in limbo with her as they constructed a world together. After waking, Mal remained convinced that they were still dreaming and committed suicide, trying to persuade Cobb to join her by incriminating him in her death. Cobb refused and was forced to flee the U.S. and his children to avoid murder charges. In return for the mission, Saito promises to clear the charges and reunite Cobb with his children.

When the elder Fischer dies in Sydney, Saito and the team share the flight with Robert Fischer back to Los Angeles and drug him. They enter a dream, a rainy downtown area, and kidnap him. However, they come under attack by his trained mental projections, and Saito is badly injured. Eames changes into Peter Browning (Tom Berenger), Fischer's godfather, to extract information from him. They then enter a van and sleep into the second dream, a hotel, where the team makes Fischer believe that the kidnapping on the first level was orchestrated by Browning and that he must enter his godfather's mind to determine his motives. They in fact enter deeper into Fischer's subconscious, a snowy mountain fortress, which he must break into to reveal the planted idea. To wake and protect the team, a member stays behind at each level with timed kicks: Yusuf driving the van off a bridge, Arthur smashing an elevator containing the bodies upwards and Eames with explosives in the mountain fortress.

Fischer is killed by Mal and goes into limbo, so Ariadne and Cobb follow him down and confront her. There Mal attempts to convince Cobb to stay in limbo by making him question reality, referring to events that occurred while he was awake. Cobb reveals that he planted the idea in Mal's mind to wake, making him indirectly responsible for her suicide. She attacks him, but Ariadne shoots her. Cobb remains in limbo to locate a now dead Saito while Fischer and Ariadne return to the mountain fortress where Fischer comes to the conclusion that his father wanted him to be his own man. Cobb eventually locates an aged Saito and then wakes on the plane to find everyone up and well. Saito honors their arrangement; Cobb enters the United States and finally returns home to his children. Cobb spins his top to test reality, but is distracted by the reunion.

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