Inception

Christopher Nolan is a great director and writer. He is part of a new generation of filmmakers that adore films and how they can toy with them to creative new types of storylines. I believe all of his films are great ones, except perhaps Following (1998). For those that don't take the two seconds to google him, he made The Dark Knight, which was the most non-superhero superhero movie that can exist. Inception is a movie in a classic tradition, it is spectacle with a good story. That doesn't exist much anymore. It is so original that people gawked at it's wit while I watched it. It was one of the best movie-going experiences of my life. (Moviegoing=seeing a film at a theatre, there are myriads of great experiences had at home). The joy of the audience was inexplicable. The film revolves around a man named Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) who goes into people's dreams to extract information, he is tasked with planting an idea into someone's dream in the film. How this is done is wonderful. Roger Ebert (the best film critic alive) informed his audience once: It is not what a film is about, it's how it's about. (This not only explains my lack of summarizing the films but why films are so good). Inception has about two moments in it where I dropped my jaw. The first, where DiCaprio reacts to his wife on the window sill, the second the hallway fight scene. I saw Inception three times. The first two were back to back, because I was convinced to find out what it all meant. (What actually happens in Inception is not hard to figure out). It is a film that will last, for the greatness of it lies in its own inception of an idea in our mind. Of what happened in the end (which is also the beginning). The experience of walking out of the theater and talking to a stranger about what happened in inexplicably hopeful to the future of films. Inception was one of the best films of the year.
Inception: ★★★★