This movie critique will not have the same structure as my previous ones. Because this movie is simply different.

Last night at 7:30 pm I sat down in the movies, hoping that the movie was really as good as so many critics had said previously. The ice-cream seller did not show up, so I had to skip my Ben & Jerry’s this time. Last night at about 10:15 om I sat in the movies, watched the end credits, while the lights began to go on again. I sat and thought. Ruminated. And at the same time I was completely mind blown and amazed. Needed ice-cream to sooth my soul for relaxation.

Wikipedia.com describes the main plot like this:

The film, a variant on the heist genre, centers on Dom Cobb, an “extractor”, who enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible. His abilities and questions about the death of his wife have cost him his family and his nationality, but he is promised a chance to regain his old life in exchange for planting an idea in a corporate target’s mind. This process of planting an idea, known as “inception”, is less familiar and far more difficult than Cobb’s usual job of “extraction”.

The script, the camera perspectives, action scenes and much more all bear the hand marks of Christopher Nolan. His choice of image selection and its effect fit very well with the content of the movie, most of the time they support it. As I already had mentioned in my “Shutter Island” review, Leonardo diCaprio does an incredible acting job.

Everyone should watch the movie completely unbiased. That is why there are no spoilers in this review (only my personal interpretation of the ending you can find at the end of this article – simply highlight the paragraph). The construct, which Nolan has built, is unbelievable and each person should take it all in and experience it. But you have to be prepared to think a lot and watch the movie very attentive, otherwise you probably lose it. At some point, a knot in your brain is legitimate; but once you get passed that state, released the knot and continue to pull everything from the movie, you are viewing a piece of movie history.

10/10 with an exclamation mark!

The End – The movie is about subconsciousness, reality and dreams. At the end, the question is: Where is Cobb – in reality or in a dream? I think that that is not important. Because at the end his spins his top, but walks to his children right away. He does not look, if it continues to spin or falls down. Previously, he always waited to see, if it fell, because that told him whether he was in reality or not. Therefore, in my opinion, Cobb is happy, to be back with his children and content that he coped with his guilty conscience concerning his wife. Reality simply is relative…