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Christopher Nolan directs a delirious trip inside the mind’s potential, the concept of space and time get distorted modifying our relationship with the known physical places.

 

Dom Cobb, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, is a dreams’ thief. He can enter people’s subconscious and live their dreams as if he were the protagonist, stealing details, secrets, desires, memories, regrets. And intentions. A multinational company gives him the opportunity of a lifetime: to move back to the States, where in theory he has no rights of entry due to an old problem with the law, and see his kids again. In exchange, DiCaprio has to enter Fisher’s dreams, the son of a family directly in competition with the multinational, and modify his future decisions. He has to do an “inception” by penetrating the young man’s subconscious and plan with his team a triple immersion inside his dreams that turn into other dreams until they can manipulate Fisher’s final decision.

Christopher Nolan directs a delirious trip inside the mind’s potential, the concept of space and time get distorted modifying our relationship with the known and real physical places, and is coherent with the scientific principles of organisms and chemicals. In a matter of minutes you find yourself inside a multilayered narrative, directed brilliantly and right to the point, and you are never left to sit too comfortably in your chair while the story’s many knots unfold involving both the neural and emotional part of the spectator.  

Dom Cobb, together with his companions and the victim of the inception, starts playing a parallel triple game with a troubled variable: Cobb’s own wife, the voice of a chaotic and blinding love, totalizing and nihilistic. The movie direction and visual performance are perfectly realistic and go against digital aesthetics. Nolan makes us encounter the walls of resistance created by the human brain: an apparatus that removes information from the unconscious, moves it, makes it glide, opens and closes.

 

“Inception” is most definitely the movie of the year, and not only. Nolan’s film is a manifesto of human introspection, the real challenge that humanity will face once it moves away from old religions and ideologies. The director sends DiCaprio inside the subconscious in vests of a new Ulysses who explains the works of the mind and initiates a self-discovery. A new individualistic approach that goes beyond all of the networks we think are revolutionary today.

Giuliano Federico

Notes on Leonardo DiCaprio:
At only 35, the Italo-American star adds another masterpiece to his career in film: Leonardo has worked with the best contemporary directors.

Leonardo DiCaprio: Filmography
This Boy’s Life (Directed by Michael-Caton Jones)
Buon Compleanno Mr Grape (Directed by Lasse Hallstrom)
The Basketball Diaries (Directed by Scott Kalvert)
Total Eclipse (Directed by Agnieszka Holland)
Romeo + Juliet (Directed by Baz Luhrman)
La stanza di Marvin (Jerry Zaks)
Titanic (Directed by James Cameron)
La maschera di ferro (Directed by Randall Wallace)
Celebrity (Directed by Woody Allen)
The Beach (Danny Boyle)
Gangs of New York (Directed by Martin Scorsese)
Catch me if you can (Directed by Steven Spielberg)
The Aviator (Directed by Martin Scorsese)
The Departed (Directed by Martin Scorsese)
Blood Diamond (Directed by Edward Zick)
Nessuna verità (Directed by Ridley Scott)
Revolutionary Road (Directed by Sam Mendes)
Shutter Island (Directed by Martin Scorsese)
Inception (Directed by Christopher Nolan)

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