Review: Inception

SPOILER ALERT! 

(we don't want to ruin your fun kids)

We started to write this blog post at 2:00 Am, but we got distracted by the wonder of YouTube and never finished. And by we, we mean your ever wonderful main blogger, Alice, and her best friend Hollie from her sister blog (which you can check out here) (To avoid confusion Hollie will type in italics)

Hey guys, just taking the italics for a spin, you know testing out how they work? Anyway, I got my father a new blu-ray play for "the holidays" (That means Christmas where I come from) and the movie Inception, and Alice and I decided to take it for a spin. 

We already gave you the spoiler alert so here's the Weird Name Alert!

The main character is Mr. (Dom) Cobb. He's a skilled extractor of people's dreams along with his beginning crew Arthur and  Nash. The movie opens with Cobb face down in the water with (nameless and faceless) children building a sand castle (and immediately you are confused or at the very least question filled.). Cobb is then drug into a Japanese castle where he wants to extract a Japanese man's thoughts for the Cobol company. Unfortunately the mission fails due to Mal (Cobb's sub-conscious projection of his dead wife) and then they are hired by the Japanese man to plant an idea into the head of a major competing company . Cobb assembles his team, including four new crew members, Eames, Ariadne, Saito, and Yusuf. They figure out how to implant this idea into Robert Fischer's head. The decide to sedate him on a flight from Sydney to Los Angeles and go in to his dream. On the first level of the dream the projections are armed and shoot Saito, but he doesn't die. They use his Uncle Peter to provoke thoughts about his Mr. Fischer's father. After kidnapping him into a van driven by Yusuf, they go into a second level of the dream. This time they're in a hotel. There they turn Robert against his uncle and convince him to go into a third level of the dream. This time they're on a snowy mountain. There they must break into a safe for Robert to get the idea he needs for the idea to be successful. He gets shot by Mal and plunged into Limbo along with Ariadne, Cobb, and Saito. Ariadne and Robert get out, but Cobb must stay behind to find Saito. Eventually he does and they get out alright and Cobb get to see his kids once again.

Now, you have to understand, that when we watched this, Hollie had already seen it once, and I had not, so I was waaaaay more confused that she was. Because it is confusing. It's a very confusing movie. I think you could watch it 20 times and when you watched it again there would still be stuff you missed the first time. This can be both good and bad, depending on your preference and state of mind. I personally like a movie that gets me thinking (I think this movie made me think more than any other I've seen before, thought Eat Pray Love comes in at a close second) and I highly recommend that you don't watch this movie too late or your either be too tired to catch everything or you'll fall asleep, like Mr. Shepard (My dad). All in all, this was a great movie. The guy that came up with the idea for it (Christopher Nolan) must be crazy or something, because I could never come up with an idea like this. It's so intricate and intense. My eyes were glued to the screen. I literally had to remind myself to blink. Be like 'Yo, your eyes are getting all dry. Gotta blink, man. And close yo mouth before you let all the flies in.' 

This is a movie that really makes you think. Trust me you get so deep into this movie an earthquake could happen and you would even know it (that is until the picture went out on the tv). I absolutely love this movie. every single aspect of it leaves you with a question, some are answered, some are not (and the ones that aren't answered surely stay with you for a while until you convince yourself to watch it again just to see if it really was answered and you didn't realize it... yeah it's good). Just go watch it.Plus I love love love LOVE Christopher Nolan <3