This was definitely one of THE most creative and unique movies I have ever seen. To be honest however, there was a bit too much blowing things up and shooting people down, and destruction to make it a movie "for everyone", but aside from the (very realistic) special effects (that are meant to hold the attention of the audience that cannot think of anything else) the movie was a presentation of an extremely amazing, creepy, and fascination idea: to be able to manipulate your life, or another's by connecting yourself to either your dream or their dream and reliving, or fixing things that should have, or never did happen. The only way to get yourself out of the dream is to kill somebody who is sharing the dream with you, or the kick, which is that sense of falling that everybody gets occasionally when they are sleeping (The kick has to be so strong that the characters essentially use explosives to blow their surroundings up to give them enough force to fall with enough gravity to wake themselves up...and it would be allot to assume they could still be alive after this....) But, as it is, you cannot die in a dream, because a dream is not the real world...or is it? Mal, the wife of the main character, Dorn Cobb, was taken into one of Dorn's dreams by inception long ago. When the couple got stuck there for nearly all their life (50 years in a dream is only a nighttime of sleep in the real world), and they grow up together and grow old together in a dream world that they build for themselves out of memories, Mal can no longer distinguish which world is real. Is the world she made for herself the real one, or the world that Dorn is convinced is the real one, real? She becomes insane in her confusion, and wants to back to the dream life, because she thinks this one is the real one, even though it is not. Unfortunately, since dyeing is the only way to "wake up", she kills herself thinking that she will wake up in the real world. Dorn feels eternally guilty for even having planted the idea of inception into is beloved wife's head, and feels responsible for her death. Mal haunts Dorn's dreams because of the guilt, and wrecks the plans that the characters mean to accomplish while they are inside the dreams. What i found very interesting, is that Mal is not really in the dream. She is only a projection of Dorn's mind, who is the one responsible for populating the dream (an architect is brought along to design the atmosphere of the dream). Because the guilt of Mal's death is so present in Dorn's mind, this feeling of ugliness will show in the projection of Mal.
Another interesting point is that the dreamer's surroundings in the dream are directly in touch with and effected by the environment of the dreamer him or herself. For example, if a character has fallen asleep in a van, and the van is falling off a bridge, which does indeed happen, the characters that are living in their own dreams will be thrown about wildly and effected by gravity in the same way that their bodies are being effected outside of the dream in the van. When the van tips over, their whole dream world tips over, and an avalanche occurs (yes, this certainly does make for more opportunity for drama...but it was very well done).
All in all, this was a wonderful, refreshing movie. I say refreshing, because it had nothing disgusting or boring in it, that most movies nowadays have. It was creative, and the dialogue and humor was appropriate and enjoyable. I recommend this movie to EVERYONE!!!!!!! I absolutely loved it and would see it a million more times!
