Film: Inception
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
With: Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cillian Murphy
Duration: 2:22
Genre: Action, SF, Thriller
In theaters: from 21 July (en )
In a word: Dreamlike
Note: 10/10, for form (I wait back a few months and two additional views to make a final decision)
Being a fan Nolan master for some time (his film Memento being the first film vamp that I received) and as major players in the film, I could not miss his posting there a few years (three? two?). The teaser excited me like no teaser had done before, he was even movie trailers that followed. Arguably this is the movie I most anticipated (more that Avatar ) of my life.
The film is worthy of my years of waiting, my months of excitement, my weeks of impatience, envy my life and my two and half hours of viewing.
I think it's the most ambitious film since Gerry (unlike it is a form very different ambition: to produce a film under stress (the desert as the only decoration) deemed as making the film impossible for Gus Van Sant and make a movie "major" and grand in the straightest line 2001, A Space Odyssey for Nolan).
latter carries with Inception the best movie for a long time, do not be afraid to see the big picture (to see things in front , even). What movie was both reconciled and public criticism in recent years? Avatar. The difference its success is that Avatar was regressive in the pleasure it gave rise to a new world, including Pandora. Here, the viewer discovers a new world, the dreams . Not without pleasure, but pleasure is much less regressive, Nolan keeps the viewer alert by soaking in different levels of dreams, and stimulates his brain and unconscious (using different color palettes for each level of dream). The most punctilious find that Nolan does not sow enough doubt, wrongly (hello guys!) . The maestro Nolan speaks in his ability to successfully make a film without complex never losing the viewer (the viewer hooked on) en route. Inception is a film that you can understand a vision, and (I'm just assuming for the moment) to re-discover the second vision, see new leads, new leads for new reflections (I already poses a few questions, I dig a little).
The other films to associate pleasure with the audience and unanimous critical acclaim in the press were the films Pixar (Wall-E , Ratatouille, There High to name a few) and ... Batman: The Dark Knight , Another film from Nolan. There is no secret. (I exaggerate, of course, and you may argue that Inglourious Basterds, Shutter Island Slumdog Millionaire (yuck), The Departed, Benjamin Button and to a lesser extent Juno, Babel, There Will Be Blood or No Country For Old Men have succeeded too, but no, they did not have the same impact - in my humble opinion).
To make his film the behemoth it is, Nolan made a film in brain-picking elements from both Matrix (a new way to shoot a movie scene: in bullet time Wachowski brothers, zero gravity at Nolan) and James Bond (the scene of action can no longer be referenced at 007 in high mountain) than in his own films: it reuses brilliantly his obsessions (the magic trick, illusion, manipulation, memory and for the memory), his experience with his two Batman (and soon three) in carrying out action scenes, references (the myth of Orpheus) and his love of film noir. We can see Inception as blockbusterien and a version for "upgraded" (luxury casting, photography licked, epic soundtrack by Hans Zimmer desire) of Memento .
I stop my criticism here pending a second (and third) vision, I want to form an opinion and not really thought about getting into delusional statements (I am afraid that is in fact a little too late). I therefore repeat that opinion, rebuild and enriched by the fall.
Until then, please, tell me what you thought of the film. :)
(And the next time we will see, I think it will be critical for the long awaited The Suburbs d' Arcade Fire )
