Inception Review

The dream argument is still a much talked about theory and has been around since Plato and Aristotle.

" Perhaps you and I are dreaming, and have not waken? While we dream, we do not know we are dreaming". Even if we do dream we are dreaming "Only after we are awake, do we know that we have dreamed". But since there seems to be no certain way of telling when we are awake, we can never know when we have dreamed. "Once I Cheung Chou, dreamed I was a butterfly and was happy as a butterfly. I was conscious that I was quite pleased with myself, but I did not know that I was Chou. Suddenly, I awoke and there I was, visible Chou. I do not know it was Chou dreaming he was a butterfly, or the butterfly dreaming it was Chou" - Cheung Tzu - A source book in Chinese Philosophy - Translated and compiled Wing-Tsit

2010 sees Christopher Nolan bring this theory to life in the summer blockbuster 'Inception'. The acclaimed director also known for his latest installment of the Batman films 'Batman Begins and ' The Dark Night' has spent $170,000,000 making his current movie. Renowned for his privacy Nolan kept the plot of Inception under wraps, and all that was known was that 'it was a thriller that takes place in the mind'. However that was then and this is now. Inception was released across the country on Friday 16th July, and it lived up to it's hype.

Leonardo Di Caprio plays Dom Cobb, a man able to steal information and secrets from peoples sub-conscious whilst they sleep. An international fugitive, Dom has been on the run and has no way of getting home, until now!
Entering into an agreement with Saito (Ken watanabe), Dom agrees to undertake the seemingly impossible task of Inception, the ability to plant ideas into peoples minds. Accompanied by his partner 'Arthur' (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), they assemble a star studded team to complete the job, and get Dom home.
Thrown into a world of cooperate espionage, Dom, Arthur and the team; (Ellen Page - Ariadne), (Tom Hardy - Eames), (Dileep Rao - Yusuf), find themselves in different levels of lucid dreams and ever changing environments. Unknowingly the team have entered into a something far more dangerous than they could have planned for. Something only Dom would have known existed.

Inception is a must see, every minute will have you on edge.