Cloud of Muses

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Dreams are often a mystery. We can't seem to remember them well the moment we wake up from it. Those memories became vague and we often shook them off a just a ‘dream'. Yet, they felt real. As if it really happened. In those dreams, we are anything that we could ever imagine  being a superhero, fighting with your boss, winning a lottery, becoming a superstar and even a murderer. Dreams can be terrifying but sometimes they are so wonderful that we wished we would never wake up.

But what if those dreams are actually true? What if they are actually man-made? What if all your actions and your feelings today are actually orchestrated by a memory or an info forcefully planted in your dreams?

In Inception, we are introduced to Dom Cobb whose profession is a thief. But he is no longer your ordinary thief. Nope, he doesn't steal gold or money. He steals secrets locked away in your brains during dreams. Along with his team, he slides around in your dreamscape, extracting information swiftly that you will not even remember as soon as you wake up.

Christopher Nolan, known for his amazing sci-fi and thriller films has gifted us with another masterpiece- Inception.

The story revolves around Dom Cobb who is forced to take up his final job in exchange for a chance to return to his home and family that he has no choice but to leave due to his occupation. He meets Saito, a businessman after their failed attempt to extract an information from Saito in his dreams. Saito who is merely gauging Cobb and his team's ability wants Cobb to dismantle Fischer Corporation, one of the largest corporation in the world. He needs Cobb to convince the heir of the corporation to give up on the company.

But the problem is, Saito doesn't want Cobb to steal any information. Instead of extracting ideas, can Cobb actually plant an idea?

Here comes the mystery. Normally, at any other circumstances, it would be impossible to do so. Tampering too much with the dream will create suspicions to the dreamer and causing the dream to break. However, Cobb says it IS possible.

Cobb persuading the dreamer Image taken from Google Images

The answer is simple. He has done it before-with a cost.

Inception is truly a well-crafted masterpiece. Requiring about 8 years for its creation, Nolan's skillful dark narrative style has filled the film with the most spellbinding and baffling sci-fi concept anyone has ever seen. Just like me, I am sure you will be left in wonders after watching the film.

Only those with the strongest and most flexible mind will be able to fully understand the plot. With the scenes constantly transitioning into different dimensions, it is not a surprised to have many of the viewers being left in a limbo.
 
Although the dream within a dream concept presents us with so many overlapping scenes, they are sometimes a little messy but they are made not to confuse us. Those scenes are well-tailored to fit with the constant increase in action scenes of the film.

Cobb and his team Image taken from Google Images

The characters line-up are pretty much decent. We have Dom Cobb and his band of professionals, a researcher, a chemist, a dream impersonator and an architect. What attracted my intention is these two characters, Ariadne the young architecture student and Cobb's insane wife, Mal.

In the scene where Cobb first bring Ariadne into the dream world, I was left in wow when she manages to somehow ‘fold' or bend a neighbourhood into two (Get it? Like you are folding a paper). She is described to be an extremely talented architect by her professor that she could easily defeat Cobb who is also an architecture major.

The iconic scene where Ariadne folds the neigbourhood Image taken from Google Images

Moving on to Mal, Cobb's wife. She is portrayed by Marion Cotillard and Cotillard depicts a brilliant acting as Mal. Due to her great acting, she is able to bring out Mal's fluctuating insanity which is tragically filled with sadness. Her character is vital to introduce to us the darker side of the dream world where one may just being so lost in dreams that they do not even know which is a dream and which is the reality.

The OSTs are well-made too, befitting to every scene perfectly. Composed by the renowned composer, Hans Zimmer, Inception would have been lacklustre without Zimmer's upbeat music.

The iconic anti-gravity fight scene in one of the dreams Image taken from Google Images

Overall, Inception is a must watch film for every viewer who would just want to have a film to bog them for several years to come. The film has so much potential that I hoped that Nolan would just make a sequel to it, perhaps about Cobb's pasts. However, judging from my experience, those awesome films should just avoid from being made in a series because most of them lose their momentum after several films. Perhaps it isn't a good idea to have Inception 2?

In short, Inception is a well layered complex film with mostly accurate science facts, great
cinematography, and entertaining to watch.

Now, to the question. Can we actually extract or implant an idea through a person's dream? What if all those great decisions made throughout human history were actually an implanted idea through dreams?

Perhaps everything that happened was simply orchestrated by a force we might not know of?
If so, it means that even you yourself can't protect your greatest secrets what more than hoping on a bank vault to guard your wealth and secret documents?

Cloud of Muses Rating : 9/10

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