If you haven’t seen it already… go see it now.
Christopher Nolan never fails to impress, and this just might be his best film yet! It’s incredible that he not only directed but also wrote the screenplay for Inception — it is such a complex and unique film that has kept people talking for days after seeing it. I think it’s pretty safe to say that this is the movie of the year…. I don’t care if we’re only halfway through, I just can’t see any other movies surpassing this one.
Nolan can add this to his growing pile of groundbreaking work, atop Memento, Batman Begins, The Prestige, and The Dark Knight… he’s got to be one of the most genius and daring filmmakers of our time. Leonardo DiCaprio, too, has been building quite a career for himself with the great roles he’s been taking on in the past few years — in The Departed, Blood Diamond, and Shutter Island, to name a few. I noticed that in his most recent movies, he’s been playing the same sort of haunted, disturbed characters, but he definitely boasts a wide breadth in his acting ability. He’s come a long way since the days of being the teenaged heartthrob from Romeo and Juliet and Titanic, of whom I collected clippings and taped all over my locker. Those days are long gone, but I have a lot of respect for him as an actor nowadays.
There’s a lot of discussion and theories being thrown around about what really happened in this film. Are they alive? Are they dead? Are they dreaming the whole time? Will we ever really know? And does it matter? What is your take?