Spolier Review 'Inception'

Dominick Cobb and his partner Arthur use a machine to enter people’s dreams and get the information they want from them. At the start of film we see them do this to Saito. In some cases they go into a dream within a dream, to wake there has to be a ‘sudden kick’, or they have to die in the dream. Each person in the dreams carries a small item that they know, this tells them if they are in a dream or not. Dominick’s item is a spinning top that will continuingly spin if he is in a dream and if he is in reality it stops. Domi has memory projections of his wife who died and she ruins there project within the dream. Saito then says to them he wants to perform inception, where you plant an idea into someone’s dream so that they actually believe it. Saito has a plan to use inception on Robert Fischer the son of Maurice Fischer, Saito’s competitor. To do this he needs Dominick’s help, if he done it Saito would clear a murder charge against him, so Domi can return to his children. Dominick accepts and gets a team of people to help him do it.

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Inception is a very good psychological thriller, it doesn’t scare the audience, and it makes the audience tense throughout the film. The film has many twists throughout, such as finding out Dominic’s wife is dead, that he used inception on Mal first, therefore he knew it was possible. And that Saito grew an old man in the ‘Green Space’ and that was who he met at the start of the film. Also, at the very end of the film the viewer doesn’t see Domi’s spinning top stop, just wobble, therefore he could still be in a dream, creating mystery even at the end. The narrative is restricted as the audience only knows what the characters do. The enigma code is, are they still in a dream? It is non-linear.