Inception

I was going to try and talk about this film without spoilers but that's going to be impossible. I'll try and tag them but it's best not to read this unless you've seen Inception.

Okay, so I think what you do on the walk home from the cinema is incredibly important. Especially when you've just seen a 10/10 film. After Zombieland, I listened to classic metal (Iron Maiden & Saxon) on the way home whilst fighting off imaginary zombies. After Whip It, I kept laughing and smiling like an idiot, remembering all the fun little touches that film had.

After Inception, I walked home with no music at all and tried to work out what the fuck just happened.

Inception is a briliant film. The acting, editing and so on are all fucking briliant. There's no way to go into everything, besides. I need to see it again. I saw the Dark Knight when my girlfriend was really ill. She didn't feel like going. I saw it and then, when the GF felt better five hours later that day, I went to see it again with her. I kinda wish I could do that again but I've got work tomorrow and it's 1am now.

Christopher Nolan likes his complex films. I really, really hope this is as succesful as it deserves to be. I hope it's the most successful film of the year because that will mean:

1) The Most succesful film of the year is and original Interlectual Property
2) The most succesful film of the year is a *total* mindfuck.

Ok so the most important thing I can say about Inception is - It's been a very long time since I've gasped or bitten my fingers in the cinema. The biting was because the film was so goddamn tense.

As far as the plot goes - there are three major interpretations of what happened and... I like all of them. Usually I'd prefer it if the film came down on one side or the other because *normally* when there are multiple interpretations of what happened, the film makers come down slightly on one side, which makes it a bit annoying and pointless. Here, as far as I can work out, it's EXACTLY 50/50.

So what did I like?

Well, all the main actors were, frankly, briliant. My personal favourite was Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He was charismatic, funny and kicked a hell of a lot of arse. Marion Cotillard definitely deserves a mention as well. She walked the line perfectly between fucked up and fucking creepy.

The action was briliant - it was never exactly gratuitous but there was a definite sense of danger. It never really got better than Joseph GL fighting in the hotel though - the gravity sections were.... astonishing. I'm a massive film geek and I have no idea how they did the majority of those gravity effects.

Basically, the main strength of Inception is it constantly has you questioning the nature of the world you're presented with but it doesn't do it in a pretentious "What does this all MEAN?" way. It does it in an awesome headfuck way.

It moves at an incredible pace - covering a lot of time and a lot of really complex ideas but at the same time it knows when to take time.

Essentially, Christopher Nolan is a fucking genius and absolutely deserves the money Hollywood are throwing at him. He made something so original and so brilliantly done- stuff like that is *so* rare. We should be very, very happy with it.

Oh, and Leo DiCaprio does tortured very well doesn't he. He did it better here than he did in Shutter Island but Nolan is a much better director than Scorsese is...