Inception

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- Inception. 2010.[DVD] Christopher Nolan. United States and United Kingdom: Warner Brothers.

Description:
acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in an original sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams. Dom cob is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at it's most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything has has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialist have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming.

'YOUR MIND IS THE SCENE OF THE CRIME'

Warner Bros. Picture presents in association with legendary pictures a syn copy production
A film by Christopher Nolan Leonardo Dicaprio 'Inception' Ken Watanabe Joseph Gordon-Levit
Marion Cotillard Ellen Page Tom Hardy Cillian Murphy Tom Berenger and Michael Caine
Music by Hans Zimmer Edited by Lee Smith, A.C.E Prodcution designer Guy Hendrix Dyas
Director of Photography Wally Peister, A.S.C Exexcutive Producer Christ Brigham Thomas Tull
Produced by Emma Thomas Christopher Nolan Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan

Ocean waves, Cobb seashore hallucinate sees his children playing a memory. A Japanese solider finds him. In a Japanese style political room 'he was delirious' showing what Cobb was carrying a gun and a spinner to a old man who ask Cobb if his there to kill him. Cobb eating like he has been eating for day with his wedding ring on his finger. Old man knows what the spinner is and has seen one years years ago which belong to a man he met in a half-remembered dream who possessed of some radical notions.

Next scene, In the same room as last scene. Cobb is cleaned up talks to Saito with Aruther about an idea explains about the dream state 'Once an idea has taken hold of the brain, it's almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that if fully formed, fully understood that sticks.' process of your thoughts vulnerable to theft is called extraction. Cobb and Aruther can train people's subconscious to defend itself. Cobb is a skilled extractor who knows how to search through people's mind and find their secrets. Need to be completely open and need to know a way around their thoughts better then anyone. 'if this is a dream, and you have a safe full of secrets, I need to know what's in that safe. In order for this all to work' Saito will consider their proposal and walks out in a party like gathering. Place starts to rumble. Cobb looks at his watch and it fasts forward

Next scene, war fire. Cobb, Saito and  Arthur is subconscious. Explosions happening. Nash checks their pulse. Cobb watch slows down. Back to previous scene. Cobb and Arthur discuss. 'saito knows, he's playing with us' ' doesn't matter. I can get it her. Trust me. the information is in the safe. he looked right at it when i mentioned secrets' Here to work. Cobb's wife shows up. 'can not trust you' A painting the subject is partial to postwar British painters. Cobb looks out the window of the seashore waves with a person standing Climbs down shoots the guard with a silence pistol and goes to the safe grabs the envelop. Saito and cobb's wife enters and Arthur captured. Shows that they are in a dream, however pain is in the mind. Cobb shoots arthur dead to wake him up to the war scene. The dream is collapsing. Cobb reads saito's secret. Saito wakes up to the war scene and points gun to arthur. Slow motion in war scene dunked in a bath tube, quick water splashing in the japanese scene. Cobb wakes up. Knocks saito out. Saito was prepared. War scene is in saito's affair apartment . Cobb mission to get saito's secret was a audition set up and he failed. Missing of part the secret. 'deception was obvious' The war crowd of people coming closer to the apartment with more explosion.

Next scene is in a train with everyone subconscious. a boy checks their watch which ticks faster. He puts headphones on the guy with a count down in the suitcase and plays music 'Non, Je ne regrette rien' by Edith Piaf. The song echoes in the apartment. Saito tells them to go. Corporation hired Cobb, arthur and the guy won't accept failure and won't last two days. cobb points a gun at saito to tell him the missing part.Saito know the rug is made of wool however the rug is lying on is made of polyester which mean saito knows it's a dream so it wouldn't matter if cobb shot him or not. 'dream within a dream' In Nash's dream and not saito's dream. Alarm beeps faster. The guy is the architect. Everyone leaves except saito and the boy. gets off at kyoto. Saito wakes up.

Next scene, In his room, Cobb checks the spinner with his gun ready but the spinner stops. sighs in relief. Phone rings. Phillipa and James, his children. scenes of memories of his children comes up now and then. 'grandma says you not coming back' when james ask about his mom a small shot of memory of her shows up. Grandma hands up. Arhtur comes in the ride is on the roof. 'it's getting worse, isn't it?' Nash hasn't shown. they meant to show saito's plans to Cobol engineering because they failed they planning to disappear. plans to go Buenos Aires. Arthur going states side. Saito and injured nash is in the helicopter nash sold them out. They enter the helicopter and nash is dragged away. Saito wants inception from them. '-Is it possible? -or course not' 'if you can steal something from someone's mind why can't you plant one there instead?'  'not your idea because you know i gave it to you. the subject's mind can always trace the genesis of the idea. true inspiration's impossible to fake' A choice, Cobb chooses to leave.  Saito offers cobb if he would like to go home. '-can't fix that, no one can -just like inception -Complex idea? -simple enough. -no idea is simple when you need to plant it in somebody else's mind' Saito's competitor is an old man in poor health. his son will inherit control of the corporation. need to break up his father empire. Arthur says he should walk away. In regret? choose people more wisely. In a airplane when they changed to the helicopter. 'it can, just have to go deep enough.' cobb done it before. Going to paris for new architect.

Next scene, Paris. In a university. a lecturer cobb's  father gives a gift to give to his kids when he has a chance. the Lecturer taught cobb to navigate people's mind not to be a thief however there weren't a lot of legitimate ways to use that skill. 'Fix my charges permanently' corrupt the lecturer's brightest and best student. to built a whole new world that never existed. Let someone else follow you into your fantasy. They don't come into the dream just design levels and teach them to the dreamers. Mal, cobb's wife won't let him design the world himself. come back to reality. This last job will get him back home.

Meets Ariadne 'a job offer' tests her  first to know if she can do it or not. two minute to design a maze that takes one minute to solve. Next scene Arthur goes to a warehouse to set up. 'they say we only use a fraction of our brain's true potential. Now that's when we're awake. when we're asleep, our mind can do almost anything' your creating a building but sometime feels it create it itself like discovering general inspiration now in a dream our mind continuously does this. create a dream world bring the subject into it and the will feels it with their subconscious mind. Never really remember the beginning of a dream also in the middle. Actually Ariadne and Cobb is dreaming in the workshop. the table starts to shake things explode. CG effects. she gets hit and wakes up in the warehouse. Military program for soldiers to kill each other and wake up. With dream the mind functions more quickly therefore time seems to feel more slow. 5minutes in real world give an hour in the dream world. Now going into Cobb's dream Ariadne world the basic layout people is the projection of cob's semiconscious. Ariadne starts to mess with the physic of the world. people looking at her because cobb is aware of it the changes the more quicker the projection start to feel it. sense the foreign nature of the dream like white blood cell attacking meaning the people can attack Ariadne who make the changes in the world however cobb can not stop it control it since it subconscious . Aridne pulls out a mirrors. then shatter the glass with her hand. Suddenly Cobb memory of him with his wife shows up. The bridge is real. Never recreate places  of your memory always imagine new places. only use details. never entire areas because recreating a dream from your memory will lose your gasp to what is real and what is a dream. Aridne gets stab by Mil. Can not wake up until the time goes out unless you die. A personal object something heavy that you can have on you all the time, that noone else knows something unique. can not let anyone touch it will defend the purpose of it. only knows the balance when you look at you own you will know weither you are in someone else dream or reality. Cobb knows she will come back. first person to pick it up quickly. have her built mazes. Cobb wants next to meet a forger,eves.

Next scene, at Mombasa eves gambling. Inception possible but difficult Arthur is a imagination eve tried inception before put the idea in place but it didn't take. not just about depth need the simplest idea in order for it to grow naturally in the subject's mind. Heir dissolve father empire. subject's prejudice must absolute start at the basic the relationship with the father. Cobol engineering going after Cobb. Saito saves him.

Next scene Aridne comes back Arthur show her a infinite staircase. nothing quite like it. master few tricks. close loop paradoxical content create a maze to hid from the projector cheat architecture into impossible shapes penrose steps to create three complete levels big level complected enough. Cobb won't build anymore find it's safer if he didn't know the layout.

Next scene, seeking a chemist to compound  for a job and to go in the field. great depth 'dream within a dream' tell the compound of their needs too unstable a powerfully. goes down the basement to show something. 12 people sleeping in stable condition dreaming to 3-4 hours. dim light bulbs hanging. with the compound 'they come to be woken up, their dream has become their reality' who are you to say otherwise. Cobb tests the compound. dream's about his wife. wakes up in shock tries to use the spinner but falls off the tap then Saito comes in.