I was a little late on a watching the most anticipated movie of the year, Inception. I am usually a tough critic on movies and I can usually spot the cliché and corny movies left, right and centre, however unlike many other anticipated movies this one was not a letdown. It surprisingly lived up to its hype and did not give me any grief whatsoever. The movie brought into play existentialism, a philosophy of making your own fate in life. For example, the extractors crafted a hallucinatory world in their victim’s dreams however they wished. I appreciated Christopher Nolan working in such a complex idea such as existentialism into his film.
However what made the movie so great for me was the sudden twists in the plot, and the idea that you never really knew what was going on in the movie until the very end. The plot in the mystery movie Shutter Island is very similar to Inception because there were many unexpected twists and an ending which left at the edge of your seat.
All in all, Inception is hands down one of the greatest movies of all time. Inception brought meaning in many different levels, past the literal story line there were themes embedded deep within the text which made you reflect on the meaning of life.