Inception Movie Analysis

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Inception, the dreamy movie that’ll keep you so excited you’ll never be able to sleep through it, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, and Michael Cane. Inception is a complicated thriller-like movie, that was first intended to be a horror movie, but the director changed it into a Sci-Fi/Thriller movie. I must say, for a once intended horror movie, the movie extremely lacked scares, and I’m 12. The movie however, is thrilling and intense at times.

The main fault in the movie is the overcomplicity of the plot. The main part of the movie takes place in a dream within a dream within a dream. Oftentimes, I began to get confused by the differences in time spent based upon how deep into the dreams the characters were in. Thankfully, the movie saved it a little by adding hidden reminders on time remaining before they must wake up from whatever current dream they are in. the director's idea of time in the dreams is like how a dream can feel longer in the dream than it is in the real world and the idea is that the time differences are compounded the deeper into a dream the characters go. There are other was that the outside dream affects the current dream, like effects of gravity, and things that the dreamer would hear. The idea is confusing so if you haven’t seen the movie, here’s a helpful tip, pay
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A James Bond reference here, a Matrix there. The references are all over the movie. You just need to know where to look. Some may say it’s too much like the Matrix and sometimes a rip off of it. Well guess what critics, Inception went into two other shared dreams, within a first dream, all in one movie. Sure it was rather confusing at times, but the movie did give the audience quite helpful reminders on time. This movie made four seconds seem like 30 minutes due to the way the writers wrote the movie. By anyone’s standards, that must be

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