Inception is the next matrix

After watching a good number of cliche'd hollywood movies since a number of months, I was not excited at all when Ranta told me about Inception and that he was going to watch it the other day and if I wanted to see it. But when I remembered the trailer I saw months before, I felt it may be is a good decision to watch it.


The concept of the movie is nothing new. (POSSIBLE SPOILER START) The idea that what is around you may not be real (POSSIBLE SPOILER END) has been tried several times with many successful as well as unsuccessful movies. (POSSIBLE SPOILER START) The key point of controlling dreams in this movie (POSSIBLE SPOILER END) especially has been tried before too in movies as well as Video Games.

However Inception still excels. Why?

I don't know if it was the complex plot, or the really good soundtrack, or the hype train (which I did not climb since I just didn't know about it), or was it that it was just technically brilliant, but I found the movie very good, satisfying and most importantly thought provoking. There have been questions about its unnecessary action packed hollywood sausage mixture, but I think it is challenging for a director to satisfy both the casual movie watchers (who don't understand the USP of the movie) as well as the obnoxious critics whom I am typically scared to talk to. Slow-mo, guns, car chases and explosions were probably not necessary, I honestly don't know, but I did not find them redundant or hurting the gist of the movie at all. One complaint is that (POSSIBLE SPOILER START) those bending buildings have been over used in its promotions when it has no importance in the whole movie start to end, the movie has everything except anything around those bending buildings, (POSSIBLE SPOILER END) and this can/may be considered misleading. Fortunately the movie is awesome, so the complaint is diminished :)

It is not difficult to understand the movie if you keep up with it, best part is that the movie keeps telling you what is happening, most confusions are instantly answered by the characters. The mere feeling that if you are (STRONG SPOILERS START) dreaming, you are faster, and if you dream inside a dream, you go faster and faster and that 10 hours can become a decade in your deep dreaming, and that if that deep dream is a nightmare, would you risk going there and be stuck for 10 years, (STRONG SPOILERS END) itself is ecstatic and screws your brain. It is the next matrix because the movie and the concept are two different things, and Chris Nolan (the director I did not cared about before) has weaved them so awesomely that people will keep asking questions, suggest them to others and will always be ready for Inception II.