Oh Christopher Nolan, how do you do it? Here is a man I can't help but admire: First he manages to capture the attention of Hollywood with a movie that's told backwards, then he completely reinvents a major comic book franchise, makes one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, and if that wasn't enough, manages to make one of the most personal large-scale films I've ever seen produced, particularly at the studio level.
Inception was an idea that had been gestating in Nolan's brain since he started working on Memento, his breakthrough hit where Guy Pearce has lost his short term memory, and the story is told backwards through elliptical moments of the main character's clarity. It's taken a full ten years to see the film realized, but it has finally materialized, and I don't know how else it could have happened. Nolan needed a decade to develop the material, climb the studio ladder to be able to fund it properly, gain respect of the filmmaking community to garner the impeccable cast, please audiences with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight in order to ensure that it would be a profitable venture, and last but not least, develop his own visual style and directorial skill to master the technical requirements of such a labyrinthine story.
But he did it, and now it's here to be viewed by the entire world. Go see it. Go see it now. Go see it more than once.
It takes a special individual to be able to think outside the box on such a large scale, but Nolan makes it look easy in Inception, with multiple layers of story and character. Much like a cinematic onion, the more layers Inception peels back, the deeper you go into the story, the more fascinating the whole thing becomes and the more engrossed you are as a viewer. Looking at it objectively, you might think it would be a hard film to follow, but it's not...
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