"Inception" is a movie that cannot be missed. The meaning of this sentence is that you have to watch it in a movie theater before you have seen it.
As a movie, all the elements that make up it are as accurate as a textbook. It is of course not perfect, but it is also difficult to find something better than it-everyone will have their own standards in their minds. Since ancient times, there is no first and no second, and who is better than anyone. We will not go. There is no argument, but there is no doubt that Inception has surpassed a recognized standard and entered the category of excellence.
The movie lasts for two and a half hours (148 minutes), but as a viewer, you can hardly feel the passage of time during the viewing process. In the process of watching this movie, you can't have the slightest slack, otherwise it is easy to fail to keep up with the rhythm of the story and lose a lot of movie-watching pleasure. It is so cinematic that you may feel a slight illusion and suspicion when you walk out of the theater after watching the movie: THE DREAM IS REAL?
Again, this is a movie to be seen in the cinema. Because it is very cinematic, any other viewing methods will damage your feelings and experience. The amount of information in this movie is really too great. Whether it's the plot, pictures, music, sound effects, etc., all movie elements are extremely full, and at the same time they are just right to form a perfect balance. If you don't watch it in a cinema environment, you may overlook many details of the movie, which will then bring about the loss of the viewing experience, and even affect your understanding of the story.
Of course, having said that, I want to emphasize that the story of "Inception" is definitely not as obscure as in previous rumors. As a summer movie with a box office of US$300 million in North America and a box office of US$600 million in the world, how difficult is its story to understand? Although "Inception" is quite complicated in the structure of the play, from the perspective of audience experience, the superficial story of this film is still a typical Hollywood genre: a group of people go deep into danger in order to complete a seemingly impossible task. Go through some adventures and finally complete the task while fulfilling personal wishes. Among them, commercial elements such as gunfights, car chases, explosions, and fights are all available. From this perspective, Inception is still a very entertaining summer movie.
But for a part of the audience of movie fans, in addition to the above entertainment elements, this movie also has a variety of possibilities for interpretation because of its exquisite story structure and almost perfect composition of movie elements. As for how to interpret the movie, it depends entirely on your personal experience in watching the movie and what information you think you have obtained from the movie. At this level, there is no question of whether or not to understand the movie, but everyone will have a unique personal experience, which is difficult to share with everyone.
Personally, I think that apart from the commercial film packaging on the surface of the film, the core of the film story is actually very literary. If you remove those fancy but really good-looking gunfights, car chases, fighting scenes, and the Inception machine that does not explain any principle at all, the story itself will not be lost. It is about the conflict between the deepest desire in the human heart and reality, and how to complete the process of self-salvation.
But no matter how you interpret it, this movie is super entertaining. As the most superficial packaging, action scenes such as car chasing, explosions, fighting, and gunfighting are all classic scenes in action movies in recent years. The director Nolan’s last film "The Dark Knight" (this is the first Batman series without the word "Batman" in the title) shows his perfect control of similar action scenes ability. From a genre perspective, all the action scenes in "Inception" belong to the textbook level. If you have just watched "The Expendables" recently, the hot action scenes in "The Expendables" are too rough in comparison. As an audience, even if you don't think too much about the multiple interpretations behind the movie, just the experience of these action scenes is enough to make you feel unprecedented excitement.
Although everyone will have different interpretations and controversies about the story of the film, from the perspective of film technology, Nolan, the director of the film, as a genius-level director, has close to perfect control of the rhythm and structure of the film. In the first half of the film, director Nolan explained and prepared a complicated and unfamiliar original concept to the audience in an orderly manner. At the same time, he also effectively maintained the rhythm of the story and the development of the character's personality, its difficulty and appreciation, if one is not A very suitable example is like a tightrope walker who can do a backflip while catching the ball.
When the film enters the second half, the dazzling action scene not only does not affect the rhythm of the story, but becomes a rocket booster, pushing the story to the final climax. In the final climax scene of the film, after the previous heavy paving, the narrative of the three-layer space began to advance at the same time, and other film elements such as vision, music, and sound effects were also kept in precise synchronization. At the level, it has reached a climax with the rhythm of the film. With this scene alone, "Inception" is enough to make you unforgettable for a long time.
Of course, the movie "Inception" will not be a perfect masterpiece, it also has shortcomings in my eyes. Although the film has been around for two and a half hours, judging from the setting of the film's world view, the operating rules of the fantasy world it constructs are still a bit vague. At the same time, the causes and consequences of many character relationships and the details of the story are explained too hastily. However, for some movie fans, this is both a test and a fun.
As a very literary summer movie at the core of the story, it achieves a very close to perfect balance between artistry and commerciality. Through this film, Nolan, the director of the film, once again proved that he is indeed a director worthy of Hollywood betting.
Regarding spoilers: I personally think that this movie is not afraid of spoilers, because the person who tries to spoil you, his understanding will not be the same as your own understanding of watching the movie. Personal advice, if you don’t plan to watch this movie repeatedly, you might as well watch some plot introductions before going to the movie, so that you can focus more on the details you want to pay attention to. Because the amount of information in this movie is too large, if you watch it only once, you will lose sight of many details of the story.
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