Inception - Surreal Awesomeness

On my way home after the watching Inception, I was wondering "If I am going to write a review of this movie, how would i start, structure and end it?" Such was the script, story and the context. Not once did I want to take my eyes off the screen or start to imagine how hot Marion Cortillard (Mal) is for I knew deep down that if ever Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Prestige, The Dark Knight) is going to Write, Direct and Produce a movie, he wouldn't let the audience want to take their mind off from the screen. Inception, grips you from start to finish. It is not a run of the mill futuristic flick, with slam-bang action, bazookas vomiting bullets and the tallest skyscrapers you can ever imagine.

Inception is surreality surrounded by awesomeness.

The mind is the scene of the crime. The dream is real. An idea can change the whole context of your life. These three lines get repeated throughout the movie and not once do you feel, they are repeated. Nolan proves once again why he is THE BEST. Toying with timeline throughout the movie, Nolan weaves the dream around us through perfectly casted characters in Di Caprio (Cobb), Ellen Page (Adrianne) and Lewitt (Arthur).

The script, cannot be termed as fantasy. It really is what we experience in everyday life. Nolan has tweaked a so familiar concept into something monumental. The concept is dream.

Nolan plays with our ability to catch what he wants to tell. Through Cobb, Nolan tells us how easy it is to invade into other people's dreams to steal their idea, or much better, to plant one!! Trapped in the Corporate Wars, Di Caprio as Cobb, plays the perfect Con who can pull off any heist if he has access to a human dream. Di Cap has played the most difficult role of the movie with such determination, that you can feel him taking you through this uniquely scripted masterpiece.

Music by Hans Zimmer (Sherlock Holmes, Pirates of the Caribbean) strikes the right chord. Moving with the pace of the story, Mr.Zim orchestrates majestic and mystifying tunes that add to the surrealism!! His usual fast violin and strings play with your ears and makes you focus more into the movie

The cinematography and the CGI makes your jaw drop, especially in the scenes where a full speed train crashes into road, Scene where Adrianne takes Cobb through pedestrians of Paris and the scenes in climax where they are in the sleep and third level of their dream. These can only happen in a Chris Nolan movie. It is indeed time to call this UK born director, the greatest ever. Only Nolan can think and create something like this. Something that can make you feel your dream is REAL!! Finally, in the land of movies, Inception will be a religion.

No wonder it is rated 9.1/10 in IMDB.

Up-Soars to new height

Thanks to my college mate Vinod i got the opportunity to update my blog. This review belongs to him. Here it goes...

Forget the logic, sit back and enjoy the adventurous magic. An adventurous, heartfelt movie from PIXAR. A perfect mixture of fun, comedy, adventure and action. With mesmerizing music that wins the Oscar for Original Score 2010.

Starts in Black n’ White age where Carl Fredricksen who was a kid then is amazed, seeing the adventurer ‘Charles Munts’ on screen. Charles was alleged for forging the skeleton of the beast of Paradise Falls. Being accused, he leaves to South America to bring back the best alive.

On his way back home Carl meets Ellie, who is yet another admirer of Charles Munts. They (actually Ellie alone) talk, talk and talk and eventually get married as they grew up. Ellie wants to go to Paradise falls as the adventurer.

Carl and Ellie lived a peaceful life. This part of the movie goes in silence with mild background music and not a single word out of their mouth.

Ellie dies when Carl was back with their ticket for South America. Even then Carl talks to her as if she is alive. Carl was sentenced by the court to move to the house of retired men after injuring a workman, even when it was an accident.

Get your stuff packed. We are about to fly!!!

As two men came to take Carl away, Carl gets back into his house for one last time.

With the slipping of a huge cover, rises myriad colored Helium gas filled balloons, lifting the whole house along with. With the jaws falling open everyone looked at the flying house with amazement. As the house passes by a room of a little girl, the colors fell on the wall of her room excite anyone.

Carl flies all alone to the Paradise falls as Ellie wished to. Suddenly he hears a knock at the door. And he couldn’t believe to see Russel, a chubby little boy who needs to assist an elderly to get his last badge to become a senior explorer, there. With no other go finally Carl lets him enter his house.

After the storm and devilish rain they reach an unknown place.

And there, the majestic view!

As the clouds disperse slowly there appears the paradise falls with all its beauty. Carl sees they got stuck exactly at the opposite end of it. Neither Russel nor Carl could climb up to the house after they fell down from it. So they decided to walk the distance by foot, pulling along the floating house with them.

In the jungle, Russel finds ‘Kevin’ (that is how he calls the monster bird which likes chocolates and himself). A dog with electronic collar that makes it speak was after the bird to capture it for their master. Carl tries to get rid of the bird and the dog, but fails. Soon they were arrested by few more dogs and taken to their master. Helpless Carl has to go with the dogs the opposite direction to paradise falls.

As they arrive Carl gets surprised by seeing Charles Munts whom he and Ellie admired all their life. Carl gets to know that Charles is after Kevin, so he decides to save her. And there the clash of the oldies begins. With the help one dog, who wanted Carl to be his master, they escaped from that place. But soon they were hunted down with Charles’ tracking system.

Charles puts Carl’s house on fire and takes away Kevin. When Russel decides to leave Carl behind and goes after Charles to rescue the bird, Carl feels guilty for not saving the bird. So he flies back, after dropping Ellie’s Chair beside his, on Paradise falls.

The fight between Carl and Charles looks real, just the way if two old people have to fight. The ‘rising of the hand to punch and getting frozen in the middle way’ are funny and brilliant.

Being rescued, Kevin joins his family happily as there won’t be any more Charles Munts’ dogs chasing her again.

Russel receives his ‘Assisting the elderly’ badge from Carl with all the Charles’ dogs sitting at the back seats and applauding.

*** THE END ***

Full of fun that brings out laughter for sure, loads of love and adventures make UP a worthwhile watching entertainer.

4.5/5