{"id":2721,"date":"2010-07-19T19:05:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T19:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2010-07-19T19:05:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T19:05:29","slug":"critic_at_large_68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2721","title":{"rendered":"Critic At Large: Inception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Nolan&#8217;s explorations of the human mind and the power of memory continue in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1375666\/\"><i>Inception<\/i><\/a>, a caper movie that fuses elements of noir, action, and Jungian psychology. In a world that may be parallel to our own, technology exists to enable people to infiltrate another&#8217;s dreams and steal secrets from that person&#8217;s mind. Leonardo DiCaprio is Don Cobb, a professional &#8220;extractor&#8221; who hires himself out to corporations wishing to steal trade secrets hidden in the dreams of their rivals. Cobb is blackmailed by one corporation into a job that involves planting an idea rather than stealing one&#8211;inception.<\/p>\n<p>Like a lot of movies before it (<i>Blade Runner<\/i>, <i>The Matrix<\/i>, <i>Brazil<\/i>), <i>Inception <\/i>plays with our tendency to confuse dream with reality. And the arresting imagery of the film&#8217;s dreamscapes invites the audience to do the same. But what makes this film interesting is how it constructs a dreamworld with its own internal logic and rules. The characters themselves can sound a little silly when explaining dreamworld mechanics, but those mechanics also make for a taut and engaging story. Nolan trusts the audience to keep up with him and, judging from <i>Inception<\/i>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/19\/movies\/19box.html?_r=1&amp;src=twt&amp;twt=nytimes\">great box office numbers<\/a>, that trust is well-placed. If only more movies respected their audiences as much. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Nolan&#8217;s explorations of the human mind and the power of memory continue in Inception, a caper movie that fuses elements of noir, action, and Jungian psychology. In a world that may be parallel to our own, technology exists to enable people to infiltrate another&#8217;s dreams and steal secrets from that person&#8217;s mind. Leonardo DiCaprio <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2721' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-HT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}