Warning: the following post contains potential spoilers for Inception and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
In a future where men can share dreams and explore them with their conscious mind, a team of expert dream explorers is trying to plant an idea in the mind of the heir of a big corporation. It’s a long shot: according to many, planting an original thought in someone else’s mind is impossible. But Cobb, the main character or the movie, played by Leonardo Di Caprio, needs this mission to work to go back home to his kids. He needs to design a plan and create a world to make it work. This is the main plot behind one the best movies made in recent memory. It’s also a concept that, as pointed out in this excellent review on Kotaku, could sound very familiar to anyone who ever played a video game.
1) The central theme of this movie is lack of talent and inspiration, and it’s very close to Kitano’s last two movies, Takeshis and Glory to the Filmmaker!. It’s as if after two movies where he expressed his feelings, he decided to tell a story around the same theme. The result is a charming movie with a lot of bittersweet laughs squeezed in between some very acute observations on the wicked ways the art world works. It may lack the power of some of its best movie, but Kitano’s voice is always very entertaining and surprisingly earnest.
