'Inception' at 10: How Christopher Nolan turned an intellectual blockbuster into massive hit we're still arguing over
), who specializes in getting inside people’s heads. As in, literally rooting around their subconscious, looking for well-hidden mental loot. “What is the most resilient parasite?” he asks a client, or maybe a potential mark, named Saito . “An idea.
Only their most recent gig didn’t quite work out so well, and failure is rarely rewarded in the world of high-stakes corporate espionage. Which means they have to make up for their screw-up with One Last Job. Saito has a business rival. The man, Maurice Fischer, is dying. His son, Robert , is set to take over the family business.
Many of these are such beautifully blatant movie-movie elements, etched into the collective pop-cultural memory, that it’s easy to forget the ambitions of the ideas being embedded into a $160 million summer movie. Or, if you’re feeling sinister, that those standouts are buffered by a lot of pretentiously philosophical hot air and art-house bongwater. Maybe the movie is a blank slate for people to project their own deep readings and theories of life and death on to.
But whether you think this film is a peak or a barren valley, Nolan’s accomplishment demands acknowledgement. Given post-Batman carte blanche, he proved that “intellectual blockbuster” was not a contradiction in terms. And to re-view the movie after a decade that felt increasingly dumbed-down in terms of big-tent multiplex fare and this-intellectual-property-is-condemned misfires, you can easily find yourself hungrily gorging on the food for thought here.
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