Welcome to the world of dream manipulation, an alternate reality where dreams hide valuable information that a person stores away from intruders and where ideas can be placed in the minds of the unknowing. Meet Dom Cobb, a professional "extractor" or individual who steals information from others' dreams. He leads a team of extractors, each having their own specialty. There is the architect, or the person who creates the dream; there is a forger, an individual who can forge the identity of a person whom the subject, the host of the dream extraction/inception, knows in real life; and there are point men, or guys who monitor the state of the dream. These group of highly skilled thieves either extract information from a dream through the process called extraction, or plant information in a dream through inception. The latter is the harder of the two as it requires multiple levels of dreams to accomplish. Sound complicated enough? Good.
This is not a movie for the weak-minded. It requires you to think on a grander scale, on a level where the distortion between a dream and reality is not so clear-cut. You may think you're in a dream, only to find out you're in a dream within a dream. Inception makes the movie goer question "What is real and what is not?" The concept of dream manipulation is to trick the host into thinking that he is in reality while bluffing him in a effort to extract or implant information. I think director Chris Nolan does an excellent job at presenting this predicament while not losing sight of enough action to keep the viewer entertained. He builds the story rigidly and leaves some holes for he viewer to fill, often during sections where you cannot tell fact from fiction. Inception is definitely a thinker's movie, and it strives to be, but with added action and suspense to keep the movie-goer in his/her seat. Inception will definitely make the viewer ask this question, "Is my dream a figment of my reality...or is it more than that?"
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