The Reality of 'Inception'

I finally saw Inception on Sunday evening....and so glad I did!  If you haven't seen this movie yet, for one, you should, and secondly, this blog entry will have some spoiler alerts, but I'll do my best to keep it vague (but understandable).

You know how there are movies with big twist endings like, say, The Sixth Sense, and its satisfying because you never saw it coming...but yet there is a clear definitive ending.  Well (beware...slight spoiler alert), Inception also had a twist ending...which was done in such a subtle way and it leaves the ending open to interpretation.  Some may say that the main character was still in a dream world at the end, and others might say, he was able to let go of his dream world and come back to reality.

But either way,  here's what I got out of that very last moment of the film...as the movie is about reality and false reality, even when we wake up from a dream and find ourselves in this reality...this world, our family, our friends, our job, our career, our house, etc, all these things we become so attached to, none of it is permanent....so is it even real?  What then, is reality?

And I think that's the big question of the movie...

I really like films like this that get you thinking, it's not everyone's cup of tea, but this film was really intelligently done.  The only big question I had was, why did the main character go on this journey in the first place if, in his real world, he had the wife, kids and career he wanted?  That question was never answered in a satisfactory way for me...

But aside from that, I loved the visual effects of this film.  Leo did a great job, and director Christopher Nolan was brilliant.  Definitely worth watching in the theater, and if you can, IMax it!