Review of the movie Beginning. Sleep Deserter
Dreamcatcher with experience Cobb (DiCaprio) works as an extractor - he steals ideas from someone else's subconscious while the author sleeps. An influential customer (Watanabe) persuades him into a risky adventure - not to steal, but to plant a destructive idea in his competitor's mind. Cobb gets down to business - but in someone else's dream he will face not only the opposing consciousness, but also painful memories of events that he cannot accept. The magician and sorcerer of modern cinema Christopher Nolan presents a mind-pervading waking dream "Inception" - about those for whom reality alone is not enough. Nolan has always been fascinated by the secrets of the human psyche. All of his movies - whether it was shot the other way around "Remember," or the magical "Prestige", or the ethically cracking "Dark Knight" - in fact, tell about one thing: how bizarre our minds construct the world that we perceive. "Inception" is not just no exception - it is a real peak in Nolan's work and, I believe, not the last. This movie immediately after its release became a classic and benchmark in the genre about mind games, and it is a great success for all the artists who participated in the movie - to play in it. The picture was also lucky with the artists. Nolan has put together a wonderful team of actors in the "Beginning", playing equally well in dreams and in reality. As in the Cobb team, everyone plays their part - one hundred percent hitting the characters. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy are constantly diving on the screen and pleasing to the eye. Ellen Page, in the role of Ariadne, who constructs dream-labyrinths, looks like a kind of Alice caught in the Looking Glass - conveying some shyness in front of the unknown and at the same time - delight from what is happening. Ken Watanabe, as always, looks significant, Michael Cain is incomparably organic, and Marillon Cotillard is beautiful as a vision from dreams. But everyone is overshadowed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the role of Cobb - who has long become a serious dramatic actor and confidently walking towards his own Oscar statuette. DiCaprio shows real class, forcing from all the souls to empathize with his hero and along with him doubt whether you woke up or are still asleep, checking with a metal whirligig. Sleep in English sounds like `dream` - and this word also means a dream. Dreams are an old metaphor for Hollywood cinema, and it relates to the "Inception" as well as possible: the movie plunges into the world of dreams, and its main action is dreams. And I don't want to wake up from this double dream - even when the music on the credits sounds in my head. "Inception" is a dramatic movie with a twist, and most of the time there is no laughing matter in it. There are only a few jokes at the key points that work like grounding in electrical systems - they allow you to release the accumulated voltage through laughter. However, there is a lot of hidden irony in the movie - DiCaprio is drowning in one of the dreams, the team of actors is scattered according to the levels of sleep in accordance with the level of acting: Gordon-Levitt gets stuck on the second, and the rest go deeper - and other delights. Despite one hundred and fifty minutes, "Inception" is a surprisingly solid tape, extremely focused on events. You literally can't tear yourself away from the screen - it is as if you are connected to a suitcase broadcasting a constructed dream. How many of you have tried to interrupt your own sleep? "Beginning" spins like a metal whirligig - but not slowing down, but, on the contrary, speeding up its rotation. In the finale, we will see perhaps the longest catharsis in the history of cinema, during which a separate movie will happen in a dream. Many great movies nowadays are ruined by endings - starting an art game, most authors lose their thread and wander somewhere in the wrong place. Inception looks set to become one of the top movies of the decade because it is perfectly tailored and knows how to end it. Nolan's movie delivers a dramatic ending that trips up your perception of the world. Cinema will be reproached that it is a construction of the mind, although it plays on the field traditionally reserved for images: most of the "Beginning" takes place not just in a dream, but in the very depths of the subconscious, and anyone in Nolan's place would already gush with insane symbolism ... But Nolan started this whole multi-move with the introduction of an idea into someone else's brain, not because he wanted to capture the imagination - the movie is too real for this - but to grow something in your mind. The virtuoso construction of "Inception" sometimes even scares - when you catch a picture by the sleeve with the suspicion that the introduction is not in the movie, but the movie itself. Nolan, as an experienced magician, mesmerizes the attention with an incredible duel in a corridor with shifted gravity, a city that rolls into a roll and exploding bookstores - and he deftly turns your mind around, dragging an unspecified idea through it. "An idea is the most dangerous thing in the world, because a virus" - we understood from the words of Cobb - DiCaprio. Even a tiny grain of an idea, once it gets into the brain, will not let go - and over time will turn into either an irreplaceable support or a deadly trap. And when at the end of "Inception" everything is synchronized, and all the elements line up like pieces on a board, it will become clear where Nolan started. The idea of the global insatiability of creativity is too abstract for many - and the director expressed himself more clearly and more easily. Cinema is an illusion, and, leaving the cinema, we often do not remember what we came to. Illusion, unlike fantasy, has quite visible and readable limits. Nolan's movie is bombing the idea that the movie no longer ends on credits. This is a perfect injection of fantasy in form and execution - about the fact that when you leave the cinema, the cinema will follow you. The Topic of Article: Review of the movie Beginning. Sleep Deserter. |
