I didn’t understand 50% of what was going on but at its heart this is a simple heist movie so you can basically follow it and there is good emotion with Leo di Caprio and his dead wife, and Cillian Murphy and his estranged father.
Superb cast – Ellen Page gives heart (the most normal person in the film) and intelligence, I bought Joseph Gordon Lewitt as di Caprio’s offsider, Tom Hardy is perfect as the tough expert (he’s going to be a big star if he wants), Michael Caine is always pleasant, etc.
I really loved the ending, with the music and Michael Caine waiting for Leo at the end - it gives you this feeling of warmth and reassurance.
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It's a simple heist movie, only with a very ugly twist: the heist is being perpetrated on an innocent man. Fischer has done nothing to harm Saito or Cobb; what Cobb and his team do to Fischer (and, by extension, the men and women who rely on his possibly-to-be-broken-up company for their livelihoods) is vile indeed. Keep the "oh, we helped him with his 'daddy issues'" twaddle: this isn't some crime lord they're taking down. Cobb and his team are the bad guys, and Cobb is a selfish, delusional nutjob. Yuck.
You know something, I never thought of it like that - you're right, in a way they are "raping" an innocent person's mind. It's not as though Fischer is evil or anything (indeed, I remember now I kept expecting Saito to be revealed as evil during the film and our heroes would help defeat him). Good point. However, it was more thought-provoking that the usual Hollywood blockbuster and I did find the ending moving.
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