Inception review

Inception is a 2010 American science fiction heist film written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan.The film stars Leonarda DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, Tom Nerenger and Michael Caine. DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a specialized spy or corporate espionage thief.
His work consists of secretly extracting valuable commercial information from the unconscious mind of his targets while they are asleep and dreaming. Unable to visit his children, Cobb is offered a chance to regain his old life in exchange for one last, almost impossibly difficult, task: performing inception, the planting of a commercially damaging idea into the mind of his client's competitor.
Development began roughly nine years before Inception was released. In 2001, Nolan wrote an 80-page treatment about dream-stealers, presenting the idea t o Warner Bros. The story was originally written as a Horror films, inspired by concepts of lucid dreaming and dream incubation. The film also taps into psychological phenomena like false memories and the introspection illusion.

Dominic Cobb , along with point man Arthur , is on an "extraction" mission within the mind of a powerful Japanese businessman Saito a form of corporate espionage via dreams. Pain is felt in dreams,while death results in awakening. Cobb carries a "totem", a spinnig top which spins endlessly if used in the dream, but topples in the real world. The extraction fails because of Mal (Cobb's dead wife): Cobb's memories of her haunt his dreams and sabotage his missions. Saito reveals that he is in fact auditioning the team to perform the most challenging act of all: "inception" or entering dreams in order to implant an idea.