Here’s the big trailer reveal for Inception, which teases out a few more details on what to expect without really giving anything concrete about the plot. It seems DiCaprio’s character is set upon stealing an idea, perhaps right from someone else’s mind. Everything I see and hear about writer/director Christopher Nolan’s latest makes me giddy with excitement: one of my favorite working directors, a fantastic cast, great modern production design and an original sci-fi story. The apparent corporate backdrop and some kind of invention that enables people to enter other minds or states of consciousness reminds me a lot of Satoshi Kon’s Paprika, and seeing as how that’s one of my top films of the last decade, I’m pretty psyched about this one. Plus, Nolan’s shown a real aptitude for toying with subjectivity in his films (most notably Memento and The Prestige, but Insomnia also features skillful examples), and this story concept will lend itself well to those predilections. There’s no film I’m more excited about in 2010 than Inception.
You can view the trailer at Apple.
Inception is based on an original idea by Christopher Nolan that’s been described as a “contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind” and it deals with dreams of one sort or another. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine, Lukas Haas and Dileep Rao. DiCaprio plays a CEO-type, Cotillard is his wife, Gordon-Levitt is an associate while Page plays a young grad student who’s at DiCaprio’s character’s side. Watanabe has the villainous role and is blackmailing DiCaprio’s character.
Inception opens on July 16th, 2010.
