[rant title="Get out of my head! FFFFFUUUUUUUU!"]

Every other review I've read about the movie Inception has heralded it as a mind-blowing, twisting, confusing, complex thriller. But obviously these reviewers have no idea what the movie is trying to do or simply can't watch anything that requires more than two brain cells and a housefly's attention span.

To call Inception confusing is an outright insult to the film and to it's creator, Christopher Nolan. The whole beauty of Inception is that it's never confusing, but quite the opposite. Nolan has created a universe so unlike our own, that taking it all in at once would be positively mind-numbing. But such is the brilliance of his newest creation.

I'll waste nothing of the plot, the characters, or the supposed twists. Inception is a basic, run-of-the-mill thriller in strictly skeleton form. The most simplified premise I can give without ruining the movie is this: "Extraction" is a method of stealing information from someone while they are dreaming. But after a job goes wrong, a band of dream thieves must do the opposite- "Inception" -planting an idea instead of stealing it.

Now in that basic premise is a tremendous catch: how do you make something as simple and docile as sleeping and dreaming into a high-action thriller? Nolan does so in epic style, by crafting a whole plethora of worlds that these dreamers delve into every time they close their eyes. It's the complexity of the universe Nolan has created, not the complexity of the plot, that makes the film so exceptional. And the brilliance of the film, is the way in which it is explained.

There is so much that needs explained in this very familiar, yet wholly foreign setting the movie takes us into. The film explains almost every detail to the audience, but without being boring exposition or long, drawn-out dialogue. Indeed, by the end of the movie, the audience's own imagination will be flowing with ideas of the possibilities of this universe that has been created. In this sense, Inception lands a place rare in any form of storytelling. Not only does this film present an imaginative and endlessly thrilling setting, but also inspires the imaginations of its viewers. And the whole experience is effortless. You learn more and more about the world of the film without even realizing it.

The true accomplishment of Inception, is the ability to take a completely foreign idea, and make it feel as natural and relatable as any part of reality. Much like the protagonists in the film attempt to do. In fact you could say that Christopher Nolan has done what the characters in his film claim is impossible. Christopher Nolan has performed an "Inception" on us all.

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