Reader beware. The following is from a website called "In Contention", and is spoiler heavy. From what I've seen in the trailers and what I've heard about "Inception", this article seems legitimate. I have read it, and it just makes me more excited for the film. But if you want to wait till the third and final trailer to get the full run down of what "Inception" is about, you should not click on the link provided or unlock the spoiler tabs. If you are on the "Inception" IMDB, this was recently poster by someone their as well.
Please note, if you want to remain pure as to what this film has to offer, do not continue reading. I implore you. (There are spoilers.) But for those happy to be spoiled, well then I’m happy to divulge.
I have not read the script for “Inception,” so this information is all second hand from someone who has. If it seems vague in areas, it is because my source was recounting from memory. I can’t be 100% sure how much of this gels with the truth because WB publicity can’t comment on the film’s plot points. I’m not able to verify this with them. But it all seems fairly legitimate to me.
In a nutshell, the source says “Inception” takes place in a world where we have developed a means by which we can enter people’s dreams. Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Cobb has been described as a “CEO type,” but he is also something of a criminal. He dives into people’s dreams to extract information.
Ellen Page will play Ariadne, a young college student studying in Paris who is a part of Cobb’s team (along with Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Arthur and Tom Hardy’s Eames). Cobb’s team actually “creates” the dreams and Ariadne is an “architect” of the them. She engineers them.
When Cobb’s team enters the dreams, it is not via a machine such as “The Matrix” or “The Cell,” I’m told. It is via injection, and the technology can easily be transported in a suitcase. In one scene (featured briefly in the trailer, I believe), the team actually enters a person’s dream while on an airplane.
Cillian Murphy stars as Fischer, a business-type who is soon to become the head of a company. Cobb’s team is attempting to insert an idea into Fischer’s mind to compel him to separate the company into two smaller companies. The reasoning for this is unclear on my end.
Ken Watanabe plays Saito, a character blackmailing Cobb. For what reason and to what extreme, I do not know. Aside from him, there is no classic villain in the story, but Cobb’s wife (Marion Cotillard) causes some trouble.
The two of them at some point find themselves stuck in many levels of a dream and Cobb’s wife tries to convince him to stay in that world, that it is much better than real life. However, Cobb wants to return to his children and the real world.
This plot point is a bit unclear (and is a massive SPOILER), but I’m told that the wife commits suicide in the dream in order to return to the real world. When Cobb himself returns, he is charged with his wife’s murder and has to flee with his children.
The film will not be typical sci-fi fare at all. It is set in the real world, present day. And virtually all of the “action” scenes take place in the dream environment. This should go a long way toward explaining the “Your mind is the scene of the crime” tagline that accompanied the trailer. Ultimately it seems like a grounded, more tangible blend of “Minority Report” and “The Matrix.”
In February, when Christopher Nolan announced that he was going to make a movie and described it as "a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind," he sold me a $10 movie ticket. Actually, it's probably more like $15. IMAX.
It's the same stuff I posted on the forums months before InContention did.
That said, most of the info is vaugue and fairly general with the exception of the stuff about Marion Cotillard's character, which I reccommend no one read.
noticed the IV tube for several characters that supposedly go into the dream state. Also notice that one quick shot where Leo walks in to what looks like a hospital room with lots of beds and people in them. All those people have the same IVs. Must be to nurish the body because people go into the dream states for a while. Leo has one when he goes into the bathtub and Saito has one when he points his gun. So the interesting thing is there was a rumour that Leo was supposed to lose a lot of weight to look emaciated for a scene at the end. I wonder if it’s because his character will go into a dream without the IV and starve his body. Remember the cia level secrecy around the Alberta ski resort shoot? Maybe it's so that no one can snap a picture of Leo in a completely shape and form. Maybe he's hiding out somewhere and eating a lot to put his weight back on before the media sees him.
Did I give too much away? I guess so if the rumour is true.
When I read first that Nolan directing Leo, I jumped from my seat. That time I didn't even knew the title of the movie. Really great tag team. Trailers are awesome, the cast is great.
And.... I read the plot. **Sounds Pretty Interesting and Fresh**. If it is a legit plot **I feel sorry for Cobb**
