Rebecca Mora

This could have been a brilliant film, but instead it was three hours long, and separated into nine chapters. I do appreciate its background story, but really?

Inception has to be my favourite film of all time... It is simply genius on so many different levels. Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010) is a complex saga of corporate espionage, and about implanting ideas in people’s minds. A team of dream extractors, headed by Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), is hired by a Japanese businessman named Saito (Ken Watanabe) to plant the idea (what they call inception) into the unconscious of an industrialist’s son, Robert Fisher (Cillian Murphy), that his father wants to disinherit him from the family fortune. This will lead him to conclude that he must break up the business. Was it all a dream? Even if it was all a dream, does it matter? Does reality even matter?

This is a truly beautiful film, but it is no surprise that it rated so badly. Like the very few other films that reference Mental Health struggles, only audience members who have been through it themselves appreciate the difficulty of describing, let along portraying, suicide. Some may call this film slow and dull, but that is what depression is, and the use of the laundry as a motif is something truly special - those who have had depression will understand it. It would be wrong of me not to place a trigger warning on this. While you don’t see the actual attempts, you see a child struggling to explain depression’s hold on him, and divorced parents unable, at times not even trying, to understand. So watch with caution, and don’t forget that you are never a burden, regardless of what you will see on this screen.

Words cannot begin to express just how good this film was. A true cinematic masterpiece, accompanied by a brilliant soundtrack.

As slow as it may be, there’s no denying that this film was brilliantly made as it outlines both depression and the end of the world. If you’re looking for an action film or sci fi then this isn’t the film for you, but if you’re prepared for a slow yet emotional film, then be sure to watch it.

Pretty good- season 1 was great but then it just got kind of weird and confusing.