2010 · sci-fi · thriller
Inception
Directed by Christopher Nolan2h 28m2010
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Our read: Inception (2010) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · thriller entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Inception counts for 4 challenges
Sombre, breathless, measured sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
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