I’ll tell you why I loved Inception.

Sitting in the theatre, Inception is an absolutely mind-throttling movie. It makes you think, harder then you may have ever thought before, to try and piece together it’s complicated puzzle of a plot line. But—and this is the brilliance of Christopher Nolan—it isn’t too complicated that you grow frustrated or bored with it (although it does run a bit long). It’s deep, and gets deeper, as layer is heaped upon layer. It’s a great thinking movie, and a great action movie. Like The Dark Knight, another gem from Nolan, Inception’s action is intelligent, interesting and innovative. Nolan isn’t satisfied with stock footage, he pushes the limits of an action film, and it works.

But what’s really got me sold on Inception is the feeling that I had after I left the theatre. I felt inspired. I felt creative. And I think it’s a direct result of the film.

See, Inception absolutely pushes the limits of the creative imagination. Watching Inception I’m not allowed to take the role of passive observer, instead I’m pulled in and completely engaged with the film, the characters, and the whole world that Nolan’s created. It’s an absolute imagination-stretching film and when I left the theatre, my imagination continued to race, continued to create, the odometer in my brain kept on clicking. I think that’s a hallmark of an incredible movie: not that it’s so good that you talk about it for days after, but that it’s so creative and imaginative, that you keep creating—keep imagining—even after it’s done.  Truly, if there’s ever a cure for writer’s block it’s Inception and in an industry full of creative films, I think that says a lot.

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