

Inception uses dream technology as its construct-within-construct premise. Nolan's layered narrative mirrors The Matrix's exploration of reality vs illusion.
Cobb, a skilled thief who steals corporate secrets through shared dreaming technology, receives an impossible assignment: implant an idea into a grieving billionaire. But as Cobb's team infiltrates layered dream worlds where time dilation creates decades within hours, the boundaries between dreams and reality collapse. Nolan's labyrinthine masterpiece explores consciousness across multiple simulated realities, where spinning tops, collapsing cities, and impossible architecture reveal a mind-bending puzzle about perception, grief, and whether we can ever truly return from the depths of our subconscious.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page
Budget: $160 million
Box Office: $836.8 million
A groundbreaking sci-fi masterpiece exploring deep philosophical questions about reality and consciousness.
Contains: Mature Content
Common questions about Inception and this reality-bending cyberpunk masterpiece.
Ambiguous by design; the film asks whether it matters if the top falls.
Four functional layers including limbo, each with different time dilation.
Planting an idea so the subject believes it is their own.
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