Inception Review

Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” has made the entire world sit right up and take notice of Mr. Nolan’s remarkable filmography. Inception is about to set a record of sorts for the maximum number of reviews on the internet for any Hollywood movie. Everyone has seen it and everyone who has seen it, seems to have written a review or two on it. Around 95.67% seem to love that movie. The remaining people attack the movie – mainly because of the urge to “be different” from the crowd.

If you are smitten by Inception in anyway, unless you are living under a rock in an inaccessible cave in African mountains, you have read about and seen the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip that has the same theme – A dream inside a dream. Nolan might have inadvertently got inspired by that comic strip though it is highly unlikely that Bill Watterson would file an IP theft case on Nolan. We are all reasonable enough to just laugh about this sheer coincidence and not take anything away from Nolan. His Inception screenplay was pure genius; an intelligent thriller that satisfies almost everyone (Yes I know only 95.67% liked that movie – Hence the word “almost”.) in the world. Nolan is God. Isn’t he?

Well, there’s this small “One More Thing” – (I admit I am no Steve Jobs to say the one more thing in the best possible way!)
Christopher Nolan seems to be heavily inspired by Calvin. It is not just “Inception”. Calvin’s heroics and ideas have seeped into at least two other movies of Nolan – The Prestige and The Dark Knight. While in The Prestige, Calvin’s “Duplicator” was put to good use, in The Dark Knight – Calvin’s “Transmogrifier” helped the Batman modify his Batmobile into a particularly suave motorcycle!

However, Bill W – the gentleman that he is – is probably not interested in taking Mr Nolan to court.
Any other C&H inventions that you think have inspired him? The comments space is all yours if you want to say something.

Disclaimer: This disclaimer is only for those who do not have the innate capacity to spot a satirical piece of work. This article is meant to be a joke. If the joke is lost on you, it is your problem – not mine J