Don't Read This Unless You Want To Know A Little More Re: What INCEPTION Is About!!

Merrick here...
The Los Angeles Times spoke with Christopher Nolan. The piece confirms long standing rumor/speculation regarding the concept driving the highly mysterious INCEPTION. Some of this could be inferred from the film's most recent trailer, but this is the clearest, most pointed "official" verification we've seen yet (to the best of my knowledge).

The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a specialist in the new branch of corporate espionage -- he's a dream thief who plucks secrets from the minds of tycoons after pumping them full of drugs and hooking them up to a mysterious contraption. The problem, though, is the land of nod can be volatile -- as can DiCaprio's character, Dom Cobb, who is a wounded dreamer after the loss of his beloved wife. The movie may be Hollywood's first existential heist movie, and though that may not sound like typical fare for the air-conditioning months, Warners and Legendary Pictures are banking on the movie catching on as a brainy "Mission: Impossible" by way of "The Matrix"; the globe-trotting movie may have had its subconscious baggage packed by Sigmund Freud, in other words, but it also carries a passport stamped by Ian Fleming. DiCaprio says Nolan is the perfect director to turn that unlikely combination into a July hit. [EDIT "Inception" does have major computer effects: Several vivid sequences show a dream metropolis in churning calamity, a city skyline seems to fold in on itself as a dream begins to lose its shape and, unlike many Hollywood versions of dream surrealism, the scene has the look of a massive mechanical failure, not a morphing, liquid calamity.

...says the Times HERE, in a discussion which goes on to discuss some very interesting details about the film's origin and development. Be sure to take a look if you don't mind knowing a bit more about the picture. There's nothing too revealing - but after so little information has been available for so long, any infobits whatsoever seem noteworthy. The Times' description feels quite similar to THIS early plot leak, which was posted last August.
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