Following is Christopher Nolan’s first film.  He wrote and directed it.  Nolan is known for directing the latest Batman features.  I tend to like most of his movies.  This film is definitely done in film noir style.  It is all in black and white.

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Overall, it was a movie that I enjoyed.  It was fairly clever and intriguing.  It made me feel guilty about how easily influenced I am by others as our protag is by Cobb.  It became a little too twisty at the end and that was my major detraction, although,  I did appreciate not exactly knowing how the movie was going to end.  I thought that the sharpest point of the movie was that we are in the dark to start and progress to vaguely knowing that the blonde and Cobb have a trap for our guy.  I kept thinking he would do something unexpected to shake loose, but even his seemingly spontaneous actions are predicted right within the tethers of Cobb’s web.

“Your eyes pass over the crowd and if you let them settle on one person, that person becomes an individual.”

7/10