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15 Years Ago, Christopher Nolan’s Best Sci-Fi Thriller Taught Us The Wrong Lesson

Mark Hill

created: July 16, 2025, 11:30 a.m. | updated: July 21, 2025, 5:08 p.m.

Inception stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Dominic Cobb, a thief in a world where sci-fi tech allows people, willingly or otherwise, to share and manipulate dreams. Even today, searching for “Inception explained” yields a steady stream of articles, videos, and Reddit threads, as fans and click-chasers attempt to puzzle out the logical nuances of Inception throwing its cast into dreams within dreams within dreams. At his best, however, all his quirks and wizardry fuel stories that, despite their apparent complexity, are straightforward when it matters. In the end, though — in that endlessly debated and “explained” end — he abandons the practice. That showmanship was a lot of fun, but in the end, we remember movies because of how they make us feel.

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