Inception is a movie about dreams.  A dream within a dream to be able to steal information from someone else’s mind.  Although you can take a step further into inception where you can create your own world.  Where five minutes in our world can be 10 years in inception.  Imagine being able to create your own wold with the one you love.  This is what Cobb thought he could endure with his wife Mal until hi wife decided reality was not her reality. She thought death would be the only way to get back to the reality that they created.  Because Mal killed herself Cobb was framed from Mal leaving a letter stating she was fearful of her life that Cobb might hurt her.  Since then Cobb spent the rest of his days trying to come back to the United States to see his children.  His last job with Saito was to be his golden ticket back into the States.

Avatar is a movie about the natives of Pandora being studied but also tricked into stealing what was underneath their sacred tree.  Jake’s brother died in the military and they wanted to substitute his with Jake since he has a military background.  The downside to Jake was that he was paralyzed from the legs down.  Avatar replica bodies were made in the military lab for Jake and other people as well. Jake fell in love with the daughter of the chief Neytiri and didn’t tell her the truth about who he was.  He said he apart of the Jug Head tribe to try and cover up where he was really from which was the military.  Eventually, things began to dig deeper with feelings and Jake and Neytiri mated under the sacred tree.  Neytiri was arranged to marry someone who would eventually take over the chief’s position.  The military comes in and starts destroying the land and Jake ends up returning to his real body.  Neytiri finds Jake and returns his human body to the sacred tree and his avatar body beside him.  The entire tribe begins to pray and the tree connects to the Avatar body and Jake’s human body and there is a transfer and Jake is alive in his Avatar body.

Roger Ebert said in his article that Nolan must have rewritten this multiple times because with every change in this movie there was a ripple effect.  I didn’t quite understand this when I read it but as you watch the movie and try to understand it, the ripple effect shows.  I can’t even imagine how many times he must have thought certain parts over because every time they went deeper into the last dream it was as if it was an entirely different story.  This movie was beautifully done because it makes you rethink everything.  After watching this movie for the first time I have had multiple conversations with people asking the question, “what if we are sleeping and we wake up and in an entirely different place?”  This movie makes you think like that and I look at it as a good thing because we need to exercise our minds to think.

I have to say Roger Ebert has been one of my favorite people to read reviews and articles about movies.  He gave great recognition to Avatar for Cameron creating an entire native language called Na’vi.  Although I would think Cameron wouldn’t want to be compared to anyone else, Roger did compare him to Lord of the Rings.  He did this because the director of that movie created his own language as well.   I admire anyone who can create an entire language or a movie.  A new language that is unique creates a reality for us viewers to imagine ourselves in the movie.  I love being able to imagine myself in a movie and this movie does it.  I do love how the behind the scene video of Avatar speaks about the new technology that helps us to create characters where an actor or actress doesn’t have to sit in makeup for three to four hours.

In the ending scene of Inception, it was amazing.  Still, to this day I have so much hope that his totem falls and he is back to his reality.  A cliffhanger is what the ending of the movie is.  Cobb is so far into this dream that he actually almost forgot why he was there.  He remembered he was there to save Saito and bring him back before he would actually die from being asleep or unconscious.  Saito is very old which makes me believe they have both been stuck in two different places for a while.  When I saw him waking up on the plane I felt better about the ending but nobody mentioned anything.  There was nothing but smiles and head nods which made it seem like everyone was on the same page but we truly will never know.  The biggest cliffhanger in a movie I have ever seen and even though I have seen this movie multiple times it still gets me.

Jake did survive and transferred into his Avatar body but Grace didn’t get to.  She dies before the transfer could happen.  I hoped that the transfer would work because she taught the natives so much about our lifestyle and really cared for them.  It was a movie of many emotions but there was so much resemblance to the Disney movie Pochahontas and Aocolypto.  I’m in such awe because this movie screams anti-war and being more caring for our nature. This movie is a great movie to show about war not being the only answer.  These natives were looked at like savages and when Jake really got the chance to be in their environment he got to see how much the natives were just trying to live their lives.  Neytiri saved Jake from creatures and after she had to kill one she was angry and upset because she didn’t want to kill them and that they didn’t deserve to die.  I just love the message this movie portrays, it gives me hope for the future and the future generations to come.