In Inception, we have a movie that uses the Cartesian dilemma as a chance to examine ideas, rather than as a plot point. True, the half of me that’s saying this is the half of me that is majoring in philosophy, but Inception is good enough (and pretty enough) that it should satisfy anyone who is willing to examine their cogito for 2 and half hours, which, in truth, may not be that many people. However Inception is received by audiences at large, there’s no denying that it’s indubitably the strangest $200 million film ever made. Hell, it’s probably the strangest $100 million film ever made. Most of the film’s action takes place in dreams, and some of it takes place within dreams within dreams within dreams. Thankfully, Christopher Nolan, the auteur behind The Dark Knight, knows how to create a trailer-friendly money shot, or he never would have had this chance, regardless of his last film’s success.