The man is of course Leonardo DiCaprio, named Cobb here, and he is a man with a desperate background of his own Full movie Film Noir. His marriage to Marion Cotillard, named Mal here - has given him two beautiful children whom he can't quite get back to when he wants Full movie Film Noir. In the meantime he finds Ariadne (Ellen Page, grown up since "Juno") an architect who can design a maze that his target will be put in the middle of once we are in his dream Full movie Film Noir. The target is the heir to an industrial fortune, and Cobb's client wants to plant in his head the irresistible idea that he will split up the company and sell it, thus removing a competitor from the field Full movie Film Noir. Funny things, dreams Full movie Film Noir. Fascinating for the dreamer, but as dull as a late morning in Slough for anybody else, unless, of course, your guide is Freud Full movie Film Noir. Or, as it turns out, Christopher Nolan, the 39-year-old British director of 'Memento' and 'The Dark Knight', whose solution to the boredom of other people's dreams is to collide their woozy, ever-changing, upside-down and roundabout nature with the thrust of a fast-paced, men-on-a-mission movie and a startling visual language that mirrors their strangeness Full movie Film Noir. Better still, the dreams preferred by Nolan include images of Paris folding in on itself and a trackless train thundering through a city Full movie Film Noir. The limited, sleepworld excitements of retaking your A levels ad infinitum or forever missing a flight at the airport don't figure here Full movie Film Noir. This kickstarts the long series of subterfuges, political dirty deals and full-scale treachery that constitute the film's wildly convoluted story Full movie Film Noir. It's plots aplenty: King John plots against his former Chancellor, Marshall (a stately William Hurt); traitor Godfrey (Mark Strong) plots against John, Robin and the entire English nation in concert with the devious King Philip of France; while Maid Marian (Cate Blanchett) and her ailing father-in-law (Max von Sydow) plot to keep Robin in Nottingham in the guise of the former Lord Locksley Full movie Film Noir. On the first level, after kidnapping Robert, they enter Yusuf's dream: the Arab chemist, driving a van through traffic while desperately attempting to evade the unexpected militarized defenders of Robert's mind (making the mission more dangerous as he'd been trained against such incursions) with the others sedated and seat-belted in the back Full movie Film Noir. On the second level inside a hotel where Eames impersonates Robert's godfather and co-executive Peter Browning (Tom Berenger) to soften the young man's resistance, they enter Arthur's dream - while the point man attends to their unconscious bodies and prepares the "kick" with explosives to pull them back - descending to the third level (Eames's dream), where the team must enter a heavily guarded fortress in a wintery environment Full movie Film Noir. Back in the sixties and seventies, before films became "franchises" and "tent poles," before Jaws and Star Wars and corporate-studio ownership changed everything, the "summer blockbuster" wasn't a genre unto itself, a megabudget cartoon tooled to help us escape from our lives Full movie Film Noir. It hadn't been commoditized yet Full movie Film Noir. And escapism took different forms Full movie Film Noir. I spent my childhood in an upper-middle-class suburb, one of those doomed artificial constructs in which the outside world is kept vigorously at bay. Isolated from the counterculture, the war, the racial upheavals of the big cities, I went to blockbusters like In the Heat of the Night, Easy Rider, and Woody Allen's Bananas to escape to reality Full movie Film Noir. There was lots of crap, but of a different order than this season's The A-Team and Killers and Shrek XXV and Iron Man 2-which cost hundreds of millions and are not so much made as microengineered Full movie Film Noir.