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If you haven’t watched Inception yet, don’t read this post. It’s great and I don’t want to spoil it for you. So stop. You didn’t though, did you, you’re still reading this right now. Well, I warned you.

Inception as everyone knows is about people who can hack into other people’s dreams to access their subconcious. The plot concerns their attempts to achieve, well, inception – putting an idea into someone’s mind, which makes what they usually do, stealing secret ideas, seem easy by comparison.

The problem is that it’s easy to plant an idea, but the victim always knows that it’s an external imposition – they don’t really believe it. Leonardo DiCaprio comes up with the plan of going into the victim’s subconcious’ssubconcious, and planting an emotional idea about his father, in order to lead him to conclude, on his own, that he should break up his father’s business ...

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