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INTRODUCTION Inception?is a 2010 American?science fiction?film written, produced, and directed by?Christopher Nolan. The film stars?Leonardo DiCaprio,?Ken Watanabe,Joseph Gordon-Levitt,?Marion Cotillard,?Ellen Page,?Tom Hardy,?Dileep Rao,Cillian Murphy,?Tom Berenger, and?Michael Caine. DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, athief?who extracts information from the?unconscious mind?of his victims while they dream. Unable to visit his children, Cobb is offered a chance to regain his old life in exchange for one last job: performing inception, the planting of an idea into the mind of his clients competitor. Development began roughly nine years before?Inception?was released. In 2001, Nolan wrote an 80?treatment?about dream-stealers, presenting the idea toWarner Bros.? He spent six months polishing up the script for?Inception?before Warner Bros. purchased it in February 2009.Filming spanned six countries and four continents, beginning in Tokyo on June 19, 2009 and finishing in Canada in late November of the same year. ComposerHans Zimmer?scored the film, using parts of?Edith Piafs song Non, je ne regrette rien. Inception?was officially budgeted at $160 million, a cost that was split between Warner Bros. and?Legendary Pictures.?Inception?premiered in London on July 8, 2010 and was released in both conventional and?IMAX?theaters on July 14, 2010.Released to critical acclaim, the film grossed over $21 million on its opening day, with an opening weekend gross of $62.7 million. THE PLOT Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), along with point man Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), is on an extraction mission within the mind of a powerful Japanese businessman Saito (Ken Watanabe); a form of?corporate espionage?through dreams. Pain is felt in dreams, but death results in awakening. Cobb carries a totem in the form of a?spinning top?which originally belonged to his deceased wife Mal (Marion Cotillard), to determine whether he is dreaming or awake, which spins unceasingly or topples, respectively. The extra