20 Brilliant Mind-F*ck Movies
18. Inception
Another of the most well-known movies on this list, Christopher Nolans Inception takes the twisty narrative structure that he often employs and expands it to overthrow everything you think you know about the movie.
Leonardo DiCaprios Cobb is a unique crook who can extract information from anyone by infiltrating their dreams and locating the secrets therein, but once hes in, how can the audience ever be sure of anything?
Indeed, after watching Inception, its easy to question absolutely every detail. Across all those levels, was anything real? If someones imagination is vivid enough, surely anything could be a dream. And if youre trapped in your own dream, whats the worth of a totem? Are the characters still dreaming at the end of the movie?
Well likely never have any answers for the questions raised by this movie. Its deliberately opaque, but gives you enough information to start piecing your own theories together. Infuriatingly brilliant, that.