Dream Man

Leonardo Dicaprio Leonardo Dicaprio's been in some hard-going films recently. Earlier in the year the chilling thriller shutter island kept us on the edge of our seats and his most recent offering, Inception, is such a mind-bender that even he doesn't fully understand it.

For once, Leonardo DiCaprio is at a loss for words. Normally, only his personal life is out of bounds, but the complexity of one of his new films is baffling him.

"I don’t know where to begin," he says helplessly. "It's really hard."

The movie that stumps this highly personable 35-year-old is Inception, a contemporary science-fiction thriller about a technology that can enter dreams and extract information from the human mind. Released in July Inception has to be one of the most highly anticipated films of the year.

After thinking carefully, DiCaprio tells us: "I don’t know what I'm supposed to say about it, but it's Chris Nolan [the British director of The Dark Knight] delving into dream psychoanalysis and also making a high octane, action-filled, surreal film that is all spawned from his mind. He wrote the entire thing, and it all made sense to him."

Then he adds with humourous honesty: "It didn't make much sense to us when we were doing it, and we had to do a ton of detective work to try to figure out what the movie was and what we were doing from day to day, but, thank God, we had somebody who knew what he was doing."

Earlier in the year came the only slightly more describable Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese, which, as someone remarked, could aptly be described in Winston Churchill's words as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'


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