20 movies that you need to be really smart to fully understand

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(Image via Syncopy, Warner Bros)
(Image via Syncopy, Warner Bros)

1) Inception (2010)

Inception (Image via Warner Bros)
Inception (Image via Warner Bros)

Directed by Christopher Nolan, Inception is about a group of thieves who infiltrate dreams to steal or plant ideas. The plot revolves around Dom Cobb, a skilled thief haunted by his past, as he leads a team on a mission to perform “inception.” The complication lies in its dream-within-a-dream structure, where multiple layers of reality unfold simultaneously. Viewers must track how time flows differently in each layer and how one event impacts another. The spinning top at the end is particularly confusing, as it leaves the question of whether Cobb is still dreaming unanswered.

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Edited by Yesha Srivastava