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Last year, Christopher Nolan drew—and divided—audiences with his epic space spectacle, “Interstellar.” And while a full third of the nine features he directed were Batman related, it’s impossible to have a thorough discussion of Nolan’s body of work without including his 2010 blockbuster, “Inception.” One of the more mind-bending films of his consistently mind-bending filmography, “Inception” is Nolan’s third most financially successful film to date (behind the second and third installments of the Dark Knight franchise), and the sixth highest grossing film of 2010. With it, Nolan created a multilayered, complex story about dreams and dreams within dreams, adding tiered levels of reality and time. It was nothing short of an inspiring achievement, especially in writing and editing.
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