Inception!

Ideas,Perceptions and Faith!

Nope it should be -- Ideas,Perception and Belief!

(my opinion: "Faith" does not belong to this category as it has a bit of religious tone to it.)

Inception as a movie is good! I liked all the slow motion shots! reminded me of scenes from recent film "The Hurt Locker" and many more other older movies. I liked all the exotic locations , the action sequences , the pace of the movie ,the emotions ( DiCaprio trying to hold on to few of the cherished & not so cherished memories) that run through it, the paradoxes to make movie appear geeky ( Perpetually ascending staircase),the idea of layering which made it geeky , but not the idea behind the movie. Though the idea did remind of Richard Linklater's Movie "Waking life"!

What gives a idea its form?

A idea is born out of a goal or a purpose. Given a Goal or a purpose you can have flurry of Ideas , good or bad, to fulfill that goal or purpose. Goodness or Badness of the idea is the perception part of it. So to say if you want to plant a idea into some ones head first you need to plant the goal in the head. Which DiCaprio et. al. do by giving Cillian Murphy a goal i.e. to do better than his father on his own.

Goal?
But in my opinion its just not about the idea always. Whats going to bake our noodle is the goal and how badly we need to achieve it. When I say "how badly we need to achieve it" I don't mean "desperation". Rather add a tinge of detachment to the need i.e the attitude of "devil may care". Because the "desperation" exhibits the desire in us and which screws the main purpose or goal or in plain simple words we digress from the goal.

Perceptions ( e.g. good or bad, slow or fast )?

The way we perceive depends allot on the Goal or the Purpose we have, and the conditioning which we have gone through. Without these two elements perception is an abstract term for which we dont know the meaning

Belief

To quote few platitudes " believe in urself", " know thyself" No idea! :P still working on it! :)

It has to be just plain Belief!