Inception

The movie Inception was a genius of Design. The beauty of it wasn't just that it used design elements in it, like perspective, overlapping, balance, focal points, etc... almost all movies do these things. Even the really crappy B-line movies you sometimes rent at blockbuster as more of a joke than anything. Several of the characters in this movie designed things themselves. Levels of a dream- where there was very literally no limit to their creativity. These characters were called Architects, and rightfully so, with the powers of their mind alone, they created insanely detailed worlds, and were able to bend physics to create stunning and surprising results. My absolute favorite part of this movie was when Ariadne (played by Ellen Paige, from Juno) was being trained to be the next Architect. After placing them in a city, Ariadne enjoyed playing with the world she had created. She turned the city into an enourmous functioning cube that they were inside of. The entire time I just stared in wonder about how they made this work, because the corners of the cube, once the characters arrived there, still functioned flawlessly. Cars didn't have to make that 90˚ angle jump, which would have looked -really- weird. Instead they drove straight into a tunnel on one side, and game out of an archway perpindicular. Another favorite designing movement she made was to create two mirrors out of archways, and reflected them both infinitely. Then, she broke one of the mirrors to reveal a bridge, with rows of archways all along it. One of the other Architects training her taught Ariadne that one could even use Optical Illusions to create in the dreamworld, and taught her about Escher's Never-Ending Staircase:

Which he used to great effect later in the movie, to get behind a bad guy who was shooting up the staircase at him from below- Arthur used the trick to appear behind the assailant while still running -up- the stairs.

There are so many more things I could say about this movie, and the designs used in it. But I don't want to overload anyone reading this with my ramblings, especially if they have not seen the movie- If that's the case, then I truly apologize because I doubt you've successfully followed any of this- the effects used within the film are something you really just have to see to appreciate, not be told about. So if you haven't seen it- go watch it! It will seriously blow your mind. 8D