A classic science fiction thriller
Inception is a science fiction thriller movie released in 2010 and directed by Christopher Nolan. The movie can be considered a classic in the science fiction genre based on the unique theme- heist of dreams, plot - a thief that planted a simple idea in the brain of his wife which blurs the idea of a real and dream world in her mind and she kills herself. Now a businessman wants the thief to plant a similar idea in the brain of a rival businessman’s son, and steal important information from his memory, and unique cinematography - the multistory buildings bending back on themselves, and the hotel room turned upside down. If one google, “hard to follow the storyline of the movie, inception”, one immediately finds that the storyline thread was hard to follow for people who do not have some form of training or education in “system thinking” or “systematic thinking”, and easy for those who have such a training. As an example, I am providing the link at the end of this article to a discussion thread for those who are interested to know the differences of opinions on the difficulty levels of the storyline in the movie [1].
Visualizing the levels of dream
What I most liked about the movie was the visualization of the dream levels. Despite the complaints about the hard-to-follow storyline, the movie follows a logical sequence of events: the “dream inside the dream”. The “dream inside the dream” is symbolized by the floors that are accessible through an elevator. The lower floor takes the dreamer to the deeper levels of the dream. The most interesting thesis of the movie is that the protagonist built a dream world where his dead wife and separated children live on the last floor, a concept borrowed from the Freudian division of the mind into conscious, subconscious (preconscious), and unconscious parts.
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The movie didn’t meet parts of my expectations
Before watching the movie, I had heard a lot about the complexity of the movie which dives deep into the world of dreams.
Difference of control vs. speed of time: I expected to see the differences in controls at each level of the dream, meaning the dreamer had more control on the first floor and almost no control on the last floor. Instead, the movie showed the difference between speed and time at each level of the dream. The time passes faster at the first level and very very slow at the last floor. The protagonist has total control in all levels of the dream world and intentionally leaves the last floor that he has built for his dead wife and children.
No particular logic: I also expected some elements of weird, hard-to-follow logic, surprises, horror, or very pleasant scenes that are the signature of dreams. But the movie follows a logical series of events based on the waking world. While I enjoyed the thrills of the race against time- a common trick in most thriller movies, and a partial inclusion of the “dream world” such as the bending of the high-rise buildings, they still didn’t meet my expectations. By including more elements of the dream world, the movies could be much more exciting.
External links
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3735373
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