Is Inception based on a book?

Not based on the book.

"Inception" is also known as "Foundation". Released by Warner Bros. in the United States, Christopher Nolan serves as screenwriter and director, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard. This film will take the audience to wander between dreams and reality, and is defined as a "contemporary action science fiction film that takes place within the structure of consciousness." "Inception", which was released in North America on July 16, 2010, has won the award for three consecutive weeks. The North American box office champion, and ranked third in the IMDB rankings, second only to "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Godfather"

Movie plot

Dom Cobb ( Leonardo DiCaprio (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) is an experienced thief. When people are at their most mentally vulnerable, he sneaks into other people's dreams and steals valuable information and secrets from the subconscious.

During a mission, Cobb and his companion Arthur (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) encountered Cobb's subconscious - Cobb's late wife Moir (played by Marion Cotillard). In order to save their lives, another of their companions betrayed them to the person they had stolen the dream from before - Saito. Ken Watanabe), Saito found Cobb and Arthur, hoping that they can serve him, that is, he found Fisher (Cillian Murphy), the son of the global monopoly giant, in Fisher's mind Planting the idea of ??disbanding the company, thereby eliminating his competitors, if successful, he will be brought back to the country. Since Cobb is eager to go home to see his children, he agreed to Saito's request and found the "pretender" E. James, "The Pharmacist" Yusuf, and "The Dream Maker" Ariadne bought the entire airline, had Fisher's private jet troubleshoot, and then implemented it while Fisher was flying to Los Angeles. This plan.

Cobb and a group of six people brought Fisher into a pre-created dream and cultivated Fisher's mind. However, Fisher had previously been trained to prevent being attacked in dreams. They received professional training, so in the first level of the dream, they were violently attacked by Fisher's subconscious security team, and Saito was injured. However, in the end, he successfully implanted the idea of ??disbanding the company into Fisher's mind and defused Fisher. During this period, Cobb was thwarted by his beloved wife Mo'er, causing the plan to almost fail. However, Cobb finally defeated himself, got rid of the temptation of his dead wife's phantom in his mind, and survived with strength. The danger of being lost forever in a dream and rescuing the lost Saito from the edge of the subconscious. The movie leaves everyone with a suspense at the end. After "returning to reality" and reuniting with his children, Cobb uses a gyroscope to test whether he is still in the dream. , the movie ends suddenly, is it in reality or a dream? However, it is no longer important whether it is a dream or reality (To be precise, at the end, the gyro speed slows down and the central axis swings left and right, presumably to stop. The signs of rotation can be judged as reality. However, the movie stopped suddenly, and you may not have noticed it if you are not careful. Also, there are no children in Cobb's world. It is mentioned in the movie that Cobb wants to scream every time. The child will turn around and run away, but after being reunited with the children, the child turns away, so it is judged to be realistic)

Movie review

Inception is like a fantasy novel. , you have to accept the countless fanciful settings in it; but it is the best fantasy novel because the plot is impeccable under its settings. So first we need to explain all the settings mentioned in the film: Inception

1. First of all, there are six worlds in the film. If we take the real world planned by the team in the film as a reference, in order of dreaming, they are: real world, first level dream, second level dream, third level dream, fourth level dream, limbo (the lost realm) .

2. Normal people move in the real world and dream in the first layer of dreams. If you want to enter the second level of dreams, that is, dreams within dreams, you must take general drugs.

There are two ways to wake up from a dream (whether it is the first level or the second level) when taking ordinary drugs: the first is the so-called 'kick', which is the impact of gravity falling. The second is to be killed. Of course, waiting for the drug to expire is not a solution.

3. If you want to enter the third level of dreams, that is, dreams within dreams within dreams, general drugs are ineffective and enhanced drugs are necessary. However, the side effect of enhanced drugs is that if you are killed in a dream, you cannot wake up, but will enter Limbo (what limbo is explained later), so you can only wake up by Kick.

4. The so-called Synchronize a kick (co-stimulation) means that all layers must be stimulated simultaneously to wake up the dreamer. For example, for a person who is dreaming on the fourth floor, he needs to be kicked (stimulated) on the first to fourth floors at the same time to wake him up on the first floor; if he is only on the third and limbo kick (stimulated), he will be awakened on the third floor. Wake up; and if there is a certain layer in the middle that does not Kick (stimulate) at the same time, such as only Kick (stimulus) in the first, second and limbo layers or only Kick (stimulus) in the first and second layers, then the activity is in limbo's dream. People will not wake up, which is also called missing a kick. Therefore, when the team in the film plans to invade the deep dreamland, someone on each level must be awake to be responsible for Kick (stimulation), and the end of the music is used to coordinate the simultaneous Kick (stimulation) moment.

5. The time between layers is delayed by about twenty times. The approximations given in the lines are a ten-hour flight in the real world, which in the first dream is about a week, in the second dream is about six months, and in the third dream it is about ten years.

6. The title of Inception, literally translated as "foundation", is a term for dream stealing in the movie. It does not refer to stealing information in a dream, but refers to implanting a certain idea into the target character to make him feel that this is the case. Ideas are something you already have. And Inception must be completed at least on the third layer. There is a reason for this. We can see it in the dream of the target character in the film. The first level of dreams is very shallow and has a lot of consciousness. It is the entire city. The second level is a hotel. On the third level, there is only the dream in the white snow. A fortress. The less conscious the dream, the stronger the effect.

7. Every dream has a dreamer (Dreamer), who shares his dreams with others. The scenes in the dream can be designed by a specialized designer and then told to the dreamer, so the designer is not necessarily the dreamer. Theoretically speaking, everyone who enters this dream will bring some of their own consciousness projections, but except for the target person, everyone else knows that they are dreaming, so their will will not be confused. The dream designed by the designer cannot be too outrageous or have unrealistic scenes, otherwise the target person will realize that he is dreaming, and his projection will attack other people who invade his dream. Of course, if the target person's projection has undergone special training to prevent dream theft, the intruder will be besieged by the projection even if the dream scene is very real.

8. Limbo refers to the edge of the subconscious. The literal meaning can already be interpreted as how terrifying it is. Since each time you enter a level of dreamland, the time will increase twenty times. When entering this level, time is almost infinite, so simply relying on waking up naturally or committing suicide cannot achieve the effect of breaking the dream. This is why this layer of dreams is called the lost state. After entering, you can only return with the kick that comes after several years or even decades unless you have great mental power to keep yourself from losing yourself (without losing the ability to distinguish between dreams and reality). Reality.

The total number of people who arrived at Limbo was 5 Daum (who committed suicide and returned with his wife Mal for the first time, and returned with Saito for the second time), Mal (who committed suicide and returned with her husband Daum for the first time, and returned with Saito for the second time). Died after being shot by Ariadne and stayed in limbo forever), Ariadne (returned with kick), Fisher (returned with kick), Saito (Dom spent a long time in the lost state) After finding him, remind him that this is a dream and return). But there is a bug here. Daum and his wife did not kick, but committed suicide to wake up (previously Daum explained that they could not return in the dream, and ended up growing old together in the dream, but when they committed suicide and returned It is indeed a young state.) (But in addition, at the end of the film, after Mal was shot in the Lost Land, the male protagonist said that we had grown old together in a dream, and later there was a scene of lying on a train. Pay attention to their hands! Yes. Old! So it can't be considered a bug) The explanation of the film is that it comes back with great faith. (But does this imply to the audience that Daum did not actually wake up, but was completely lost in his dream?).

9. Dreams can be grafted. That is to say, A and B enter the first level of dreamland of C (the dreamer of this level is C), and then B can take A to the second level of dreamland of B (the dreamer of this level is B).

10. This play explains what it means to play with fire and burn yourself. The male protagonist drags his wife into a deep dream. The final result of this kind of playing with fire is that when she returns to reality, she still thinks she is in a dream, and then chooses to commit suicide, hoping to return to the reality she thought she was. It can be said that the male protagonist is responsible for "indirect homicide".

One sentence review

A science fiction dream journey with an extremely complex structure but a very fascinating one. ——"Hollywood Reporter"

This film is like "The Matrix" plus "Synecdoche, New York", with its anti-physics exploration, wonderful action scenes, impactful emotions, and... Leonardo's astonishing performance makes people addicted. This is a new field for Nolan's movies. ——"Empire"

"Foundation" is a very smart movie, with rich details and intricate narrative, leading people into a subconscious maze. ——"Variety Show"