Pirates of the Dream Space Literature and Its Historical Background

Inception

Also known as: cornerstone

English name: Inception

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Region: Europe and America

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Release: Warner Bros. Pictures

Type: Action Science Fiction

Director: Christopher Nolan Christopher Nolan

Screenwriter: Christopher Nolan Christopher Nolan

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon Levitt, marion cotillard and Alain Page.

Classification: USA PG- 13

Release time: 20 10 September 1.

Detailed plot

A city with gullies and buildings in the steel jungle seems to be no different from the world we know. Then, as night falls, the breath of sleeping gradually rings.

Unsuspecting, dreams have become the best way to enter the human subconscious. Tom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief and an experienced thief. Unlike most "three hands", he doesn't need to take out other people's wallets. In this world, there is a strange name for people like him-dream thief. His specialty is to sneak into other people's dreams and steal valuable information and secrets from the subconscious. I was born with a gift, so why waste it? This rare skill soon made him a coveted and well-paid employee in the business espionage industry. However, it also made him lose his beloved wife Moore (marion cotillard) and escape from this world.

Cobb, who suffered from the pain of losing his wife for a long time, finally got the last chance to redeem. Qi Teng (Ken Watanabe), a wealthy businessman in the city, hears about the dreamer's tactics and decides to secretly hire Cobb to attack his biggest future business competitor, Robert Fisher Jr, a rich second generation. What Cobb needs to accomplish is an impossible task called Inception. In other words, what he needs to do is not simply steal ideas, but do the opposite and implant an idea into Fisher's mind without leaving a trace. If successful, Fisher will "voluntarily" make a choice against his original intention, and his family's business kingdom will never recover. There is no doubt that this must be a perfect crime, both technically and in difficulty.

A huge plan needs an elite team to fight. Cobb's "Inception Team" includes his old partner Arthur (Joseph Gordon Levitt), his father-in-law Miles (michael caine), pharmacist Yusef, the ever-changing pretender Oms ... and the new architect Ariadne (Alain Page), all of whom are elite fighters. When ideas can create dreams, forge identities, build cities, and even break and rewrite the known rules of the whole world, danger will follow. ...

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The unknown world is full of evil. In the dark night, in the name of action sci-fi thriller, Christopher Nolan plunged into an infinite dream. This is the first completely original work by this polite man since he debuted 12 years ago. Its hero has the same name as the core character when he debuted. If inspiration often comes from the crackling sound in an instant, then the spark in Inception has sprouted as early as eight years ago. At that time Nolan was only angry because of Memento. It has been his obsession for some time to interpret this city made of reinforced concrete in the subconscious of his brain. After that, Warner was fascinated by his conceptual idea and quickly gave it the green light. Nolan, who thinks that it is better to choose a day than to hit the sun, is not willing to take this idea as a task, but carefully consider it and write it slowly. One fee is eight years of hard work. Stop and go may not bring surprises. Nolan turned to adapt the Batman series because of the headache of the script. The Dark Knight reached the top of the box office with an overwhelming attitude, and at the same time reached the peak of art and commerce.

At this point, the film won a pre-budget of $654.38+600 million without breaking your tongue. With the expectation of summer blockbuster, a dream is being staged. If you think that crumbling tall buildings, twisted gravity streets and untraceable upside-down spaces are just to promote a strong sense of doomsday, then you must be a child spoiled by Hollywood disaster movies. It has complicated plot setting, dazzling action arrangement, gripping trap turning point, strange suffocating atmosphere and a little sense disorder of Memento. Most importantly, it is like a complicated maze. Even if you wander around a few times, you may still feel unfinished and mysterious.

If we say that good wine is afraid of the deep alley these days, the gorgeous star lineup of the film is guaranteed to be discovered by more fans. Leonardo DiCaprio, a talented prince and the darling of Sikes, has become a well-deserved mainstay of the new generation. It is said that this time he is not only the only leading actor candidate for Nolan and the producer, but also will give the best performance in his acting career. The best actress in the 2008 Oscar, two roses were killed obliquely, which was amazing. Now, they walk hand in hand into the dream space. If marion cotillard's performance after decades of singing has defeated Alain Page, an original character with a strange look, then Page, who has more room to play in this film, will undoubtedly have a good chance of "revenge". Besides, michael caine, the old housekeeper in Batman, and Silan Murphy, the scarecrow, also returned as scheduled. The addition of powerful idol Joseph Gordon Levitt (500 Days in Summer) and acting master Ken Watanabe (Memoirs of a Geisha) adds a lot of color to the film.

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Masterpiece, perfection, miracle, inconceivable, unparalleled ... In the almost one-sided rave reviews, Inception is advancing rapidly in the direction of epic. Some people say it is the best science fiction film after The Matrix. Some people say it's a combination of Minority Report and Mission Impossible. Some people say that it will reproduce the glory of Xia Na in The Dark Knight. Although it is very popular and associated with the predecessors of many blockbusters, critics agree that it is innovative, complex and subversive, and at the same time, it has established Christopher Nolan as one of the most creative ghosts in Hollywood.

Technology has always been Hollywood's strongest advantage. However, for this film that left from the beginning, spectacular visual effects are just icing on the cake. What really makes the audience unbelievable is that in today's clamor for trilogy, there are still mainstream creative teams who dare to consider taking a confusing and unconventional road and can study the perfect combination of business and art. Although the film is 148 minutes long, the whole film is not tedious, and the surreal world is displayed with the help of fast editing and agile narration. Perhaps, for North America, which was originally weak this summer, this film is just a tonic after a long drought. Perhaps, as long as we work hard and have the courage to break through, there will always be hope for change in Hollywood, which is mostly on the assembly line. Movies are regarded as fantastic, magical and unpredictable places.

Long dream

Inception is called "a contemporary action science fiction movie that takes place in the structure of consciousness". The word "consciousness structure" is somewhat mysterious, and what it refers to in the film is nothing more than a dream. The imagination of dreams in film and television literature works has never stopped, and Nolan is far from the forerunner. There are almost precedents for all kinds of creative ideas about dreams in Inception, such as multi-layer dreams in eXistenZ, dream connection in Inception, and even the obsession with dreams and abandonment of reality in Zheng's patent No.3180. It's just that once these "second-hand" ideas are mixed by Nolan, they burst into suffocating charm. Of all the elements about dreams in the film, the most attractive thing is that there is a subjective difference between the time speed in dreams and reality. A dream that ended in a hurry in physical time was extended into a long dream without end in time and unrestrained in space in Nolan's lens, thus creating a thrilling plot tension. Nolan's movies are like this. There is little master-like compassion in the story, and even some ideas are not original, but he must have a way to make the story climax again and again.

Thought implantation

The word "Inception" in the film refers to changing the deep-rooted thoughts of others through the implantation of ideas in dreams. In the past, in some suspense works with surreal elements, it was often seen that hypnotists hypnotized people with a phone call or even a look, and then instructed him to do anything. In fact, this is impossible in reality. People's psychology has a strong defense mechanism. Psychological research shows that it is difficult for hypnotists to make hypnotized people do things against their will, let alone change their original deep-rooted ideas. Therefore, it is reasonable for Inception to set the difficulty of ideological implantation. Among all the known states of consciousness, dream is a state in which the defense mechanism is minimized. Only by going deep into dreams can we truly complete ideological transformation. This is a big difference between Inception and previous works of this kind. Hypnotists used to do things with one eye, but experts in Inception tried to do it with a whole film. Is Nolan Schell Near or Far? Actually, it's just the whimsy of our predecessors.

The brain in the vat

There is a proposition of "brain in a vat" in philosophy, which means that if we put our brain in a vat filled with nutrient solution and use a computer to transmit all kinds of information to the brain, the world experienced by the brain is actually an illusion created by the computer, then how can the brain verify whether the perceived world really exists? Dreams are also a kind of brain in a jar. When we are too immersed in dreams, how can we tell the difference between dreams and reality? It takes great courage to wake up from a dream at this time, which is the "leap of faith" repeatedly mentioned in the film. The dreamer who fell into deep dreams in Inception, just like Neo who just entered the matrix training, stood at the top of the skyscraper, jumping or not? This is a problem.

steampunk

Inception is a movie full of bugs, if you don't appreciate it with some bad taste. Among them, the most striking is the humble dreamer, a machine that doesn't even seem to have a chip. How did you achieve such precise control over your dreams? Environment settings for watching movies. It's the real world now. There seems to be no other incredible cutting-edge technology except the sensational dreamer. So at first glance, the setting of scientific and technological background in the film is far from the function that science and technology can achieve. But this is actually Nolan's bad taste. This bad taste is steampunk. To put it simply, steampunk is a scientific fantasy based on pre-electronic technology, especially on gear machinery and steam engines. Nolan's Fatal Magic is a typical steampunk work. It's just that there are no gears and no steam in Inception. How could it be steampunk? This is because the real spiritual core of steampunk is actually a reaction to contemporary electronic technology and a gesture of going back to the past and looking forward to the future. For steampunk fans, contemporary electronic technology is too illusory, or something steam was visible and tangible in the past is more practical. Nolan asked the clown to say in The Dark Knight, "My taste is a bit old-fashioned. My favorite things are explosives, gunpowder and gasoline. " . If you are familiar with Nolan's works, you will know that Nolan is actually expressing his taste through the mouth of a clown. Nolan also prefers things that can be seen and touched. He is good at telling postmodern stories with modern or pre-modern settings, and so is Inception. So it is an inexpressible steampunk work. So if we appreciate it from this angle, the gap between the background setting and the story in the film will change from a bug to a different kind of interest.

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