Movie Review

Inception is a film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and marion cotillard. The plot of the film wanders between dreams and reality, and is defined as "a contemporary action science fiction film that takes place inside the consciousness structure".

The film tells the story of a dreamer (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) leading a team of agents (played by Joseph Gordon Levitt and Ellen Page) to enter other people's dreams, steal secrets from others' subconscious and rebuild their dreams.

In order to write this review, I studied many people's comments on the Internet, watched movies many times and watched them intermittently for a week until I fully understood them. I feel I have understood it, but when writing a film review, I have to keep looking back at the film to understand it more clearly. This is the first time.

Before writing the film review, I was careful not to spoil it, so as not to affect everyone's enjoyment of watching movies. But this time, I found that everyone said that this film is not afraid of spoilers, and found that many people said that they could not understand it. Two of my colleagues told me that they didn't understand. After watching the movie myself, I found that it doesn't matter how much you spoil it, because it is too clever and contains too much content, and no matter how much you spoil it, the content of the movie is still enough to arouse people's interest.

So this film review, I want to give you a spoiler and tell you the story described in the film.

The role in the movie

Cobb: Pirate in Dream, Aaliyah Denny: Dreamer, Arthur: Sentinel, Yi Musi: Forger, Joseph: Pharmacist, Qi Teng: Tourist, Robert Fisher: Ultimate Goal, Miles: Cobb's Father.

Story origin

Cobb and his wife Mel are students of Mel's father, that is, Cobb's father Miles. Miles taught them how to control other people's psychology, but they further expanded their knowledge. They are pioneers in the study of dream world, and their pursuit of dream world makes them do experiments on themselves. After going deeper, I entered the fourth dream. Because there are only two people in the experiment, there are no people in the first few floors, and kicking around can't help. Because of the time delay, in reality, sleeping for an hour on the fourth floor is fifty years.

Fifty years later, they died of old age in their dreams. Because they took intensive drugs and couldn't wake up automatically, they both entered the lost domain. In the lost field, both of them lost their memories and forgot that they had completed the promise of growing old together. The woman's insatiable companionship thinks that this is reality and doesn't want to return to reality, but Cobb slowly remembers that his children also want to return to reality. In order to convince his wife, he instilled in Mel the idea of doubting everything and trying everything, which was the first time he implanted his thoughts.

Finally, his wife committed suicide lying on the tracks with him. After committing suicide in the lost field, they returned to reality, but the side effect of ideological implantation occurred, that is, his wife began to suspect that reality was actually a dream and thought that only death could escape. So Mel committed suicide, creating the illusion that she was killed by Cobb's design. The ultimate goal is to stimulate Cobb to put everything down and die with herself, that is, to return to what she calls reality. Cobb lost custody of the children, was in danger of being arrested and had to flee abroad. The impact of this incident on Cobb is enormous. The projection of his wife in his dreams always tries to ruin his life, so Cobb can no longer be a dream builder.

The origin of accepting new tasks

During his exile, Cobb could only steal dreams for a living. The so-called stealing dreams means unconsciously stealing information hidden in other people's hearts in dreams. In this case, Cobb accepted the task of a company called Cobb Engineering to steal the expansion plan of Japanese tycoon Saito. According to Cobb's plan, this is a simple love affair with only two floors, so there are only ordinary drugs here. You wake up immediately after you die in your dream.

What they didn't expect was that Saito had made preparations in advance. They already know that Cobb and others are coming, but Saito wants to test Cobb's technical ability. Deliberately let them enter dreams and steal information. They committed crimes on the moving train.

The first dream is a small town where mobs are rampant, and the second dream is Saito Palace with strong Japanese flavor.

On the second floor, although the image of Cobb's wife caused them trouble, Cobb managed to steal Saito's secret documents. But Saito prepared for them in advance, and smeared out all the important information with black ink, which was actually equivalent to hiding the key information.

Mel's interference caused the second floor to collapse. After returning to the dream on the first floor, Cobb and others almost convinced Saito that this was a room they were familiar with in reality. But just as the threat was about to succeed, Saito found that the carpet in the room was man-made fiber instead of real wool, knowing that it was a dream and seeing the truth. The mission failed. This is the fault of the dreamer hired by Cobb.

The dreamer who made a mistake betrayed Cobb and his assistant Arthur to Saito in his escape after the mission failed. However, after this test, Saito valued their abilities and hired him to implant ideas: let Robert Fisher, a young heir of a rival company, break down the company left by his father. Because that company is too powerful, it has caused a world monopoly and made it difficult for other companies to survive. Qi Teng promised that he could operate at a high level after the job was done, drop the murder charges against Cobb in the United States and let him go back to China to look after the children. Cobb decided to give it a try.

Task start: teamwork

The urgent task of completing the task of concept implantation is to organize an effective team. First of all, Cobb came to Paris to visit his father-in-law, in order to replace the dreamer who betrayed them. After entrusting his father-in-law to bring gifts to American children, he asked his father-in-law to find a dreamer with Cobb's level. My father-in-law recommended his best student girl, Alibaba Adelie, to Cobb as the dreamer of the team and told him that this student was better than Cobb. Cobb tested Ariadne and found that she was really excellent. After hesitation, she chose to join their team. Arthur taught her how to design buildings in dreams and how to hide the boundaries of dreams.

Subsequently, Cobb went to Kenya to recruit Yi Musi, a pretender, and Joseph, a chemical pharmacist who prepared sedatives. In the process of searching for Yi Musi, they were chased by another group of unknown unit killers, and finally escaped with Saito's help. Then the qualifications of pharmacists were investigated, so a team of six people was formed with Saito, the founder.

Planning of implanting ideas

After further investigation, they are going to change business elements into emotional elements. Because Robert Fisher has a bad relationship with his father, Robert Fisher thinks that his father doesn't pay attention to his disappointment, and Cobb thinks that positive emotions will suppress negative emotions. If Robert Fisher hates his father, he will try to prove that he is better than his father. So the final plan is to let Robert Fisher accept the idea of disintegrating the company from below, realize that his father loves him in a deep dream and vent his hatred. Then Robert Fisher will make up his mind to break up the company and choose to be himself instead of proving anything to his father.

And Fisher's father's right-hand man Browning, they also tried to destroy the relationship between Fisher and Browning, so that Fisher would no longer listen to Browning's advice. Finally, the most convenient place to plant the planning idea is on a ten-hour flight from Sydney to the United States. Saito tried to get Robert Fisher to take this flight to attend his father's funeral because of private jet maintenance. Moreover, the entire cabin on the plane is contracted by their personnel, even the flight attendants have to buy it. In order to save trouble, Saito even bought the airline. This is either success or death for Cobb, because he is wanted in the United States for murdering his wife, so he will be arrested as soon as he lands. Saito promised that he would call a plane to solve the problem as long as the task was completed.

Preparations for this task:

Originally prepared three layers, one layer realized the tension with his father and didn't want to go with his father; The second layer produces "I want to start my own business"; The third layer shows him that his father doesn't want his son to follow in his father's footsteps (through dreams); The sedative used is stronger, which will make the dream link clear, accelerate the operation of the dream and make progress faster in the dream. One week on the first floor, six months on the second floor and ten years on the third floor.

There are two ways to prepare for waking up from a dream.

There are two ways to wake up from a dream (whether on the first floor or the second floor): the first is the so-called "kick", that is, the body tremor caused by impact or fall. The second is being killed. Of course, it is also a bad idea to wait for the efficacy to expire. Stimulation should penetrate several layers of dreams at the same time, and take the music countdown as a signal to synchronize different levels of stimulation.

The potential danger is that Mel will come out and make trouble at any time, which will affect their success.

The first dream: the city in the rain

As soon as I entered my first dream, something happened. Robert Fisher was trained by other dream thieves. Although the dream was created by a little girl, the conscious image of the target character Robert Fisher will become an attack by armed men on the characters in the abnormal dream. So Robert Fisher's kidnapping led to a gunfight. And all the way to the third floor, each floor needs to defeat Fisher's defenders and armed men.

Qi Teng's bullets are in danger. At this time, Cobb told everyone that if he died, he could only enter the lost field as a side effect of this sedative. There is no choice but to put all your eggs in one basket, complete the task quickly and get away with it. According to the plan, Yi Musi, a forger dressed as Fisher's godfather Browning, was imprisoned with him. On the one hand, he initially pushed the idea of splitting the company to Robert Fisher. On the other hand, he used the details of Robert Fisher's communication with his father, especially Fisher's father's disappointed last words, to carry out the final three-tier scam.

Finally, the pharmacist Joseph stayed on the first floor to drive away the armed men, and at the same time he was ready to take charge of kick (stimulation), while the rest entered the dream on the second floor.

Dream on the second floor: hotel

In the second dream, Cobb took risks because he was trained to steal dreams. Cobb convinced Fisher that they were dreaming through strange weather and changing gravity, and induced Robert Fisher to conclude that his godfather Browning planned everything.

Browning in the second dream is the projection of Browning's will in Robert Fisher's mind, so if Fisher thinks this Browning is loyal at heart, then this projection will show loyalty. On the other hand, if Robert Fisher suspects Browning, then this projection will confess unwarranted crimes. So Yi Musi, the pretender, told Qi Teng that he was following Browning's projection and judging whether Robert Fisher took the bait according to the performance of the projection.

Robert Fisher was finally taken in. Cobb pretends to help Robert Fisher spy on Browning's dream and induce Robert Fisher to enter the third dream. At this time, Robert Fisher thinks Browning is the target, and the armed force in the third dream is Browning's subconscious, but in fact Robert Fisher is still the target, and he will help Cobb and his party to deal with their subconscious armed forces in the third dream. Finally, Arthur stayed on the second floor to deal with the armed men, and at the same time prepared to take charge of kick (stimulation), while others entered the dream on the third floor.

The third dream: the fortress in the snow-capped mountains

At first everything went well, and Yi Musi withdrew his troops. Saito and Robert Fisher entered the ice castle. But just as Robert Fisher was about to step into the scam room where Yi Musi prepared his last idea, the shadow of Cobb's wife Moore suddenly appeared and wounded Robert Fisher. Facing the unconscious Robert Fisher, Cobb felt that he had failed and wanted to give up the mission. Aaliyah Deni then suggested going to the fourth floor to find Robert Fisher, and then tried to finish a kick (stimulation) on the fourth floor. At the same time, Yi Musi provided electric kick (stimulation) on the third floor, so as to stimulate together and send Robert Fisher back to the third floor, and then enter the fraud room. So Aaliyah Denny and Cobb entered the fourth dream together.

The fourth dream: an empty city on the edge of a cliff

At this time, because Aaliyah Deni didn't design the fourth dream, Cobb used the scene design when he and his wife entered before. There, Aaliyah Deni saw the lightning caused by Yi Musi's electric shock in his dream on the third floor, calculated the time to push Robert Fisher off the tall building to form the third and fourth floors, and kicked (stimulated) Robert Fisher back to the snow castle on the third floor.

In his room deep in Snow Castle, Robert Fisher heard Yi Musi's father's last words: I'm disappointed that you tried to be like me, that is, let him be himself and leave the company. After opening the safe, Robert Fisher saw the paper windmill in his most cherished photo with his father. Under his father's guilt, he will naturally split the company with a false will in the safe. The idea implantation task here was successfully completed.

At the same time, Cobb on the fourth floor is also destined to face his final demons. His regret for his wife's death was diluted by recalling the happiness he and his wife had in the fourth dream world. Finally, he gave up his wife's shadow.

At the last moment, in the multi-layer simultaneous kicking (stimulation), Aaliyah Deni, who lives in the dream of the fourth floor, returned to the real world through the falling kicking (stimulation) on the fourth floor, the explosion and collapse kicking (stimulation) of the snow fort on the third floor, the thrust kicking (stimulation) of the elevator on the second floor and the falling kicking (stimulation) on the first floor. Yi Musi and Fisher, who lived in the third dream, and Arthur, who lived in the second dream, also came back to reality after kicking their legs three times or twice at the same time, except Saito and Cobb.

Lost territory: the struggle to retrieve memories

Saito died in the third dream, so he skipped the fourth floor and went directly to the lost domain, while Cobb deliberately missed the last four floors to save him and kicked himself into the lost domain. So when Cobb finally found Saito, Saito was much older than him. They looked at each other and thought for a long time before they remembered suicide and fled the lost territory. Finally Saito raised his gun. ...

Conclusion: Dream or Reality?

Six players woke up on the plane and smiled at each other. Saito also fulfilled his promise and called to cancel Cobb's lawsuit in the United States, allowing Cobb to enter the customs smoothly. Cobb can finally go home to see his two children. But the final outcome is open, and the gyro on the table doesn't know if it has stopped. It seems to me that the unstable shock will stop, which should be a reality.

Dreaming rules:

Dreamers can't let defenders know the details of the building.

In order to distinguish dreams from reality, totems can be used. Everyone has his own totem. Totems are different in reality and dreams, and there are obvious differences.

Doubt analysis:

Saito was seriously injured on the first floor and wanted to come back through death. Cobb said he would enter the lost territory when he returned. Look online. Some people say that Cobb is lying to him here, and some people say that this is a BUG, but it is not. This problem is repeatedly mentioned in the progress of the film. This task needs heavy medicine because it uses three layers of dreams. If they come back early, they won't wake up, and they will never get in and get lost. Maybe you'll fall into a coma.

There are several times in this film: Saito was seriously injured on the first floor; And some people in the team gave up when they saw that the task was too dangerous; Fisher on the second floor also asked him if he could wake up after committing suicide. Saito died on the third floor; Fisher was killed by Mel on the fourth floor. Cobb said they couldn't go back early, and they wouldn't wake up when they got back. This is the setting of the movie. Cobb didn't lie to them.

They always see Cobb's two children in their dreams. This is a reflection of Cobb's subconscious, which is caused by Cobb's experience, because he misses his children so much. There is also the dream wife Mel, which is a reflection of Cobb's subconscious, because Cobb feels responsible for his wife's death and has always felt guilty.

Dreams are unstable, and the higher the number of layers, the more unstable they are. Especially on the fourth floor, it is too unstable at first glance, and the buildings all collapsed by themselves. Sometimes drugs are used to stabilize dreams.

Personal doubt

In The Lost Field, Cobb told his wife to leave there and implanted in her the idea that "this is not reality". The two committed suicide on the track and returned to reality. Why tell your wife about this process after returning to reality, or try to change your mind? Causing his wife to commit suicide Is it impossible or unexpected?

Finally, Fisher's subconscious realized that his father had let him start his own business. How did he do it? See only he and his father, will certainly develop into Cobb's expectation? Because it is a dream after all, there are many inaccuracies in people's dreams, aren't there?

Ideas:

Don't try this dream, it will really get lost. In the movie, Cobb actually seems a little unconscious. He often can't distinguish between reality and dreams. He spun the gyro in reality many times to see if it was a reality or a dream. You can imagine that this is actually more painful, can't you? Life has been like a dream, and it's hard for them to wander between reality and dreams like this.

Film analysis

The film has a strong cast, among which five actors were nominated for the Oscar, namely Leonardo DiCaprio, tom berenger, peter postlethwaite, Ellen Page and Ken Watanabe. There are also two Oscar winners, Kerr Kane and Marion.

Cotillard, everyone is amazing. The fact is that the film has also been a great success. The award-winning situation alone is a long page on the internet, so I won't go into details here.

Although computer technology has been very powerful, Nolan has achieved the return of old-fashioned film techniques. The film was shot all over the world, and only the main scenes involved four continents and six countries. During the filming process, the cast members of the film crew experienced hardships, including the heat in Tangier, Morocco and the heavy snow in Calgary, Canada. Shooting locations also included Tokyo, Paris and Los Angeles. In order to shoot the action shots of a group of vehicles, the visual effects group used artificial rainfall and other means to complete the plot of freight trains sweeping through the city center. All these have enhanced the realistic shooting effect of the film.

The structure of this film is ingenious. Cobb's story and his wife's story are interspersed in different parts, rather than being told independently. At the same time, dreams are described at different levels, but they all develop at the same time.

Inception is a very clever film with rich details and complicated narration, which leads the audience into a subconscious maze. Nolan created a surreal thriller world, which is somewhat similar to Jung's theory, and challenged the viewers at multiple levels of reality and unreality. Fast editing and agile narration fully show the surreal world, and virtual imaging technology presents the consciousness of the human brain to the peak. -Variety writers seem to be more like a virtual game.

The best thing about this movie is that different people will have different feelings after watching it. In the same situation, some people think it's a dream, others think it's a reality, which is also the genius of the director. At the same time, the open ending makes readers daydream again and again. It's really a rare and excellent film. Worth seeing, not worth seeing.