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I saw "Inception" last night and was not disappointed.
This film offers an abundance of symbolic and psychological references regarding reality as we know it. We've all experienced dreams that made us ponder on the meaning behind the images we saw. Usually there is some sort of a logical explanation for what we dream about, but sometimes, trying to explain what happened inside our dreams to others is almost impossible.
In Inception, Christopher Nolan takes on this impossible task and makes a brilliant attempt of revealing this secret nature of our dreams. This film captures the lucid world of dreams perfectly. It is not just a world of dreams, but it’s a specific world of each person’s dream, designed around individual subconscious state, where only one particular individual can change the nature and architecture within his dream until the rest of us become uncomfortable. In our own dreams, we usually never die, but in a dream of another person, death is very plausible and will not always lead to waking up.
In Inception, Christopher Nolan takes on this impossible task and makes a brilliant attempt of revealing this secret nature of our dreams. This film captures the lucid world of dreams perfectly. It is not just a world of dreams, but it’s a specific world of each person’s dream, designed around individual subconscious state, where only one particular individual can change the nature and architecture within his dream until the rest of us become uncomfortable. In our own dreams, we usually never die, but in a dream of another person, death is very plausible and will not always lead to waking up.
The most interesting aspect of Inception is that most of the film takes place in a dream within a dream, in a world so far removed that even the individual dreaming it cannot control what’s happening and has to find his way inside the labyrinthine of his subconscious mind.
Though action packed, Inception is also filled with symbolic images and psychological "projections", representative of the inner demons, which can only be exorcised within the conscious world of a dream. The film questions reality and begs the audience to compare it to the world of their dreams. If you had a choice, where would you rather be, living in reality or in a dream?
Inception is filmed as a long dream sequence, with no beginning and no end. Full of explosive energy and hidden references, it ends leaving the audience feeling as though we just woke up from a deep and very vivid dream. We don’t really remember how the film began and it’s hard to recall all the details after going four levels deep into someone else’s subconscious world.
Like most dreams do, Inception leaves a lot of questions unanswered. It has an ambiguous and reflective quality that keeps us guessing and pondering on the meaning of what we just saw. All we are left with are fragmented memories, which we must put together in a sequence that makes logical sense.
Yet, unlike a dream which is fleeting and can only been seen once, Inception is a film that demands multiple viewing in order to grasp every layer of its maze. I plan on seeing it again.
Inception is filmed as a long dream sequence, with no beginning and no end. Full of explosive energy and hidden references, it ends leaving the audience feeling as though we just woke up from a deep and very vivid dream. We don’t really remember how the film began and it’s hard to recall all the details after going four levels deep into someone else’s subconscious world.
Like most dreams do, Inception leaves a lot of questions unanswered. It has an ambiguous and reflective quality that keeps us guessing and pondering on the meaning of what we just saw. All we are left with are fragmented memories, which we must put together in a sequence that makes logical sense.
Yet, unlike a dream which is fleeting and can only been seen once, Inception is a film that demands multiple viewing in order to grasp every layer of its maze. I plan on seeing it again.
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