"Dream is not dreaming.

You make it yourself.

So hurry up and wake up"

The form of the world is a bit clichéd.

Even though it is a narrative in itself, we are living our own lives.

To us like that

If you say "Wake up from your dreams"

What will we think?

The roots of this film start here.

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summary

Cove (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a dream thief who cleverly steals the other person's thoughts in a dream.

Cove is being chased by police for murdering his wife in the past. So I can't go back to the house where the children are.

One day, Saito (Ken Watanabe), who has great power as an executive at a large company, If you do what you asked for, you promise that you will be able to return home.

What He asked for was'Inception'. In other words, contrary to stealing thoughts from the other's dreams, he asked to enter the other's unconscious and plant thoughts.

So Cove decides to help him and starts gathering colleagues to work with.

Glossary of terms

Basic terminology for incentive review.

Consciousness: things you usually perceive

Subconscious: Things that are not normally recognized but come up to the realm of consciousness through a specific trigger

Unconscious: Things that can't even be recognized because they are asleep deeper than the subconscious.

Dream: The subconscious and unconscious manifestations during sleep.

In the movie, it is correct to express the expression "Subconsciousness" in a dream as the subconscious, but most of the contents use the expression as the Unconscious, so I will unify it as well.

Please read without distinguishing between the subconscious and the Unconscious.

Dream whitin a dream: Dreaming in a dream, set in a way that the more you fall into a deeper dream, the closer you are to the world of the unconscious, and the faster your brain rotates and the time goes slowly. In other words, the brain, which would originally think once a second, thinks 10 times in a dream, so that 1 second is recognized as 10 seconds.

Extraction: To extract the other person's thoughts from a dream, the unconscious creates a safe and hides it in a safe to protect the important things in the dream.

Inception: Contrary to extraction, instilling thoughts in the other's unconscious in a dream, Most people realize that when they wake up from their dreams, they don't accept it as reality, so inception requires a very subtle trick.

In the movie, he tries to succeed by entering a higher-level dream and planting his thoughts in a more primitive unconscious.

Limbo: As the source of the unconscious, the bottom of the dream, and the high-level dream, time goes unimaginably slower. In other words, there is a high risk of accepting that dream as a reality because you live in Limbo for a very long time if you fall in it.

Totem: An object that has a balance point that oneself knows, and because others do not know this balance point, they show a different sense of balance in other people's dreams than in reality.

Through this, it is possible to distinguish between reality and dream. (Cove's top spins without stopping in a dream.)

Kick: a kind of shock waking up from a dream, a low-level dream, a way to wake up from a dream by giving a shock such as falling or bumping in the case of a first-stage dream.

Other settings: Corporate executives who need to protect their own thoughts train subconscious and unconscious to prevent extraction.

In the case of Fisher, with this training, the instinctive defensive instincts in the unconscious create a killer in a dream, chasing the thief of dreams.

Cove and Mal (Marion Cotillard)

Leonardo DiCaprio is an actor whose visual and acting skills are at the top level, so that his existence alone is a viewing point.

Cove hides a dark secret.

Cove forbids various actions on his teammates, However, he finds his memories of his deceased wife locked up in his unconscious world.

In other words, the inability to let go of his wife, who died in the past, symbolizes Cove's obsession with the past and dreams, not reality.

As a character whose boundary between dreams and reality is the most ambiguous, he is unable to concentrate on reality. He often comes in and out of dreams and reality.

Director Christopher Nolan presented a directing in the film that did not clearly distinguish the boundary between dream and reality, which also coincides with Cove's life .

Mal no longer exists as the wife of the deceased Cove.

The Mal that appears in the dream is not a real Mal, but a subject created by Cove's unconscious.

In other words, the appearance of Mal that Cove remembers, The guilt for not saving her, Cove's unconsciousness that Mal would resent him met and created Mal with an anxious and aggressive appearance.

Mal is an entity that interferes with Cove's focus on reality, and in the story, Cove eventually returns to reality by killing Mal at Limbo

The paradox that dreams become reality and reality becomes dreams.

Movies have paradoxes about dreams and reality everywhere.

Most notably, this is the reason Mal died.

In addition, Fisher's relationship with his father in the real world wasn't smooth, but he always put pictures of his father with him in his wallet. I value my memories with my father so much that I put a pinwheel, the product of my memories with my father, in a safe in the unconscious that treasures the most important things.

In the real world, the last word Fisher heard from his father was'Disappointed', but his father in a dream completes the last word, saying, "Disappointed that you tried."

And the pinwheel is in the vault last pointed to by my father before he died.

Fisher sees in a dream the appearance of his father that he wanted in reality,

Tears pour out of that happiness and sadness.

It is a combination of Fisher's unconsciousness and Eames (Tom Hardy)'s fake directing, but this experience in a dream gives him the courage to live an independent life while accepting the image of himself loving his father.

The paradox that dreams become reality.

(There is a feeling of being buried because the lingering sound of the last scene is too strong, but the scene of father Fisher's death is also a very impactful scene, and it strongly targets the sensibility of the audience.)

Also, when Cove sends Mal at Limbo in Fisher, answering Mal's "We promised to grow old together" to "I did, don't remember?" he recalls memories of the two people in their past dreams.

It's definitely a memory I experienced in my dreams, but there is no doubt that it was something that the two went through together. The paradox that dreams become reality again

In the movie Inception, there are many of these paradoxical devices, and you will find them every time you look at them.

There must be a part that the director intentionally directed, but I think that there are more cases that occur naturally due to the elaborate story and setting.

Inception is a film with such a great screenplay and direction.

Old Saito in Limbo

Saito dies in a dream before the sleeping pills lose their effectiveness. Eventually, he falls to Limbo.

I directed this by dividing it into the first scene and the second half of the movie, but I think it was to give a dreamy feeling.

Saito has lived in Limbo for decades, and he mistaken Cove for the existence he met in his dreams. (In other words, taking Limbo as reality)

However, after visiting Saito in Limbosok, Cove sees his never-stopping totem and realizes that it is a dream.

After that, they return to reality together, and Saito calls to keep the appointment.

End: Cove is back home

According to the interview, the director's intention was that Cove returned home in the final scene.

Michael Kane asked the director to identify where is the dream and where is the reality after reading the script, and the director Nolan said, "The scene in which you appear is reality."

The reason why many interpretations of inception are scattered is because the director blurs the line between reality and dream.

Therefore, just because the film is interpreted in a different direction from the director's intention, it seems that it cannot be concluded that it is an incorrect interpretation.

However, in general, the audience who watched the movie will judge the dream and reality based on whether the totem has stopped at the last scene, and the director's intention here is hidden.

Cove finally escapes from the dream world and returns to reality.

Let's see the children that we would never see again. Holds the children in their arms without even confirming that the totem stops.

He have never seen their faces in he dreams, but in reality he can see them.

This is why children's faces are sometimes interpreted as Cove's real totems.

From the start, totems are Mal's totems, not Cove's. This hypothesis also seems quite convincing.

The scene of Cove's return home shows Cove that is no longer trapped in the dream world, but focuses on reality, meaning that he has completely washed away the guilt of his wife's death.

Cove with no more paradox where reality becomes a dream and dreams become reality.

Total review

I think the reason Inception has been a great success is that despite the fact that it is based on a very complex setting as a science fiction film, it ended up drawing a universal human figure in it.

By using the character of Cove and the characters around him in a difficult movie that can be difficult and boring, he succeeded in unraveling a story that the whole world can relate to.

In the last scene, the totem shakes, turns into an ending, and the music changes. I thought that the production crew's direction would be a'kick' to the audience.

It was a review of the movie Inception that left the lingering lingering feeling of having one dream.