I saw the movie “Inception” about 3 weeks ago in DVD. I feel it has a great topic, as part of the word “Perception” is part of the word “Inception.” The movie is about a person named Dom Cobb invented a machine that can make dreams feel like reality. However, his wife Mal killed herself because she liked dreams world better than the reality. That part of Cobb kept hunting him. He also left his children because of money even though he regretted that later on. However, he united with his children in the other person’s dream. The movie seems to indicate with the machine Cobb had created a person can keep dreaming after he or she died. At the end of the movie, obviously Cobb is drowned. However, his dream still continues as he reunited with his two children in the dream. I feel if a person is dead, his thought should stop and so does his dream but this is not the case in the movie. There is also the idea of a dream within a dream when Cobb was trying to get the safe’s combination from a rich person’s son. The time with the machine in the dream is twelve times as long as the real world. These are interesting ideas to me. The machine that makes dream world real can be brought into a dream and the time in the dream is actually longer. There is a person died when he is in a dream within a dream. In the movie, he was said to be in limbo forever but he seems to have a life somehow and I feel the movie contradict itself on this part. In the movie, when characters are in a dream within a dream, they are things unpredictable happened that is why a person died. To me, our dreams are not controllable. I do not know what I am going to dream when I am going to sleep. The girl that Cobb recruited helped him a lot in the movie. She tried to understand his struggle in the dream and help him to complete the mission at the end. Cobb said if he is in the other person’s dream, he token will spin forever, and that is what I see at the end of the movie. Cobb was in a van diving into the water through the side of the bridge at the end. There is the picture of him reunited with his kids with his token spinning on the table, so he died and keep dreaming.
Hmm, I thought at the end of the movie the totem (the spinning top) wobbled a bit as if it was going to fall but didn't fall and the movie cut off. I thought this was to give you the impression of uncertainty as sometimes tops do wobble when spinning. So it was up to decide if it would fall or if it simply wobbled as it continued to spin forever, indicating the totem was not real but in a dream world where tops spin forever.
ReplyDeleteHowever, you can argue that in the perfect dream world it should not wobble at all because that would mean the person dreaming would have had to imagine the tiny imperfections on the table to make the top wobble. Then again there is nothing preventing the dreamer from imagining this smallest detail either.
I thought the movie was great and interesting and grand. But it is a stretch in science fiction. Dreams have been shown to be random. However, it is also been shown that some people experience lucid dreams where they take control of their experience. This occurs when a person is aware of their dream state though still in a dream state.
You should look it up its an interesting topic!
sounds like an interesting movie. haven't seen it but will maybe see it just to see what all of this "dream within a dream within a dream" is about.
ReplyDeletebut it would be interesting to look up if our technology has gone this far yet. If we are close to maybe being able to view people dreams as they dream them. maybe even control them as you view them.
Inception was probably the best movie i ever seen. Maybe later on we'll have the technology to do this
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