After so many years, the conclusion is finally reached. Has the top of "Inception" fallen?

2021/09/2502:55:03 movie 751

Today I want to share with you the 2010 movie " Inception ".

Director: Christopher Nolan

starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy·, Witte, Alan Page, Marion Cotillard, Crian Murphy, Michael Caine

Recommended index: ★★★★

Suspense Index: ★★★★

Visual Index: ★★★★★

Plot Index: ★★★

There was an incredible story when Inception was released — — SARFT did not cut it. Whether the officials found it conscientiously, or did they not know where to start. So far, it is generally an unsolved mystery like the top of the movie at the end of the movie (the answer is finally revealed...)

"Inception" has always been tied to the word "brain-burning"?

Some people think that the nested narrative structure of dreams in Inception is too much brainstorming. I don’t think so. Most of the movie plots are explained in positive order. When nesting, multi-threaded parallel editing is used to speed up the rhythm, and occasionally some key memories are interspersed.Speaking of brain burning, it is definitely not a narrative structure.

Because "Inception" obviously does not follow the route of strong structure and weak story like " memory fragment", but I think it is a very typical traditional Hollywood commercial film shooting method:

These paragraphs are clearly divided.

The reason why "Inception" feels brain-burning is because of the unheard of dream setting in the movie.

It takes a process to accept new things. Just like when we play a new game, we need a learning tutorial to tell us the setting. There are such strong game rules in Inception.

"Inception" tells us that just one setting is enough to make the movie fascinating. The progress bar was almost halfway through, and the real task had just begun, but the audience didn't feel bored, on the contrary, they were so appetite that they couldn't stop. Nolan's skill lies in this, even if it is just to introduce the rules of the game, it is as beautiful and delicious.

If you can understand the setting of "Inception", then I believe that the plot will be solved.

1. What can the heroes of the movie do in their dreams?

The person who enters the dream to perform the task, we call it Extractor .

Subject is the target of the dream mission, we call it the subject .

Pirates actually do two things in the subject's dream, Extraction and Inception , means Pirates, the latter means thought implantation.

Strangely, the English title of the movie is "Inception" but the Chinese translation is called "Inception", which means it's quite different.

Pirates refers to Leonardo DiCaprio's role in the beginning of what Cobb did to the Japanese Saito is to steal the secrets of the subject's subconscious mind.

The film introduces two ways to steal:

The first is that the dreamer can talk to the subject's subconscious to get secrets;

The second is to design a safe in the subject's dream In scenes like this, the subject will subconsciously hide the secret in a safe place,You can discover the secret by opening the safe.

Inception is also some sneaky activities that the desperate Cobb can't do in order to make a living.

In fact, there is an unknown easter egg buried here. The protagonist's name is Cobb, which comes from a character in Nolan's famous work "Follow". This character is also a thief, of course, a thief with super high IQ.

The main task performed by the protagonists in the movie is the task that Japanese businessman Saito wants Kebu to complete, that is, the implantation of Inception. An idea is buried deep in the subject's subconscious.

Inception is a legend in Inception. The younger brother Arthur thinks it is an impossible task, because the subject's mind can always trace the source of the idea. If I tell you not to think about it at this time" "Elephant", then what you must be thinking about at this time is "elephant", and you know that this is not your own idea.

But the real master thinks that idea implantation is completely feasible. However, the difficulty is huge. Not only must it be buried deep enough, but also simple enough, and the subject must believe that it is a small idea that is slowly growing up.

In this way, the translation of the title "Inception" is more impulsive, but it does not achieve what the translation world calls " Xindaya", Daheya Yes, the letter is lost.

Because the main point of the movie is not Inception. Therefore, there is another translation of the film called "Foundation Laying", which may be more appropriate to the theme in meaning.

but no matter what,The translation of the mainland version of "Inception" is much stronger than the Hong Kong version of " " and the Taiwan version of "Full Start".

Hong Kong version poster

Taiwan version poster

2. How to share dreams

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3 in the main target Into the same dream. It feels like a dungeon in a group, someone starts a game, and everyone goes down to his dream to form a team to fight monsters.

In the dream, the dreamer can enter at different times (for example, the designer Edni sneaked into his dream when Cobb was asleep), and the dreamer can also wake up at different times. Come, I will talk about how to wake up in detail later, this is a very critical gameplay.

Regarding shared dreams, Nolan actually said haha, almost without mentioning a word. The only clue left to us is a suitcase-sized instrument to aid sleep.

Press the button in the middle of the instrument lightly, and the instrument will inject hypnotic agents into everyone connected and let them share the same dream.

What kind of roles are there in the dreamland? .

But because Nolan puts on the big screen all novel and fun concepts,So the freshness of the setting perfectly covers the oldness of the routine.

Now let me talk about the unique character settings in Inception.

Dreamer ,

Whoever enters the dreamland is the dreamer. Dream Maker is like our host when we play online games.

Dreams will be constructed by the consciousness of the dream maker. Moreover, the external environment the dream maker is in will also have an impact on the dream. For example, the pharmacist, he is the dream maker of the first layer of the Inception mission. When he drank too much champagne on the plane, it rained heavily in the dream.

The dream maker of the second layer is Arthur,

The dream maker of the third layer is Eames,

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Architect Dream designer ,

To help the dreammaker to conceive dreams, for the three-level Inception designer, it’s a small dream. Ni. The designer only needs to tell the dreamer her idea, They don’t have to enter a dream .

Forger pretender,

has superb acting skills, can use consciousness to change his appearance, and can play various roles in dreams. In the Inception mission, Eames played by Tom Hardy.

Chemist Pharmacist

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Subject Subject ,

The target of the task, the object that executes the dream or the idea implantation, the second-generation fee is rich in the Inception task.

There are many NPC-like characters in the dreamland. They are mainly the subject Projection of subconscious .

is the embodiment of the subconsciousness of the subject,When the subconscious senses that there are other people creating the world, it will pay attention to them. These subconscious projections will attack the infected parts like white blood cells.

But the subject cannot control his subconscious.

In addition, if the subject has been trained in subconscious defense, then his subconscious projection will be very aggressive. This situation is called subsecurity subconscious defense .

In general, dreams are filled with the subject's subconscious mind. But under special circumstances, the subconscious of the dreamer will also break into the dream, just like Cobb's wife Mar.

I think that the reason why this is the case with Cobb is the only reason that others don’t, because he copied too many dreams that are exactly the same as reality, so he warned Edney not to do this because he suffered a loss. Right in front of you.

Fourth, lucid dreaming

Usually we are in a dream and we don't know we are dreaming. But occasionally I find myself dreaming. If you can find that you are dreaming, and keep your consciousness awake. We call it lucid dreaming.

In the movie, what the Pirates do is lucid dreaming. It seems that as long as you actively enter the dream state, you can maintain a lucid dream, and the reverse is true when you passively enter the dream state. In the movie, the rich second-generation Fisher did not realize that he was dreaming when he was on the first and second levels of dreams, because they were all dreams entered after being drugged. But after being trained by Mr. Charles in the hotel room, he took the initiative to enter the snow dreamland, which was a lucid dream.

In fact, here I am more inclined to the effect of the medicine that affects people's judgments of reality and dreams. Even if you actively enter a dream, it is not realistic to rely solely on your own will to keep yourself awake and perform tasks. , We must rely on the effects of drugs to assist in insurance.

But there is also a problem here. Is it a lucid dream that the dreamers do? After watching the movie, many people wondered whether they were still dreaming at the end, So, is it possible that the dreamer just thought he was sober?

5. Dream within a dream

The most exciting setting in the movie is the dream within a dream. That is, the person in the dream can continue to dream to produce the next level of dreams. The method is to continue to use sleeper for the person in the dream.

In multiple dreams, the deeper the dream, the faster the brain functions, so the relative time will be longer.

The movie involves three multiple dreams.

Once, the protagonist took the job of Kobol Engineering Company to steal the dream secrets of the Japanese businessman.

In this mission, the train is the reality layer,

The room with blankets is the first dream,

The collapsed palace is the second dream.

The protagonist picked up the inception of a Japanese businessman,

In this mission, the plane is the reality layer,

The rainy street is the first layer of dreamland,

The hotel is the second dream,

The snow is the third dream,

Abandoned city is the fourth dream p3p

_p57 It is the limbo layer to meet the elderly Japanese.

Limbo Lost Domain is a special layer, which is different from the previous ones. It is not a dreamland specially designed and constructed by the dream maker. It is only the things left by people who have been to Limbo before, and infinitely primitive. Subconsciously, time may be endless here.

Limbo was originally a religious term-the edge of hell, that is, the middle zone where it is not as high as heaven and not as low as hell.

Then put it in the movie to understand, is a place that is like a dream but not a dream, the middle zone between reality and dream . People's consciousness here has been blurred, it is difficult to distinguish whether one is in reality or dream, and it is extremely easy to confuse.

And the hero and heroine enter the deep dream to explore this time, due to the vague explanation of the movie,It is difficult for us to judge the level of dreams. The rough judgment is that

the heroine jumps from the building to the reality layer,

The male and female protagonists hand in hand to build the city and grow old is one of the layers,

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It is definitely not the first and second level, because time is far from enough. If the hero and heroine are to spend 50 years in a dream,

is more likely to be in the fourth level of dreams, assuming the time magnification is 20 In other words, the 50 years in the fourth-level dream is equivalent to 3 hours in reality. If you change to the third-level dream, you must sleep in reality for 60 hours. This is obviously unrealistic. You can eat and drink in the dream. Lazar, it is not feasible in reality.

And the dream of the hero and heroine suicide while lying on the rails,

It is obvious that the two of them have returned to a young state again. This is actually another level of dreams. My judgment is that the two are getting old. After his death, he entered the lost domain of Limbo. That's why Cobb knew that if Saito died in a dream, he would enter the Limbo layer.

The above stratification is actually a traditional interpretation of the stratification method, because there is a guess whether it is still in the dream in the end, so where the reality layer still holds variables, in this case the stratification method is bound to be disrupted. . In order to facilitate the understanding of the plot, we first follow the above division method.

6. Time in dreams

Because people's brains work faster in dreams, time in dreams goes faster than real time, and the relative time of the next level of dreams is higher One layer is much longer.

But this relative time will be affected by the drug.Not all we think are 20 times.

During the trial, 5 minutes of reality corresponds to 1 hour of dreams, about 12 times.

In the underground dream factory, 3 or 4 hours of reality are about 40 hours of dreams, about 10 times.

When performing the inception task, the pharmacist said that his medicine can speed up the function of the brain, about 20 times faster. So 10 hours in reality is one week for the first level of dreams, six months for the second level, and ten years for the third level.

Seven. How the Pirates Leave the Dream

Once in the dream, there are three ways to leave the dream. Note that because there is a plot of a dream in a dream, the departure from the dream here refers to jumping out of the current dream, not necessarily returning to reality.

The three methods also have their own restrictions and requirements, and they cannot be executed anytime and anywhere.

1, countdown timer.

The sleeper can set the time, and at this time, you can wake up naturally. With brain repair, we can understand that the sleep instrument will actually inject a light sedative into the person, and the corresponding amount can be injected according to the set time, which is the same as our operation and anesthesia. This way of waking up was used in the opening train and in Adni's trial. This method is equally effective for strong tranquilizers, but if someone gets lost in the limbo layer during this period, it will be troublesome, because the relative time in the limbo is immeasurable. It may be ten years, maybe a hundred years, or it may be infinite. But his consciousness is still active. When this person's consciousness wakes up hundreds of years later, his consciousness must have been blurred and unconscious.

2,Die in a dream.

In general, you can jump out of the current dream and return to the previous level. However, if a strong sedative is injected in reality, as long as you die in a dream, you will be trapped in the limbo layer. People who enter the limbo level can still return to reality through death, but the problem is that people at the limbo level can often no longer distinguish the difference between dreams and reality. They will mistakenly think that the limbo they are in is reality, and they are trapped in Limbo. The longer the layer time, the more and more blurred consciousness will be, even if it returns to reality, it will be affected.

3, kick, wake up.

is the body imbalance in the upper layer. It can also be understood that the body is suddenly subjected to a relatively large acceleration. In this way, you can wake up on the upper level. This situation actually comes from the life experience that each of us has. For example, if we fall from the bed or when we fall asleep, we will wake up.

Since strong sedatives will not affect the balance function of the human inner ear, kick is still applicable. The climax of the movie is the continuous synchronous Kick. In addition to the protagonist Kebu and the Japanese businessman Saito, everyone else returns to the first dreamland layer by layer by means of synchronized kicks.

But it should be noted that the Kick cannot be separated, that is, the Kick of the first-level dream cannot wake up the thief who is still in the third-level dream. This is the so-called "miss the kick" in the movie and missed the opportunity to wake up. Because when the pharmacist drove down the bridge, Cobb and others in the snow were still dreaming in the hotel, so they would not wake up from the truck.

But here is the problem,When the truck rushed off the bridge, why didn't Arthur wake up?

I heard many explanations that the kick must be done at the same time on both sides, that is, synchronized kicks. The movie did create a series of falling scenes at the last moment. But this point, the movie did not explain clearly, only Cobb said "the key point is the awakening of synchronized dreams". If this is to explain the setting of simultaneous kicks on both sides, it seems a bit sloppy, and don’t forget that the inception mission at the beginning of the film is also a multiple dream, but it does not need to kick both sides at the same time. Cobb can wake up when he falls into the bathtub. How can this be explained? People are not sages, and Nolan also has a time when he is a hundred secrets.

In fact, I prefer to think that the uniqueness of Arthur in Cobb's mouth is that he can control whether he wakes up when a kick occurs.

I have been using Arthur to demonstrate to the audience what Kick is. Obviously, let Arthur enter a real sleep state and perform the demonstration. It looks a little too much.

wake up the music, when the next shot is played, I wake up with the music, but when I wake up, I wake up with the music , Here I am guessing whether it is possible that Arthur has been doing some kind of special training, and this is where he excels.

After all, everyone else has exclusive abilities, but he doesn't. It's not very unbalanced.

8. Totem totem

Teng,It is a prop used by the Pirates to distinguish whether they are in the dreams of others. Only the owner himself knows its unique characteristics, so if it is in other people's dreams, the dream maker cannot perfectly copy an exactly the same totem.

Arthur’s totem in the movie is a lead dice,

Adoni is a special chess piece,

and the protagonist does not clearly explain it. What is his totem. Although he often took out a spinning top, this top was actually a totem of Mrs. Cobb's Maar.

Moreover, it seems that Cobb's idea of totem is different from Arthur's. His totem is used to distinguish reality from dream.

Totem can be said to be one of the biggest highlights of the movie. At the end of the movie, whether the top has fallen down has always been a topic of interest among movie fans.

But have you ever thought about using a top as a totem, is it really effective? In the movie, the top down means reality, and the top always turns to dream. Just ask who doesn't know that the top will fall. What's more, the laws of physics must still be observed in dreams, which we can all see, and there is no stipulation that the spinning top will keep spinning in dreams and will not fall down. And in reality, it is impossible to customize a spinning top like others.

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So how should we understand that the top is a totem?

Cobb said that the totem is Mar’s idea, and the top is also Mar’s totem. They have entered deep dreams to explore. I believe that the dreams they enter are Cobb's dreams, and Cobb is the dream maker. So I think,It was Mar who asked Cobb to create a spinning top for herself in her dream, and when she couldn't distinguish reality and illusion, she would turn the top to distinguish the authenticity of the world. This top is effective for Mar, but it is also effective for other people. As long as they see the top spinning constantly, everyone can know that they are dreaming, just like Saito, who is already an old man with memory degradation, sees that the top is not. Stop turning, and slowly realized that I was in a dream.

But this totem alone has no effect on Cobb.

Because he made the top by himself, he can do it whatever he wants in his dream. If he judges that he is in a dream, his subconscious will create a spinning top. And when he judges that he is in reality, his subconscious will create a top that can fall down. Therefore, it is invalid for so many people to guess whether the top or not to judge whether Cobb is still in a dream.

Therefore, a more reliable statement is to see if Cobb wears a ring, the ring is Cobb's totem.

After observation, the one who wears the ring is the dream, and the one who does not wear the ring is the reality. When I saw such a statement, I admired the discoverer's ability to observe. It was really eye-catching. When I saw it the first time, I didn't notice this law at all. This rule is almost without exception, almost. Because there is still one exception. In the hotel where Mar jumped off the building, Cobb was wearing a ring.

Is this part of Cobb in a dream or reality? If you follow the deduction that wearing a ring is in a dream, then Mar may have really jumped off the building and returned to reality, and Cobb is the one who has been in a dream and can't help himself. If you said that Cobb took off the ring since Mar jumped off the building, the ring became his totem,Then I think the totem has lost its meaning. Obviously, there are contradictions in the ring theory.

Regarding what Cobb's totem is, and the final outcome, I have some of my own opinions.

Whether the top will fall in the end has become a hot topic among movie fans. Just as anyone has never doubted, his life may be just an illusory dream.

Dreams are still reality. The fans stand on their own side and start a battle of vision and brain power.

Whether it is a top or a ring, they are just the embodiment of Cobb's subconscious mind. The movie has taught us that totems are not a panacea for distinguishing reality from illusion. People in dreams can still choose to ignore totems and live the life they want.

When Cobb saw the smiling faces of his children again, he didn't doubt whether they were just subconscious projections, and he didn't care whether the top fell down, but couldn't wait to enjoy the joy of reunion after a long absence.

I don’t know if you pay attention to the two-and-a-half-hour movie, Cobb’s children have appeared in dreams many times before,

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98 I don't know if the smiling faces of children can be regarded as totems in some sense. But for Cobb, the totem is no longer so important, the important thing is the smiling faces of the children. It is important, isn't it to cherish the time to be with the one you love at this moment?

Dream or reality, what is the difference?

Cobb's guilt does not lie in telling Mar that limbo is not a reality, but in that he has not put the leap of faith into reality and has not fulfilled his promise.

Cobb once told Mar when the train came:

You are waiting for a train, and a train will take you far away.

You know where you want to go, but you can't be sure, but it doesn't matter.

How does the train's whereabouts matter to you?

Because, we are together.

Cobb has betrayed his wife, this time it is impossible for him to betray his family.

The love for your family is more important than the clear distinction between reality and illusion. Cobb remembered what Saito said, "Do you want a leap of faith, or do you want to be full of regrets and die alone?"