"You're waiting for a train that's going to take you away, you know where you're going, but you don't know where you're going to be taken, but it doesn't matter — we're together." Due to the epidemic, the theater has been closed for more than 100 days, and in the time when there is no movie to accompany, this line in "Inception" often crosses my heart.
Ten years ago, Nolan's "Inception" attracted countless audiences, and ten years later, whether the gyroscope that is still missing people's hearts finally fell, the debate over whether the male protagonist Cobb was finally in a dream or returned to reality has not stopped. And the brain-burning plot in the movie is the reason why this movie has been prosperous for a long time. Especially the majority of male compatriots, while watching, explain the plot to the girlfriend who is confused, and enjoy a down-to-earth X process.
But "Inception" in the complex character relationship, the male and female protagonists of the entanglement, and the connection between multiple dreams, etc., so that this movie does not look particularly easy to understand, today I will give you to do an overall combing and detailed explanation, but there are a lot of spoilers in the length, it is recommended that the children's shoes that have not been seen are best read after reading this article.
Let's start with the basic principle of inception, the activity of the brain in the dream is enhanced, the two processes of creation and perception occur simultaneously, and there will be a gap in the middle that allows the dreamer to enter, and the subconscious mind full of dreams can steal the desired information. Although the dreams are all false, people's perception is real, and they can feel strong pain.
Speaking of time, the brain in the dream is running faster, so the time in the dream is twelve times that in reality, if it is a dream in the dream, then the time of the next layer of dreams is 12 times that of the previous layer. That is, 1 hour in reality, 12 hours in the first layer of dreams, and six days in the second layer of dreams.
Powerful sedatives, which are a very key point in the film, because if you want to plant a dream on the target, you need to enter a deeper dream, but the deeper the dream, the more unstable it is, and you need a strong sedative to ensure the stability of the dream. But after using a powerful sedative, there are several consequences.
The first is the change of time, after using a powerful sedative, the brain runs faster, and the time in the dream is longer, 20 times that of reality. The male protagonist Cobb gave Fisher a dream when he took a plane for 10 hours, so the 10 hours in reality, in the first layer of dreams is a week, the second layer of dreams is half a year, in the third layer of dreams is 10 years.
The second is that you can't be killed, originally killed in the dream, just be woken up, but because of the use of powerful sedatives, people can't wake up, that is, fall into the lost realm, may not wake up for a lifetime. Therefore, after using a powerful sedative, you can only wake up by falling weightlessly.
Totem, the deeper into the dream, people may not be able to distinguish between the dream and reality, especially if the use of real scenes to create dreams, it will be more confusing, so a totem is needed to help people distinguish whether it is in the dream. It is a small object that violates the rules of physics in a dream, and only the owner of the totem knows its rules. For example, Cobb's totem is a gyroscope, which will always turn in the dream. Arthur's totem is a mercury-filled color that can throw various points in dreams, but in reality there is only one.
Subconsciously, the target enters the dreamer's dream and brings in a large number of subconscious reflections. When these mappings are found to be in someone else's dream, they will attack the dreamer like a tidal wave. If the target is someone trained in inception prevention, their subconscious map will carry a weapon with greater attack power.
Director Nolan is indeed a genius, he uses non-linear narrative techniques in "Inception" to the extreme, using various suspense stories, breaking through the limitations of time and space, creating a kind of dream that is both true and illusory for the audience, so that the viewer can still recall it after watching the movie. Next, I will follow the five parts of the film, the first inception, the formation of a new team, the second inception and the ending to make the plot clear and clear at one time.
At the beginning of the film, Cobb is brought to Saito by the elderly Saito's men, making people feel that Cobb came to assassinate Saito, but after watching it, he learns that the opening scene is actually Cobb to save the elderly Saito who is in the lost realm.
Immediately after the male protagonist's first dream of theft began, Cobb accepted the commission of Cobo Company, entered Saito's dream and tried to steal trade secrets, but Saito found out and deliberately hid the key part of the information, coupled with the appearance of the heroine Mel, the second layer of the first dream collapsed due to Arthur's death.
Back in the first layer of the dream, Saito was knocked to the ground by Cobb and at the same time discovered that the carpet in the room was not the carpet of his room, so he found that he was still in the dream, and was impressed by the male protagonist Cobb's ability to steal dreams. The man's first dream of inception failed, and when he was about to escape by helicopter, he was betrayed by his companion Nash, the dream maker of the first layer of dreams, and Let Saito catch him.
Saito is very impressed with Cobb's ability to steal dreams, and wants to use Cobb's son Fisher Shimon to make him abandon his father's business, and give Cobb the conditions to erase his criminal record and let him return to see his children, forcing Cobb to accept the task of giving Fisher Shimon, and Cobb began to form his own team.
Cobb came to Paris to find his father-in-law Miles, and asked Miles to look at the child's face to find a dreamer for himself, and the old man introduced his proud protégé, the young Ally Reddney, to Cobb. During the dream training for Alliedene, the heroine Mel appears in the dream as a subconscious reflection of Cobb and stabs Allyredni to death with a knife.
In order to realize his dream, Cobb needs a pretender, so he must venture to Mombasa, the home of Cobo, to find the disguised thief Eames, and sure enough, he is intercepted by Cobbo in Mombasa. Fortunately, with Saito's help, Cobb was able to get rid of The Cobo Company.
Ems also believes that dreaming is feasible, but it is necessary to enter the dream deep enough. And the concept of implantation should be simple, so that the target is considered to be self-generated, so it is necessary to start from the relationship between relatives. At the same time, in order to enter the dream of the third layer, the dream will become extremely unstable, and a powerful tranquilizer will be needed, which will lead to the discovery of the pharmacist Yousef with his own formula.
Several returned to Paris and began to develop a strategy. The first layer of dream Ember disguised as Fisher's godfather Browning, after entering the second layer, Fisher will automatically bring Browning's subconscious mapping in, and then enter the third layer to let Fisher father and son meet, and use family affection to persuade Fisher to start his own business.
During the tense preparation of several people, Ariredney discovers that Cobb will stay at night to continue the dream test, so she enters Fisher's dream, and finds that Cobb's wife, Mel, has always been a lingering subconscious reflection of Cobb, and it is very dangerous, so she proposes that Cobb carry out the dream character with her.
Finally, the film enters the climax and begins to plant dreams, the first layer of dreams in the heavy rain, because the dream owner Yousef drank too much champagne before going to bed, because Arthur failed to figure out that Fisher had received anti-tremor training, and there was a subconscious reflection of Fisher's fully armed in the dream. Shot in a shootout and chase. Ems intends to cause Saito to wake up and relieve the pain by killing Saito. Cobb stopped and said that due to the use of a powerful sedative, Saito would enter the Lost Realm if he died, and would not wake up.
Cobb tells Aririel about Mel's death, and because they have gone so deep into the study of dreams, Mel can no longer distinguish between reality and dreams. So Cobb gave Mel a dream and told him to commit suicide back to reality, who knew that this thought had become Mel's lingering nightmare in reality, so he committed suicide on his wedding anniversary and left a suicide note saying that Cobb was going to kill himself.
Time became so tight as Saito was shot, so Ems only had an hour to figure out Fisher's relationship with his father by pretending to be Browning. Fisher's relationship with his father is indeed very tense, and the more depressed he is, the more he needs to vent. They got into the van and entered the second level of dreams in the car. The pharmacist, Yousef, was in charge of driving and used music to notify them of the synchronized fall before driving off the bridge.
The second layer of dreams, Cobb uses the Charles method, is to induce Fisher to fight against his own subconscious mapping by telling Fisher that he is dreaming, so as to gain Fisher's trust. And successfully made Fisher suspicious of Browning's reflection, and decided to enter Browning's dream with Cobb and several people to see what his father had said. Arthur, on the other hand, remains on the second floor responsible for waking them up when they fall when they hear the music from the first floor.
After entering the third layer of dreams, since Yusef on the first floor played music in advance, they could only seek a shortcut to enter the hospital. Cobb acts as a sniper to kill Fisher's subconscious reflection, protecting them from entering the hospital. However, when Fisher enters the hospital, Mel suddenly appears, and Cobb can't bear to kill Mel, causing Mel to kill Fisher and take Fisher to the fourth floor. This is only 3 seconds before the van of the dream on the first floor falls to the surface of the water.
In desperation, Cobb and Aririridne enter the fourth floor to find Fisher. Ems, on the other hand, was responsible for installing the explosives and crashing to wake them up by blowing up the hospital pedestal. And Ems wants to save Fisher by electric shock to the heart, let Fisher enter the password to see his father's last words left to him, so as to restore the father-son relationship, and let Fisher have the idea of starting his own business.
In the fourth layer of the dream, Cobb finally admits to Mel that he planted her dream to make her suspicious of the real world, and it is also because of Cobb's guilt towards Mel that leads to the strength of Mel's map. Cobb letSaridni rescue Fisher and then jump off the building and wake up on his own, and go to the Lost Domain to rescue Saito, who has died and entered the Lost Domain.
At the end of the film, Cobb finds Saito, who is already in his twilight years, in the Lost Domain, and convinces Saito to commit suicide and return to his youth with himself. Cobb and Saito finally wake up on the plane, Ande keeps his promise and calls cobb on the plane to clear Cobb of the crime, and Cobb finally returns to his long-lost home to see his child.
The ending of the film is open-ended, the crumbling top does not fall, and it also triggers endless debate among subsequent audiences. However, I think it doesn't matter whether it is in a dream or not, it is true or false when it is fake, and there is nowhere to do anything! We sat
Who in the audience of the theater knows if we live in dreams?
Finally, a brain map is attached to facilitate everyone to sort out their ideas