Some friends want me to analyze "Inception", in fact, the analysis and comments on this movie on the Internet have been everywhere, I think that if you simply repeat these contents can only be a waste of everyone's time, so today try to analyze this movie from a different perspective.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > music</h1>
The film opens with a thick bass orchestra, which is actually a slow-playing version of a classic song, re-arranged and remixed by the film's master scorer Hans Zimo, the French singer Edit Piaf's "Non, Je ne regrette rien" sung. In the later films, this song is used for the countdown to the dream. I posted this song here, and if you are interested, you can listen to it.
We know that in different levels of dreams, the brain "thinks" that the speed of time is different, so the song "I Have No Complaints" heard in the film's dreams is stretched, and even in deeper dreams, it is more like thunder in the distance.
Nolan's choice of this song naturally has its own intentions, and its lyrics express sad memories that cannot be forgotten, but also bring endless pain to people. It is the male protagonist, Dom Cobb ("Dom"). Cobb) has always been a portrait of his heart. Marion Cotillard's wife, Mal, is named after the lyric "Ni le mal", which can be translated as "bad" or "evil" in French, further hinting at the influence of Mel's character on the male protagonist.
Interestingly, Marion Cotillard played Edit Piaf in the film Life of the Roses, for which she won an Oscar in 2008, and was competed for the award that year by Ellen Peggy (Juno), who played Ariadne in Inception.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Cobb</h1>
After a burst of muffled music, we can see Dom Cobb, the protagonist played by DiCaprio, appear on the beach, and the name Cobb comes from two characters:
1. A character in Nolan's film debut, Tracking, a man also called Cobb who is a professional thief in that movie, and in his own words, his real purpose is to "use robbery and property violations to make victims re-examine their lives", which is actually very similar to Cobb in "Inception".
2. Henry Cobb (Henry Cobb), a famous American architect and one of Pei's partners, has designed countless famous buildings, and today I will not introduce them much, the old man died in March 2020, just in time for the 10th anniversary of the release of "Inception".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > totem</h1>
Cobb is then taken to the elderly Saito, where the film's first totem appears: the gyro. Totem is a prop used by the thief to avoid falling into the dream and not being able to distinguish reality, each totem is a physical object owned by the thief in reality, and its characteristics are only known to the holder himself. However, this gyro originally did not belong to Cobb, but to Cobb's wife, Mel, and Cobb carried this totem after Mel's death because of his guilt for her.
But since every Dreamer has his own totem, what is Cobb's totem? Many people speculate that it is his ring, which also appears in the dream at the beginning of the film.
And in later stories, the ring only appears in dreams or In Cobb's memories (when Mel was still alive), and in the film's realistic mainline, Cobb does not wear the ring.
Back at the hotel, Cobb took out his gyroscope and started spinning, and raised his gun in his hand. Note that at this time Cobb did not have his wedding ring on his finger, which shows that Cobb has no way to rely on this ring to judge whether he is in a dream or reality, if this is the case, can this ring still be Considered Cobb's totem? Even if it was once Cobb's totem, it must have lost its totem role now, so why does it always appear and disappear so coincidentally in the film?
I think the ring is a totem that Director Nolan gave to the audience of this film, to remind us of the environment in which the protagonist is.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > "director"</h1>
Then the picture suddenly jumped to saito's youth, entering the first dream action in the film, watching the entire film we learned that the elderly Saito in front of him was portraying the story behind him in a flashback way.
In this scene, Cobb in a suit and leather shoes is gushing about how important Saito's subconscious self-defense is, but what really surprises me is that Little Plum looks too much like Director Nolan, and I don't think it's a coincidence, please be patient and listen to my analysis.
If the movie "Inception" is about a dreamer, Nolan actually sees himself as a dreamer, and he projects his directorial identity onto the protagonist Cobb, "Nolan is Cobb".
The whole "Inception" is like a carefully choreographed dream, to be precise, a systematic summary of the great director Christopher Nolan's career as a director, "the movie is the dream".
Believe it or not, Cobb's son in the film is actually played by Nolan's son (coincidentally?). ）。
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > "producer"</h1>
In this scene, we can also see Cobb's right and left hand Arthur,If Cobb is the screenwriter and director of a movie, then Arthur is equivalent to a "producer", he is the executor who really implements the crazy and unrealistic ideas in the director's mind, and is also the key person who fights fires everywhere when "filmmaking" encounters problems.
Arthur's projection in real life is Emma Thomas, the wife of Director Nolan, who has always been a producer of Nolan, and many of the blockbusters we are familiar with are the pillow products of these two couples (jokes).
Arthur's totem is a dice whose center of gravity distribution is known only to himself. In the later dream-planting operation, Arthur kept tumbling in weightless conditions, but was always able to maintain his center of gravity, just like this dice.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > "investor"</h1>
Saito was satisfied with Cobb's gang who were involved in the "audition", and he wanted Cobb to form a team to work for him, on the condition that he could help him get back to his children, which led to the next INCEPTION.
Needless to say, Saito's identity is that of an "investor." While the director's ideas are often wild and unrealistic, while the producers explain to investors in more colloquial terms how this crazy idea really came to fruition, Cobb and Arthur's unfolding words about Saito typically show how the director and producer of a film can sell their ideas to their own investors.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">“2053”</h1>
We return to this inception, Cobb opens the safe and takes out the file in it, the password of the safe stays at "53", "2053" is a number that keeps repeating.
Later in the story, it appears in the tail of the taxi on the first floor of Dream Operation.
It is also the code for The safe where Mel stores the totem in Limbo.
The number, in turn, is 3502, which happens to be the hotel room where Mel forced Cobb to commit suicide with him.
It should be said that the number 3502 caused too much pain in Cobb's mind, so later 3502 also appeared on the train that appeared in the first layer of dreams and caused great damage to the action. The appearance of the two numbers reflects the confrontation between Cobb's self-consciousness and subconscious.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > "producer designer"</h1>
When Cobb arrives in Paris to visit his father-in-law, Steven Miles, he reminds Cobb to "get back to reality." Interestingly, Steven Miles' character Michael Kane said the same thing to Batman in another nolan film, Batman: The Dark Knight Rises.
Stephen Miles introduces Cobb to Ariadne, another key character in the film, at school.
Eliane
Ariadne, whose name is derived from ancient Greece, is the daughter of The Cretan King Minos, who helps the Athenian hero Theseus kill the half-man, half-cow monster Minotaurs in the labyrinth, as she will do in the film, to help Cobb get rid of Mel in Limbo.
Cobb then tested her, deliberately giving her checkered paper for her to design the maze, and Eliagne jumped out of the mind and designed a circular maze to pass the test. This circular labyrinth was designed by the minoan kings to imprison Minotaurs.
Ariane's character is the "Dream Builder", and her job is to design the dream as well as possible, so that the person who enters the dream can immerse himself in it and achieve the effect that the "DreamEr" wants. If in the analogy of a film production team, Eliane is a production designer or art director.
Cobb then explains to Aryane how the dreamer designs the dream world perfectly: when a person is awake, his brain has limited ability and usually can only work in a single thread, but the human brain can create and perceive at the same time while asleep. When our brains do this, it usually happens unconsciously, which is why we can't predict how the scene of the next dream will change in our dreams, and trained "dream builders" can design all the details of the dream in advance.
Notice that Cobb's sketch for Eliagna is actually a metaphor for the big screen of the movie, and Nolan hopes that his film will allow the audience to perceive and create scenes in their minds, "the movie is the dream".
This is not my nonsense, there are studies that show that when people watch a movie seriously, the brain activity is actually very similar to the sleep process, which is why people spend 1-2 hours concentrating on a good movie and don't feel tired at all.
Cobb then went on to explain that "people don't usually remember the beginning of a dream." This is very similar to the film's lens language, because of the time limit of the film, the director can not record all the details like a running account, and the deliberately chosen opening can effectively bring the audience into the scene, just like we do not remember the beginning of the dream, but still feel that the scene in the dream is very real.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > "actor"</h1>
How can a film production team have fewer actors? In the zhimeng team, the "actor" selected by Cobb is Eames.
Ems has an assertive, arrogant, and clever personality, but he is also the most insightful character into the psychological activities of others. His job (referred to as the "pretender" in the film) is to instill useful psychological cues into objects by imitating other people, which is very similar to the actor's work behind the screen.
Ames's totem is a chip on a table, and its characteristics in the dream are unknown, but it can be guessed from the character's dialogue that in the dream, the chip may be copied more chips under the friction of Ames's fingers.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > "technician"</h1>
The next person to join the team was Yusuf, the "pharmacist," whose job was to concoct action-appropriate chemical reagents to create stable dreams for the team.
The name Uther comes from Islam, and his jewish counterpart is Joseph, who, according to the book of Genesis, had the ability to interpret dreams. If put into the metaphor of the film production team, Yousef is equivalent to a "technician", lighting, machinery, recording, props, fireworks stunts, etc. are all within the scope of the technician's work, simply put, the director's dream to present is realized by science and technology.
In Yussef's own sleeping room, an old man asked a real question from the film, "They didn't come here to dream, but to wake up." Dreams have become their reality, and who can say no? ”
Nolan must have understood the theory of Zhuangzi in our country, because this question was actually asked by Zhuangzi as early as our Warring States period.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > "audience"</h1>
Well, Cobb's production team is basically formed, with "director", "investor", "producer", "art director", "actor" and "technician", so who is this carefully planned "movie" for?
The "audience" is naturally Robert Fisher, the heir of Australian energy giant Maurice Fisher. As a giant in the energy field, Saito hopes that Robert Fisher will be able to break up his huge business empire after inheriting the family business, which is the concept that the Team led by Cobb wants to implant.
To tell a gossip, it is said that Morris's prototype is the Australian media tycoon Murdoch, and his relationship with his son is actually a bit like the Fisher father and son in the film. Coincidentally, now that Disney has officially acquired Fox, Murdoch's media group has really been spun off little by little.
"Actor" Ems observes fishers up close and discovers that there is a gap between the two, so the team develops a bold idea implantation plan, using their father-son relationship to implant a concept in Robert Fisher's mind, "Your father does not want you to simply repeat the path he has taken." ”
Note that this idea was derived by Ems after joining the team through his own observations and speculations about the psychology of the characters, which shows how important it is to choose a good "actor".
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Dream Action</h1>
This operation is designed in advance with three layers of dreams, nested layer by layer, and the choice of dream scenes is also very interesting.
On the first floor, "Technician" Yousef's dream in downtown Los Angeles, inspired by the 1995 crime film The Line of Fire.
On the second floor, "Producer" Arthur's Dream is a hotel from the classic horror film The Shining.
On the third floor, "Actor" Ems's dream is a snow-capped castle where agents in snow suits shoot each other, which is a scene from Nolan's favorite 007 movie, The Queen's Secret Envoy.
Just as every film can't have been made so smoothly, the operation was in big trouble at the outset, Arthur's investigation of Fisher was incomplete, leaving out his background of special anti-hijacking training, and Cobb concealed from his team the fact that if he died in this dream, he would fall into Limbo instead of waking up as usual.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">“528491”</h1>
In the first layer, Cobb forces Fisher to reveal the password, but what they actually ask for is not a password, but the purpose is to make Fisher speak the first 6 numbers that come to mind subconsciously. This string of numbers acts as a transmission medium for the subconscious, reinforcing the concept they want to implant at the end.
So on the second floor, Cobb's gang showed Fisher the string of numbers again, and they asked Ember to pretend to be a beautiful woman to leave the string of numbers for Fisher, let Cobb pretend to be Fisher's anti-hijacking security, remind him of the string of numbers again in the hotel bathroom, and let Fisher strengthen the impression of this string of numbers through the hotel room number.
This series of actions makes the "528491" take root in Fisher's subconscious, and when he enters the string of numbers through "his own memory" in the third layer of dreams, and then opens the safe, Fisher thinks that he has solved the mystery, "father has always cared about himself", emotions burst out at this moment, and the implanted concept is reinforced in Fisher's brain.
These are all designed, just like when we watch a movie. Every time we are moved by the characters, plots, and shots on the screen, it is the result of the "Emotional moment" that the production team has calculated through careful calculations.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">Limbo</h1>
Mel appears on the third floor at the right time, sabotaging Cobb's plans and forcing him to go down to Limbo to face Mel. This section is the climax of the entire film, before the Fisher father and son is just a designed emotional catharsis, the real Inception is about Cobb's feelings for Mel and his attitude towards reality.
Cobb confronted the remorse of many years in Limbo and told the secret that had been hidden in his heart, Mel's suicide had a lot to do with Cobb, the two of them had lived in the depths of the dream for decades, Mel could not distinguish between reality and dreams, and locked his totem, the spinning top that would keep spinning in the dream, in the deepest part of his heart.
Cobb managed to find the gyroscope and implanted a concept in Mel's brain, "Her world is not the real world, and death is the only liberation".
The two commit suicide in the dream and return to reality, but Mel is deeply distressed by this concept, and she begins to wonder if everything around her is real, even thinking that even their children are just projections in the dream. Mel wants Cobb to "wake up" with her and set up a bureau in a hotel room. In the end, Mel chose to commit suicide, leaving Cobb to leave his children and go into exile.
After completing the redemption of his heart, Cobb asks Aryanie to take Fisher with him, the others return to the first level of dreams through Kick, waiting for the potion power of the real world on the plane to disappear, while Cobb stays in Limbo to find the dead Saito.
The scene returns to the beach, echoing the opening scene of the film, saito does not have his own totem, can not distinguish the difference between the dream and the real world, and stayed in Limbo for decades.
Although Cobb did not stay in Limbo for as long as Saito, but from the white hair on his head, it can be seen that at least more than 10 years, the meeting between the two made the memory of the past come to mind, Cobb's gyroscope did not stop spinning under Saito's rotation, and they finally realized that they were in a dream.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > ending</h1>
Finally, Cobb returns home in the United States, accompanied by his father-in-law Steven Miles, and he spins the top again, but his attention is quickly drawn to his children, and the film then ends in the spinning of the top, leaving an open ending.
This ending has always been controversial among fans, and now that we can confirm from many clues that the gyroscope will eventually stop, Cobb has returned to the real world. For example, some careful fans predict that the gyro will eventually stop by analyzing the sound spectrum forwarded by the top spiral; for example, Cobb did not carry his wedding ring; and Michael Kane, the actor of his father-in-law Steven Miles, confirmed in an interview that "all the scenes he appears in are real worlds" and so on.
But none of this is really the point, the point is that Cobb no longer cares about the gyroscope after turning it, and Cobb's attention is completely turned to his own children, which you can hear when you listen carefully to their conversations.
"Dad look at what I've built."
"What are you doing?"
"We built a house on the edge of a cliff."
Does it matter if the gyroscope stops?
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