The movie "Inception" has become a classic. Until now, there are still many people who have watched it and directly exhaled, however, some people will say that they can't understand it!
In fact, to understand this movie, you need to use another mode of thinking, to unravel a few key points, then, everything will be solved, and the rest is just a small detail.
This mode of thinking is the situational thinking mentioned in the previous article, that is, the overall thinking.
For this movie, we need to understand a few key points, what does the dream of this movie refer to? Why go into a dream? How to structure dreams?
The corresponding is the cognition, situation, and situational structure in situational thinking. Of course, this film also has its philosophical heights.
First, dreams and cognition
The biggest highlight of the film is that it constructs three layers of dreams and lost domains, which are also places where many people feel confused and incomprehensible. In fact, for those of us who do counseling or psychotherapy, these scenarios are familiar because this is what we often do: structuring situations.
Seeing dreams, some people form conditioned reflexes, and use Freud's theory to explain these three layers of dreams, and there are Freud's shadows in the movie, such as they often mention the subconscious.
But the film needs to be interpreted cognitively. Dreams, whether they are dreams in movies or dreams in reality, are the presentation of a person's cognition, that is, the presentation of his subjective world. And our subjective world, whether in dreams or in reality, reflects the world is distorted, but the dream is more outrageous.
For example, if I see an apple, I can only see the A side of the apple, and I have to see the B side of the apple, turn the apple, or move it myself. We don't understand the internal structure of this apple, how much water it contains, what chemical elements are there, and the percentage of each ingredient, nor do we understand which apple tree the apple is plucked from, how it is transported, and what is its growing environment? Wait and wait, anyway, we only see this apple side.
We can't look at everything completely objectively, and we can't look at people even more distortedly.
As soon as I see you, I get angry, my parents don't love me, I have low self-esteem... With emotions, our cognition is distorted, and this distortion may be positive or negative. Love, self-confidence, happiness, positive and enterprising, calm and calm, etc. are all positive emotional emotions, while hate, inferiority, sadness, anxiety, depression, impatience, etc. are all negative emotional emotions.
Note that the emotional shift is at the heart of the film. People must turn from negative to positive in order to truly achieve growth. People who carry hatred every day and have inferiority are like being pressed by a mountain, and it is difficult to focus on growth.
Little Plum plays Cobb, whose goal is to get the heir of the industry giant to destroy the business empire his father built. They modify the person's core beliefs, taking advantage of a positive shift in emotions, implanting new beliefs: My dad wants me to be who I am.
The three layers of dreams they weave, starting from the outer layers, distort the perception of the heir from the past: my father does not love me, gradually loosens, to the third layer of dreams to find the windmill, change the belief, become my father loves me. This change of belief takes root in the heart, and then goes up layer by layer, becoming unbreakable.
Modification complete.
In reality, we do not have to enter the dream to modify a person's subjective world, through the contextual framework of real life. Of course, the process is not so simple. This movie is more sci-fi, and it can be modified by entering other people's dreams, but the reason is the same.
If I want to continue to understand, I will talk about how cognitive therapy modifies people's beliefs.
The three layers of dreams designed by the film represent a person's automatic thinking, intermediate beliefs and core beliefs from the outside to the inside. Automatic thinking is something we form from an early age, making our behaviors and habits unthinking. That is to say, we usually say any word, do any thing, in fact, do not have to think, and really use consciousness to think about the problem of time is very small. Where does this automatic thinking come from? It is from our core and intermediate beliefs.
For example, a child's core belief is that I am not competent, then the "attitude" of his belief is that I am incompetent and bad, "assumption" is that if I work hard, I can do a good job, and if I don't work hard, I will fail. His automatic thinking is, I'm too hard! evade.
If you open "Cognitive Therapy", you will find that the level of people's cognitive patterns is like this.
Second, the context and the contextual architecture
After understanding the meaning of the three-tier dream, there is also a point that everyone does not understand is the Lost Domain. In fact, the lost domain represents a person's subjective and objective indistinguishable, and the film is called indistinguishable from imagination and reality. To put it more generally, if a person cannot distinguish between imagination and reality, the person is considered to have a mental illness. Cobb's wife came out of the Lost Realm, still unable to distinguish between imagination and reality, which is really sick.
So, how do you change your core beliefs?
Hard.
Know that no one, including the heir's godfather, opened his mouth and said to him that your father loves you and that your father wants you to be yourself, it cannot have an effect.
Why?
Because this can only touch the person's automatic thinking, and the habits formed by automatic thinking are measured in days, years, and decades, and it is difficult to change. Just like an onion, you only peel the outer layer of the onion without effect, go straight to the core. But once peeled down, not only will you be in tears, but the onion will be incomplete.
Therefore, changing the core belief is not simply that I tell you what to do, but you must change it in the context to be fast and good. This requires the architecture of one or more scenarios.
Little plums how do they do?
With the heir as the center, build a three-tier dream, let him explore layer by layer, peel himself off, to discover, to change.
Many people think that the scene of the anti-physical law in the movie is very shocking, the structure of the three-layer dream is very shocking, in fact, the real wonderful place is the situation created by Xiao Lizi, who is a master of constructing the situation and using the situation.
Little plums they are both active and active. They are the initiators, the actors who perform with the heirs, playing different roles, kidnappers, protectors, godfathers, etc., and they are also the followers who guide the heirs to discover problems. The so-called life is like a drama, all rely on acting skills, and everyone's cooperation should be tacit understanding.
The female dreamer is also a master, but she can only build some buildings, scenes, and these are only part of the situation. The biggest content of the situation is not in things, but in people.
The master of structuring the situation will always use everything in the situation, layer by layer, to serve to change a person.
Little Plum's eyes, life is like a drama, all rely on acting skills
In fact, the implementation part is the most critical, and any mistake in any place may lead to the collapse of the situation.
In the first layer of the dream, The little plums construct the situation of kidnapping, they play the kidnapper, force the heir to say the code, arouse his curiosity, shake his automatic thinking, in the second layer to create the situation is to protect the heir, they play the protector, shake the heir's trust in the godfather, in the third layer to create the situation is the old father's dying scene on the hospital bed, moving people with emotion, and finally change the core belief.
While completing the revision of other people's core beliefs, Xiao Lizi also completed the redemption of himself.
Third, the philosophical level
In fact, what we may not know is that we are in the situation every moment, the big situation sets the small situation, the situation blends and so on.
We have a conversation situation, shopping is a shopping situation, restaurant eating is a meal situation, speech is a speech situation, reading a book is a reading situation, watching a movie is a movie situation...
Books and movies, these two situations are more special. For example, movies, movies are a strange world, the screen may show us a parallel universe, may be the King of the Rings, may be the life of ordinary people in the mountains, is a new world that we have never experienced or imagined.
The film itself is a situation, and the characters in it not only have a common situation, but also have their own different situations. The characters in the film think that their lives are real, never knowing that someone other than them is watching their every move.
"Truman's World" is such an intuitive presentation.
At this time, as an audience outside the movie, we will put ourselves in the context of the movie, and only by putting ourselves in the context of the movie can we immerse ourselves in the scene, feel the feelings of the characters, follow the joys and sorrows of the characters, and take a spiritual journey.
The interesting thing about the movie "Inception" is that it is not only divided into two big situations of the audience watching the movie and the movie itself, but also a layer of situations in the movie, and eventually evolved into, who is in whose dream? Is it a dream or reality?
Can't tell.
Director Nolan was greatly influenced by Borges, who wrote a short story called "Circular Ruins", which is about one person being another person's dream, and another person's dream, like facing two mirrors on the other side, endless. This is the same as the old Days when Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he was transformed into a butterfly, whether Zhuangzi became a butterfly in his dream, or a butterfly became Zhuangzi in his dream.
This is the philosophical aspect of Inception.