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"Which science fiction film is strong, it is both a science and a fantasy king."
Watching science fiction films, I don't know if there is an aesthetic like me?
I don't like to watch too mythical, because I don't like the science fiction that is completely mythological and scientific; I don't look at the low value, and the low value affects the character to put the plot to the climax...
Under this standard, good-looking science fiction films are rare, and Xiao Lizi's "Inception" counts as one. #影视杂谈 ##
At this time, the little plum is not very fat, and director Nolan is also in the best state of inspiration.
Therefore, "Inception" must be brushed three times: the first time you can treat it as a blockbuster movie; the second time you can use it as suspense, and the third time you will begin to understand its real theme.
After three brushes, the beauty found a hidden dark line, and today I will take you to revisit "Inception" from the perspective of this dark line.
"Inception" is the story of an experienced "inception" (who can sneak into people's dreams to steal consciousness) Kirby, who collects a commission from the business giant Saito in an attempt to implant memories in the minds of his rival Fisher in order to destroy the Fisher family's business empire.
The brain-burning part of the whole film, on the surface, is the constant switching between dream and reality.
For example, the encounter between the elderly Kirby and Saito at the beginning is a dream or a reality?
Kirby's conversation with the rich second generation Fisher on the plane is the first layer of dreams or reality?
What are the floors of taxis and vans in the rain?
How many floors of the hotel? How many layers of snow-capped mountains?
Kirby's wife, Mel, falls off the windowsill and returns to reality, or is she sure to move towards death?
At the end of the film, is Kirby in a dream or in reality?
It seems suspicious, but in fact, as long as the logic and main idea of the film are understood, the above problems are like a layer of window paper.
Let's start with flashbacks —
First, the possibility that the ending is an "open-ended ending" should be ruled out.
This is one of the most controversial points, with some arguing that "the top spiral is an open-ended ending, and the audience is free to guess that Kirby may be in a dream or in reality".
This is impossible because all of Nolan's films don't have an open-ended ending, and he's used to giving the audience an affirmative ending.
So what is the end of this?
In the end, Kirby healed himself and returned to reality. In his dream, he successfully removed his guilt for his wife, Mel, and finally returned home.
This is also a big theme and big logic of the whole film.
So how did Kirby heal himself and go home?
This brings us to this dark line of the film.
This dark line even goes beyond the "bright line" of "Kirby becoming an international wanted criminal, helping giant Saito change the subconscious of rival Fisher and destroy Fisher's business empire".
At the beginning of the story, Kirby's life has been full of wind and water, and he and his wife Mel have constructed an imaginary world with his wife Mel - they are like gods, controlling the mountains and seas, buildings, rain and shine, and walking hand in hand there for a lifetime.
Toward the end of his life in the dream, Kirby remains awake, and he wants to take his wife back to the real world, but her wife does not want to wake up in the dream.
In order to get his wife back to reality, Kirby did a dangerous experiment, which turned out to be overplayed.
It was also an idea implanted in Mel's mind: the reality she experienced was a dream.
It's like an eternal hypothetical proposition, and if you're experiencing reality, then that reality must be a dream.
So Mel, who had returned to reality, remembered this Word of God, and she had returned to reality, repeating the verse that Kirby read when he took her to the track in his "previous life":
“you’re waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. you know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't know for sure. but it doesn't matter, not tell me why - because we'll be together Don't ask me why – because we'll be together forever. ）”
Firmly jumped off the windowsill on his birthday.
This hit Kirby too hard, his heart was like a shipwreck falling into the deep seabed, and many times he also wondered, Is Mel's death real? Or are you dreaming?
With fear in his heart, Kirby becomes a failed dreamer.
No matter whose dream he steals, there will be an "enemy" in that person's dream, that is, mel who is the most feared in his subconscious, and Mel often comes out to make trouble and cause the mission to fail.
Kirby's career was ruined, and his home did not dare to return (fearing that it was a dream), and he began to flee his heart.
Kirby had a father-in-law, Miles, who loved him and had been taking care of them for the time he couldn't face the children.
Only one person understands the predicament he is in, only one person can save Kirby and ultimately save him, and that person is also Miles.
The father-in-law planned a dream-making team to "implant" Kirby's thoughts, and as the operator behind it, there must be a person "master knife" at the front desk, and this person is his student Ari Radni (abbreviated as Ari).
Allie was well aware of Miles's plans, which is why she was so curious about what was deep in Kirby's subconscious.
Again and again I want to enter the lowest level of the elevator in Kirby's dream, and see what kirby's most difficult obstacle is.
Because helping Kirby through this hurdle is the main task she has received.
So are the other people in the industry, Kirby's partners Arthur and Ems, and Kirby's employers Saito and Fisher, all fake? Is saito's "trade order" of commissioning Kirby to kill Fisher's empire a fake?
No, it's not that the trade list is fake, it just happens to be a tool for Kirby's father-in-law.
Some of them, such as Arthur and Ems, may be like Ali.
Otherwise, in the third layer of the Dream Snow Mountain link, Mel jumped out and killed Fisher, but the others did not ask, who is that woman?
I don't know if you remember, there is a link at the end of the article that echoes the beginning -
Kirby falls into the Edge Dream in order to save Saito, and they become old men in the Edge Dream (beginning).
In the state of the old man, they recall the dream-making experience (the film begins in the form of flashbacks), and when the two are awake again (main narrative), Kirby and Saito's expressions are confused, while the others' expressions are smiling at him.
These smiles have two meanings:
First, Kirby and Saito lose a memory after entering the fringe dream, and Saito may have forgotten his identity as a conspirator.
Second, everyone's efforts are to make Kirby's match at this moment, that is to say, the real task of this dream-making is to implant Kirby's mind and let him go home.
Their mission was accomplished, knowing that Kirby's fear had been dispelled, they smiled knowingly at Kirby.
At this point, Kirby didn't have a ring on his hand, it was his real totem (not a gyroscope), and when he got home, he saw the children turn their heads, and the children had grown up... All this shows that he has returned to reality.
Although his father-in-law Miles is the real behind-the-scenes player, Kirby can return to reality only by his own internal struggles.
Just like a person who is about to fall into depression, the key in the early stage is not drug intervention, but the courage of the patient to jump out of the depression trap.
"Life is precious, and love is more expensive." If it is free, both can be thrown away. ”
The key to the success of Miles's experiment is that Kirby has such a belief in his heart.
Although his guilt and love have been intertwined for many years, in the fifth layer of dreams, because of the inner pursuit of freedom, he confronts his fears, and the scene of his conversation with Mel is the whole process of his crossing fear with faith.
He admits that it was a betrayal that he had implanted in Mel the idea that the reality you experienced was a dream.
He recounts why it makes Tim doubt the real world and what happened;
He looked mel into her eyes and said to himself, "I can't be with her anymore because she doesn't exist";
He told himself that it was all over and that he was going to start facing the real life.
"Look at you, you're just a projection of my real life."
This dialogue is the most cruel and true dialogue between Kirby and his own subconscious. He confronted his mistakes and embarrassment, and finally found himself.
In the film "Inception", Nolan really wants to tell the story of not a giant inception business list, but the story of Kirby's "manslaughter" of his wife Mel, and his father-in-law set up a bureau to use the dream-making little Lori Allie to rescue him from his loss and welcome him home.
Nolan has always liked to talk about the theme of "coming home".
Whether it's the homecoming dream of a young soldier in Dunkirk, the home dream of an astronaut in Interstellar, and The Dream of Inception... Their theme is "going home".
Because of the inception, Kirby and Mel went through three reincarnations in the human world, the first life they played a god's game together, and the second life they grew old together. In the third life, they each found their own reality, and the heavens and men were separated.
Because of inception, we can see in three dimensions and incomparably delicately a human love with a wise and rational mind, a sensitive and sincere mind--it is full of flaws, but it never loses the warmth of sobriety and reality.
This article is written by the author as a special author of "Headline Entertainment Jun", to today's headlines to see entertainment, a little material and depth ~ ~