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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
"INCEPTION"
A sci-fi action film directed by Christopher Nolan that swept the viewers out of the their feet and into the internet to search for its mysterious ending scene. The movie was so outstanding we wanted to test it out in real life. Then this is what happened....
Alright, I have to admit, Inception is one of the coolest films I've encountered this year. But enough with the easily-impressed comments, time for the readers to know what I'm really talking about.
Here's a picture of the cover of "Inception". The cover is not yet giving the people any idea of the characters and the seriously disturbed environment they're in.
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| If the picture is not appearing, try opening the image at a new tab. The movie is all about this guy named, "Dom Cobb" (Leo DiCaprio) and his team doing a "not-so-legal" information extraction. Now, when they say extraction, based on my understanding it means that they are going to steal information from the subconscious part of a human being for commercial and business purposes. Basically, when the target is sleeping, they will enter the target's dream with some sort of sedative and machines to go with it and sort through the target's thoughts. For example, if I hid a jar with the most delicious cookies known throughout the galaxy in it, of course, I am the only one who knows where it's hidden. But Cobb knew a way to extract this information without using real life violence. He doesn't have to enter my house for a search because the cookies are well hidden, instead, he will enter a place when my guard is completely off: My mind. Through your dreams, he explained how the human brain stores the information on several corners of the mind. It became more exciting when the story described the brain storage rooms to be like a maze; A maze inside a dream. By that way, I know that I stored the cookies under my bed. If Cobb finds that thought (in my dreams, he could see me hiding the cookies under the bed), he can easily steal the best cookies in the galaxy in real life without even talking to me or looking at me. Okay, this is the dangerous part. The dream rules: 1.) Normally, in dreams when you die inside of it, you automatically wake up in the real world. In the movie, it is a fast way to end the dream and wake up. 2.) An hour or two in the dream world is like 5 minutes in the real world. In the main mission, Cobb made a layer of 3 dreams. A dream within a dream within a dream, causing time to be a lot longer for every layer. 3.) A dream is constructed by a person in Cobb's team called the "Architect" who deceives the target making it look like it is the real world. He or she creates the labyrinth dream world. 4.) For a target to fall asleep and have dreams, Cobb injects some kind of sedative into the target and to his team for them to enter each other's dreams. 5.) THE TOTEM. A totem is a small material each extractor (like Cobb) keeps. It's purpose is to determine if they are in another person's dreams and are being deceived or if they are in the real world. How the hell do they know that? Okay, in this specific material, only the owner knows how it is going to move. It's actions are very unpredictable. For example, I have a lighter. I would put water in it and click it. Of course it will not fire. But if I tried to open it again some time later and it made fire, then I am not in the real world, an architect made this lighter for me and he or she failed to deceive me because he/she thought my lighter has gas in it, but just water. This means I am in someone's dream or i am asleep. Just like Cobb's totem: A spinning top. Only he knows the balance of the spinning top. It reveals that if the spinning top just kept spinning, he's being deceived. But if it looses its balance, he is in the real world. Those are the things an extractor is aware of. But this time, Cobb was assigned with an another dream mission that is not "extraction" of information, but is to plant information into the target's mind (which is triple the difficulty of extraction) . Here's a scene where Cobb deceives Robert Fischer (The main target) of thinking that Cobb is his personal security agent of subconscious protection even though he is the enemy who tries to sabotage his decisions.  But as the story progresses, Cobb found out that the new chemist he hired to make a sedative powerful enough to make a dream within a dream within a dream (3 layers of dreams) increases the risk of going to "Limbo". What the heck is a Limbo? Limbo- a place in the subconscious where your ass would be stuck for 50 years in dream-time until your brain would be scrambled eggs. It is a place of infinite loop. Even if it's 50 years, it would be like a couple of hours in the real world. Now that we know Limbo, the consequence of a 3 layered dream state is..YOU CANNOT DIE. If you die, you will be stuck in Limbo. Again, if you die you will not wake up to the real world. Since one of them got shot and is slowly getting unconscious, they had to be faster and enter another dream. How the hell are they supposed to wake up or to escape the dream since killing yourself is not an option anymore? Alright, this is the cool part. They call it, a "Kick". What is a kick? A Kick - a kick is an act of falling. If a person felt the sensation of falling, any type of falling, he or she would be alert enough to repel that falling sensation and gets up instead, thus, waking up. In the movie, there was a scene where Cobb explain a kick. Arthur, his right-hand man, was sitting and balancing himself in a chair with only the two back legs touching the floor, making a diagonal pose. Eames secretly slightly pulls the chair back and Arthur (oblivious of the action) surprised, pushes himself forward because the sensation of falling made him more alert. That is another way to wake up. In other words, if they start another layer of dream, someone has to be left behind to organize a "kick" that will wake them all up. I'm sure you've dreamed of something like that. Like falling into a tall building or being kicked by Leonidas on a deep pit with human guts?  <--This is a scene where Arthur is the one who was left behind in the dream to organize a kick with his team who all entered another layer of a dream. When you watch the movie, you will be more impressed with the character's struggle to wake up, to plant the idea in the target's mind, and the "unexpected objects" in the target's subconscious. The act of knowing which one is reality and which one is not would blow you off your seats. Especially when Cobb finally spins his totem in the end, finishes the mission and finds his long lost kids running to his arms in their humble home. The scene will show how the totem will react. Off balanced or still spinning?! Welp, the whole thought came out and I hope you have the same reaction with this mind blowing labyrinth film. If dreams were only that cool I wouldn't mind sleeping in front of my boss. Or If inception was real, I would've made live ninjas to protect the best cookies in the galaxy. Tell me what you think of the movie and what would you do if you're in this kind of situation? As the critic of the hour, I will rate this film 4.72/5. Good job, Christoper Nolan! |
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