1.The director of ”Inception”
Christopher Nolan decided to leave the finale of the film open for thought: dream
or reality? Such an ambiguous end of the film, as a way of dialogue with the
audience, corresponds to the traditions of postmodernism.
2. Intertextuality. The basis of Nolan's ideas about
dreams in ”Inception” were representations
of Sigmund Freud written in his book ”The Interpretation of Dreams”, as well
as the teachings of Carlos Castaneda. Freud believed that dreams are
reflections of man's desires. We see Cobb constantly thinking about his wife
and children, he misses them. These desires are reflected in his dreams. Ideas of projections in the dream as a protective
mechanism can also be found in the teachings of Freud. Teachings of Castaneda
talk about the possibility of group dreams. ”Inception” is also full of mythological and religious ideas and
judgments. This film is full of various references to different works of the
film industry: surrealism of David Lynch, Dziga Vertov experiments with camera,
separate scenes from anime ”Paprika”( for example, a scene with mirrors)
3. Inception - putting ideas into the subject's brain. As
the protagonist says, idea is like a parasite or a virus, you can infect
someone with it or be infected yourself, for example, like Cobb’s wife or like
he himself.
If the idea will be correctly implemented into the
brain you will no longer perceive it as alien or unfamiliar. Such methods as
propaganda, manipulations for a long time have been used across the world.
4. The plot of the film seems to be linear, but it does
not go forward, it goes into the depths of the subconscious of the main
characters during their sleep, going deeper and deeper, like an elevator, stopping
on different floors of dreams.
5. Everything in the dreams of the characters is created
by them, or rather by their subconsciousness. But people who are architects can
build their own world using their own mind, a world which has never been seen
before without physics and sense of time.
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