Inception (2010)

  People enjoy dreaming. With imagination, we can do everything. We can make buildings and our own world in dream. This movie reflects enough this feature of dream, and focuses our attentions on this plot. At the beginning of the movie, we can see a happening in Saito’s dream. In his dream, the main character, Cobb and his teammates have to steal secret information. However, he fails because of his ex-wife, Mal. In dream, they can build their world freely, but they can die easily by people in the dream.

Cobb has to complete missions, but Mal always tries to kill him, and disturbs. In this situation, Saito offers him to change deep thought of Fisher, the rival of Saito in order to beat out his rival, and Cobb accepts the suggestion. In this process, we can see many amazing factors. This director analyzes characters of dreams in detail, so I was surprised at these details, such as kick, totem. Kick is an action that is needed by someone who has to wake up in a dream. It is very similar to our dream’s feature, because we wake up in our dream when we feel as we are kicking.

And totem is a tool that informs us whether we are in a dream, or we aren’t. For example, Cobb’s totem is a spinning top. When Cobb is in a dream, the totem keeps spinning. It is an unrealistic factor, so can distinguish the real world from dream. Such various factors, we find the director’s amazing imagination and expressiveness. The director tries to show many things in the movie, such as dream in dreams. This movie has an involved plot, and fantastic but familiar appreciation. So, I want to give it full marks.

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