More than a decade ago, a mainland director said that he could build a giant ship like the Titanic by giving him hundreds of millions of dollars. More than a decade later, there were no teacher stealers in the mainland, but Emmerich and his colleagues drove several large ships before 2012 and successfully used folk topics. Just last year, in the face of Cameron’s breakthrough in 3D technology, another mainland director said that he didn’t need to make movies anymore. People were flying in the sky, we were crawling on the ground, and so on. But after Cameron, is there really no topic in Hollywood? Is there no hope for people who are engaged in the profession of director? Obviously not. Maybe the current Nolan is not a golden sign that can pass the world, and he has to face old problems such as audience limitation, but in the near future, he can completely ascend the throne of the times.
The planet Pandora is far away in another time and space, fictitious, and cannot be touched. Unlike Cameron’s giant production firm, the screenwriting concept of "Inception" is very simple: dreams, dreams in dreams, and types of crimes that use dreams as the entrance, unfolded one after the other, layer by layer. Nolan compiled a set of his own worldview and constructed an infinite space, which can hide in everyone's consciousness and is not nothingness. Some people have more dreams, some have fewer dreams, and some people have had dreams without knowing when they wake up. People's physiological structure determines the existence of dreams, and they are rich and colorful. Because of its agnostic nature, it also has a mysterious color, "Inception" played a role of discussion.
Analyzing Nolan's stage creation, we can know that "Inception" is a film that connects tradition and leads to the past. The director has consciously restricted the application of some special effects to prevent the audience's attention from being distracted. The folded Paris city is shocking enough, but it is not the technology itself that coincides with the world, but that similar scenes will appear in a person's dream. If you think of a dream as an imagination, then it will never end, and it will be forever. The weightless sparring is novel and ingenious. This whole episode is completely shot with the scene, like a flowing dance. Don't you know that the actors have been tortured so hard.
Today, when Hollywood blockbusters rely more and more on special effects, natural and man-made disasters are constantly being produced, which makes people feel tired and desperate. Nolan once again defined false and true, dreams can be false, and movies are true. Movies are a fake form, but human dreams are real. These are two convergent terminology concepts, which are combined and expressed in the movie, and they are constantly confused. Most of the time, all you see are dreams, but also movies. Therefore, you can only follow Nolan's explanation, and the pace of travel is completely under his control.
"Inception" is not so confusing, at least not as confusing as some people use thousands of words to explain and analyze. Through the mouth of the characters in the play, Nolan’s dream settings are fully explained, like how to be "kicked out" of the dream, how to synchronize with music, and the time of each layer is multiplied by 12 times. These are the directors' final say. Latecomers can only follow the same path to analyze. A bunch of human hypotheses are just standing on top of one human hypothesis, but everyone believes it to be true, just like the apologists in theological studies. More helpless than this, Nolan deliberately left unclear places, like the spinning top, completely for discussion and interaction with the audience. If you take a long-term view and look outside, Nolan himself has the final say on the information symbol represented by the totem. Who ever said that the totem must be used in his dream and also used to judge where he is, Einstein or Hawking? Isn't it obvious? That is to say, those major religions are not yet thousands of believers, and they coexist and confront science. Man himself is a contradiction, which can accept and tolerate the so-called truth and falsehood at the same time.
Dreams are often absurd, but dreams are real. In my opinion, Nolan’s most successful part is that he puts dreams into practice, always keeps a distance from the mainstream while maintaining personal characteristics, and regards dreams as the direction and motivation for progress. After all, aside from the reference works, the inspiration for "Inception" is only Nolan's own dream dreams, and most people will ignore it. Nolan’s start was not a high-profile blockbuster strategy. On the contrary, his initial stage was a very small brain cell-killing project, and then he gradually integrated into the major Hollywood studios and changed, even more powerful. The most exciting thing about "Inception" is that Nolan has not changed, he did not want to take care of the audience, he did not cut corners in order to keep pace, and can withstand the gradual and timeless reminiscence.
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