The presence of love

Cale 2022-03-19 09:01:02

When Nolan skillfully ended "Inception" with a spinning top, it also cleverly left the audience with the aftertaste of reverie. You can think that this top will come down eventually, which is a happy reunion; you can also think that this top will continue to rotate, which is a criticism that doubts people's sense of existence. In any case, Nolan once again presented a boutique, and after watching the film, there was a wave of applause from the theater. For me, the concept and logic of this film did not feel too fresh and shocking, but Nolan’s full story and emotional impact created under the dream world view he constructed really made me High five. Audiences who have watched Nolan's "Follow" and later "Memories" should understand that this is a person who values ​​the idea of ​​the story very much. He is not the king of destruction or technical paranoia, so he relies on the special effects that are actually very mainstream. Technology, he still created the world-wide "Nolan Whirlwind" after "The Dark Knight" with the spirit of the story.


World view: sense of hierarchy and existence,
although people have too many things in the real world that have not been busy, or because people have too many things in reality that are too busy to be too busy, so the right is based on the real world The expansion of exploration has never ended. Or it is a physical extension, such as digging three feet to explore the inner world of the earth, such as diving into the sea for a kilometer to swim in a blue abyss, rushing into space, and finding a new continent. At the same time, it is more imaginative, but there are also logical and scientific possibilities for the exploration of the mind. Therefore, various ideas such as parallel worlds, cyberpunk, alien test grounds, near-death experiences, dreams, etc. emerge in endlessly. . Different from proactively exploring physical boundaries, it is an extension based on reality and an exploration full of sense of accomplishment. The exploration of the mind is more full of skepticism and internal criticism, questioning the person's own sense of existence, so it is often more shocking.

Nolan has constructed a world of dreams this time, and there is an intricately intertwined relationship between dreams and dreams. In the film, Cobb introduces the dialogue between dream common sense and human subconsciousness to Ali Adoni, which is easy to resonate and feel substituting for the audience. Indeed, we are often in a state of only remembering the intermediate state of dreams, not knowing the beginning and end, and not knowing where the scenes in the dream come from. In the same way, in dreams, we don't have independent thinking and consciousness, and we can often construct a weird world and story with our subconscious mind. Until we wake up, we still have aftertaste or try every means to remember what happened in the dream. This is exactly how Nolan’s worldview is outstanding in the film. He did not suddenly throw out a confusing worldview concept, but guided the audience into his world. While explaining the dream world, Deni is also telling the audience about this concept. This is also a common way for mainstream Hollywood commercial films. This is also an important reason why Inception, which is not a mainstream commercial structure from a structural point of view, has become popular. . In fact, in terms of the interpretation of dreams, the nesting of dreams and the questioning of the sense of existence, David Lynch’s Mulholland Road has that feeling and reveals more profoundly, but Lynch’s extremely personalized " The expression of "compete with the audience" is destined to be a niche work. And Nolan's personalized conception and popular guidance make his ideas easier to popularize.

Questioning the sense of existence is always the deepest shock that this kind of film brings to the audience. "Sixth Sense" once brought the near-death experience to the audience with the final reversal, making the audience unable to determine whether they are still alive; "Hackers" "Empire" used to switch between the two worlds so that the audience could not be sure whether they were in a conscious world constructed by a machine; "Thirteen Degrees of Fierce Room" used to set in a way, so that the audience could not be sure that they were playing a similar virtual life. While constructing the life of "others" in the computer in this way, whether one's own life is actually being constructed by others; "UFO Invasion" once made the audience wonder whether they are actually living in a testing ground being monitored by aliens. It doesn't even look like science fiction, but actually has a chillingly absurd "Trumen's World" that can give people a deep shock. Am I the Trumen who is being manipulated, and passers-by are just a prop to cooperate with me? When watching "Inception", I also remembered a lot of deja vu. It can be said that Nolan once again demonstrated this subversion of existence in the form of dreams. For audiences familiar with this type of film, this is very Kind, but still have a different feeling. For audiences who are not familiar with this form, as mentioned earlier, Cobb's explanation is also easy for people to understand this novel worldview.


Plot: A love story with hundreds of thousands of times.
For this story, I personally don’t want to do too much technical structural thinking about it, but I prefer to regard it as a love story of bitter love, combined with a sense of existence. The worldview and the swing of love also make this story full of sadness and sentimentality. Except for the "Batman" series, several of Nolan's films will create suspense and reversal clues. The suspense of this film is an emotional suspense clue, and at the same time interweave the main line of action with tight rhythm. At the beginning of the film, I saw that there is a seemingly hostile relationship between Cobb and the mysterious woman Mel, but they also seem to have a past relationship. At the same time, Cobb participated in the dangerous plan in order to return home, and created a fast-paced, big scene of the main line. Nolan’s two-line interweaving arrangement is very clever, the main line is often very exciting, some of the beautiful shootout chase scenes are mainstream and very catching, and after a period of nervousness, he will switch to emotional clues, which is slow for a while. The rhythmic interaction of Cobb and his wife Mel's love in the past makes people curious about the past, which makes the whole rhythm Zhang hold the way, and together create a plot full of tension.

The love of Cobb and Mel is intertwined with deep love and regret. Throughout the film, the two have always expressed a deep love, a love that is hard to give up, and a love that must be loved after death. Therefore, for this love, they go to dream to build a world where they can grow old together, and they can do whatever they want to create a world where you feel happy. Unlike a person who suddenly finds himself in a dream or in a computer-built world, they are dream-makers. They are creating their own sense of existence, a romantic sense of existence. At the same time, Cobb's tiredness of this can be seen as a warning against science and technology. The in-depth study of dreams allows them to feel like a god in their dreams. However, they can create cities and passers-by, but they can only create an illusion. Presence. The sense of self-existence needs to first feel the objects and people outside of yourself. When you clearly know that these are just illusions created by yourself, it is obvious that this romantic sense of existence disappears, and it follows. The loneliness and loss also arise. Cobb's move to save his wife finally brought about a tragedy that was overwhelming. This regrettable story created a strong emotional impact. For me, after the end of the film, what is evocative is this love. In love, Perhaps what we need is a sense of each other's existence bit by bit. We are truly living in the world, holding hands and kissing lips. This is far more important than grand romance deliberately created.

The deepening of dreams creates the effect of multi-layered dreams. This is also the place where Nolan’s storytelling ability is most tested. Earlier, he asked Cobb to tell the basic principles of his worldview, and here he wants to use these basic principles to permutate and combine Out of the grand dream structure in his mind. This process is not so much an application of scientific principles as it is more of a combination of logical principles, mainly the application of effects such as recursion, progression, and exponential effects, and the van fell from the bridge into the water in the first dream. , The whole process of exponential growth of time in the recursive dream is intuitive and clever. I watched the van falling slowly like a snail, and on the other side was the fierce gunfight on the snow. This kind of rhythmic arrangement and feeling was great. Up.

In terms of special effects, the film actually has no breakthrough in the technical aspect, and it is not very difficult special effects in general. But as a technique, special effects are more important to most people than technological breakthroughs. After all, not everyone is James Cameron. Therefore, what surprised me the most in this film were the scenes during which Aliadeni was learning dreaming technology. The scenes burst like street fragments, and the space was distorted to become an undercut effect. Aliadeni was intelligent. The scenes of extending the space through the mirror surface and then breaking the mirror to create the space are not very big scenes, but the process of ingenious conception gave me the experience of opening my eyes.


Actor: 2010, Leonardo’s split year.
Regarding the ending of the film, I personally prefer the top to fall. The reason is very simple. Cobb suffered a bitter experience in the film, and suffered setbacks for his children and suffered too much. Buckled. Extending to actors, Leonardo DiCaprio’s splitting in "Bounded Island" has already tormented nerves. This film is going back and forth in multi-layered dreams, and the whole world is in a state of division. Subconsciously, let’s let Let's give him a happy ending! In this film, DiCaprio is the absolute protagonist, and the protagonist, the absolute core character, his external profession and performance drove the main line of the film action film, and the inner world drove the film's emotions. The inner clues of her, two lines on one's shoulders, split dreams, it is not easy. DiCaprio did an excellent job of showing the actor's inner pain and loss. At the same time, the mood of a father wishing to go home is also touching. There are a lot of action scenes in the film. It is hard to see him jumping up and down, and it is even more useless. The thing is that he will get stuck in the narrow road. The old handsome guy is so embarrassed, which shows his spirit of getting rid of his acting skills. Compared with "Closed Island", in this film, his performance is more three-dimensional and calm. The scenes of excessive force that are common in previous performances are much less. From the current point of view, this year's Chong Olympic is still promising.

And Cotillard, who plays with DiCaprio and loves life and death, is an actress I like very much. The performance of "Life of the Rose" is amazing. While winning the Oscar, it also opened the door to Hollywood for her. . What's interesting is that in this film, the French song "Non, je ne regrette rien" that awakens the crowd is precisely the famous song sung by Eddie Piaf, the poster of "Life of the Rose". In this film, Cotillard is sometimes affectionate, sometimes ferocious, sometimes relaxed, sometimes sad, and the expressions and emotions are changeable. Cotillard is equally outstanding. The most disappointing thing in the performance of this film is Ellen Page, saying that disappointment is not disappointment in her performance, but disappointment in her role and role in the film. When I heard that she was participating in the film, I thought she would be an important role and highlight in the film with her unique personality. How did she know that she would mainly serve as the elicitor of Cobb's inner world. The role was limited and she would express herself. The idiosyncratic performance is even more constrained. The immature face appears incompatible with the atmosphere in the film, and the individual acting skills cannot be shown.

A major feature of Hollywood commercial films is that, no matter how intense, exciting and bitter, they will have one or two cynical and gag roles. Tom Hardy is the biggest source of humor in the film. The Ames he plays is the most joyful character. At the same time, he also needs the cooperation of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who is wearing a very spiritual vest in the film. A section where the latter raises a gun and fights hard with the defender, while the former raises a large-caliber weapon and says "Dreams to be bigger" makes a smile. Generally speaking, there are light humorous scenes in this film, and the scale is right. The embellishment effect of the film is still good. Ken Watanabe has a lot of plays, he is also a powerful figure, and his demeanor and insidious spirit are all performed naturally, which belongs to normal performance.

In general, although the film is mainly dominated by the dream maker Nolan, the normal performance of the actors as a whole and the bright performances from time to time are important guarantees for the success of the film.


Finally, go back to the top and think about the fact that indulging in dreams or wishing to wake up from "dreams" is an expression of our helplessness in our state. However, no matter if the top falls or continues to spin, you must continue to live in the world you are in. Faced with suffering and happiness, after watching the movie, the lights are turned on, which makes me dazzle, but it feels that this is actually a real sense of existence. , Out of the theater, out of Nolan’s dream, I still want to continue my real life, while waiting for Nolan’s next film to be truly projected on the screen.

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Inception quotes

  • Eames: Great. Thank you. So, now we're trapped in Fischer's mind battling his own private army, and if we get killed, we'll be lost in limbo till our brains turn to scrambled egg.

  • Arthur: And you! You knew about this and went along with it!

    Yusuf: I trusted him!

    Arthur: You trusted him! What, when he promised you half his share?

    Yusuf: No, his whole share. Besides he said he'd done it before.

    Arthur: You've done it before? What, with Mal? 'Cause that worked so good!

    Cobb: That has nothing to do with it. I did what I had to do to get back to my children.