Did Zhuang Zhou dream of becoming a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming of becoming Zhuang Zhou

Fabiola 2022-03-21 09:01:07

A sci-fi suspenseful action film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Marion Cotillard. The plot walks between dreams and reality, and is defined as a "contemporary action science fiction film that takes place within the structure of consciousness." The film tells the story of a dream maker played by Leonardo DiCaprio, leading a team of agents played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Alan Page to enter the dreams of others and steal from the subconscious minds of others Take secrets and reshape the stories of others’ dreams.

It can be said that this is a magnificent visual feast, and it is also a brainstorming blockbuster that makes people rack their brains.

The non-linear narrative film technique in "Inception" is best suited to the presentation of the plot structure. The interlocking multiple dreams have compiled a logically consolidated giant net. Nolan's trick in this work is Everyone can understand movies and feel differently, just like "There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand readers".

At the end of the movie, there are many disagreements about whether the spinning top has stopped and whether it returns to reality. Some people say that the dream is not a dream but reality. At the end, the spinning top is already unstable, and it has returned to reality. Look carefully, the two children consist of four. The actors played, followed by the two-year-old child, which fully proves the return to reality. Some people say that it feels like a dream in the end, and what is beautiful is not like reality. Incorporating Zhuang Zhou’s dream butterfly philosophical thinking and Yang Guo’s emotional discussion on leaving the ancient tomb, it showed the charm of logic and opened up the boundaries of film expression. At the last minute, the tension of structure and emotion detonated to the culmination layer by layer. The ending of the story has actually been answered: as long as we are together, it does not matter whether the train leads to illusion or reality, it all depends on whether we believe it or not.

"New concepts, new ideas, and new opinions are souvenirs that a good movie can endure that lasts longer than the ticket stub." Does Zhuang Zhou dream of becoming a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of becoming Zhuang Zhou, and who knows? In the end, did the top fall? Who knows!

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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.