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Terry 2022-04-22 07:01:34

Christopher Nolan's film can see the appearance of memory fragments, breaking the traditional linear narrative. Under the description of a bus, it is divided into several parallel lines for narrative. Their starting point is not a traditional time sequence but a character. In different periods, I divided them into long hair period, short hair period and phase-breaking period. The three stages are interspersed with each other and described at the same time, and the starting point of these three different periods is the three shots that appeared at the beginning of the film, the long hair period. 's trailing Cobb, a short-haired period trailing a woman, a glove in the mouth of the phase-breaking period. This is the beginning of the next period and the end of the previous period. If you give each period an alphabetical order, then the order of the films is: Long Hair A, Short Hair A, Break A, Long Break B, Short Break B, Break Break B... and so on. An event in the last long hair period contributed to the short hair, and an event in the short hair period contributed to the break.

We wondered why Bill said the following at the beginning of the film to justify himself, why did he cut his hair short, why did he lose his appearance, why did the glove get stuck in his mouth, why did he steal from the safe, why did she Following this woman, why did that Cobb lie to him with that woman? The interspersed lines and lines and the development of the story answered our questions little by little.

Recall that the reason why he cut his hair short was because he met the woman he stole from the last time in the restaurant, and his inner fear was caused,
and Bill chose to follow that woman because of the long hair period and Cobb's following. He fell in love with that woman, and
then Bill and the woman talked about the woman's difficulties at the woman's house, which was also the reason why the phase-breaking period had been stealing the safe. The
last time was the woman who told him the truth of being used. It is the reason why Bill decided to go to the police station to defend himself at the beginning of the whole film, and it also made the audience understand the environment Bill was in in the film statement and the reason why he said these plots
. , i.e. the damage he and Cobb caused when they were entangled, the plot also explained their breakup, and the reason why he got a white glove in his mouth at the beginning of the film, the
woman cheated him with Cobb because Cobb said that he Revealing an identity in a theft requires someone to confuse the police.


The film is completely connected until the White Gloves, the three scenes that appear at the beginning of the film have reasonable explanations, and then go back to the time when Bill defended himself this reality, the truth he said in the police station, and the real The truth emerges. The dialogue between Cobb and the woman at the end of the film shows that the murder that the woman and Bill said in the restaurant is the key clue of the film. It turns out that Bill was accidentally involved in a murder just because of curiosity. She became a scapegoat. The woman thought she helped her lover Cobb and set a trap for Bill, but she was actually setting a trap for herself. Cobb took advantage of Bill's curiosity and the woman's trust to pull these two irrelevant people. Together, Bill became the scapegoat, the woman was silenced, and the story ended.

Artists are curious and unrealistic animals, and they tend to believe things that happen in movies and novels, such as Cobb's behavior.
Women are unbelievable, but they are also easy to believe in interesting things, such as people like Cobb
. Things are often manipulated by people who are not women and who are not artists, and who see real interests in their eyes. and not for anything else.

Women and artists are perceptual animals, others are rational.

What kind of person is Cobb? Like he said in the first burglary, you have to take things away before they realize what they had. What he does in other people's homes and what he says is fascinating, and it's his job to disrupt the trajectory of other people's lives to get them to focus on things they've turned a blind eye to, and he does. You can choose to believe or not to believe what he says, if you don't, then the story is a complete hoax, he's a liar, if you choose to believe, then he's destiny.

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Extended Reading

Following quotes

  • Cobb: Just because you broke into people's homes doesn't mean you need to look like a fucking burglar.

  • Bill: So what's a girl like you...

    The Blonde: Doing in a place like this?

    Bill: ...doing with a bald old cunt like that?