Movies with the idea of "sneaking into the dreamland" are not new, and there are countless "virtual fantasy" movies. Everyone understands people, so they can't come out one by one. Multiple dreams, "Seven Layers of Shell" has been written for a long time, and it is not new. "Inception" should talk about the distinctive places, one is the addition of the profession of "Dreammaker", the second is the task of "seeking", and the third is the setting of the rate of time passing.
Interestingly, the three are just the other way around. Although I still don't know what the proportion of time elapses between the various layers of dreams is, Nolan obviously didn't intend for everyone to get into it, it's just such a concept. The fun part is that through such a setting, N "one-minute rescues" are openly connected in series, forming a dense video stream, and it is reasonable to enlarge and enlarge the most exciting part of the genre film. This kind of film Can it look good?
And what's even more fun is that in the section of Snow Mountain Fort (I said Nolan, why does this place look so familiar, have you used it in "Batman Prequel I"?), this setting became a breakthrough" One Minute Rescue" has set off a new climax.
It's a bit of a pity that so many "one-minute rescues" are piled up with nothing more than some shooting and blasting scenes. The hotel fight in the second layer of dreams is the most innovative and charming! The other layers are nothing but ordinary action scenes. It's a real waste of such a wonderful stage as Dreamland! Far from the fantasies in Red Hot Chili Peppers.
The second most interesting is the task of "seeking thoughts". The main tasks of the previous "Dream" works are stealing and healing. The idea of planting a concept in someone's subconscious and letting him take root, "Inception" is the first time it was proposed. In fact, this problem is not a problem in many places and times on the earth, it is brainwashing! But it would be difficult to cross Chencang without knowing it. Difficulty is interesting. Watching Cobo, they are both disguising and infiltrating. The charm of Hollywood's special spy drama is grafted into the world of illusion, and the combination of genres creates a new world. The reason for the less interesting is that the mechanics of the mission and the firm sense of purpose bound the entire storyline, leaving no time for characters and interesting details. The whole movie is like a big hammer hitting the iron. Beating drums and gongs like an anvil urges everyone to go deeper and deeper. Think of the madness of "Red Pepper" and the silence of "Ghost in the Shell". The plot of "Inception" is like a soulless machine, full of lubrication Oily, there is no interest and mood outside of the story at all.
One of the most boring settings is the profession of "Dream Maker". There is no problem with dreaming, but there is a problem with the dream created. The most interesting thing about a dream is its privacy and madness. To dream, you have to abide by the laws of physics and traffic rules. Such a dream is better not to do it. How gorgeous is that scene that flips the whole city. I thought it was the climax of the whole film, but it turned out to be a game for newcomers. Saying "will cause the subject's subconscious alertness", please explain to me what this is? If you want me to say, if the dream is the same as real life, it will be alarming!
Nolan, an Englishman, is good at narration, good at management and calculation, and can be imaginative, which is his weakness after all. It's good to have rules in doing things, but when you dream (including daydreams on the screen) you follow the rules, what's the point of being alive?
The characteristics of "Inception" about dreams are nothing more than that. Some are interesting, some are boring. The interesting places are made very boring by the director, and the boring places are of course even more boring. The reason why it looks good is all due to the precise narrative rhythm of Noble Director and the creative superposition of some routines that Hollywood has already proven to be effective. The so-called novelty is these. There is no substantial expansion of the virtual reality theory itself.
Culturally speaking, this has always been the case in film history. A class of niche films keenly grasped the trend of the times and slowly won the hearts of some people. But it still takes a really big-cast movie to push the genre into the mainstream before it really revives the genre. Were there no gay movies before Brokeback Mountain? There are already a lot of gay movies that are deeper and more realistic than it, but when it comes to gay movies now, the first thing everyone thinks of is "Brokeback Mountain". Brokeback is almost synonymous with homosexuality. Wasn't "Dances with Wolves" a film criticizing colonialism from the standpoint of the Indians? But now when everyone mentions such movies, "Dancing With Wolves" naturally becomes a model. This type of film has some common characteristics, that is, the ideology and means of expression are much more conservative than small productions with similar themes, which is an inevitable requirement for large productions for the mainstream market. The novelty of the subject matter can ensure that they stand out among the familiar commercial genre films, and the relatively conservative awareness and means can ensure that they will not pose too much challenge to the audience.
"Inception" is such a film in my opinion. His upside is not how new it is, but how compromised it is. It castrated a creative idea with great potential and crazy that many predecessors came out with, and used it to package some existing business stereotypes, such as shooting, chasing, espionage, love, etc., and put them in a new way. Kneaded together. Director Nuo's ability to tell stories and manage details ensures that the film looks absolutely smooth, but if you really want to see a "dream" on the screen, you will definitely be disappointed - this is just a movie about dreams That's it. There are many movies about dreams and fantasy, and "Inception" is the most conservative one, because it compromises too many things in order to sell well. This is the price that must be paid to convert advanced theories into economic benefits.
I can give an example of how conservative the so-called crazy dreams of Inception are. Cobo's wife died, he killed himself, he was sad, he was remorseful, he was thinking about their children all day long, this sadness successfully attracted a little beauty, but this deep affection did not prevent him from choosing in the end This little girl is not her own wife, and the reason is very high-sounding, "she is not real"! Hollywood will always impress your brain and lower body while keeping your conscience clear. Seeing that Cobo was still looking at his wife in tears in the deepest part of his self-consciousness, and seeing the whole group tinkering for more than a hundred minutes just to get a white-collar technical man to return to his home to take care of the children, I almost had the heart to die— - The setting of human nature is so weak that you still want to "seek", dream it!
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