"Inception": Gather with you and have a dream

Cathy 2022-04-22 07:01:02

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Nolan's "Inception" was revealed, it quickly became the most discussed topic among fans and critics. In the end, will Leonardo return to reality, or will the layers of dreams never end? The father said that the public was reasonable, and the mother said that the mother was reasonable. However, in the complex structure of the multi-layered dream, Nolan can tell a complete and exciting story with ease. This control alone is not something that Chinese directors can match. The national teachers who are still addicted to the old dream of the educated youth going to the countryside may be able to play with colors and create visual wonders, but let's take a look at Nolan's "Inception", this is the imagination an artist should have.

Of course, the subject matter is convenient and there is no need to marvel at Nolan's genius too much. The gimmick of "Dream in a dream, in the dream of a person in a dream, can't be blown away like the wind" is a gimmick as early as "Memento", "Vanilla" "Sky", even Jin Min's "Red Pepper" and other works, but the time difference between dreams and dreams is the first time. According to Nolan's theory, the time difference between every two layers of dream space increases geometrically, the first layer is a few minutes, the second layer is a few hours, and the third layer is a few days. If designed well, human beings can spend their whole life in a dream in a few days. When you are old, you can return to the real world and continue the life of young people.

Think about what a wonderful and great thing this is, almost immortal in a dream, but in fact? Just imagine how incongruous it would be to pack an old soul into a young and robust body. Of course, if it is the other way around, this is another way of saying it. Just like when Leonardo went to the pharmacist, he found that many elderly people connected dreams together, and the caregiver said meaningfully, "These people are not here to dream, It's to wake up." It's true, rather than letting these old people wait for death all day long, it's better to let them toss in their dreams, at least that's what they hope.

After the movie "Inception" was released, a joke circulated on the Internet, the general content was "Leonardo in "Titanic" said to Lucy: If you jump, I jump! Leonardo in "Inception" Said to Mel: If you jump, I will not jump with you! After a man matures, he will no longer believe in love.” In fact, this joke is just a joke of reality. In the real society, there are indeed many men who have matured. Once he has a certain strength and conditions, he will no longer be peaceful, but in the movie it is just the opposite. Leonardo is a person who is truly loyal to love, but his wife is caught in the hesitation between reality and dream, unable to extricate herself, and finally suffers. He chooses to be suicidal to escape and truly "wake up".

Compared with the complex and wonderful multi-layered spatial narrative, this ironic plot design is more valuable and meaningful. Because no matter how many layers of dreams Nolan designs, it is only a form. In the end, when he completes the task, he only finds an exit in the dream maze, but the idea of ​​the movie itself is not so profound. There is still a gap between a set of independent digital philosophy and worldview works. But after joining Leonardo's emotional scene, the weight is completely different.

Since ancient times, all couples have hoped to be married and stay together for a lifetime. Even if the butterflies follow each other in "The Liang Zhu", it is just another expression of the playwright's promise of life and death. "Foundation" let Leonardo and his wife do all this in their dreams. In the dream they built together, the two may even stay together more than once until they are old and enjoy a few good times. But the last concern is not love, but the paradox between dream and reality. Obviously this is boredom. It takes several lifetimes of ordinary people to fall in love with each other. Even if Leonardo can really continue to create romance and surprises, he still can't make his wife separate from the pain of dreams. There is too much time to count. Correspondingly, no matter how romantic couples are, they will not know how to cherish it, because they do not know when it will end.

Reminds me of the lyric in "Yiren Hongzhuang", "People say that if the two love each other forever, how can I have a dream with you". People all over the world say that Qin Guan's words are pure and beautiful, touching and affectionate without being vulgar. In fact, if two people's love is there, their hearts will stay together forever and don't care about getting along day and night. Then why do they do this again? Do you want to meet you in your dream? In fact, the so-called "if the two feelings last for a long time, how can they be in the morning and evening", it is just the helpless sad words of Qin officials. But if the couple who were in love hundreds of years ago could finally get married, and they would grow old together from then on, such a famous sentence of the ages might not be born, and future generations would not think of the beautiful story of the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd when reciting it. Just like Leonardo and his wife are completely day and night, and they have been together for several lifetimes. The years they experienced in their dreams may be longer than the sea and rocks, but in the end, because the time is too long, the years are too long, so I forgot Years have also blurred the memory of reality and fantasy. In the end, the endless dream years turned out to be a painful torment for the two of them.

When two people who love each other can be together, but they are no longer concerned about each other but time and space or dreams, I don't know if this is the real farthest distance, at least it is an insurmountable gap. Life is only a few years, why should you care too much about the reality of your dreams? Even if you are dependent on each other in dreams, at least you can reap your own happiness. Besides, life itself is not a dream. We also don’t know how we got here, we don’t know how to go, and we don’t know where we will go after we leave. So it's better to "do happy things with lovers, don't ask whether it is evil or fate" as sung in "Flying Light".

If you have time to pay attention to the reality of the dream, it is better to do what you like while you are living in a dream and haven't woken up yet. Our life will not last as long as a dream, so we should cherish it more. Even if life is really a dream, we must gather with you to have a dream.

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Inception quotes

  • Cobb: [notices that he's being followed] That price on my head, was that dead or alive?

    Eames: Not sure. See if he starts shooting.

  • Cobb: What do you want?

    Saito: Inception. Is it possible?

    Arthur: Of course not.

    Saito: If you can steal an idea, why can't you plant one there instead?

    Arthur: Okay, this is me, planting an idea in your mind. I say: don't think about elephants. What are you thinking about?

    Saito: Elephants?

    Arthur: Right, but it's not your idea. The dreamer can always remember the genesis of the idea. True inspiration is impossible to fake.

    Cobb: No, it's not.