![]() “Do you want to become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone?” These words (or something close to them) are uttered three times in the film. The very deepest level of the subconscious is represented by a safe or a vault, inside which the mind keeps its most private thoughts and/or memories. And the subconscious, we’re told, is motivated by emotion, not reason, and that a positive emotion trumps a negative one. The process of inception works, we’re told, by placing the simplest form of an idea deep into a character’s subconscious as they’re dreaming, through a series of suggestions that effectively lead the character to “give himself the idea” (in the words of Tom Hardy’s master forger Eames). (Though if you haven’t seen the film, you probably won’t know what the hell we’re talking about anyway.) ![]() Needless to say, there are spoilers here, so you should probably not read this if you haven’t seen the film. ![]() We think there might be another inception going on in Inception. But since this is a Christopher Nolan movie, we’re not convinced it’s all that simple the director’s films almost always turn in on themselves. And the plot mostly concerns the efforts of our heroes, led by master dream extractor Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) to somehow convince Fischer (Cillian Murphy), the heir to a major energy titan, to split up his father’s empire, without realizing that the idea came from them. We are republishing it in light of the release of Christopher Nolan ’s 12th film, Oppenheimer, which has its own “troubling” ending worth discussing.Īs pretty much everyone knows by now, Inception’s titular concept is the placement of an idea into a character’s subconscious - a notion that the film presents as being more or less unprecedented.
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