There's still plenty more water to dive into. When Arthur is killed while trying to extract information from Saito, Cobb refuses to wake up despite the dream collapsing around him… so they dump him into a tub of water.
As Cobb goes under in the first dream level, in the second dream level Cobb witnesses massive amounts of water shooting through the dream. All this H 2 O is about to drown him right when he wakes up. Then we have the Fischer mission. Level 1 of the dream is set during a torrential rainstorm, thanks to Yusuf the Level 1 dreamer needing to use the little boy's room. But while the rain certainly adds to the dreary, hostile dream, the more interesting water is the water under the bridge that the van swan dives into.
Like in the first dream of the film the water is used as a kick… although this time it's used as an improvised kick after they miss the van falling over the railing. Yet once the religious, philosophical and mythological subtexts of Inception are recognized, it becomes hard to avoid the conclusion that Inception is also more ambitious that even many of its fans recognise, and that the film constitutes the only meta-heist film that has ever been produced: a crime film where the victim of the crime is the audience itself.
The reviewers who have come closest to noticing this are the ones who have chosen to read Inception as a commentary on the nature of filmmaking.
Critics like Devin Faraci point out quite properly that not only is the medium of film itself a sort of shared dream for the audience, but that there are many curious ways Inception compares itself to its own dream sequences.
A more obvious connection comes when Ariadne analyses the nature of shared dreaming in Paris. Her comments about the primacy of emotion and tone there are clearly the self-referential thoughts of the screenwriter analysing the art of filmmaking.
Despite the superficial attraction of this theory, we should be skeptical of claims Nolan intended Inception as a metaphor for filmmaking — the filmmaker has explicitly denied this. And yet there is a reason the film compares itself so frequently to a dream, and this is the requirement of the heist genre.
For just as heist films are required to hide their crimes in plain sight, with the twist of the genre lying in the requirement that audiences be shown the way they have been fooled, so is Inception required to explain the exact way it will commit its own dramatic crime against the audience.
Reviewers like David Bordwell who praise Nolan for his stylistic embrace of expository dialogue miss this point: when the gang reviews the requirements for inception in the garage of the first dream level, the script is less interested in explaining the plot to us than engaging in sleight-of-hand, informing us in disguised form of exactly how Nolan will implant his ideas in our subconscious.
And we can see that the film follows these rules quite precisely, even down to centering its emotional resolution in a simple act of positive catharsis father and son reconciliation. From its opening shot of the Syncopy logo as a labyrinth Inception transforms itself into an intellectual maze comparable to the labyrinths in the film.
The ultimate image is of the auteur himself as a forger — a shapeshifter who communicates in disguised forms and whose exuberant creativity becomes his most compelling virtue. If you like footnotes and are interested in more detailed proof for many of the claims in this piece, please feel welcome to check it out]. It will probably help me understand more the article in all his corners. I must say something that when I say Inseption first I was not able to create any presumption about it because I was to busy to understand its story line up.
When I saw it the second time I somehow got the presepective which you are trying to convey. I really liked him — such a down-to-earth guy, no ego at all, just a pleasant, enjoyable guy to talk to," he told MTV. Page said he didn't view the meeting as a gateway to a project but received a call a week later. Then I got to read the script in an office. I wasn't sent a copy. The script totally blew me away," he said.
The painting of Dyer, who was Bacon's lover from to his death in , shows a distorted version of his face containing a gaping hole. The work is one of many that Bacon created of Dyer, both during his life and after his death.
For Nolan, who told Tate that he turns to art when unable to express himself with words, the painting's placement is no mistake. In my work I've tried to echo or represent it cinematically," Nolan said of Bacon's work. Later in the film, the audience finds out that Mal, who stares directly at the painting before turning and speaking to Cobb, is a mere projection of the protagonist's memory. Like Bacon's misshapen image of Dyer, Nolan is showing Cobb's imperfect, distorted version of his wife, standing directly in front of Bacon's work.
Arthur's totem, an object that signifies whether or not he's in a dream or reality, is a red pair of dice. When he shows it to Ariadne, the side with five dots faces the camera. In his dream at the hotel, the number appears several times.
The hotel has at least five floors, and two "5" signs frame Gordon-Levitt several times during the zero-gravity fight scene. The library, constructed using glass and concrete, was designed in the late '60s by famed architect William Pereira.
Nolan hasn't confirmed that the fortress was modeled after the Geisel Library, though he has spoken about his appreciation for architecture and its influence on his films. I think there's a narrative component to architecture that's kind of fascinating," he told Wired. The characters' dreams are filled with subtle hints that separate the subconscious from the real world. Though a minor detail, Nolan changed the cars' license plates to read "The Alternate State," dropping a hint that the action scene was happening in a dream.
Nolan didn't intentionally create roles that mirrored jobs on a film set but admitted the filmmaking allegory is "clearly there" during an interview with Wired ,. The way the team works is very analogous to the way the film itself was made. I can't say that was intentional, but it's very clearly there," Nolan said. Cobb, who calls the shots and makes the decisions, represents the director.
Arthur, who keeps the process moving along and orchestrates all the details, mirrors a producer. Dream architect Ariadne could serve as the set designer, and Eames, who has the power to impersonate others inside of dreams, represents an actor. As for Fischer, who's having an idea planting in his head, he could represent the film's audience. Before filming, DiCaprio met with Nolan every day for two months to talk through his character.
The relationship proved to be symbiotic. He added, "Leo's very analytical, particularly from character point of view but also how the entire story is going to function and relate to his character It's actually been an interesting set of conversations, and I think it's improved the project enormously.
I think the emotional life of the character now drives the story more than it did before. The couple has co-produced a number of films including The Dark Knight trilogy, "Inception" , "Interstellar" , and more.
Though DiCaprio was the star of "Inception" as Cobb, two other notable actors were offered the part before him, sources told The Hollywood Reporter. Nolan first approached Pitt for the role but reportedly gave him 48 hours to accept or decline. When he didn't hear back in time, the filmmaker asked Smith to take it on. In Yusuf's Dileep Rao dream, a massive train mysteriously appears and plows through the city road.
The train has "" written on the front of it. A masked man walks into a room where two men in suits are being held prisoner. DiCaprio screams, "This was not part of the plan! Shots of DiCaprio continuing to fall into the tub are interspersed with shots of two men fighting. The water apparently wakes DiCaprio. He appears to have something around his wrist, and eating class noticed something coming out of his hand. We hear a woman, perhaps Page, screaming, "Wake me up!
Wake me up! And we end on another fine water shot, with DiCaprio standing in the middle of a room as streams of water burst in overhead.
It would be great if there was a tab at the top of io9 that removed articles that were potential spoilers for movies that haven't been released. I know I'm going to see this film. I just don't want to know anything about it going in. I kind of feel the same way about Iron Man 2. I feel like I know too much already. Sorry if it comes off as critical, I just don't have a great deal of self-control on articles like this.
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