Categorical Evaluation
In the movie Inception, Cobb is the main character who summons a brilliant team of mentally stable henchmen in an attempt to create a multiple dimension dream world in order to plant and gain confidential information from some of the world’s most financially powerful beings, such as Saito and Fischer. This film features many complexities and overlap in themes, making it extremely difficult to pinpoint a single genre that best fits it. As Mike Brotherton states, “Science fiction is a story in which science plays a central role using elements beyond our current knowledge or capabilities (Storrs).” Inception uses an oneirological science of dream surfing in order to manipulate others. In Cobb’s case, it was so that he would …show more content…
Many may claim that extracting material from the mind of someone who is asleep is not much of a crime, but I beg to differ. This cannot be compared to taking information from a person in his or her waking life. In the event that a person tells someone in his or her waking life any personal data, it is either because blackmail was involved, or that this someone was one who could be told personal information to. This is opposed to the entire theme of Inception. When Cobb and his team enters the mind of their victim, he is believes that it is a normal REM sleep where he is just having a weird dream. He is never fully aware that Cobb and his crew are encouraging him through a psychological state to ruin his father’s company by gathering info on how the two would normally interact with one …show more content…
Dreams are supposed to be our escape from reality, no matter your social class, but what if it wasn’t? The movie Inception boggles the mind in that sense of your dream being someone else’s reality. With Mal having spent so long in limbo, it became her reality, and with Cobb having spent so much time “planting seeds” in everyone else’s minds during their dream state, that became his reality. It is like not nowhere is safe anymore, but why is this? “Asking the answer not only sheds light on who we are, but on what we feel about the worlds we might make for ourselves (Storrs).” In what we believe is reality, there is such thing as a lucid dream, which does occur in the film, but due to lack of evidence, I am forced to believe that dream sharing especially does not
In the movie Inception, Cobb is the main character who summons a brilliant team of mentally stable henchmen in an attempt to create a multiple dimension dream world in order to plant and gain confidential information from some of the world’s most financially powerful beings, such as Saito and Fischer. This film features many complexities and overlap in themes, making it extremely difficult to pinpoint a single genre that best fits it. As Mike Brotherton states, “Science fiction is a story in which science plays a central role using elements beyond our current knowledge or capabilities (Storrs).” Inception uses an oneirological science of dream surfing in order to manipulate others. In Cobb’s case, it was so that he would …show more content…
Many may claim that extracting material from the mind of someone who is asleep is not much of a crime, but I beg to differ. This cannot be compared to taking information from a person in his or her waking life. In the event that a person tells someone in his or her waking life any personal data, it is either because blackmail was involved, or that this someone was one who could be told personal information to. This is opposed to the entire theme of Inception. When Cobb and his team enters the mind of their victim, he is believes that it is a normal REM sleep where he is just having a weird dream. He is never fully aware that Cobb and his crew are encouraging him through a psychological state to ruin his father’s company by gathering info on how the two would normally interact with one …show more content…
Dreams are supposed to be our escape from reality, no matter your social class, but what if it wasn’t? The movie Inception boggles the mind in that sense of your dream being someone else’s reality. With Mal having spent so long in limbo, it became her reality, and with Cobb having spent so much time “planting seeds” in everyone else’s minds during their dream state, that became his reality. It is like not nowhere is safe anymore, but why is this? “Asking the answer not only sheds light on who we are, but on what we feel about the worlds we might make for ourselves (Storrs).” In what we believe is reality, there is such thing as a lucid dream, which does occur in the film, but due to lack of evidence, I am forced to believe that dream sharing especially does not