Inception And Descartes Similarities

The Inception and the works of Descartes share many similarities within their conceptualization.The most prominent, in my own perspective, is the dubious nature of the senses. Descartes persists, especially in “Meditation One,” that the senses are easily tricked and that one could not know, with absolute certainty, that they display reality. In this film, every dream the subject is immersed in is nearly indistinguishable from reality by all five primary senses. Despite knowing this fact, at one point, Dominic Cobb questions the reality of seeing his deceased wife at a crucial point in his mission.
This also draws from “Meditation Six,” in which one often cannot distinguish a dream from reality. In addition, his wife’s constant immersion into the dreams caused her to lose grasp on whether the dream was reality or reality was the dream. The subconscious creates and perceives the false …show more content…
Since the “wave” had already happened, and there were little signs of significant odd effects when approaching Saito, Cobb must have missed his chance to escape. In addition to this, time passes faster between iterations, but not in the same stage. When they found Fischer, the man had seemingly not aged upon their arrival. However, when finding Saito, Cobb was confronted by an elderly man despite himself being youthful. If they had truly found each other, I am doubtful this would be the case.
Lastly, though rather weaker, is that fact that Cobb’s began to lose sense of reality near the end of the film. In the tundra region, he began to question whether his wife, or the dream, were real or not. The lack of drive to kill her given their goal, and his strong desire to return to his children, seems to feed the narrative that the character would rather choose to ignore reality in the face of the fantastical fiction his subconscious created for