Inception Essay

The film we recently finished in class that pertained to our screenwriting unit was Inception, which was directed by Christopher Nolan and was released in the year 2010. This movie is set during a modern time period and has multiple settings. Although, the majority of the settings are located in the dreams of Fischer such as a city, a hotel and a snow fortress. There are three characters that the movie focuses on: Dom Cobb, Ariadne and Robert Fischer. Inception is about a man named Dom Cobb who has the ability to enter in people’s dreams and steal things from them. Cobb is asked to perform inception on Robert Fischer so that he has the desire to break up his father’s company. Cobb goes through multiple levels of Fischer’s subconscious with …show more content…
The second positive is the writer’s ability to develop the characters through a series of trials which give the audience an insight into the lives of the major players. One of the screenwriting weaknesses in Inception is the confusion that is caused at the beginning. Although this piece of the film is an important part of the end, it makes the movie a little confusing. A second weakness of Inception’s screenwriting is that there doesn’t feel to be as many little details as their should be. There are many unanswered questions such as what happens to Ariadne’s totem, why does Cobb keep Mal’s, and why do the kicks need to be synchronized and then not at the same time? One of the themes in Inception is the ability to get over guilt. Throughout the movie, the viewers comes to understand that Cobb feels responsible for his wife’s death due to him planting the idea in her head that the world they were living in was a false reality. In the end, Cobb is willing to let her go and realise that her death wasn’t his fault. I did enjoy this movie because it encouraged my mind to think about what it would be like to actually have access to other people’s dreams and it was an enjoyable movie to