Chris Nolan’s 2010 film, Inception is an action packed, attention catching, confusing, demonstration on the elusiveness of reality. It makes you question your ability to have the knowledge of what is real and what is perceived as real. The movie was well written by Chris Nolan, Leonardo DiCaprio was permitted to make some changes to the script. Together they made a great film. Nolan has strategically placed a large amount of symbolism and clues throughout the movie that adds to the experience if you can tie them together. The main character played by DiCaprio, Cobb, has a unique skill. His father Miles, which can be interpreted by a measure of distance and is the one that brings him home to his children at the end of the movie. Miles had taught
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She has an association with mazes and labyrinths because she is known for helping her lover Theseus. Ariadne helped him by giving him a sword and a ball of thread so that he may defeat the Minotaur and then find his way out of the labyrinth. The movie is referencing this because even though Ariadne doesn’t love Cobb, who can be perceived as Theseus, it is she who helps him navigate out of the maze of his guilty memories. Once Cobb finds his way, he can finally let Mal, the Minotaur, go and her memory won’t haunt him anymore. Cobb has held onto his guilt about using inception on her because it was the idea that her reality wasn’t real, that ultimately made her take her …show more content…
If the audience can pay close attention, they will be capable of picking these clues out. One clue is the license plates on the cars in Yusuf’s dream. If you look closely and keep watching, they say The Alternative State. All the audience know that they are already in a dream but that is a giveaway for any non-believers.
The impossible staircase is also influenced by M.C. Escher’s Ascending and Descending painting from 1960. Nolan also names Robert Fischer’s father M. Fischer, which can also be seen as a clue hidden in the movie. Robert Fischer was asked to give the first six numbers that popped into his head when they were in the first level of the dream. Those numbers are repeated in the next level as the six-digit phone number given to Fischer by the blonde. They are also seen as the two hotel room numbers that are used to go into the third level of the dream. The code to the safe in the third level is also those six numbers.
Cobb is also awake at the end of the film because we see that he isn’t wearing his wedding ring. Backed with the knowledge that Mal invades his dreams, the lack of her presence in his perceived reality is also a clue that Cobb isn’t dreaming even when the audience has been left with the question whether or not the top falls over at the
She has an association with mazes and labyrinths because she is known for helping her lover Theseus. Ariadne helped him by giving him a sword and a ball of thread so that he may defeat the Minotaur and then find his way out of the labyrinth. The movie is referencing this because even though Ariadne doesn’t love Cobb, who can be perceived as Theseus, it is she who helps him navigate out of the maze of his guilty memories. Once Cobb finds his way, he can finally let Mal, the Minotaur, go and her memory won’t haunt him anymore. Cobb has held onto his guilt about using inception on her because it was the idea that her reality wasn’t real, that ultimately made her take her …show more content…
If the audience can pay close attention, they will be capable of picking these clues out. One clue is the license plates on the cars in Yusuf’s dream. If you look closely and keep watching, they say The Alternative State. All the audience know that they are already in a dream but that is a giveaway for any non-believers.
The impossible staircase is also influenced by M.C. Escher’s Ascending and Descending painting from 1960. Nolan also names Robert Fischer’s father M. Fischer, which can also be seen as a clue hidden in the movie. Robert Fischer was asked to give the first six numbers that popped into his head when they were in the first level of the dream. Those numbers are repeated in the next level as the six-digit phone number given to Fischer by the blonde. They are also seen as the two hotel room numbers that are used to go into the third level of the dream. The code to the safe in the third level is also those six numbers.
Cobb is also awake at the end of the film because we see that he isn’t wearing his wedding ring. Backed with the knowledge that Mal invades his dreams, the lack of her presence in his perceived reality is also a clue that Cobb isn’t dreaming even when the audience has been left with the question whether or not the top falls over at the