Perception Changes Reality In Christopher Nolan's Inception

Inception: Perception Changes Reality
Christopher Nolan is known for his intellectual takes on genre pieces. Often incorporating his appreciation and love of the film medium, it could be argued that while he does not always resort to cheap twists, his eye for what separates film from other forms of entertainment and how he uses it to play with the audiences’ expectations and notions seems to be what primarily separates him from his contemporaries. Inception is no exception to this, and in fact shows that even while in the middle of directing Batman, he can produce an interesting mixture of the faster paced style he had recently picked up combined with the complex narrative of his previous works he makes a produces an interesting work that is more than the sum of its parts.
“Inception" on first viewing, it is best to enjoy it, and save the head-scratching and unavoidable deep interpretations for later. Cobb, a man with a tortured past, is approached by a mysterious benefactor and assembles a crew for the big job offering big rewards. Go a little deeper and the jobs goal is not riches, …show more content…
Our Perceptions are challenged before we even know it as we slowly are introduced to the rules of this world. Our main players are Dominik Cobb and his associate Arthur, extractors well versed in traversing the dream working a job against Saito to extract information. What we see is simply a test to gauge the two Extractors skills as we gain an important glimpse at the realities of Cobbs past manifesting and seen ruining their introduced hit. We also gain insight into the rules of this world and how dream states operate. Interlopers into a person’s subconscious can alter or influence their minds to reveal information or in extreme cases, incept their free will and how they perceive reality. Almost like living subliminal messages Extractors are shown to pillage and shape thought. (Manila