Inception

Inception (2010) excoriates the perplexity of reality due to the human psyche’s reliance on our empirical senses when discerning reality from illusion. Nolan achieves this via the fabrication of dreams and memories; a concept that is heavily reliant on visualisation. During the exposition and Ariadne’s “first lesson in shared dreaming”, Ariadne is oblivious to the supposed dream world in which she was residing in until Cobb enquires with the imperative “Think about it […] How did you get here?”.…

1.0 Introduction “Well, dreams, they feel real while we’re in them, right? It’s only when we wake up then we realize that something was actually strange” (McCateer, 2010). Inception is a science-fiction movie, which was produced and directed by Christopher Nolan in 2010. ‘Inception’ as a concept refers to the situation when you plant an idea in someone’s mind without his or her knowledge of it happening (Rivera, 2012). The movie explores the ability to differentiate dreams from reality (Malcolm…

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…

Inception, the dreamy movie that’ll keep you so excited you’ll never be able to sleep through it, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, and Michael Cane. Inception is a complicated thriller-like movie, that was first intended to be a horror movie, but the director changed it into a Sci-Fi/Thriller movie. I must say, for a once intended horror movie, the movie extremely lacked scares, and I’m 12. The movie however, is thrilling and intense at times.…

began with Don and Lina in the acting set, making a film. They were seen by the public as a couple, but Don didn’t see it that way. I think the movie was great for how they made it work, what I mean by that is there is acting in acting. So like “Inception” the movie, a dream in a dream; I can compare the movie to that. The story of the movie is from Don and Lina being suppose acting couples. They were famous for their silent films, the people loved them. Don wasn’t really all for the couple…

Introspection, Behaviorism, and the Cognitive Revolution Introspection and behaviorism both had faults when it came to defining and proving the science of psychology. Introspection fell quickly to its lack of consistency and true measurability. These shortcomings forced the practice to be replaced with the more researchable theory of behaviorism. Behaviorism held dominance over psychology for a few decades, because of the inclination it had towards the truly measurable observations in the field…

Inception director Christopher Nolan created a psychological sci-fi action film about a thief Dom Cobb who has the ability to enter into the dreams of others thereby learning their secrets. When given a proposition by Japanese businessman Mr. Saito Cobb cannot resist he assembles a team together, the plan to plant an idea in Mr. Saito’s opposition Robert Fischer Sr mind by creating dreams with dreams so in the end Robert Fischer Sr would think he came up with the idea himself. However the plan…

Inception directed by Christopher Nolan depicts a man named Dom Cobb, with the ability to infiltrate people’s dreams and steal their secrets from their subconscious. During his journey he encounters a most challenging task; to plant an idea in someone's mind. Dom Cobb’s task introduces the Phenomenological study of reality viewed in the Metaphysical unit of Philosophy. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Phenomenology is the study of consciousness as an experienced form of…

“Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange”(Cobb). Statements like this are what movies like Inception and The Matrix revolve around. Throughout such movies we ask ourselves time after time, is it a dream or is it reality? Christopher Nolen the director of Inception goes even further and depicts a picture where a person goes into multiple dreams while being in one all ready. The main idea behind The Matrix is that the world we…

Leonard from Memento, and a man who can’t tell the difference between dreams and reality, Dominic from Inception. Both Memento and Inception made by Christopher Nolan contains several instances of symbolism that gives understanding to how the characters think and how they react to certain situations. Both Leonard and Dominic in a way manipulates others’ lives for their own desires. Memento and Inception are similar because of their story structure, same type of protagonist’s, and the symbolism…