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Background Information
Inception was released by Time Warner Company of USA in 2010. Christopher Nolan (克里斯托弗·诺兰,July 30, 1970—) is the director and scriptwriter. The story is about the hero Dom Cobb, a thief who extracts information from the unconscious mind of his victims while they dream. Unable to visithis children, Cobb is offered a chanceto regain his old life in exchange for one last job — performing inception, the planting of an idea into the mind of his client’s competitor.
Inception, officially budgeted at $160 million to be split between Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, began roughly nine years before Inception was released. In 2001,Nolan wrote an 80-page treatment about dream-stealers, presenting the idea to Warner Bros. He spent six months polishing up the script for Inception before Warner Bros. purchased it in February 2009. Filming spanned six countries and four continents, beginning in Tokyo on June 19,2009 and finishing in
Inception:
It is a dream term in the movie. It doesn’t mean stealing information from others in a dream, but putting some thoughts into a target, making him think that this idea is his, so as to change his originally deep-rooted ideas in reality.
Clues:
Obvious clue: The process of Cobb and others to complete the task (Implanting the idea of company dissolution in Fischer’s mind).
Obscure clue: Cobb washed the inner feelings of guilt and his self redemption.
Six levels ofthe complex, exciting, adventurous action of Inception:
Reality
The first layer of dreamland— In the street of heavy rain. Yusuf’s dream.
The second layer of dreamland —In the hotel. Arthur’s dream.
The third layer of dreamland —In the mountain. Eames’dream.
The fourth layer of dreamland —The world created by Cobb and his wife. Cobb’s dream.
Limbo (迷失域) — Saito became the old man.
Totem (图腾):
In the film, it is used to distinguish between reality and dream. Cobb’s totem is the gyro (陀螺仪), when spinning top, if the gyro has not fallen, it is in the dream; if the gyro stops, it is in reality.
In ancient times in some societies a totem is the particular animal, plant, or natural object which they regard as a special symbol and which has spiritual significance. It is one of the first cultural phenomena in human history.
Kick (堕醒):
It’s that feeling of falling you get that jolts you awake. It snaps you out of the dream. (在本片中指把在梦境中的人唤醒,发生在N层梦境,然后把N+1层梦境中的人拉回到N层。)
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