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In a span of
about 3 days or so, our class watched the mindboggling movie Inception. This
movie is about a group of guys who extract ideas from people through their
dreams. They go into a deep sleep and make their target person think that his
or her dream is somewhat a reality, and then they try to convince that person
to give to them the idea that they want. Some times they fail and the person
ends up realizing that he or she is dreaming, but other times, they actually
succeed.
In this
movie, the main goal was to do the exact opposite of what they were used to
doing. Instead of extracting an idea from a person’s mind, they were trying to
implant one instead. Their goal was to implant an idea in Fischer’s head to
make him shut down his father’s company. It was a tough road since they had to
go through three dream landscapes, which was what they called inception. A
dream within a dream. In order to achieve this, they had to be heavily sedated,
and the twist here was that if anyone died in the dream, they wouldn’t just
wake up. They were too heavily sedated to do so. They would simply fall into
the bottom most layer of dreamland, complete nothingness. And it was hard to
escape from that. Going to that layer was what killed Cobb, the main
character’s wife because they stayed in that layer for too long that she wasn’t
able to differentiate the dream from reality anymore that when they were back
in the real world, Mal (the wife) killed herself thinking she would just wake
up afterwards. But in the end, they were able to fulfill their duties of
implanting an idea to Fischer’s head.
The last
scene of Inception showed Cobb waking up and going back to his family, and when
he spun his top to see if he wasn’t dreaming, the scene was cut just as we were
about to find out whether or not it would or wouldn’t stop spinning, signifying
whether or not he was really awake. It was very mind boggling indeed.
What I
learned from this is that we should never run to our dreams for comfort,
because dreams offer us a world that we never could imagine, a world that we
could never live in. It offers us fantasies and all those things we wish we had
in real life, and the minute we see dreams as a way to escape, we can never
look at reality the same way again. We will make dreams our reality. If ever
enough technology is gathered to make inception possible, I don’t think it is
the right thing to do. There are too many risks. If we have a problem in our
life, we should face them, not run away from them or use the easy and
manipulative way out. Dreams are a fascinating concept but I don’t think we
should dwell on them too much because that’s what they are: just dreams.
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