Salac, Carlo P.
2012-29291
Review on Inception
I have been hearing good reviews on
the movie Inception for a long time. I have also planned on watching it many
times, yet I haven’t watched a single part of it until it was played in our STS
class. Upon watching it, I realized one thing: I was so stupid for not watching
this awesome film! It has almost everything that I look for in a film: action,
a touch of science, very good story, and a memory that will make your
imagination work for a long time. This thing is simply two hours of pure
awesomeness!
The idea of dream control has always
fascinated me, and this movie has just shown me the kind of thrill that I want
to experience in my dreams. You can be whatever you like, even break the laws
of physics that you can’t hope to achieve in the real world. Basically, you are
the god of your own realm! The movie also showed some of the possible uses of
dream control, which I found quite disturbing. If thorough studies on dreams
will be done and those applications will be made possible, a whole array of new
crimes can be done such as theft of confidential information and the cultivation
of an idea on other people’s mind which was done in the film. It would be much
better if the dream world, if ever made much more accessible to the community,
would be instead used for self-recreation and development. One thing that I
also find interesting is the concept of the limbo. The idea of being imprisoned
in an imaginary place with no easy means of escape, where you continue to get
old with nothing left to do but to wait for your death is just terrifying. However,
if only there will be a way to freely access this world in your mind, I think
this will be the best place to visit because you can be wherever you want
inside it. It will be the perfect world for yourself.
Regarding the end of the story, whether
Cobb’s reunion with his children was reality or a dream, I think that it was
reality. The spin of the spindle in the last scene was not consistent although
it didn't stop until the end. Also, I think that Cobb has proven himself
deserving to achieve the reality that he always wanted. It was an effective way
to let the viewers think of an ending of their own. In this manner, the movie
was able to keep the viewer’s imagination working. It will be up to us whether
we will give Cobb the reality that he always wanted, or we will forever lock
him in this false reality called dream.
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