Christopher Nolan (Somewhat) Explains INCEPTION. Inception is a fun movie to talk about thanks to its ambiguity.
If writer-director Christopher Nolan were to come along and tell you exactly what happened, he would only be destroying the ambiguity he built into the film. In the latest issue of Wired (issue 18.12), Nolan provides a little clarification on some of the debated points about his film, but doesn’t spoil the whole thing. Wired lays out the article as a chart with different arguments about the text (“The Entire Movie Is a Dream”, “Just the Ending is a Dream”) and the sub-text (“The Movie is a Meditation on Architecture”, “It’s About Movie-Making”).
Hit the jump for Nolan’s responses to some of the theories. Obviously, spoilers ahead. Thanks to Wired for this awesome article. What’s happening in the movie: After the first extraction fails, Cobb spins his top to check if he is in a dream. “The Ending Is Not a Dream” Argument: This establishes context for the audience—the movie is not all a dream. The Ultimate Explanation Of Inception. (spoilers; you may want to start with this intro post first.)
I'll start at the end: the top will fall. Take a moment. How do you feel? You're probably not satisfied, whether you agree or not. There's no relief to it, no "aha! " To explain how this can be known, you have to consider three metaphors that Nolan makes explicit. First, the labyrinth: Oh, look, a maze. But then nowhere in the movie is there an actual or metaphorical maze. And anyway, mythological Ariadne didn't construct the Minotaur's labyrinth-- Daedalus constructed it for her-- she merely showed Theseus how to get out of it. But Theseus, like the audience, upon being shoved inside wouldn't have known the form of the labyrinth-- dead ends or single path? And so it becomes clear: it's not an actual maze, it's a labyrinth, which brings us to the second metaphor: the paradoxical staircase.A single path, that ends up back on itself.
The staircase defies geometry because it is fixed in a single perspective. IIIb. He incepted himself. Inception. Inception is a 2010 science fiction heist thriller film written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan.
The film stars a large ensemble cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine. DiCaprio plays a professional thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets. He is offered a chance of redemption as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.[4] Plot[edit] Dominick "Dom" Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and business partner Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) are "extractors", people who perform corporate espionage using an experimental military technology to infiltrate the subconscious of their targets and extract information while experiencing shared dreaming.
Cast[edit] Production[edit] Development[edit] Inception Dream Levels. Inception Ending Explained.