Of course, "Inception" also gives different people different understandings after watching it.
In particular, there are several points where the two groups of movie fans are arguing endlessly.
First of all, what is the first Cobb’s totem? Is it a spinning top?
"It must be a top. Doesn't the last scene also stop at the top?"
"It should not be a top, but a totem. It is an indispensable thing for every dreamer. It can help the dreamer distinguish dreams from reality. In the movie, Cobb always uses whether the top stops spinning to judge whether he is still dreaming.
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But the top was not originally owned by Cobb, but by his wife.
In the movie, Cobb once said that totems cannot be touched by other people, and only the dreamer himself knows the focus of the totem.
So why can Cobb control his wife's totem? This setting itself is very suspicious.
And if you look carefully, you can find that Cobb's real totem may be his ring.
Because every time Cobb appears in a dream, a ring will suddenly appear in his hand, but in the real part of the plot, the ring disappears.
So it is very possible that this ring is Cobb’s true totem.”
"I agree, the top has always been his wife's totem. Although the movie doesn't tell you what Cobb's totem is, it is definitely not a top, but a ring!"
"No, no, no, Cobb put the top into the safe and told Mal that the spinning top was unrealistic. The spinning top was done by Cobb by changing his thoughts in the dream, just like Linnie's dream was changed by her thoughts.
The physics routine is the same, but the difference is that Cobb used this idea to implant his wife's brain, making her consciousness non-reality! In other words, the top belonged to Cobb, and he told Linnie that it belonged to Mal.
I only said that out of guilt for Mal.
In the end, Cobb returned to reality. Referring to the previous times when the two children did not show positive images, the director came to reflect the images in dreams the previous times. The last time he used the children to show their faces to tell the audience that after many obstacles
, Cobb finally got away with it and went home. In the end, the obvious trembling of the top and the rapid sound just confirmed that the top was about to stop spinning. This is just a little trick played by the director, please don't understand it too much."
The second point of controversy: Is Cobb awake or dreaming?
Because at the end of the film, Cobb completed his mission and returned to reality. Before walking towards his children, he placed the top on the table. The director gave the top a long close-up.
The fatal thing is that until the end of the film, the top is still spinning.
"There is no perpetual motion machine in this world. There is only one possibility for the top to keep spinning, and that is that Cobb is still dreaming, and this is the meaning of the totem's existence."
"But if you look carefully, you will find that the top shook at the last second. As to whether this means that the top is about to stop or the director forgot to reduce the unstable image, it depends on different people's opinions."
"No, in the end he saw the faces of his children, so he must have woken up, right?"
The third controversial point: Is Cobb dead or his wife?
"In the movie, Cobb is always remembering his wife.
He and his wife were very loving, so they created a dream. For five minutes in reality, they could stay together for decades in the dream.
The wife was greedy for the sweetness in the dream, and over time she regarded the dream as reality and did not want to wake up.
In the end, Cobb forcibly implanted the consciousness in his wife's brain to wake her up, and finally made her commit suicide by lying on the train in her dream, and finally woke up.
But after waking up, the wife could not distinguish between dreams and reality. She believed that reality was a dream and dreams were reality, so she committed suicide by jumping off the building again in real life, hoping to return to the dream.
So it's obvious that Mal is dead, right?
What appears in the dream has always been Cobb’s consciousness, right?”
But some people gave different answers to the same question.
"What if all this is just Cobb's dream? Because he still can't remember the appearance of his child, it's more like a dreamer's unclear consciousness.
Why can't it be that everything that happened in the movie was Cobb's inability to accept the reality after his wife committed suicide by lying on the train in her dream?
His wife woke up, but Cobb was still immersed in the sadness of his sleep, having one big dream after another."
"No, if it's true that the wife is awake and Cobb is dreaming, then the wife can definitely stimulate him to wake up in real life!"
"It's hard to say that Cobb may have had this dream for only half a minute in reality. Who can say for sure?"
"Please refer to the penultimate layer of the dream, that is, Mal kidnapped Fisher to the dream city where she had been vacated for decades. Cobb told him her reaction after implanting thoughts in Mal's mind, Mal's consciousness
At this moment, she is just a reflection in someone else's dream, and she is so angry that she even wants to kill Cobb! Why? Because in this dream, Mal projected by Cobb truly realizes that she is dead, and the direct cause of death is
I was unknowingly implanted with a thought by my lover, and this thought made me and Cobb separated from each other in life and death! Note that the Mal here is a projection of Cobb's dream, not the real Mal!"
The fourth controversy: Is everything a "conspiracy" of the father-in-law?
"In the movie, in order to complete the pardon, Cobb accepted the task given to him by Li Teng. In order to better complete the task, he found his father-in-law and asked him for a talented student.
The father-in-law did not agree with Cobb's approach, saying that he was immersed in the pain of his wife's death and his psychological problems were getting worse, and he hoped that he would stop.
But in the end, his father-in-law recommended Lin Ni. This girl's dream-building talent shocked Cobb. After a short period of study, she might even surpass Cobb.
The reason why Cobb was finally able to overcome the pain of losing his wife was largely due to Lin Ni's help.
So why can't we assume that it is possible that Lin Ni is actually a "spy" sent by her father-in-law. She created many dreams for Cobb unconsciously in order to make him accept reality.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Otherwise, why did the dream builder with such high skills have no obvious role in the final mission? "
"How did you think that Cobb's father-in-law was a spy? Everything the couple learned and did was taught by his father-in-law. Although Mal died because of Cobb, the knowledge and cultivation of Cobb's father-in-law in the film and his willingness to let go
When Lin Ni follows Cobb in his dream, it can be seen that his father-in-law is not angry with Cobb because of his daughter's death. From the scene at the end of the film when Cobb's father-in-law greets him at the airport and gently puts his hand on his back, it can be seen that the relationship between him and his father-in-law has not become rigid.
.So it’s completely over-interpreted, right?”
"I think this is the best thing about movies. Everyone's understanding of the movie is different, and the content of the movie is different, giving everyone a different viewing effect. The best thing about movies is that one movie can tell everyone
Different stories. We don’t have to convince others to understand our understanding of the movie. We see the details, the resonance of emotions, the epitome of reality, and what the future will look like. This is the charm of the movie. It expresses our understanding of the future and the unknown.
Beautiful yearning, love for life.”
Of course, the totem top is a topic that cannot be escaped.
Some film critics specifically interpreted the top: "The top, dice or chess are all totems that distinguish dreams from reality. When using it, you must firmly believe that the totem will show some results: for example, firmly believe that the top will not stop spinning; firmly believe that the top will not stop spinning;
Every time the dice is thrown, the result will not be six; the chess set with an unstable center of gravity will not be knocked over, etc. If the totem really produces such a result, which is consistent with their imagination, it means that they are still in the dream.
, because the subconscious mind in their dreams created this result.
As long as the person in the dream, whether the dreamer or the infiltrator, has a strong subconscious mind, they will have an impact on the results of the totem in the dream, making the results of the totem move closer to the direction expected by the user.
However, even such a strong subconscious mind can only minimally allow the user to use it and obtain the results expected by the user. Therefore, the working principle of the totem cannot be designed to be too complicated to be difficult to realize in dreams.
Subconsciously, it must be easier to realize that the regularly rotating top will never stop than to drill holes on the table; it must be easier to realize that the result of the dice is not six every time than to throw six every time...especially when you are in the presence of others.
In dreams, the more you interfere with your dreams, the more repulsive your dreams will be to you, so the design of the totem should avoid this.
However, the simpler the working principle of the totem is designed, the more it means that the totem may not be reliable every time - for example, the spinning top may be affected by the nearby artificial magnetic field and continue to rotate, etc. - and the user
Once he thinks like this, his subconscious will be shaken. Even if he tells himself in his heart that the spinning of the top will not stop, his subconscious will still have subtle doubts: Can the totem still play a role in discrimination? No one in the film is in the same dream.
Or they use totems repeatedly in real-life plots, and do not verify each other after using the totems separately, because they firmly believe that their totems will not go wrong.
In addition, once you know that someone understands the entire working principle of your totem, inexperienced people will also be shaken subconsciously - they are afraid that that person will tamper with your totem in reality, or that others will tamper with your totem in a dream.
The results of totem screening exert influence.
After he and Lin Ni sneaked into the dreamland for the second time and woke up, Cobut went to another room to operate the totem. Because the spinning top was used as a totem, its working principle would be guessed by people as soon as they saw it: to fall or not to fall.
Or fall down, and Arthur's dice may produce many results: it can throw six, five, four, three, two, one... However, he did not use the dice in front of Lin Ni.
Once the user subconsciously no longer trusts the totem, the phenomenon of the totem losing its function will be self-fulfilling.
So, what would a totem that doesn't work look like? The simpler the totem's working principle, the easier it is for the user's subconscious to manipulate it, but conversely, the user's subconscious can also reverse its results: for example, in a dream
, the user no longer subconsciously believes that the dice will not roll a six every time, then the dice may actually roll a six once; the chess may also fall after being touched... This will make the user in the dream mistakenly believe that the dice will not roll a six every time.
Think they are in reality.
In the dream at the bottom, Cobb's final conversation with Mal: He wants to get rid of his previous guilt, concentrate on completing the task, and do his best to return to the children.
In the process, Cobb gave himself two hints: 1. Mal will no longer appear; 2. He will return to the children.
It is worth noting that during this period, Mal called the two children over, and Cobb immediately turned back when the children turned to face him.
In the previous dream, he could always look at the backs of the children and did not avoid the children who might turn around. In other words, he wanted to get closer to the children before. This change shows that Cobb has subconsciously
Shaken, he realized that the belief of "returning to the children" instilled in him would cause him to be unable to distinguish between reality and dreams, and would regard being with the children as reality - he had not seen the children for a long time.
He had almost forgotten the appearance of the children, and he began to fear that the appearance of the children in the dream would become clearer and make him think that he was in reality.
At the end of the film, Cobb unconsciously raised his head and saw what he most eagerly anticipated but wanted to avoid seeing: the children had grown up, with innocent and cute little faces looking at him.
At this time, Gyro had not yet given the screening results.
If there's one time in the film where a totem doesn't work, it's this time.
In fact, the situation of the top was already clarified at the very beginning of the film: on the edge of the dream, the old Li Teng personally picked up the top found from Cobb and started spinning it on the table. Cobb saw all this -
—This must have been the last straw that shook Cobb's subconscious.
At the end of the film, Cobb no longer cares about the top. He goes out and happily picks up the children. The top on the table loses its stability and will eventually fall, but it doesn't mean anything. Its fall is just Cobb's subconscious.
Shaking results.
But there is also a question that many netizens don't understand, and that is whether the spinning top stopped at the end of the film. In fact, it is a discussion of whether Cobb returned to reality at the end.
It makes sense to speculate directly from the top. There is also a more obscure but very logical method, which is to look at the ring on Cobb's hand.
In all dream scenes (including a flashback), Cobb has a ring on his hand, and in all real-life scenes, he does not have a ring on his hand.
When he passed the customs and returned home, he did not have a ring on his hand, so he knew that he had returned to reality and the top would stop.
And why doesn't he have a ring on his hand in real life?
There are two explanations. One of them is because in reality, Mal is dead. Of course he knows this, but in fact, in the dream, his subconscious still cannot accept the fact that his wife Mal is dead, so he keeps wearing the ring on his finger.
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So is the ring a totem? Definitely not!
What is the meaning of the ring? I think it is a movie Easter egg prepared by the director for everyone. Love (the ring) is the totem that determines whether Cobb is in a dream or not."
