2010年8月1日星期日

Movie - Inception

STOP READING IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE MOVIE!

Levels of Dreamhttp://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/film/5-levels-inception-infographic.html
I personally don't think we have levels of dream. The levels of dream in the movie give me a sense of entering hell, especially when the ultimate level is called "limbo". We do have different phases of sleep. We also have levels of consciousness. The levels of dream in Inception are like call-forwarding. I wouldn't say it's getting deeper anywhere. It's just going from room one to room two until room five.

Dream Equals to Memory?I know Sir Edward Youde died in his sleep, but not because of a dream. I don't think anyone will die in real life because (s)he dies in a dream. All those subconscious characters attacking dreamers, dying in a dream can harm you physcially, dreaming your own dream in someone else dream, bringing totems into dreams (like charms) ... are like video games. It's there to make it an action film. The purpose of getting into someone's dream is to get into someone's mind. Hypnosis can do all that. Why all the hassles and stupid dream machine? You can hypnotise a person and get information or distort the person's memory. Where dream is often elusive. Can Fischer remember the dream? Would he take it seriously? Planting something in a dream is not the same thing as planting an idea in mind. I may dream of marrying someone I hate but that doesn't mean I will do so when I wake up. Dream is the mirror of the mind working. It's not a pathway to mind. Even the dreamer may not understand his/her own dream. The best thing we can do is messing up the dream. But messing up the dreamer's mind? Nuh.

You can find a lot of explanation about Inception here:
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Inception-Explained-Unraveling-The-Dream-Within-The-Dream-19615.html

But I'm more like this guy:
http://frontalot.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=2991&sid=4b0e0937a803df520a3b561192f77d8e

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So far, I had taken full control of a dream twice.
The first time, the dream is so scary I tried to figure out how I got myself into such situation. Things were so illogical I found out that I must be dreaming. I manipulated it for a while and I woke up. Guess designing your own dream is no fun.

The second time, I woke up from a bad dream. I wanted to alter it into a good ending. I planned the ending, went back to sleep, accomplished the mission. This happened only once because usually during a bad dream, your body will create adrenaline (putting you into a flight or fight condition) and you will sweat quite a lot. When you wake up, it's too excited to get back to sleep immediately.