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I’m going to be serious today, because I just watched a very serious film yesterday. It was called ?Inception.?
It’s about a man called Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is able to enter dreams and steal their ideas (extraction) (or at least get to know their subconscious better). He is called upon to do the opposite of this: plant an idea in someone’s head and this is called ?inception?.
The guy whose head is being invaded is a guy who has issues with his dad and Cobb’s mission is to manipulate this in order to split up the company so that the person who commissioned this adventure can benefit.
However, as it turns out, Cobb has his own issues which complicate the whole mission: he is not over his wife’s death and his own separation from his kids. The problem is that he ?incepted? an idea in his wife’s head that the dream was actually real which destabilised her to take her own life in order to return to the dream, which she thought was real. Thus, much guilt.
Cobb likes to spend his time going back to these memories in the dream state. It takes the form of an elevator where the basement is the event of her suicide. He really enjoys going back to all these memories. Of course, this can only be unhealthy.
So when he is on his dream missions, it is not surprising that his dead wife intrudes on the dream in a way that compromises the mission. Even images of his children drift in and out and break his focus.
The movie was very deep and made me think about our own layers of the unconscious. This film has about four layers of dreams.
