Inception is a science-fiction action film, It written and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film was released in 2010 by Warner Bros. I think it has used steriotypical conventions a lot thriller movies have.
The narrative centers around crime, Inception uses crime as the prime theme of the thriller by going into Fisher's son's mind to persuade him to give up the business and not follow his father. The idea of Inception is then used to plant an idea into his mind, this was done on a 10 hour flight to US and then was consummated, within this time period to change is mind. Inception is a thriller because there sudden rush of emotions, excitement, sense of suspense, apprehension, and exhilaration, which all drive the narrative, this is very stereotypical in most thriller films.
The protagonist (‘Cobb’) is fallible of his wife ‘Mol’ his dead wife but she is also antagonist, the villain of the film! This Makes the Protagonist weak and vulnerable, this creates Achilles heel and stops him doing his job properly because of his wife! Cobb originally made Mol the enemy by planting thoughts into her mind, resulting in her getting confused and killer her self by think she is still in a dream. So ‘Cobbs’ memories of her and the children distract him in his dreams!
In Inception the protagonist, was definitely seen in danger at many times during the film. Cobbs makes himself to be the quite vulnerable at points especially when Mol his wife makes an appearance. The places he created in his mind is so subversive and sometimes proves to be impossible and presents to us his fear and the danger which confines him. Cobbs takes risks to help people he is in the layers with, as well as covering his own back from approaching danger. This shown by different camera angles, like close ups to capture fear and emotions or to capture action by using long shots . In a certain scene where the protagonist is seen in peril is near the end of the film where he is sat in the house with Mol his wife and she is asking for him to stay and share a life with her in the subconscious world they created years ago, but she becomes apprehensive and stabs a kitchen knife to his body. He is was then hurt but had to find strength within his mind to work out that it isn't reality and he will be okay once he wakes up.
In Inception antagonist (Mol, Cobbs wife) is very controlling and powerful over Cobb's mind and thoughts and at some points blocks any other thoughts he may have, so that he cannot stop thinking about Mol and whether what he is doing is the right thing to do. Near the end she traps him in the world which they created together by using memories and ideas they shared, this makes him extremely vulnerable to Mol to enter his mind with thoughts of her. At the very start she was so preoccupied by this thought that she wasn't living in the real world and that she should take 'a leap of faith' to reality so they could be with their children is reality. She tried very hard to persuade Cobbs that what she was saying was true and that he should jump of the side of the building with her and they'd be able to live "happily ever after" and here it proved to take a lot for Cobb to know she wasn't right and not to listen to this complicated theory that she had thought up. When she did jumped of the side of the building and fell this left him feeling helpless and lonely in his world because he hadn't understood what she had been trying to explain about and this is then where the whole idea of inception occurred making him then live an isolated place within other people's subconsciousness minds!!
Most of the places in the narrative of Inceptions is created in the protagonist mind, In his mind he created cities, hall, buildings, landscapes and things from memory, but none of it was actually real! There was a group of people who joined the protagonist, to filter through the subconscious and to change what people thought by planting idea into people heads. They could change the way someone lived there life by attacking them in there head and forcing ideas into there mind, like they did with Fisher on the Flight to LA!!!
Sound
Most of the sound was mainly diegetic and either consisted of speech, gun shots, machinery, or the music which was played into the ears of the person to wake them up out of the subconscious. The sounds heard by the audience were all heard by the characters too, as they were mostly just the surrounding background sounds in characters environment. There wasn’t any non diegetic music or sounds used to create an atmosphere or certain mood. However the sounds of the gun shots and explosions may have been enhanced non diegetic sounds to create a more realistic sound and atmosphere.
Camera work
There was lots of long shot to capture the action to build up the suspense, like for example the shooting scenes and the floating down the corridor. Another camera work which helps build up suspense was Cobbs point of view when his wife was about to jump of the building! There was arrange of over shoulder shots with Mel and Cobbs when they were having a conversation.
Mise en scene
The character are dressed in clothes for the situation they are in, this acts to help them blend in and to wear clothes which are suitable for the situation, For example the ski clothes for when they went to that locations in the snow or when they were on the plane or when the were in the sea. All the clothes don’t look out place, therefore help them blend into there surroundings! The Guns, ski’s where used to back the genre of the thriller, whereas chairs, table and house hold objects etc.. were used to help create the scene.
editing
Editing was used to create suspense, for example explosions or when that massive storm cloud came when Cobb was in his subconscious to show fear of time running out or when the city was turned up side down, it all help to create an atmosphere for a good thriller. The storm clouds was created using CGI and some of the scenes like when the city turned upside down where done with a green screen. When of the character is floating down the corridor they used a rotational green screen to make it look like he was floating around!
There used all 3 key elements for this thriller, all to a certain degree throughout the film, but the main theme was most probably amnesia as at the end of the film we clearly see at the air port when Fisher's son sees Cob he doe not recognize him and remember the events which have just taken place in the layers of his subconscious mind. All of the work they do in the minds of these people is forgotten apart from the main objective which is to change the someones mind about something or make them want to do something. Although it proves that when Cobb meets Mol again it is clear that he can soon suffer amnesia about his task in hand and can soon slip away to forgetting she is dead and is only a created in his head.
Inception uses all these elements, which show all these themes. The main idea of this film is to enter someones mind and alter what they think by planting ideas into there subconscious. The images trick you into thinking everything is reality, but really its just a figure of your imagination!
At the very beginning of Inception Cobb lying is in the sea as if he had just been washed up there, this moment carried on to show him in a Japanese building showing him sat opposite end of the table to an man who had found him and was trying to get words from him to discover information about the spinning top Cobbs has. This moment then was carried on to create the rest of the film, but then at the very end, we only then find out how Cobb became to be washed up in the sea and went back to the same place!!!
which then resolved the film and the task they had been working to complete. This then put all the pieces together and then you work out the task and then inception is completed!!!!
The narrative centers around crime, Inception uses crime as the prime theme of the thriller by going into Fisher's son's mind to persuade him to give up the business and not follow his father. The idea of Inception is then used to plant an idea into his mind, this was done on a 10 hour flight to US and then was consummated, within this time period to change is mind. Inception is a thriller because there sudden rush of emotions, excitement, sense of suspense, apprehension, and exhilaration, which all drive the narrative, this is very stereotypical in most thriller films.
The protagonist (‘Cobb’) is fallible of his wife ‘Mol’ his dead wife but she is also antagonist, the villain of the film! This Makes the Protagonist weak and vulnerable, this creates Achilles heel and stops him doing his job properly because of his wife! Cobb originally made Mol the enemy by planting thoughts into her mind, resulting in her getting confused and killer her self by think she is still in a dream. So ‘Cobbs’ memories of her and the children distract him in his dreams!
In Inception the protagonist, was definitely seen in danger at many times during the film. Cobbs makes himself to be the quite vulnerable at points especially when Mol his wife makes an appearance. The places he created in his mind is so subversive and sometimes proves to be impossible and presents to us his fear and the danger which confines him. Cobbs takes risks to help people he is in the layers with, as well as covering his own back from approaching danger. This shown by different camera angles, like close ups to capture fear and emotions or to capture action by using long shots . In a certain scene where the protagonist is seen in peril is near the end of the film where he is sat in the house with Mol his wife and she is asking for him to stay and share a life with her in the subconscious world they created years ago, but she becomes apprehensive and stabs a kitchen knife to his body. He is was then hurt but had to find strength within his mind to work out that it isn't reality and he will be okay once he wakes up.
In Inception antagonist (Mol, Cobbs wife) is very controlling and powerful over Cobb's mind and thoughts and at some points blocks any other thoughts he may have, so that he cannot stop thinking about Mol and whether what he is doing is the right thing to do. Near the end she traps him in the world which they created together by using memories and ideas they shared, this makes him extremely vulnerable to Mol to enter his mind with thoughts of her. At the very start she was so preoccupied by this thought that she wasn't living in the real world and that she should take 'a leap of faith' to reality so they could be with their children is reality. She tried very hard to persuade Cobbs that what she was saying was true and that he should jump of the side of the building with her and they'd be able to live "happily ever after" and here it proved to take a lot for Cobb to know she wasn't right and not to listen to this complicated theory that she had thought up. When she did jumped of the side of the building and fell this left him feeling helpless and lonely in his world because he hadn't understood what she had been trying to explain about and this is then where the whole idea of inception occurred making him then live an isolated place within other people's subconsciousness minds!!
Most of the places in the narrative of Inceptions is created in the protagonist mind, In his mind he created cities, hall, buildings, landscapes and things from memory, but none of it was actually real! There was a group of people who joined the protagonist, to filter through the subconscious and to change what people thought by planting idea into people heads. They could change the way someone lived there life by attacking them in there head and forcing ideas into there mind, like they did with Fisher on the Flight to LA!!!
Sound
Most of the sound was mainly diegetic and either consisted of speech, gun shots, machinery, or the music which was played into the ears of the person to wake them up out of the subconscious. The sounds heard by the audience were all heard by the characters too, as they were mostly just the surrounding background sounds in characters environment. There wasn’t any non diegetic music or sounds used to create an atmosphere or certain mood. However the sounds of the gun shots and explosions may have been enhanced non diegetic sounds to create a more realistic sound and atmosphere.
Camera work
There was lots of long shot to capture the action to build up the suspense, like for example the shooting scenes and the floating down the corridor. Another camera work which helps build up suspense was Cobbs point of view when his wife was about to jump of the building! There was arrange of over shoulder shots with Mel and Cobbs when they were having a conversation.
Mise en scene
The character are dressed in clothes for the situation they are in, this acts to help them blend in and to wear clothes which are suitable for the situation, For example the ski clothes for when they went to that locations in the snow or when they were on the plane or when the were in the sea. All the clothes don’t look out place, therefore help them blend into there surroundings! The Guns, ski’s where used to back the genre of the thriller, whereas chairs, table and house hold objects etc.. were used to help create the scene.
editing
Editing was used to create suspense, for example explosions or when that massive storm cloud came when Cobb was in his subconscious to show fear of time running out or when the city was turned up side down, it all help to create an atmosphere for a good thriller. The storm clouds was created using CGI and some of the scenes like when the city turned upside down where done with a green screen. When of the character is floating down the corridor they used a rotational green screen to make it look like he was floating around!
There used all 3 key elements for this thriller, all to a certain degree throughout the film, but the main theme was most probably amnesia as at the end of the film we clearly see at the air port when Fisher's son sees Cob he doe not recognize him and remember the events which have just taken place in the layers of his subconscious mind. All of the work they do in the minds of these people is forgotten apart from the main objective which is to change the someones mind about something or make them want to do something. Although it proves that when Cobb meets Mol again it is clear that he can soon suffer amnesia about his task in hand and can soon slip away to forgetting she is dead and is only a created in his head.
Inception uses all these elements, which show all these themes. The main idea of this film is to enter someones mind and alter what they think by planting ideas into there subconscious. The images trick you into thinking everything is reality, but really its just a figure of your imagination!
At the very beginning of Inception Cobb lying is in the sea as if he had just been washed up there, this moment carried on to show him in a Japanese building showing him sat opposite end of the table to an man who had found him and was trying to get words from him to discover information about the spinning top Cobbs has. This moment then was carried on to create the rest of the film, but then at the very end, we only then find out how Cobb became to be washed up in the sea and went back to the same place!!!
which then resolved the film and the task they had been working to complete. This then put all the pieces together and then you work out the task and then inception is completed!!!!
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