Inception was one of the films that make you question what is reality compared to a dream. Christopher Nolan does an amazing job on having the viewers really think about what is going on throughout the whole movie. Nolan uses different angle shots, crazy rotations, and a great story to have this amazing film hit theaters. This film was not only to have viewers question “what is reality,” but it also is a rollercoaster ride throughout the whole entire film.
Inception means implanting an idea into someone’s mind by entering someone’s dream. The characters in this movie (Cobb, Arthur, Ariadne, Eames, Yusuf, and Saito) form a team to implant an idea into a man’s mind (Robert Fisher) so that man can believe his own idea. While that mission is going on, Cobb has his own mission; to reunite with his children. Cobb also has his own problems throughout the dreams he gets into: his dead wife (Mal). His wife died a while back thinking it was a dream. In order for you to wake up from a dream, you have to die, with that being said, that is how Mal dies. At the end of the movie, the viewers have to think for themselves and try to figure out if Cobb reuniting with his children was a dream, or reality.
A dream within a dream, within a dream is obviously impossible, but Christopher Nolan makes that possible throughout Inception. Nolan purposely makes the viewers pay attention to the movie because he adds many twists, flips, and turns, no literally. The camera angles and rotations during the movie is the definition of the rollercoaster ride viewers end up getting on watching Inception. The reduced depth of field the camera offers is one example of how film can separate itself from reality. A regular pair of well working human eyes is able to see al...
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...e (Ellen Page) she asks, “Wait, whose subconscious are we going into, exactly?” and the audience would usually laugh after she asks this question because everyone at least at some part before that line is already confused. Once again, it is safe to say that this film makes you think and plays tricks on you.
Inception took about ten years to begin production, but it was a great decision by Christopher Nolan. He needs to be thanked for this amazing film. The cast was perfect, and the production was incredible. The movie, having a film time of two hours and twenty-eight minutes, can be a drag for those who do not like watching long films, but this incredible masterpiece Nolan has directed AND written does not disappoint. The audience most likely will lose track of time with this sci-fi thriller due to all the suspenseful action, puzzles, and mazes that they encounter.
This is idea is shown through Descartes’ Painter Analogy, where he states, “painters themselves, even when they study to represent sirens and satyrs by forms the most fantastic and extraordinary, cannot bestow upon them natures absolutely new…” (Descartes, Meditation I, para. 6). Basically what Descartes’ is saying is that the mind cannot create something entirely new, it must have some sort of memory or experience with whatever they are creating or thinking, even if it may seem abstract. For example, take the human face, which can be recreated during a dream. However, although the face might be entirely new to the dreamer, it is most definitely an amalgam of different faces they experienced while in a waking state. While the eyes, nose, mouth, face and hair may be from all different people put together on one face, the dreamer still had to experience each of those facets to have them in the dream. Experience is needed to dream, and even though we may not be sure if the information we receive is dreamt or experienced, there still has to be some base knowledge where a waking experience is required. While we cannot tell for sure if an individual moment is dreamt, we can say for sure that there is a state of waking, where we experience the world through a more truthful
Visual connection in both Inception and Metamorphoses signals trauma. Cobb’s primary look through the window reflects Orpheus’s glance backwards which causes Eurydice to die a second time. In the flashback scene, Mal closes her eyes when Cobb shouts to her, “Look at me!” The closing of her eyes reverses the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Here, Mal’s refusal to look toward Cobb causes her death. We see the action through reverse shots between the point of view of Cobb and Mal, heightening the scene’s traumatic nature. However, the camera stays with Cobb’s point of view for longer in scenes where both character interact, especially true when Mal falls from the window ledge as the camera tracks her progress down, mimicking Cobb’s line of sight. Just
In the movie, The Matrix there are many similarities with the book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? One similarity is that of the matrices in both works. The movie has a matrix of dreams. According to the movie, humans are dreaming. Dreaming means that the reality humans think of, is not reality. The reality humans think of, is a dream. Confusing, isn t? An easier way of understanding this matrix is to think of human dreams. When humans experience dreams, it is not perceived as a dream until the dream ends. The movie exemplifies humans in the dream state of mind, similar to the dreaming stage. Neo is exposed to his real matrix. The matrix outside of his perceptual reality. He is able to perform with an incredible flexibility and high speed thinking. He is no longer dreaming, or as Neo called it, living. Neo has waken up. The book shares this matrix as well.
Christopher Nolan did an excellent job writing and directing this film, he was very creative by started the film out with Leonard looking at a faded polarized photo rather than one that begins to develop. As the film went on, we learned that his wife was murdered and he was trying to solve the case. It is evident that Nolan put much thought and consideration into the casting for this film. The actors and actress made the story believable, by embracing their characters and allowing themselves to fully act out each characters story. If one was just watching the movie without knowing anything about the Anterograde Amnesia, they would walk out of the theatre trying to figure out who murdered Leonard’s and they would have some knowledge of what Anterograde Amnesia is and how it effects the victim. Even though this movie was filmed in 2001, the movie kept my attention and I was able to follow the plot.
Requiem for a Dream in my point of view was exceptional. It was depressing but to be honest that was the point of the movie. When beginning to watch this movie people should make sure their emotions are on neutral because if upset it can make things worse. I really enjoyed how it brought all the elements a film need to create a unique production. I definitely need to see a few more of Aronofsky's films. Overall, the film had a profound impact on me. I honestly learned a lot and even though drugs are not a part of my life I learned that deep within a drug addict there is a reason why they walk the road of self-destruction. I really enjoyed it even though it was depressing, and I would recommend this film to anyone who hasn't
... seemingly trapped inside the yellow wallpaper, when she sees that constant face of the woman trapped inside, again she sees or is just seeing herself because her, herself is trapped and falling into insanity.
In 2002, Brent Staples communicated with Jean Baudrillard about the use of his philosophy in The Matrix (1999), a film written and directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski. Staples wrote, “He [Baudrillard] noted that the film’s “borrowings” from his work “stemmed mostly from misunderstandings” and suggested that no movie could ever do justice to the themes of this book”. In this paper, I will argue that the Wachowski Brothers did not want to “do justice to the themes of this book”; they wanted to adapt Baudrillard’s theories about the blurring of the real and unreal, and the eventual extermination of the real, into a story that provides hope for humans wanting to escape the suffocation of the “hyperreal”. The “hyperreal” was first coined by Baudrillard in his book, Simulacra and Simulations (1983); it is the product of the distortions of the real through endless simulations of it in radio, newspaper, television, and film.
The vision Christopher Nolan had for The Prestige (2006) was to add to the outbreak of street magician film, whilst playing a large dramatic subplot equal in grandeur to the magical performances within the film. In the final sequence of the film, I will analyse how the cinematography and sound helps to resolve the plot so that it summarises the themes present in the film, whilst also invoking a response from the audience. Nolan uses close up shots, non-diegetic sound (music) and dialogue collaboratively to convey the dramatic, personal subplot of the characters and their relationships, whilst appealing to the audience bringing forth an emotional response from the audience. The heavy, slow, dramatic atmosphere of the ending sequence uses various
make us see exactly what he wants us to and this film is a very good
The unconscious has a huge part in shaping human behavior, yet many overlook the idea behind it. This is an idea that maybe these unconscious behaviors can be used to alter the future or the past mistakes or anything in between for that matter. Everyone dreams at some point in their life and what many people don’t realize is that dreams usually develop from past experiences or from actual occurrences and thoughts. This means that if someone happened to see a guy wearing a cowboy hat with a feather in it, in one of their dreams, they most likely saw this person at some point in their life and may not have even realized it. It is impossible to create a new face in a dream. In Inception (2009), Christopher Nolan portrays Dom Cobb as a special operative whose life mirrors a Freudian psychological reality in which his repressed guilt leads to self-destructive behavior.
Alfred Hitchcock’s unique sense of filmmaking and directing has allowed him to become a very famous and well known film maker of his time. He uses similar recurring themes, elements, and techniques in many of his films to engage the viewers in more than just the film, but the meaning and focus behind the story.
...of what an individual can truly be to give ambiguities of framing and atmosphere. The ending of the film is by far the most unnerving scenes of all time. This is done in one shot in front of the camera, no other dialogue is said but narration.
Inception is a movie following a man named Dom Cobb who is a thief who steals
Ebert effectively points out the highs and lows of Schumacher’s The Phantom of the Opera. Though the film is visually stunning, much is left to be said for the storyline, acting, and length. Few redeeming qualities make Schumacher’s version of The Phantom of the Opera worth watching. By glorifying the Phantom, Schumacher detracts from the demon that he was and the torment that he inflicted on those around him.
Interstellar, directed by Christopher Nolan, was a very complex and interesting sci-fi movie. This movie in particular has a lot of factors playing into the movie. Everyone is able to find their favorite part about the movie, and various people can watch this movie and connect with it. This movie came out in 2014, and shocked millions of people by its intense ending. Interstellar was awarded for best visual effects, and then nominated for many other things including, best original score, best sound mixing, and best sound effects which played a huge role in making the movie. The image and sound complement each other, but I thought that image dominated over sound because there were so many silent moments throughout the movie. I thought the plot