You're waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't be sure. But it doesn't matter - because we'll be together.
Its been a long time since I've posted on this blog......(this post is originally written on the 2nd week of august)..I am becoming too lazy now....I'm glad that finally I've come into form of relaxation and just calmly express my thoughts. Junior College is stressing me out.I need to feed my mind with some good movies.
I guess for the month of July-August "Inception" was the talk of the town.This blog of mine has emphasized dreams , the difference of reality and fantasy ,on how our minds creates our own utopia and how we wished to escape the pain of reality. Finally a movie has brought that concept into the new level. Kudos to the writer and creative management, the whole movie was one of a kind. I've enjoyed every second of it.
Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible-inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming. Written by Warner Bros. Pictures
Inception made an impossible impetus into reality. We all dream and we question its existence and meaning. According to Adler dreams are an important tool to mastering control over your waking lives,while Freud analyzed dreams in order to understand aspects of personality as they relate to pathology,Hall believed dreams are the best way to discovering personal thoughts and to explain your behavior,according to Jung, dreams are a way of communicating and acquainting yourself with the unconscious and Perls believed that dreams contain the rejected, disowned parts of the Self.
These theories of dreams were actually manifested in the movie but the movie itself created its own theory. The theory that a person can enter into one's dream and manipulate or take away its thoughts on its subconscious.
A person can enter in some one else dream.....is that possible? in the movie, absolutely, and perhaps we may not know this could lead to some technology revolution in which we could enter other's dreams.
Not only that, they could dream within a dream and they have done that in 4 layers.
here are some quotes from the movies
Cobb: Our dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? Its only when we wake up then we realize that something was actually strange!
When we are dreaming, we're not aware that we are in a dreamland instead we thought of it as the existing state and when we wake up sometimes those vivid images remain nd sometimes the obscure events break away. And often times we thought of what maybe the interpretation of our dreams.]
This was the technique of Cobb's team to implant a concept in the dream to appear it as it is the truth.
Ariadne: Why is it so important to dream?
Cobb: Because, in my dreams we are together
I think this line also applies to us, wen wanted to dream because in that dream , with our unconscious thoughts we fulfill our desires . Unconsciously, we created a world ( I believe most taken from our memories and unconscious mind) where we could draw happiness and erase bitterness. For Cobb, this was his main struggle he can't let go of his dream because in his only dream he could still see and feel the presence of his dead wife. And I guess this is the critical point, when we no longer face reality and instead cling into that dream that may lead to us into false perceptions.
Cobb: The moment's passed. Whatever I do I can't change this moment. I'm about to call out to them. They run away. If I'm ever going to see their faces I've gotta get back home. The real world.
Cobb has missed the growth of his children he had not experienced a real life.everything was all inception..everything was just a shade of reality and a drop of pain
Cobb: Look at you. You're just a shade, a shade of my real wife. How could I capture all your beauty, your complexity, your perfection, your imperfection, in a dream? Yes, you're the best that I can do. But, I'm sorry, you're just not good enough.
those bittersweet memories just keep coming on, because of his Guilt he couldn't take off the grip. Mal was often the antagonist in his dream, Mal sabotages their plan but actually it was Cobb who ruined the architecture of the dream, it was his own memories that put the knots ..He couldn't remove the tangle .
Mal: We'd be together forever. You promised me.As I hear these lines.. tears fell down.I could feel the love of Cobb to his wife ..Leonardo is such a prefect actor for this role... They had travel in their own world , together they walked in their journeys and together they were happy filled with love. Not everyday is a dream, not everyday is sleeping into imagination but rather everyday must be a reality. And with that single pinch of pain, they had forgotten to wake up, they had forgotten reality , they had abandoned the life they have and the children they adore. In the dream world, sand castles and pink houses they can control but it end up they no longer take the wheel of their future.
Cobb: I know. But we can't. And I'm sorry.
Mal: You remember when you asked me to marry you? You said you dreamt that we'd grow old together.
Cobb: And we did... I miss you more than I can bear... but we had our time together. And now I have to let go...
In the waking or dreaming life they both shared the love but unfortunately for Mal, she can longer bear the pain of confusion. Cobb was able to stay away from the limbo state. It was almost a decade , a decade of suffering a decade of memories that caused tragedy. Mal chose to ended her life, she didn't figure it out she was prisoned in the memories of her dreams . Cobb did his best to wake up Mal and make her realize that they are now in reality and not in the dream. Cobb carried the guilt for it was he who gave Mal the idea of fantasy, the idea of creating their own paths. It was tragic, Cobb couldn't do anything with his idea he killed his wife.It took a long time for him to soon realize that she had to let go of the kite . He kept on thinking and governing his emotions on Mal , he kept on dreaming to fade away the pain and to feel again the sweet love of his life but with his thoughts it made him worst. he didn't had the chance to see his children, didn't have the chance to enjoy it as it supposed to be...
Most of the time our demotions triggers our dreams and sometimes our dreams triggers our emotions. I used to dream before a very sad scene of my life, it kept on recurring , all I wanted is to forget it but why does it keep on running ?? Sooner after I've realized that the scene left me with a disturbing emotion but thanks to my dream , slowly it healed my self. But for Cobb's case the more he sees his wife the more he jumps into it and the more he fails to see the truth.
Leap of faith,” “Old man full of regret, waiting to die alone,”
And what happens to Saito??? he was also trapped in the limbo state..he's greedy dreams made him an old man in an unrealistic world ....In a lifetime nightmare in which it is most difficult to escape....It begun all in Saito, with his command for inception. for his desire to be on the top and that self dream of his has ended his real triumph.
You're waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't be sure. But it doesn't matter - because we'll be together.This is the riddle shared by Cobb and his wife...This the riddle (I'm not sure) that Cobb spoke to let his wife be in the kick and finally see reality.....The hit of the train will take them far away .far away from the world they've created.......The world that once was their paradise become the wrecker of their happy life...
What truly made me bewildered ins the ending of the movie....It kept us all thinking.what the heck was the conclusion.was he still in the limbo state or has he already awaken from the dream......He had seen his children but the top is continually spinning....well the story lies in our hands......I hope it has a sequel and explains every puzzle in it.....Some says it was all Cobb's limbo state....everything was creatively designed in Cobb's ind and the characters were all projections...But whatever is the truth in it.let's just wait perhaps they could have another story in the sequel....
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There were some dreams that made you afraid to sleep. some dreams that made you feel tremble that even at the daylight it haunted you and affected you...What's within the dreams, why do we have emotions on it and why does some dreams doesn't stop it keeps on existing even at the waking life...There were some dreams that made you think, that mad you pray and eat. There were some dreams that you wished to be filtered, wished to be not remembered but somehow it raises your blood pressure.......some dreams we were thankful for it was only a dream........and some dreams that we die for that we don't want to escape and shape it with our own finger tips....Why does dream exists??? why does God allows dreaming??? I can't imagine my self without a dream,.,,,,To dream is like my portal to the extreme world....Whatever our dreams maybe it is important that in our waking life we fulfill our responsibilities and make sure we don't across imagery....
Dream on and be Awake!
