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According to Cobb's original plan, "the van crashed out of the guardrail" was the first kick of the whole operation, and since it was a kick, it indicated that the purpose of the design was to wake up the next layer of players; According to the logic set before-under the effect of kick, as long as the awake buddies on the next floor will be awakened-but Arthur just didn't wake up. Why?

Kobo said that this is the opportunity to miss the kick, that is, one of the conditions for the lack of "matching": the player in the lower dream is not in the same instantaneous imbalance state as the upper dream, even if he is awake, he will not be awakened by the kick of the upper dream.

According to the original design, when the chartered car on the first level crashes out of the guardrail, Arthur should blow up the floor of the room in the second dream, causing an instantaneous fall and imbalance in response to kick; But at that time, Arthur encountered the attack of Fisher's subconscious projection of the bodyguard, and he didn't have time to press the explosion button (of course, the task in the dream "Snow Castle Raid" on the next floor was not completed, which was another reason that had to be delayed), so when the first level of chartered car crashed out of the guardrail, there was no corresponding physical imbalance below, so the "wake-up" could not happen. Fortunately, the team designed the "van in the water" as a backup kick for insurance, and the time when the van was vacated in the middle gave the following floors enough time to complete the mission, and also gave the most exciting and interesting fight and shootout scenes on the screen.

In the film, it can be seen that when the van in the dream on the first floor enters the water, the elevator on the second floor is pushed by the explosion to change the weightless state, and the snow castle pillar on the third floor is blown up and begins to collapse. The members who dreamed together woke up layer by layer but continuously.

As for the fact that there is no kick between the first layer of dreams and "reality" (so the awakened Fisher, Eames, Arthur, Arlene and Joseph, who were already awake, can only wait for the effect of the "reality" layer of sedatives to subside or the "stewed chicken" to shut down), it is because those who have been on the plane know that due to airflow interference, there will also be turbulence and instantaneous weightlessness during the flight, so some unplanned imbalances are equivalent to kicks in effect. That would wake up the person in the first dream (at least Joseph). This is tantamount to sabotaging the operation. So, it's safe to have no kick between "reality" and the first dream.

Unspoken rule 5: "Limbo state" setting.

Because the effect of the sedative required for multiple dreams is too strong, the side effect is that death in ordinary dreams can wake up the person in the dream, but death in multiple dreams will not wake up, and their consciousness will be in a "limbo state" (originally intended in Christian theology to refer to the state of death from original sin, but actually not being sent to hell but not going to heaven, so embarrassing and blurry gray).

According to the film's setting, the "Limbo state" is a pure subconscious, a completely uncharted-dreamspace. Even if you understand these two lines. There are many details about the Ling Bo state, and the film doesn't say it clearly.

From the perspective of understanding the plot, the "Limbo state" can be understood as a state of consciousness that is extremely confused about the cause and effect (note: it is a "state of consciousness" and not a "space of consciousness" - it is only "spatialized" in the film, so it is "entered" into the Limbo state, not "enter") - this requires a little bit of mystical imagination.

The only way to get out of the "Limbo state" is to die, but people whose consciousness is in this state are often unable to distinguish between the "Limbo state" and reality, so they will not think of using death to wake up (it is better to die than to live~). And, because of extreme confusion. In fact, it is unlikely that you will have a sense of time, and you may subconsciously feel that you are old and frail. But it's really uncertain whether it can "die of natural old age" in the "Limbo state".

If you can't wake up from the "Limbo state", or forcibly wake up at the "real" level (such as unconnecting from the "stewed chicken"), the person in the "Lingbo state" in the dream will be paralyzed at the "real" level, a mess - even if he is still "alive" in the biological sense, the conscious buddy is no longer good. This is the greatest danger of going deep into multiple dreams.

What's more amazing is that the "Limbo state" in the multiple dreams designed by Nolan is actually a shared state of consciousness: as long as they are comrades connected together on the topmost "stewed chicken". Regardless of whether you are at a different dream level or not, as long as you burp in any of the dream realms, everyone will arrive in the same "Limbo state" environment, and the setting of this environment depends on the concept of the person who has entered the Limbo state before. This is clearly illustrated by the lines in the first dream of Tong Guò ("Robbery in the Rain"). Remember to prick up your ears when watching a movie.

It is worth noting that, on the other hand, the road to the "Limbo state" is not only to "death"; A person who has had previous experiences with the "Limbo state" and has successfully broken away from it can dream of the "Limbo state" through guò "stewed chicken" in a non-dead state - in short, only the "dream world cow fork" can do it.

To be honest, this may be the most mysterious one in the dream setting of the film, and the only student in the film who has such a function is Kebo. Moreover, if it is set in this way, the two ways of reaching the "Ling wave state" of "death entry" and "stewed chicken stew" have different effects on the parties.

Another interesting question is the awakening mode of the "Limbo state", does the death in this state make people go directly back to the topmost state of reality, or do they need to return to the dream before the Limbo state first, and then wake up layer by layer? The film does not give a clear answer to this crucial question.

In fact, the clues given in the movie are contradictory: if it is necessary to go up the floor to wake up from the Limbo state (like Fisher in the film), then Saito died on the third floor, and it stands to reason that the two should have returned to the dream of "Snow Castle" together after Kobo rescued him in the end; However, the physical space on that level of the snow castle had been blown up when they rescued Saito (including the "flesh" of Rikobo and Saito on that floor), and they should not be able to return to that floor.

However, if death in the "Limbo state" directly leads to the awakening of the person in the dream in reality, it is inconsistent with the facts shown on the picture (Fisher did wake up layer by layer); And. If Fisher, who had woken up from the "Limbo state", had not returned to the "Snow Castle" level, the whole operation would have failed, because by the time he woke up, he had not opened the door to the "secret room" and therefore had not discovered the secret he was looking forward to.

The only explanation can only be that the "Limbo state" is a state beyond the ordinary "linear logic", and the knowledge of contemporary scientific and rational psychology can only provide the basis for the existence of this state. But it is simply impossible to explain a specific process. Just as the structure of the Earth's core is a geological "science", the process of going deep into the center of the earth can only be a "fantasy". It is basically an impossible task to try to construct an interaction model between the "subconscious" and the "reality" that is easy to distinguish and understand. Even if Nolan is a superstar in psychology and devotes his whole life to playing this, it is unlikely that he will be able to play it. Therefore, the current state is "rare and confused", as long as it makes sense.

Unspoken rule 6: Dream totem.

Each member of Kobo's "Dream Team" has a totem (Totem) that he can use to distinguish whether he is in a dream or reality, and whether he is in someone else's dream. The principle is that only the holder of the totem is aware of certain qualities, and this trait is completely different from the dream inside and outside the dream. Cobo is holding the totem of Britney Sweet Monelli, a small spinning top; According to his own interpretation, it was this spinning top if it was in a dream. It will keep spinning and will not stop; If it were in reality, it would "normally" fall and stop.

However, the setting of the totem is far from so simple. The object of totem distinction, I'm afraid, is still controversial. Because under the premise that many people enter the multi-layer dream world together, the movie has always emphasized that "the totem can be sure that it is not in the dream of others", but can the totem be sure that it is "not in his own dream"? Again, from a psychological point of view. If the totem cannot be used as a basis for whether the person is dreaming or not. For if you create a totem in reality that only you understand the characteristics of, then this totem may be effective when you are in someone else's dream - that is, when you are in a dream of multiple people - you are not the "main dreamer" (because others do not understand what the unique personality of your own totem is). Therefore, the totem will have a strange phenomenon in other people's dreams, such as "the spinning top is always spinning"); However, if you are the "main dreamer" and take out the totem you designed to test whether you are dreaming - this is like thinking in reality that you can pinch yourself by pinching yourself in the dream to determine whether you are dreaming or not, but when you really dream, will the pain reaction of pinching yourself in the dream still be "objective"? Isn't it influenced by your sober thoughts? Can it still be used as an objective basis for judging whether you dream or not? This is very doubtful.

In addition, the totem was originally very personal. If you tell someone about the characteristics, it doesn't work. In the movie, each of the team members has their own totem (Eames's is a chip, Arthur's is a dice, and Arlene's is a chess piece that she has slightly hollowed out into a chess piece whose quality only she knows), but none of them tell them what the characteristics are used to judge.

The film is almost repeatedly "emphasized", just Kobo's totem; Even more doubtful. This totem is not Kobo's "own", but Britney's Jasnelly's; Although the film does not specify how it was implemented, it is very likely that it is the gyroscopic totem of Guò Monelli: Kobo makes the gyroscopic spiral and makes it impossible for Mosnell to believe that they are not in reality, but in a dream.

So, Kobo, who had the experience of "acting on the top and planting dreams", now uses the original tool to test whether he is dreaming, will the results of the test be affected by the settings in his inherent memory? To put it bluntly: if you dream with the memory of a certain method of judgment, will the application of that method in the dream be affected by the memory and lose the value of judgment?

These very critical questions will determine the audience's ultimate understanding of the end of the film.

Du Xinghe then told Fang Yajun about the psychological logic of "Cultivating God Dafa".

Before explaining the specific dream layer by layer, he asked Fang Yajun to first understand the logic of the core goal of this dream action, that is, how Kobo planned to make Robert Fisher "spontaneously and strongly" have the idea of "dissolving the group company founded by his father".

According to the film, the human subconscious has a kind of "self-defense" mechanism; You can sue Sù Fisher in your dream to dismantle his father's company, and because of his awkward relationship with his father, he may actually agree; But after that. The subconscious may make him realize that it is not his "original" thoughts, so he doubts that this cannot be regarded as a "dream" success.

The psychological defense mechanism of human beings is very subtle, and it is difficult to accept things that are too simple and direct, and the more secretive, obscure, and deep things turn a few corners, the more natural they will be to accept.

In the case of Fisher. Although his relationship with his father was extremely bad in reality (the only thing his father said to him on his deathbed was "disappointed"), the instinctive desire for family affection in human nature, if treated positively, can have an unexpected effect - this is exactly the strategy of the Kobo team:

First of all, the character of Browning (who is Fisher's godfather and Fisher's father's most trusted senior advisor) (in fact, Eames is disguised) reveals to Fisher that his father has an ultimate last word (which can replace Fisher's "known" last words), hidden in a safe where only Fisher knows the password, and vaguely reveals that the ultimate last word may be "dissolve the company". This information, intertwined with real-life memories of the discord between father and son, makes Fisher angry, thinking that this is a sign that his father does not love him, and at the same time his heart is more painful (the need for family affection is more desperate and intense).

In the next layer of dreams, Kobo conceived the idea of convincing Fisher that the "kidnapping" of the previous layer was related to Browning. And through the mouth of the latter, it is confirmed that the content of the last words of the last word is the dissolution of the group company; But more information than before is that this layer of arrangement will make it appear that Browning's actions are motivated by self-interest rather than concern for Fisher himself. Fisher confirmed that his father was going to dissolve the company himself, and his anger turned into doubt, which he didn't quite understand. So Cobb naturally built himself into Browning's subconscious to see his father's ultimate words "with his own eyes" (at this stage, Fisher had basically believed that his father's last words were for him to dissolve the company, which he just couldn't accept and understand emotionally).

Of course, what Fisher sneaked into was actually Eames's dream. The structure of the hospital in the snow castle is pre-set; But what happened in that secret ward. It is a reflection of Fisher's subconscious self-projection, that is, the deepest desire of his heart; All the Kobo team had to do was to work with Fisher's most secret mind to devise a way for his most secret desires to be satisfied in the most natural way.

Although Fisher's relationship with his father was always stiff, especially after his mother's death at the age of 11, his father's only comforting words to him were "Therereallyisn't anythingtosay" (Therereallyisn't anythingtosay). However, in the depths of Fisher's memory. has always retained the rare bits and pieces of father's love in childhood, and one of the concentrated expressions is a photo of playing with his father on a paper windmill. Eames found the photograph in Fisher's purse, confirming that Fisher had a desire for fatherly love; Kobo and the others took advantage of this desire and placed the most precious paper windmill in Fisher's memory into the final lockbox. Fisher was moved to tears, and at that moment he understood his father's love; His subconscious desire for father's love at that moment will automatically interpret his father's various things in reality as "not being good at expressing feelings" or the like, and at the same time, the "disappointment" that his father said before his death is very logically interpreted as "my father's disappointment in my attempt to repeat his career trajectory", "It turns out that my father is not disappointed because I can't be like him, it turns out that he wants me to be myself, a new and different self, so he wants me to dissolve the company to achieve self-struggle!" —Although it is not explicitly stated, this is what Fisher thought after that moment of relief.

The task that Saito gave to Kobo's team was thus completed, and the construction of this mental process was perfect. Not only did they make Fisher decide to dissolve the company when his father's love was satisfied, but he also had a faint dislike for Browning, who had been taking the role of "father's love" in some kind of way—this was a double insurance measure: even if Fisher could not dissolve the company so quickly, his distrust of Browning from this would eventually lead to a disastrous result for the company—and in any case, the goal of bringing down the Fischer Morrow group would be achieved.

The sub-shots of "Operation Kind of Dreams" are also worth studying and playing.

The order of the dreams is: "Reality" (Kobo Group and Fisher are on the same plane) → first dream "Rain Disaster→", second dream "War Hotel", → third dream "Snow Castle", → "Save Fisher" → "Save Saito".

1. "Reality" - There is nothing to say, Kobo medicine fell to the target (Fisher), everyone connected to the "stewed chicken", entered Joseph's dream, and the "dream planting" operation officially began.

2. "Robbery in the Rain" - The purpose of this operation has been explained earlier, mainly to reveal that there is an ultimate last word and that Browning knows about it, and at the same time to create the illusion that the "kidnappers" played by Kobo and others want to steal the secret of the ultimate last word, after which Fisher is drugged and enters the next layer of dreams.

In this dream, Saito is seriously injured in a battle with Fisher's subconsciously projected armed bodyguards due to the interference of Kobo's vision of the connection with his dead wife, Monelli, (the train, which suggests that Kobo and Monelli were awakened from the "Limbo state" by committing suicide by guò "lying on the rails"), and the fact that Fisher had been trained in "anti-intrusion" in advance. The whole group moves to the van and enters the next level of dreams, and Joseph, who is the only one who is awake, is responsible for driving to avoid the bodyguards and make a kick (crashing out of the guardrail + entering the water) according to the stipulated time.

After entering the water, Fisher, who had woken up from a dream in the lower realm, pulled Browning (note that he was actually in Eames disguise) to the shore; Arthur and Xiaolian in the carriage also woke up, and Joseph, of course, was awake all the time; Because they were robbers, they naturally couldn't run ashore to stay with Fisher; However, they had already prepared oxygen tanks, and presumably quietly landed from another place. Kobo and Saito are still in the car, they have not woken up from the lower dreams at all, and their consciousness is still in the "Ling Bo state".

3. "War Hotel" - This is in Arthur's dream, the main purpose is to get Cobb close to Fisher and make the latter start to suspect Browning's motives, and finally succeed in instigating Fisher to connect with everyone to "stewed chicken" in order to enter Browning's subconscious to discover the truth.

It is worth noting that the Browning that appears in this layer is not disguised by Eames, but subconsciously projected by Fisher; The fact that Browning's last words of "disbanding the company" and his unwillingness to do so are actually a projection of Fisher's self-consciousness, which is bewitched by this layer of "anti-mind invasion" advisers played by Cobb. When they finally connected to "Braised Chicken", Kobo and the others made Fisher think that they were connected to Browning's dream, but in fact they were connected to Eames's dream.

There may be doubts here, because at that time Ah Lian clearly asked, "Wait, whose subconscious are we going to enter, Fisher's or Browning's?" Cobb replied, "Fisher's." "So, shouldn't the main dreamer of the next layer of "Snow Castle" dreams be Fisher? No. Note that Ah Lian and Ke Bo are talking about "subconscious exploration objects", not "dream masters". As mentioned early in the plot of the film, the target of consciousness theft or planting should never be regarded as the main dreamer, but the subject's subconscious should be projected into the dream created by the Dream Inception team, so that the secret consciousness obtained or planted is spontaneous and natural.

There is another question here: did the Browning, projected by Fisher's consciousness, appear on this layer and later connect to the "stewed chicken"? If so, why isn't there a Browning at all in the next "Snow Castle" scene? As far as my personal viewing memories are concerned, it is not explicitly stated in the film whether this "projection" (to distinguish it from Eames's "camouflage") Browning is attached to the "stewed chicken". If it is not connected, it is a good explanation that the next layer of "Snow Castle" does not appear; If it is connected, why didn't the lower layer show up? Isn't this a violation of Article 3 of the aforementioned "dream sharing mechanism"? (The novel "The Song God of Rebirth" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner "Add Friends", search for the official account "ddxiaoshuo" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)