PS: If you want to hear more of your voices and receive more of your opinions, search for the WeChat public account "ddxiaoshuo" now and pay attention to it to give more support to "The Song God of Rebirth"!

After Fang Yajun watched "Inception" this night, she was shocked as much as when she watched "The Matrix", this film greatly reflects the dreamlike illusionary environment that she and Du Xinghe are now in!

After watching it, Fang Yajun excitedly discussed the plot of "Inception" with Du Xinghe, but unfortunately she has not watched this film many times like Du Xinghe, and after reading the plot analysis, she still has a lot of things that she hasn't understood.

Therefore, in order to deepen the cultivation of Fang Yajun's interests and hobbies, and improve Fang Yajun's logical thinking ability, especially in case Fang Yajun is at a loss after breaking into the world of "Inception" in the future, Du Xinghe analyzed the world of "Inception" for Fang Yajun in detail.

"Inception", also known as "The Foundation", its original English name is "Inception".

If you want to understand the world of this film, you must first understand what is inception?

It originally meant "beginning/beginning", and in the context of this film, it means letting an idea take root in your mind.

Therefore, although there is a Chinese dubbed version of this film, there are also different Chinese translation names, but none of these Chinese translations are appropriate, Inception will not say, even "Laying the Foundation" is not appropriate, you can't always say "let a thought lay the foundation in your mind", right? How awkward. So if you want to understand this film well, it's best to call it its English name directly, which is the most in line with the connotation of the film. Of course, Fang Yajun is very uninterested in English and is not adaptable, so Du Xinghe explained to Fang Yajun. The name Inception is still used.

The film opens with a meeting between Cobb and the elderly Saito at a Japanese-style hall. This scene is actually the last stage of the film's final implementation of "Kind of Dream", which is not the first in terms of story chronology. But because of the similarity between the character and the scene, the director deliberately caused logical confusion by placing it before the first scene in time logic, and put a big question mark in your mind from the beginning. (A lot of viewers were beaten by the choreographer at first, but you have to be tough.) Don't be discouraged, you have to get your brain cells running as fast as possible, because they will be put to a tougher test. ）

Before the story of the film begins, I would like to mention the backstory: Cobol Engineering hired the Cobo team, although there are no details, it is estimated that it is also a "giant company" involved in energy. Before dealing with Saito, they had hired Kobo to try to steal trade secrets from Saito's chief engineer named Kaneda, but because Kaneda didn't know the target plan at all, the operation failed; The Kobo team turned to Saito himself. Kaneda was also detained at the headquarters of Cobol Engineering, a qiē documented in comic books that preceded the film's release. Fang Yajun hasn't seen it, but Du Xinghe feels the need to tell Fang Yajun about it, so that she can understand the film more easily.

The film's storytime begins with an extraction by Cobb (who is sometimes referred to as Dom in the film because his full name is DominicCobb), Arthur, and Nash's Inception team against Saito (the boss of the global energy giant ProclusGlobal in the film).

This is a double dream, the reality layer is in the carriage of a high-speed train, and the next dream is in an unknown unrested area (suspected to be Africa, because they are all black buddies). Nash is the Architect of the operation and the host of the first layer of dreams. It's okay to call it "the main dreamer"); The next level of dreams is a Japanese-style kaikan, and the main dreamer is Kebo, with the aim of stealing the confidential text jiàn (that is, the trade secret in Saito's mind in reality) from the safe.

Unfortunately, this dream digging operation failed for many reasons: 1) In the second layer of dreams, Sweet Sweet Mosnell (full name Mallorie Cobb), a subconscious projection of Kobo, came out to disrupt the situation. disrupted planning steps; 2) Saito's deliberate omission of confidential details in the second layer of dreams also indicates that Saito was trained in some kind of "anti-mind intrusion"; 3) Nash's lack of thoughtfulness in designing the first layer of Dream Carpet (which was originally made of wool carpet with a polyester texture) makes Saito realize that he is still dreaming, so that there is no possibility of digging up secrets.

After the defeat, the team is evacuated from the train, Nash is scattered, and Kobo and Arthur stay at the hotel. Be prepared to flee (because CobolEngineering will not allow failure and will send someone to manipulate them). Here, Cobb calls his family (mostly a pair of children) in the United States, and the film shows him spinning a top for the first time to test whether he is dreaming or waking up.

Just as Kobo and Arthur were about to leave, Saito found them (Nash had been caught by Saito and confessed beforehand) and gave Kobo a lure. Confusing choice: If Kobo could help Saito make a deal by implanting the idea of "disbanding the group" into the consciousness of Robert-Fischer, the new heir to Saito's biggest business rival (an energy empire called Fischer-Morrow), Saito could help unravel Kobo's criminal record so that the latter could legally enter the United States to reunite with his children.

Out of infinite longing for his children, Kobo took Saito's order and began to recruit team members.

Based on Nash's failures, his first priority is to summon a good "architect" so that the environment of this dream is impeccable (the best dream is a labyrinthine structure).

When Cobb and Arthur arrive in Paris, Cobb finds his father-in-law, Miles, who introduces Lori designer Ariadne. After some testing, Cobb felt that although Ah Lian was not a big boy, she was quite talented (the latter drew a circular maze diagram in a very short time).

Kebo took her to a dream experience, Ah Lian showed her genius and natural design talent, and Kebo also explained the principles and mechanisms of dreams, intolen dreams, seed dreams, dreams, dreaming of great leaders, dreaming of the liberation of all mankind, etc. Because Monelli reappears in the dream, the film shows Kobo waking up and spinning a top to test reality.

During this period, Ah Lian felt that this thing was a bit dangerous and intended to quit, but in the end, she couldn't resist the temptation to give full play to her creative talent and returned to the team.

Believing that the mission would require a Forger who is a little more skilled than the average burglar, Kobo went to Mombasa. Kenya's second largest city) finds Eames. However, Mombasa is also Cobol Engineering's territory, and as soon as Kobo arrived, he was targeted by Cobol's men, and after a 007-like chase, Kobo and Eames joined Saito, who arrived "just right".

After some discussion, everyone thought that it was necessary to achieve a deep enough dìng of multiple dreams. The team also needed a pharmacist for Niu Cha, and Eames recommended Comrade Yusurf, who was also in Mombasa, to Kobo. The comrade actively supported the spirit of the three customs and opened a "dream house" of "Mandarin Dream with Warmth" in the basement of his house. In order to demonstrate the stability of his potion to support dreams, he invited Kobo to give it a try. Kobo dreams of Monelli Sweet again, and wakes up and hurriedly spins the top (the third time in the film), but the top falls to the ground and does not turn, and Saito's sudden questioning prevents him from continuing to turn into a spinning top (whether there is a "conspiracy" in this - it all depends on what the viewer thinks).

Once the team members have been selected, they begin to discuss specific action plans, such as how to design a "waking mechanic". How to complete the transformation of Comrade Fisher's thinking step by step, and make him consciously realize that the dissolution of the company is a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people and the benefit of the world, and so on.

During this period of time, Ah Lian also learned what was going on with the troublesome Moneti in Kobo's dream, and questioned that it was useless when Kobo consciously blocked the memory of Monelli, the key was to face up to the guilt in his heart; Otherwise, in the future, the operation "Seed Dream" will bring danger to the entire mission. Cobb listened to the advice, but did not correct it.

When the team was almost ready, Fisher's father, Maurice-Fischer, officially wore braids. The former officially became the head of Fischer-Morrow's family and would escort the latter's coffin from Sydney back to Los Angeles.

The Kobo team felt that the 10-hour flight time was a good time to "dream". So a group of people threw off their arms and did it: Saito bought the entire Sydney to Los Angeles route, and everyone was naturally placed in the partitioned first class with Fisher; Eames stole Fisher's passport to Cobb, and Kobo borrowed and returned the passport at a time close to Fisher's, and logically took advantage of the opportunity to clink glasses and drink water to pour Fisher, and then, it was time for the "dream within a dream" action that was used as the meat of the film......

About an hour (that's the viewing time of the movie.) not plot time), after a coherent and smooth tension, Operation Dream was a complete success.

Saito fulfilled his promise and messed up Kobo's entry problem. After entering the country, for the sake of safety, everyone still pretended not to know each other and scattered as birds and beasts.

When Cobo returned home, he saw the back of his children. was in a trance, and subconsciously took out the spinning top to spin (the fourth and last time in the film); But then he was attracted by the children who turned back to see their true faces, and they didn't have time to wait for the results of the spinning and ran towards their children; The spinning top on the table is still spinning, and when there is a slight tilt and instability (about to fall), the film cuts into the black curtain and ends.

You think you know the ending, but you're not sure...... But it really doesn't matter.

(To quote the line from the film: 'Youre-waiting-for-a-train–a-train-that-will-take-you-far-away. You-know-where-you-hope-the-train-will-take-you,but-you-cant-know-for-sure. But-it-doesnt-matter.）

After talking about the big plot that anyone can understand, Du Xinghe focused on telling Fang Yajun about the rules of the hidden dream in the film. After all, if you want to understand the connotation of this piece, you must first understand the rules of latent dreams.

He originally wanted to draw a table to explain the structure of the "dream within a dream" in the film, but then after thinking about it, he realized that the order was actually quite linear and not difficult to understand.

And more important than that structure. It is the setting of director Nolan's "details" about the logic of the entire dream.

Lao Mei often says that Devil-is-in-the-detail, it is those things that are easy to ignore that determine the structure of the dream, and thus the story of the film.

Therefore, to decrypt it, you must start with "settings".

In fact, the director's hardware settings for "Dream Stolen" and "Dream Seed" are extremely copycats, and the director himself doesn't care at all.

Compared with the extremely rough hardware setting, the "unspoken rules" of the film are the focus.

Unspoken rule 1: Dream mechanic.

Leave aside the question of how to connect to the hardware through guò to share. Nolan's premise is that "people can share the same dream", without which the structure of the film would not be true. This brings us to the definition of "the same dream", which is not as simple as "the same song", but not too complicated; To put it bluntly, it's an interactive movie set, and you can think of it as a stage, with the following elements:

1. General rule: Let the object of the inception or dream come into your dream, and let the subject's subconscious mind "naturally" unfold in the direction you induce in the dream you designed, so as to obtain secrets.

2. The location of the secret is in accordance with psychological suggestion. For example, safes, lockboxes, etc., which were designed in advance by the Inception team; However, the contents of the safe and lockbox - the specific secrets in the subject's mind - are projected by the subject's subconscious self. To put it bluntly, whether it is a dream or a kind of dream, it is just a situation or atmosphere that allows the target to show the truth of the conscious or subconscious.

3. Whoever is connected by guò "stewed chicken" has to appear in a dream time and space. To put it bluntly, everyone is an actor, no one is missing, you can do tricks, but you have to appear in the dream. If four people are connected to the "stewed chicken" and only three people appear in the dream. Then it won't be a dream mechanic.

4. The design and creation of the dream space is completed by the architect. It's easy to understand when you think of this process as designing and setting up a movie movie. After the architect has designed the dream. "Teach" the relevant settings to the main dreamer of each layer of dreams.

5. The division of labor with the dreamer. Leaving aside the division of labor within the Kobo team, there is a "master dreamer" in any layer of dreams, that is, the question of determining "whose-dream-it-is" (whose-dream-it-is) mentioned in the lines in the film.

The target object cannot become the "main dreamer", and the "main dreamer" can only be a member of the Kebo team; The "main dreamer" can manipulate the environment of the dream at a certain level (Arthur sets up the hotel in the film, and Eames creates the exhaust pipe in the snow castle, both of which are done; But the traces of alteration should not be so large as to subvert the architect's overall design).

Unspoken rule 2: Dream statute of limitations.

The time perceived in a person's dreams. It's much longer than the time it actually takes to dream.

For example, you may dream about a day's life, but in fact the actual time of the dream is only a few minutes.

Under multiple dreams, a few hours in reality may mean N years of the underlying dream.

The film sets this "time lag effect" precisely (1 hour of dream time is equivalent to 5 minutes of real time; Under multiple dreams, it increases layer by layer). This is just for those who love to study to calculate the passage of time in multiple dreams, and you and I usually dream with such precision.

When a person is dreaming, he can never perceive when the dream begins; Even if you "realize" in a dream that you are dreaming, or if you wake up desperately trying to remember, you can't remember exactly the moment when the dream began. (This should be a strong experience for the viewer; This also became the basis for a "wilder" reading of the film)

Unspoken rule three: dream interaction.

This setting is also supported by common sense.

The most common: in reality, you are in a hurry, and in your dreams you are likely to look for a toilet everywhere (of course, it is not excluded that some comrades are happy to vent in a dream, or to find a toilet in a dream for a long time and finally find it - all waiting to wake up and be humiliated); In reality, your feet were pressed by your husband, and in your dreams, you may have become Ouyang Ke who was pressed by a big stone......

The urgency of the urine in the "reality" of the pharmacist in the tablet is the "rain" in the dream, and the gravity imbalance in the lower dream (the horizontal plane in the cup is tilted, the chandelier is tilted) are all examples.

Unspoken rule four: Wake up mechanics.

In the case of conventional multiple dreams, the film only makes it clear that if you die in a dream, you will wake up in reality (evidence, in Saito's double dream at the beginning. In the second dream, Kobo shoots and kills Arthur, who wakes up in the first dream); However, without explaining how to "wake up" the dreamer in reality, it can be assumed that a single qiē conventional means (such as ear shaving, chicken cutting, etc.) can make the dreamer wake up, just like the situation we experience and are familiar with, and does not necessarily require a special kick. Of course, the most common thing is to wait for the sedative to wear off, or stop the operation of the "stewed chicken" before waking up.

Special Multiple Dream Situations. Because the premise of creating more than two layers of dreams is to use strong sedatives to produce a feeling similar to "sinking and falling" so that you can fall into multiple layers of dreams. This can be vividly understood as a shallow water layer and a deep water layer - if you want to dive deep, you have to carry a heavy load. The sedative in the film is equivalent to that "heavy object".

To get rid of the "drag" of sedatives and wake up from a dream, a special kick is required.

Tablet pharmacist Joseph explained that the sedative he designed retains the sharpness of the inner ear's balance function, so whenever the physical position of the body in the upper dream (the top layer is "reality") is suddenly unbalanced, it will "wake up" from the next dream. Judging from the evolution of the plot of the film, in order for the Kick of the upper dream to be effective, the person who was kicked in the lower class needs to be awake in the lower dream; Otherwise. There's no need to set up a "synchronized-kick".

Therefore, in the film, it can be seen that when the upper layer of dreams is ready to make Kick, the guò countdown music will be used to wake up the only awake guy (who is also the "main dreamer" of the next layer of dreams), so that he can immediately wake up the dreamers on the same floor so that everyone can "wake up" together.

It's especially worth noting here, considering that many people have the experience of waking up in free fall in a dream, it may be easy to interpret the mechanism of kick as "imbalance in the dream and then wake up".

In fact. Nolan's premise in "Inception" is that under multiple dreams, the dreamer will certainly "wake up" in the order from bottom to top. However, the "chain kicks" are passed down in order from top to bottom, and the lines and scenes in the film are very clear (evidence: during the discussion and demonstration of the Kick function before the action begins, Eames asks Arthur, who is sitting in a chair dreaming, to suddenly lose his balance and wake him up; At the beginning of the film, "Africa Moves. Kobo, who had a chaotic "dream" on the floor, was overturned into the bathtub and woke up from the lower dream of the "Japanese-style hall"; None of the cases here show that there is a sudden imbalance in the lower dreams. In addition, if the kick works from the bottom to the top, the task will not be completed at all. Because the moment the "van" crashed out of the guardrail, Joseph woke up the driver back in the first class cabin of the plane, but this did not happen. ）。

However, there is still a question here: why do you want to ensure that the kicks of each layer are basically "synchronized"? If Kick is really just a physical imbalance in the upper layer is enough to wake up the awake players in the lower layer, then there is no need to hurry up and make the dreams of each layer produce a physical imbalance almost at the same time? Is it that the waking mechanism in the dream action in the film's key table xiàn should be "imbalance in and out of dreams at the same time"?

People who think that serial kicks "can be out of sync" may give the example of the "van hijacking" in the film, after the final completion of the dream. Everyone was waiting by the river to be woken up by the upper deck ("747 first-class cabin") "braised chicken", instead of busy making a synchronized kick; Does this mean that the "chain kicks" between the other layers of dreams before were purely a technique to create tension in the film's technique?

Du Xinghe thought so at first. But on second thought, this doesn't explain why Arthur, who was awake in the lower dream (hotel) when the van crashed out of the guardrail in the first dream, was not awakened to the first dream. (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......)