Inception Themes

In Christopher Nolan’s film “Inception”, he utilizes various characters to relate to his audience. Dominick Cobb, the main character of the story, is used as the vessel to portray the many themes and ideals of the movie which relates to many chapters of the textbook. The film is told through a narrative that explores various classic topics, but does not directly state them. Rather, Nolan wrote a narrative that attaches various themes to individual items, people, and scenes.
The plot of the story revolves around a man named Cobb, and his team’s “hijacking” of Robert Fischer, the son to a powerful corporate leader, and the secrets contained in his mind. The movie initially focuses on two groups of people: fathers and sons, as both roles are
However, Fischer contains information subconsciously and is unaware of this information that he possesses. It is explained that he cannot remember or reach these memories because of his relationship with his father because he feels as if he was a major disappointment and failure to him. As a result, he cannot give them the information up front. This is where the main plot of the movie unfolds. Cobb is what is called an “extractor”, meaning that he can enter your mind and extract information. It is explained he is very good at it, and some say he was the best. However, he begins to lose his skill as he battles with his own subconscious. Every time he enters someone’s subconscious, his deceased wife, Mal, enters the dream and causes it to collapse. He also begins to lose his ability to tell whether he is dreaming or not. As a result, he is forced to use a device called a totem, which shows him whether or not he is dreaming based on how the object acts. The totem acts as one of the many objects that plays a deep role in the overall symbolism of the movie. It also acts as a visual representation of the situational uses of rhetoric. It allows the audience, as well as the character to distinguish reality from dream. The ability to tell what is real