Nondiegetic Elements In The Film Inception

The movie Inceptions tells us the story of the movie through the characters dreams they are having. The dreams are not their natural dreams they are creating the dreams so they can fulfill a certain solution. The filmmakers use the story for the audience to feel certain emotions by being able for us to relate to what the character is deal with. They show us the relationship between the characters which can make us feel certain emotions. Throughout the movie you feel certain connections with the characters that you have been on the journey with them as you are watching it and that brings emotion as well. Knowing how the characters truly feel, their inner thoughts help us to better understand them. It helps us better understand how they relate
and deal with conflict. The acting in the film you see the stress, frustration, determination, and how hurt that Dom Cobb is with how his life is. All he wants is for his life back and when he was able to get one last chance to make it happen he took it. Throughout the story you watch him striving to reach his goal. You can see that his main goal is to get the job he needs to get done. But Cobbs overall goal in the movie is to get his life back to normal and for him to be with his children. He cannot make his life with his children again happen if he does not complete his job of inception.
You know that this is his goal in the movie, because the same scene which is a memory in his mind of his children playing on the grass shows up multiple times throughout the movie. It shows up in different circumstances they want to show that this memory is always on Cobbs mind and the significance of that scene is very important. Something that is important to catch onto while watching this movie is the nondiegetic elements they show. The nondiegetic elements would be the music or sound that is playing in the background. Background sound helps with the suspense of the scene if something that has you holding your breath and on your toes, usually the music or sound gets louder. There are plenty examples when this happens in the film, one of them would be when they are dreaming. Both scenes are a dream within a dream; it goes from the characters driving in the car to them being in the hotel. The car driving is all over the place and that shows that his dream is very unstable. When the car goes off the bridge and the car is falling that means the dream has no gravity which is why in the other dream, the characters are able to float around in the
hotel. The nondiegetic elements are appropriate for the film, because it shows that everything that happens in the car scene reflects what happens in the hotel scene. It enhances the story it helps the audience understand that both scenes go tie for tie that one thing leads to the same outcome but it different situations, meaning that the car is flipping and so is the hotel. The car scene when it is falling off the bridge stretches out the screen duration, because they put it in slow motion and normally if a car is falling off a bridge it will hit the water in seconds. Instead the car falling is taking much longer to hit the water they did this to build suspense for the audience. The movie does use real time which would be the characters entering on the plane. While they are on the plane they are dreaming which everything else occurs but the plane ride duration is half of the movie. You forget that they are on the plane till the end of the movie when they wake up and get off, but it is realistic timing. While as, the scope is a duration of the dream accomplishing their goal. The story goal is to get Fisher to realize he needs to break up his father’s empire. Cobb is the protagonist in this movie because he had a goal to be able to plant this idea in fishers head and he accomplished it. Meanwhile the antagonist would be Cobb’s wife Mal she caused so much conflict throughout the movie. If Cobb was not still stuck on her and moved on from his memories he would have been able to get back to his normal life a lot sooner than he did. Cobb’s character is definitely rounded, because throughout the movie you see him change for the better and see how he progresses if he did not change then he still would be stuck in the same world he does not to live in. Mal’s character on the other hand is definitely flat character she does not change at all her character is the same throughout the movie just preventing Cobb from reaching his goal.