The Movie Inception
Response Paper 2
Memory is the process that our brains go through to store experiences and information from our lives and sometimes our dreams. Memory manifests itself very often in the movie Inception. It can be very helpful to Cobb’s team when they are trying to achieve their goal of inception, but it can also cause problems.
Cobb sees memory as the most important tool for his job of entering people’s dreams to either extract information or incept ideas. It is important because the primary dreamer creates the dream world from memories. The seriousness of this is shown in the very beginning of the movie where Saito discovers that he is in a dream because his carpet is not the same material as it is in the real world leading to the failure …show more content…
When Ariadne is first experimenting with shared dreaming, she creates a place from memory identical to a real place. Cobb has to caution her that, “Building a dream from your memory is the easiest way of losing your grasp on what's real and what is a dream” (Inception). By creating a dreamscape that is new, only using certain pieces from the real world, the dreamers are able to decipher the difference between what is real and what is a dream. A dream that is completely from memory could seem so real that the dreamer could accept it for their reality and be confused even when they wake …show more content…
His only relief is to dream about his memories. He frequently dreams from memories that he has from the past so that he can be with his wife again. The film creates the metaphor of storing memories deep in his mind by creating the visualization of the memories on different levels with an elevator in between. His deepest, most suppressed memory is the memory of Mal when she is about to kill herself. Ariadne can see that he is trying to keep this memory on the lowest level and asks, “Did you think you could contain her (Inception)?” By trying to keep these memories suppressed but alive, he is not allowing himself to get over his wife and, therefore, can’t control her projection or these memories in his other
Memory is the process that our brains go through to store experiences and information from our lives and sometimes our dreams. Memory manifests itself very often in the movie Inception. It can be very helpful to Cobb’s team when they are trying to achieve their goal of inception, but it can also cause problems.
Cobb sees memory as the most important tool for his job of entering people’s dreams to either extract information or incept ideas. It is important because the primary dreamer creates the dream world from memories. The seriousness of this is shown in the very beginning of the movie where Saito discovers that he is in a dream because his carpet is not the same material as it is in the real world leading to the failure …show more content…
When Ariadne is first experimenting with shared dreaming, she creates a place from memory identical to a real place. Cobb has to caution her that, “Building a dream from your memory is the easiest way of losing your grasp on what's real and what is a dream” (Inception). By creating a dreamscape that is new, only using certain pieces from the real world, the dreamers are able to decipher the difference between what is real and what is a dream. A dream that is completely from memory could seem so real that the dreamer could accept it for their reality and be confused even when they wake …show more content…
His only relief is to dream about his memories. He frequently dreams from memories that he has from the past so that he can be with his wife again. The film creates the metaphor of storing memories deep in his mind by creating the visualization of the memories on different levels with an elevator in between. His deepest, most suppressed memory is the memory of Mal when she is about to kill herself. Ariadne can see that he is trying to keep this memory on the lowest level and asks, “Did you think you could contain her (Inception)?” By trying to keep these memories suppressed but alive, he is not allowing himself to get over his wife and, therefore, can’t control her projection or these memories in his other