Inception- Mise-En-Scene Essay Example

“Mise-en-scene” The scene that is going to be analyzing in this part is the scene in the second dimension of the dream. In the other word, the scene in the hotel or Arther’s dream. Mise-en-scene will covered many details in the shot for example, setting, lighting, character casts with their performance style, costume and make up, and the props that is using in the shot. This analysis will involve only the part where all of characters are in the same room, before they are going down into the deeper dream. Cobb is disguising as Mr. Charlse, the man as told as “Specialize in Subconscious Security” (Nolan), projected from Fischer’s imagination in order to protect Fischer from the dream terrorist. Cobb makes Fischer believes that his uncle, Browning, is manipulating all the kidnap scene in the earlier dream in order to steal the number combination from Fischer’s subconscious. Therefore, at this point that Fischer trusts Cobb and thinks his uncle is betraying him, he will helps Cobb and others gets into his own subconscious, as he understands as Browning’s, and find out the truth, or as we know, the inception Cobb tries to implant in Fischer’s mind. “’He’s going to help us break into his own subconscious’ – Arther” (Nolan). When Browning and Fischer falls asleep, everyone in the room start preparing their own work, to sleep and go down to another dimension. In this scene right before it cut and jump deeper into Eames’ dream, Cobb sees the curtain in the hotel room and he reminisce back to the day his wife, Mal, suicide. Firstly, mise-en-scene is the composition of all elements placed in the shot. According to James Monaco, American film critic and educator, “The codes of mise-en-scene are the tools with which filmmaker alters and modifies our reading of the shot.” (Monaco). It has various elements combine for instance, sets, props, costumes, lighting, performance includes blocking, make up, casting and performance style. To give another