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It's finally here the video, ISYS Inception for MindBlogger. It's almost like a dream...almost.

 

://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZhIHN9J7z0

 

By:

• Nabil Pala
• Grant Livett
• Omer Dursun
• Daniel Cecere
• Syed Mushfiq Hyder

Prisons of Memories

 

Creating dreams from memories is a complicated concept in Inception. It is first explained in the scene where Cobb showing Ariadne how to build a dream. Recreating places from memories makes the dreamer confuse which one is the real world, dreams or reality? To avoid this Cobb explains that “All ways imagining new places and just take small details like street lamps, phone booths etc. not entire places.” Is the best option. However, Cobb is not doing what he told her to do. He built a prison of his memories about the moments he regret. By keeping this prison he keeps her alive and things that this is the only way to continue to dream. In the movie he does not exactly dreams after inception that’s why we cannot be sure that is this reason that Cobb tells to himself about keeping her alive is true or not but we sure that she is dead at the end.

By Omer Dursun

Progress on Inception

Progress

 

We recently put together our Video for Assignment 2.

We tried to have fun with it, mainly just mocking the movie and things that weren't consistent throughout. After watching 'honest trailers' rendition of Inception on YouTube, we thought we would incorporate the idea of a Totem into our videos. In the movie inception, it is dangerous for another person to touch another person's Totem, as the Totem is the only reminder they have that they are still in a dream. They could essentially lose themselves in their own dream.

We used this idea in the video, using Omar's phone as the Totem, whilst Daniel explained how a Totem worked. The turnout was great in my opinion, however, due to lack of proper equipment the quality of the sound could've been improved.

However, we explained the concepts of inception quite thoroughly with our own little fun twist.

Until next time!

By Nabil Pala

Motif: Security

Security

 

Throughout the movie 'Inception' security or the sense is represented from start to finish of the film. The use of projections of the subconscious act as form of security in the movie. As the projections will remove people in the dream that it detects is foreign to the dreamer. These projections act to protect the dreamers from their mind being tampered with, without the dreamer knowing.

 

Another reoccurring motif is the use of safes. At the beginning of the film there is a safe in Saito's dream where Arthur(Joseph Gordon Levitt) and Cobb(Leonardo Di Caprio) try to open to obtain information. In Limbo, Mal (Cobb's Wife) hides her totem in a safe, making her unable to tell the difference between reality and a dream. Throughout the entire extraction Cobb and his team try find out the combination to Fishers father's safe. Also at the end of the film Fisher's opens a safe which has a memory of his father.

 

 Image from http://www.digitfreak.com/entertainment/movie/1228-still-confused-after-watching-inception-ending-explained

By Daniel Cecere

Did you know? - Inception Song Lyrics

A direct of translation of the lyrics for the song "Non, je ne regrette rien" (The song used to remind Arthur) as performed by Edith Piaf. The lyrics are:

• "I regret nothing/no, I have no regrets/I regret neither the good things that were done to me nor the bad things/ They are all the same to me/...The past is payed, swept away, forgotten/ I don't care of the past anymore/ I set my memories on fire? My agonies, and my pleasures/ I don't need them anymore/ Swept away in the agonies of love, Swept away for love, I'm restarting with nothing..."

Christopher Nolan made a point of saying that he chose the song specifically for the movie, which is heavily concerned with the effect of memories on the psyche, and specifically the disastrous effect that not letting go of memories of love-gone-wrong can have on the subconscious-exactly what the song discusses. Also of note: in the original French, "I regret neither the good things I've done nor the bad things" is

• "Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait ni le mal,"

and since Cobb's wife is named Mal, that gives the line a double meaning.

By Syed Mushfiq Hyder

Inception Memes

Inception Memes

 

        

 

  

 

 

 

 

Images from:

http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/photos/24-great-inception-memes

 

By Syed Mushfiq Hyder

Was the ending of Inception a cliff-hanger - Part 3

Another clue that they were in a dream when Mal killed herself: She trashes the hotel room to make it look like Cobb killed her so that he will eventually join her, but when he approaches the window, she’s across the road in another hotel room. If you look closely, it’s the same hotel room, plus it would make no sense for her to go to the other side. Cobb even proves that he doesn’t catch how that’s odd when he tells her to come inside and motions for her to come into the window he’s currently at, even though she’s across the street.

One of the characteristics of a dream is that weird things happen that we don’t catch. When the dream was happening, strange things happened that we didn’t realise were major “plot holes” or illogical until we woke up and actually thought about it.

The entire movie is like this. The fast (and sloppy) editing, the one-dimensional characters all revolving around Cobb, the walls closing in on Cobb for no reason during the chase scene in Mombasa, bodyguards coming out of nowhere to attack him, Saito showing up just in time to save Cobb, and so many more examples all lead the diligent audience to believe that this is really just a dream.

By Grant Livett