Talk:Inception: A Period/@comment-173.221.49.34-20140911154934

"Desiring-Machines in American Cinema: What Inception Tells Us about Our Experience of Reality and Film." Senses of Cinema. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Sept. 2014.

In this article, Paul explores the importance of reality vs. dreamworld, repression, and the "desiring machine" that appears in Inception to help grasp the complexity of the plot. Paul explains that the layers of the dream world in Inception are "always in between and dependent" on one another, meaning what happens in one layer ripples into the other. The movie highlights the importance of repression in relation to completing the mission. The motivation of the mission was to ultimately plant an unoriginal idea in the mind of Fisher's subconscious, but first a confrontation of his repressed memories must be faced. Along with Fisher, Cobb must face his haunted thoughts of his wife's suicide and his repressed guilt because they continue to resurface in the dream-world of Fisher. For example, the reappearance of the train in the first layer of the dream represents Cobb's unresolved emotions and traumas from his subconscious and past. His repression builds the dream-world for others, so it makes the viewer question the credibility of the film. This back and forth planned creation and spontaneous appearance of repressed memories leaves the viewer unable to grasp what is real and what is not, especially during the last scene of the film. Inception makes the viewer question the dream world and reality as the same, as both rely on creative perception and experience. This could be the central thesis of the film, as it makes the viewer relate their On my way! reality to the basis of the film.