Sleep to sleep to sleep
On the eve of the release of the supposedly masterpiece - the film The Dark Knight: The Legend Rises (48 days left!) - let's remember the masterpiece of the same director. If anyone else hasn't watched Christopher Nolan's Inception, now is the time to do so, and in the best possible quality, if possible.The Beginning is a rather difficult experiment, both for the actors and for the audience. The director-scriptwriter demanded not only to fall asleep - he, as it were, tore off the viscous shell of the dream, revealing a multi-storey frame on which you can travel as much as you like, and in which it is so easy to get bogged down. Everything is subject to the thoughts of the architects of dreams: every house, every person and even the space itself, which can be curved, turned over and torn apart. An invisible impulse of an idea, hovering in the air, transforms the world of sleep an infinite number of times. Around - illusions, inventions, soap bubbles, and somewhere behind this unsteady, but quite dangerous veil lurks the consciousness of another person, into which you need to penetrate in order to change it ...  Of course, "Start" did not produce revolution in cinema, like, for example, "The Matrix", but still there is something in common, both in meaning and in the picture. Nolan 's innovation is that he made sleep the main scene of action, a multilevel world where all boundaries are conditional - and therefore it is so easy to lose the Beginning, the entry point. In this film, the principle of matryoshka is remarkably implemented, according to which the Arabs built their fairy tales many centuries ago: in one plot another is hiding, ears of the next level stick out from one story.Part of the film is being prepared: they explain the structure of sleep, the principles of working with it. The viewer is shown how it is possible to penetrate into the consciousness of a sleeping person, how it is possible to change this consciousness, to put the necessary thought into it. And then an extremely difficult task arises: to put a thought into the subconscious. And to reach the subcortex, it is not enough just to fall asleep - you have to fall asleep several times. First, fall asleep in the first dream - to plunge into a second dream, from which you can try to break into those abysses where not only the subconscious lives, but fears, complexes, pain points, terrible memories of the architects themselves.  And here you can only applaud the successful casting, which resulted in the emergence of a wonderful acting ensemble: Dilip Rao, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Ellen Page, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The brave team effectively falls deeper and deeper, breaking through one level after another, firing back from aggressive illusions and changing circumstances and constructing the environment on the fly. The world of sleep turns out to be monstrously complex and saturated, in this world you can die - in order to wake up to a higher level and painfully try to understand where you are, at which level, how many dreams separate you from reality - and from friends who are still where you got killed.  Something, by the way, "Start" resembles a network game: in the same dream a whole team works with different distribution of roles: Architect , Dreamer , Imitator . Someone constructs the world of sleep, someone lays down an idea, someone covers up his comrades-in-arms, lingering at the previous level, where life does not stop, continues. While the characters continue to infiltrate, movement continues on the levels left and the danger from the"units"remains. Moreover, the deeper the level, the slower the time goes on it. In reality, a few seconds pass, in the limbus, that is, at the lowest level of sleep, half an hour. Limb is generally a dangerous place:
Yes, this is a game, this is an amazing game with a crazy plot, talented and charming actors, and a concept thought out to the smallest detail. And, by the way, this is perhaps the main difference from "The Matrix" : when you watch the cyber-punk fantasy of the Wachowski brothers, you involuntarily begin to become infected with its persuasiveness, broadcasting the proposed picture of the world to reality. In "Inception" this does not happen: the whole film we remember that this is just a quest, but so atmospheric and mesmerizing that we want to be silent during the final credits.  And, probably, quite differently after "Beginning" will be perceived guttural voice of Edith Piaf, which suddenly sounded from TV or on the radio, somewhere in the city, in transport, at work:"Non, rien de rien ... " The Topic of Article: Sleep to sleep to sleep. |
