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STORY STUDY - MEDIUM: FILM “Inception”

Jeffrey Tung
Apr 8, 2019
2 min read

One last job. That’s all it takes to get your name cleared to finally see your children again. Wouldn’t you take that risk?

Directed and written by Christopher Nolan, Inception is the story of Dom Cobb, a dream extractor taking corporate espionage jobs by using technology that lets users to dive into the mark’s subconscious to learn any secrets they keep.

Cobb’s recent job has failed when the mark realizes what he is attempting to do. However, all is forgiven when the mark offers Cobb his own job: performing “inception”, the task of creating an idea in a mark, on a competitor. If he succeeds, Cobb can finally return to his home country and reunite with his children.

The concept of the film acts like a heist film. Cobb gathers together a crew to go after a mark to ultimately steal something, or in this case, put something there. Each member has a special skill, such as acting/impersonating someone, a designer of the dream to make the mark think they are still awake, a chemist that makes the proper dosage that everyone takes to go to sleep, etc.

You have to absolutely pay attention to what's going on, both the visuals and the dialogue. Every action that they do is important (plus the action scenes themselves look very cool) and the dialogue helps the audience understand how important their tasks are.

This is probably a flaw of the film, but that happens with a film that has technology reality doesn’t have.

You can just be a casual moviegoer and know exactly what Inception is. It’s one of those films that everyone knows by name. Whether it’s because it’s a legitimately phenomenal film, or just a source for memes, it created a legacy among pop culture.

The film was the follow-up to The Dark Knight, so it was hard not to get excited for Nolan’s next film. The idea of an action film revolving around entering someone’s dreams has so much potential, even on an epic scale.

Inception was a film that created a mark on filmmaking and storytelling. Everything, from its high points to its lows, has been discussed by critics, the audience, and everyone in between.