What to watch if you loved Inception?
15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolan’s Inception
- 1 Interstellar (2014)
- 2 The Matrix (1999)
- 3 Shutter Island (2010)
- 4 Edge Of Tomorrow (2014)
- 5 The Game (1997)
- 6 The Butterfly Effect (2004)
- 7 Minority Report (2002)
- 8 Predestination (2014)
What is the main message of the film Inception?
The movie was to showcase a dream within a dream within a dream. Using the term “inception” itself is to place an idea into a characters subconscious while he’s dreaming. Basically the movie was the placement of a simple idea in someone’s head leading them to believe “they gave their self the idea”.
What do trains represent in Inception?
In Inception, trains are symbols for the enormous, self-generating power of thoughts and ideas. When Cobb and his team initially descend into Robert Fischer’s dream, a freight train plows down the street, symbolizing the fact that Robert Fischer has militarized his subconscious and is alerted to their presence.
What does inception teach us about dreaming?
Cobb himself said that once the idea is planted in a person’s mind, it’ll change the person’s reality – forever. If we think about our goals and dreams, they all have to start off as ideas in our minds. It’s not possible for anything in the physical world to exist without ever having been created mentally.
Why is Inception so hard to understand?
It is the opposite of extraction, which is the process by which one gathers important information from the subject’s subconcious. Inception is thought by some to be impossible because the inceptee’s mind has an uncanny ability to trace the planted idea back to the person who planted it.
Why are Shutter Island and Inception so similar?
Both films deal with the ideas of alternate realities. In both films we also find that Dicaprio is dealing with the tragic loss of a dead wife that haunts him. In Shutter Island she is a ghost or a figment of his imagination but in Inception she lives purely within his subconscious.