Inception - Complete mindfuck of a film
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The totem was Saito's (sp?) or so I thought since he held it at the very beginning... and everything we saw was a product of his own dream/creation.
To the guy who said the ending was just a setup for Inception 2.. WTF! lol. if there was ever a movie that clearly made clear theres no possible way for there to be a part 2, this was it. The ending speaks for itself, there is total resolution (we just need to pick which resolution we want)
To the guy who said the ending was just a setup for Inception 2.. WTF! lol. if there was ever a movie that clearly made clear theres no possible way for there to be a part 2, this was it. The ending speaks for itself, there is total resolution (we just need to pick which resolution we want)
Taken from my personal blog:
The movie “Inception” and NLP
So a couple of days ago I watched the movie Inception. Before I saw this movie I heard comments from people like “people are going to remember matrix after seeing this movie”, or “man this was the best movie I have ever seen”, or “This is the movie of the year” , “This movie was perfect”…
Excuse me?? So now I have the expectations of getting mind fucked with this movie. Mentioning “the matrix” gives me the idea that its going to be a philosophical movie that will challenge my idea of what reality is to some degree.
So going into this movie I am expecting to be introduced to something of a NEW idea about the world.
That didn’t happen with me. I frankly am very frustrated that I did not get the emotional high that 99% of people I talk to about this movie had. Why was my experience different?
When Arthur said “don’t think of an elephant, you can’t because your mind can only add” or something to that degree. I immediately thought of meme’s and NLP. NLP teaches you about how the brain works and how you can program your mind, change meaning, etc… So what was this type of language doing inside the movie? Was the writer attempting to *create* a meme inside the movie using NLP? Was he doing this to market his movie virally?
Here is a thought…
What if Nolan understood NLP, Meme theory, and how viral marketing works? What if instead of spending millions of dollars advertising inception he could just write commands to people watching the movie to talk about it with their friends? What if inside the movie it indirectly tells a story that is intentionally convoluted to create cognitive dissonance? What if this dissonance is charged up in the movie and then released verbally by talking about the movie, attempting to understand the plot, characters, premise, etc?
Wouldn’t that be just genius if the writer planned this?
When I left the movie, I just didn’t find what I thought I was going to find. What I left with is a feeling of understanding some of the movie AND a *feeling* of not understanding the movie. Going back and analyzing the movie I can’t seem to find something I don’t understand. Which then made me think I am missing something. Which then because of my own curiosity caused me to talk about the movie with peers to gain a better understanding. Which then caused the exposure of the film to be propagated to people who have seen the movie and who have not seen the movie (thus new potential hosts).
Well doesn’t any good movie have this effect? Well yes and no. A good movie is good because you make it good. When you watch a “good” movie you result in feeling a certain set of emotions because of the movie. Those emotions create an experience that is usually pleasurable in some way. You tell people about that pleasure. Looking at the IMDB top 250 movies you get a sense of what it takes for a movie to rise to the top. Emotions. Duhh right? Well what made inception rise to the top when the last two movie made in the top 10 was in 1994?
My theory in a nutshell is that movies in the future will be created as propaganda was created to win wars and influence. If you have a successful movie you make money. If you make a movie where you include a meme that commands its host to “replicate” using certain techniques you have a printing press. I think not one person in 100 even knows what a meme is let alone the concept of NLP so they are defenseless against these types of attacks. Briefly studying memes you will start to question religion, politics (Obumma for example, how people were so dam emotional over him… seriously?), conventional wisdom, etc… Understanding memes will give you a new framework to look at ideas through.
After writing all of this I am still propagating the meme contained inside the movie since you will want to see it to understand this post. It is like having pointers to this one central repository which is a big needle waiting to inject you with a virus, which costs you $10+ each time lol.
Thoughts?
The movie “Inception” and NLP
So a couple of days ago I watched the movie Inception. Before I saw this movie I heard comments from people like “people are going to remember matrix after seeing this movie”, or “man this was the best movie I have ever seen”, or “This is the movie of the year” , “This movie was perfect”…
Excuse me?? So now I have the expectations of getting mind fucked with this movie. Mentioning “the matrix” gives me the idea that its going to be a philosophical movie that will challenge my idea of what reality is to some degree.
So going into this movie I am expecting to be introduced to something of a NEW idea about the world.
That didn’t happen with me. I frankly am very frustrated that I did not get the emotional high that 99% of people I talk to about this movie had. Why was my experience different?
When Arthur said “don’t think of an elephant, you can’t because your mind can only add” or something to that degree. I immediately thought of meme’s and NLP. NLP teaches you about how the brain works and how you can program your mind, change meaning, etc… So what was this type of language doing inside the movie? Was the writer attempting to *create* a meme inside the movie using NLP? Was he doing this to market his movie virally?
Here is a thought…
What if Nolan understood NLP, Meme theory, and how viral marketing works? What if instead of spending millions of dollars advertising inception he could just write commands to people watching the movie to talk about it with their friends? What if inside the movie it indirectly tells a story that is intentionally convoluted to create cognitive dissonance? What if this dissonance is charged up in the movie and then released verbally by talking about the movie, attempting to understand the plot, characters, premise, etc?
Wouldn’t that be just genius if the writer planned this?
When I left the movie, I just didn’t find what I thought I was going to find. What I left with is a feeling of understanding some of the movie AND a *feeling* of not understanding the movie. Going back and analyzing the movie I can’t seem to find something I don’t understand. Which then made me think I am missing something. Which then because of my own curiosity caused me to talk about the movie with peers to gain a better understanding. Which then caused the exposure of the film to be propagated to people who have seen the movie and who have not seen the movie (thus new potential hosts).
Well doesn’t any good movie have this effect? Well yes and no. A good movie is good because you make it good. When you watch a “good” movie you result in feeling a certain set of emotions because of the movie. Those emotions create an experience that is usually pleasurable in some way. You tell people about that pleasure. Looking at the IMDB top 250 movies you get a sense of what it takes for a movie to rise to the top. Emotions. Duhh right? Well what made inception rise to the top when the last two movie made in the top 10 was in 1994?
My theory in a nutshell is that movies in the future will be created as propaganda was created to win wars and influence. If you have a successful movie you make money. If you make a movie where you include a meme that commands its host to “replicate” using certain techniques you have a printing press. I think not one person in 100 even knows what a meme is let alone the concept of NLP so they are defenseless against these types of attacks. Briefly studying memes you will start to question religion, politics (Obumma for example, how people were so dam emotional over him… seriously?), conventional wisdom, etc… Understanding memes will give you a new framework to look at ideas through.
After writing all of this I am still propagating the meme contained inside the movie since you will want to see it to understand this post. It is like having pointers to this one central repository which is a big needle waiting to inject you with a virus, which costs you $10+ each time lol.
Thoughts?
Bullshit or you wouldn't have written this Russian novel of a post.
Like I said in my original post. It's a mindfuck with no true answer. Thats why so many people are talking about it. It's human nature to want to make sense of things.
