You must be living in a really dumb neighborhood!

Its not the movie’s fault you didnt understand it. Its your fault. Go back to watching those lame predictable films.

Very interesting movie. Beautifully done. Fine acting and visuals. Elena’s movie review is appreciated. More than just entertainment, this film resonates with persons who are philosophically inclined and have some sense that we dream our lives and who appreciate glimpses of that truth and seek further understanding. I have friends who could not bother to sit through it, which is no fault of the film.

As i watched the movie, my first thought was that, like most inventions thought to be fiction until they become mainstream, mechanically sharing dreams is probably already being done. To a degree, we do it when we sit in a theater with others. In a broader sense, we are collectively sharing a day-dream of life as we know it already. Death is a waking up and our next birth is the start of the next dream. Whole new set of characters, whole new plot, whole new scenery. What is it that connects the dreams? What connects us to each other within the dream? How does it actually work?

Planting seeds in peoples’ minds is already being done. Extracting truth from peoples’ minds is already being done. Going deep within a dream is already being done. If we consider our current life a dream, and our night dream a dream inside of that day-dream, and sometimes at night we dream we are dreaming, that is three levels down. Dream within a dream within a dream.

But who thinks of these things? They should be considered by thoughtful persons. It was risky of Christopher Nolan to make a film which would be misunderstood and under-appreciated by the majority of sleep-walkers on the planet. That he chose to make it anyway shows the level of his own interest and a willingness to bear ridicule of the masses to advance a few who are anxious to understand more.

The final scene leaves us with the decision. Is Cobb currently in a dream or not? Has the whole movie taken place in a dream or not? The style of the cut from the airport to the father’s home and the children dressed same as they were in all other scenes leads me to conclude we never saw the awake state. As the film wants us to decide for ourselves, i believe that the entire movie took place in a dream. Which makes it dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream. Pretty fantastic.

Now, some have concluded that making a movie with a final conclusion like this is a let-down or cheating, because by the end of the movie we naturally all wanted a successful, meaningful outcome after all the heros’ struggles. While dreaming may be entertaining, it is not important like reality.

People generally don’t like being cheated. Yet, when it comes to accepting the illusory false identity and scenarios within the temporary dream life we are currently living, everyone holds on very tightly and no one wants to think it could be otherwise. Practically nobody becomes disturbed that we are being cheated into believing our collective dream is real. We need to find out who we really are and what our life is really like in a fully awakened, conscious state. This movie has the power to stimulate such important inquiry.

nobody cares.!!

My overall thoughts of this movie is that… it’s very intelligent and wonderfully crafted.. but dealt with a subject far too dangerous, complex and extraordinary. Just made me realize what extraordinary things you will find at deep part of people’s mind.. wounded memories, guilt, violence (gun shots, militants, gangs just symbolize the amount of people’s fear, feeling of threat and insecurity) those things lies beneath our consciousness…

thumbs down.

Our favorite hero, Di Caprio, wasted.

Can’t say ‘great!’ just to join the band-wagon of thinkers.

Chris Nolan performs magic in every frame of this brilliant pic. This is fine blending of facts about our subconscious selves with element of fiction built in by the concepts of Dream sharing, extraction and Inception.

The beauty of the script emerges from the fact that plot and sub plots of the movie unfold themselves while simultaneously educating the viewer about the subconscious world. Educate and engage is smart formula that Nolan adapts to keep us hooked all through till the last frame. Of course this is also a great demand he places on the viewer to be extra attentive to every single detail… which does get taxing ..especially in the second half. We need to relate and connect past scenes & dialogues and at the same time paying attention to what’s happening in the current scene!!

Well, imagining a sequel to this movie is definitely a tempting proposition. I wouldn’t rather call it a sequel but extension of experience into Super-conscious. Exploring sub-conscious in Freudian terms and ascribing the source of “genuine” inspiration to be in the depths of sub-conscious is one way to look at our interior world. Where as there have been enough experiential explorations done to discover that “genuine” inspiration emerges from Intutive mind, which is not below our waking state but above it! May be a intricate script that builds a fascinating story into super-conscious, Or trying to adapt some of the complex theories like Spiral dynamics , Integral theory as proposed by Ken Wilber… am sure will definitely give scope to interesting story to be told.

Net – net beautiful movie , watched it already twice. Only second time did I realize that the whole plot was being told by Cobb to Siato in Limbo to remind him about honouring his agreement. Can definitely watch it again to decipher the sub plots with greater detail, as no dialogue or character or scene in this movie was redundant.

30 sec’s equates to 60 minute (1 hour) as they said in the move, etc.

Lets say that it takes the van a total of 30 seconds from start rolling to a complete halt. At the beginning of the movie, Cobb mentioned 5 minutes in one dream gives the other 10 hour. So that means every 1 minute on the higher level dream is 12 minutes for the lower level dream.

So for 30 seconds, that would be 6 minutes total for the dream below.

The thing I’m trying to point out is. The directory made the gravity shift at the level two directly shift gravity of every dream levels below. Which is incorrect.

Every second that the van in level 2 dream rolls, that gives, level 3 dream about 12 seconds before gravity shift, and level 4 dream 144 seconds every shift.

Also, the shifting of gravity should be linear, little by little, not all at once at 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees like that.

Just a thought. 🙂

Wake up or die in the nightmares of corporate espionage, greed, corruption, and armed anger. INCEPTION writer and director, Christopher Nolan, heralds “528” as the “code” through which social transformation, involving music, is achieved.

The new Hollywood blockbuster has moviegoers nationwide curious about the source of a mysterious code used in the plot involving music played in “Room 528,” and linked to a forgotten “528” memory.

INCEPTION, another word for creation, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, shown here entering Room 528 to defend against corporate thugs.

Recalling the “key” to Room 528 is crucial to the movie’s plot, wherein Cobb (DiCaprio), an expert in the art of mind manipulation, extracts secrets from people’s subconscious to serve the “treacherous new world of corporate espionage.”

The movie repeats the number “528,” a mathematical frequency, in a key phone number, on a napkin, two vault combinations, and the room wherein much of the action occurs during the film’s climax. Here, special music must be played at a precise time to “extract” the operatives from their anguish and nightmarish pseudo-realities.

Cobb’s psychological operation in Room 528 reconnects the heir to the world’s most powerful energy cartel, Robert Fisher (played by Cillian Murphy), to his father’s memory. Fisher senior, atheistically representing the corporate alternative to God, is locked in a vault requiring the 528 code to open. Another “528-491” combination unlocks the final safe containing the greatest secret, treasure, motivation, and catharsis for the main characters that have all been struggling with the loss of LOVE.

The idea of linking music for social transcendence with “528” and LOVE in INCEPTIONappears to have come from Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, the discoverer of the “Perfect Circle of Sound,” and a frequent contributor to Hollywood’s screenwriters. The author of 16 books has written extensively on the subject of 528 as it relates to universal construction, healing, Spiritual Renaissance, creationism, and what Nolan terms”inception.”

“I am honored that Christopher Nolan, reputed to be a ‘dark filmmaker,’ thinks so highly of 528Hz music that he chose to promote the frequency in, around, and through “Room 528″ at the height of the drama,” Dr. Horowitz said.

528 engages the “music of the light,” versus the “music of the night.” The musical mathematical knowledge about 528, and its spiritual implications, is urgently needed to deal with the planet’s corporate criminals.

Nolan wrote, “An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.” Horowitz’s idea that 528 plays the sound of LOVE, has been rewriting all the rules since 1998 with his writing of Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse. (Tetrahedron Press; 1-888-508-4787) From co-author Dr. Joseph Puleo, a Bible code scholar and naturopath, Horowitz learned that 528Hz frequency is the “MI” note (that stands for “MIracles”) in the original Solfeggio musical scale.

Thereafter, leading physicists and mathematicians published proofs that “528/LOVE” is fundamental to universal construction, Pi, Phi, the Fibonacci series, sacred geometry, the circle, square, the hexagonal ring of organic chemistry, and the world of biology. Grass, in fact, grows green because of 528Hz–the color of chlorophyll. And the real da Vinci code, according to Horowitz, has everything to do with these discoveries.

LOVE is what drives Nolan’s leading character Cobb, leading lady Mol (Marion Cotillard), and leading victim Fisher, to access their memories in order to reconcile their relationships to reconstruct their lives.

Many people do not understand Nolan’s film for its deeper social and metaphysical meanings. Dr. Horowitz attributes a lot of this confusion to the lost memory of 528Hz frequency, believed to be central to spiritual identity and human creativity.

Nolan’s film plays on these themes, juxtaposing violence and cataclysm with the dream of”extracting” ourselves from the corporate controlled world of mind control and general madness. The objective is to “get back home.”