August 8, 2010 14:21
I don’t want to ruin the Inception experience for anyone so I will mention elements that were present in the trailer.
Reality vs Dream: The audience is presented with a scenarios where Oneiroinauts (like astronauts of the dream plane) are unable to differentiate between the waking world (reality) and dreams. This caused me to recall Spike Spiegel’s samurai ideal (considering oneself as dead and the idea of death being an awakening from a dream) as well as Morrison’s discussion on reality, space and time) and its nature.
Viral Idea: Inception introduced the concept of infectious pathogen-like ideas that have the potential to enhance or corrupt the host. This brought to mind a Grant Morrison creation: Weapon XII, a biological weapon with a viral consciousness that mentally degraded its victim and reshaped their minds into an extension of its own.
Limbo: Limbo is a netherworld spawned from the dreamer’s unconscious mind that an Onieroinaut could become trapped in. This was similar to the limbo featured in Final Crisis: Superman Beyond, a hell formed from the collective unconscious mind of comic book readers.
Grant Morrison speaking about reality, space/time and our perception of the three.
Images are courtesy of IGN.com and the videos are courtesy of Google Videos and YouTube.
Posted by Viktor VonGlum
Categories: comic book, Fiction, Film
Tags: Christopher Nolan, Ellen Page, Grant Morrison, Inception, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy
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