Inception – a challenging movie
Inception has been getting rave reviews. It’s certainly the sort of film you’d want to see a second time. In fact, this second viewing phenomenon is very widespread, as people return to work out the intricacies of the plot, not to mention looking for the many hidden visual and musical puns which have been deliberately embedded in the film. This is what the industry calls a ‘rehook’. (How can we make aspects of Christian and evangelistic ministry, offline or online, have this ‘rehook’, ‘sticky’ attraction to return?)
Damaris have just published their analysis of this thought-provoking story. Here’s a great way to use popular culture as a conversation-provoking starting point, online in blogs or Facebook, or offline in youth groups or with work colleagues. You can click on the AddThis button on the Damaris site to add this to your own Facebook page. Then encourage people to start commenting and discussing the movie.
CT has posted a helpful longer review.
Incidentally, I’m looking forward to the release of The Illusionist later this month.
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We are told that art imitates life. So a lot of the time there is more to movies than we realize. It’s more than just entertainment, and quite often things are hidden in plain sight.
They say that the conscious mind is like a drop of water and the subconscious mind is like the ocean. The thing we must learn to do is to bring that which is in the subconscious mind to that of the conscious mind. That is what meditation does, and that’s why we are told to be still (which meditation is) and know that I AM God. This is one of the things that comes to mind when you watch the movie Inception. You see that the subconscious is made in the image/reflection of God (it’s infinite). However, it must be trained. People often say when they first start to meditate that it’s hard to calm/still the mind because it is much like a child who is easily distracted, but you can train it with practice. It is then that we begin tapping into the subconscious (unlimited potential).
In Inception, Leonard Dicaprio’s character explained how you can build and do anything with the subconscious mind and the importance of going inside (because everything we need is inside us). However, again you have to train the mind. This why people use autosuggestion and other techniques (meditation, hypnosis, dream work, etc.) of going into the subconscious. However, there is no cutting corners. In times past and present people have done things to try reach higher states of conscious by ingesting certain hallucinogenic plants, drinks, pills, etc. Sometimes they trip out and don’t come back and end up in mental institutions or on street corners in our cities seen trying to fight with their own reflection.
All this is seen in Inception. They used a sedative (drug-induced method) to go deeper in the subconscious and just like hallucinogens, they ran a risk of getting stuck in the current state. The movie taught on how we can create/define our reality because we are co-creaters made in the image of our Mother/Father God. It taught about the law of cycles/seasons as Leonardo Dicaprio’s character had to learn to move on with his life because his wife was gone (his cycle/season with her had ended), else he would remain stuck (wouldn’t be able to get back and see his children). Just as with our lives, we have to take the experiences that we’ve had and learn from them and move forward or risk remaining stuck and impeding/retarding our growth/evolution. It also taught about being responsible for our actions and cause and effect (karma) as Leonardo Dicaprio’s character had to admit that it was his fault that his wife did what she did since he planted the idea into her head. The movie dealt with facing our fears or the things that we have suppressed in our subconscious. In life we all have our own ideals and beliefs, as we must remember that everyone has the right to live and believe as they choose as long as they don’t infringe on the rights of others. However, it’s when we place our projections ( you should think what we think , do what we do, or do what I want you to do) on others and they don’t meet or live up to them, that’s when the problems start. This was seen in the movie when the projections would attack the outsiders/invaders. Even some of the numbers in movie stood out. I think they went into room 528. 5+2+8=15 and 1+5=6, which is the number of transformation. It was a process that Leonardo Dicaprio and Cillian Murphy’s characters had to go through in order to be transformed. Then they went into another room that was numbered 5. Five is symbolic of choice being that it is half way between 1 and 9. The Creator gives us free will, and we can go either way on things. Just like the movie, some choose to stay sleep (ignorant and unconscious) and some choose to wake up (become illuminated/enlightened). The number 5 is also symbolic of our five members, 2 arms, 2 legs, and 1 head. The body that houses our soul, sometimes called the soul of man’s (Solomon’s) Temple where God dwells (know ye not that you are the temple of the living God).
The movie also showed that we can and are to learn from others, but the path that we choose to walk is ultimately our own. This is what Fisher (Cillian Murphy’s character) learned from his dying father. He had to learn to be his own man, as we all do which is a part of learning the self and the road to self mastery.
And finally it is no coincidence that Dicaprio’s character starts off on the beach or at the ocean (the subconscious mind).
Overall I gave this movieWhat are your thoughts on it?