Inception, which is directed by Christopher Nolan, is a combination of science fiction, romance and action movie. The two key words in the movie are extraction and inception, which are totally opposite. Extraction means extracting some important information from the subject’s unconsciousness when he’s dreaming. While inception means incepting a new idea to the subject, and make the idea deeply rooted in the subject’s mind. Though our hero, Dominic Cobb, acted by Leonardo DiCaprio, is an extractor, this time, he will try to be an inceptor. And if he succeeds he’ll be able to go back to his children.
At the beginning of the movie, Cobb and his extracting group were on an extraction mission in the mind of Saito, using a two-layered dream, which means ‘a dream in a dream’. In the first layer, they were in a secret apartment; and in the second layer, they were somewhere like an assembly hall. While in reality, they were on a train, sleeping. There is a rule in the dream world that if someone died in the dream, he would be back to the upper layer or to the reality. Cobb’s wife Mal showed up in the dream and destroyed his mission. ‘Everyone for himself’ was what Cobb said to his group. Actually, Mal who had already dead was only a projection of Cobb.
Cobb usually uses a top to tell reality from dream. If it is a dream, the top won’t stop spinning when spun.
Later, Cobb was offered a job by Saito to incept an idea to the son of Saito’s competitor, who would soon inherit the control of his father’s corporation, and if he succeeded Saito would help him to go home. Unable to see his children for some reason he himself couldn’t fix, Cobb accepted.
He reconstructed his group and made up the plan: they’d build a three-layered dream, and the first layer would be a city, the second layer a hotel, and the third layer a hospital near a snow mountain. In reality, they were in the first class cabin of a 747. With the group’s joint effort, finally they succeeded and Cobb came back home, with his children. He spun his top again, but it isn’t clear that whether the top would stop or not in the movie.
After watching this movie, what impressed me most are the dialogues. They reflect something about dreams, life, faith, love, and so on. I’d like to share my thoughts of some lines.
第一次看的时候看不懂开头和结尾，给我的感觉就是分不清楚梦和现实，整个过程都带着这样的感觉看完的。第二次再看的时候潜意识直接屏蔽了，从开始到结束都没有任何感觉。
我现在突然明白，我是在防御自己看懂，害怕看清楚自己原来就是活在想象和现实分不清楚的状态里。电影主人公高比每次进去梦境中遇到妻子和孩子的时候都分不清楚自己是在梦里还是现实里，因为他沉溺在与妻子相遇的美好感觉里，还因为对妻子植入想法而造成妻子最后醒来后梦和现实分不清楚选择自杀。他不能面对自己痛苦，也不愿意承认妻子离开的事实，活在自责里不能自拔。让我想到我小时候受的伤，因为母亲对我的伤害和指责，让我害怕与人亲近，所以学会了屏蔽各种感觉，让自己貌似很冷漠。这个模式最后变成了我的潜意识，支配着我以后的为人处事，哪怕意识层面里想要与人亲近，但是潜意识却在破坏这种关系，就像梅西每次都在关键时刻出来破坏他的行动，破坏他想回家的愿望。高比为了孩子，为了回家，勇敢的面对自己的内疚和自责，特别在那个小丫头造梦师的帮助下，推动了他不得不面对自己的问题，最终战胜了自己，回到孩子们的生活里。
而回到我自己，从开始接触精神分析理论的懵懂状态，一点点的在团体里看到别人的问题，再回到自己身上，发现自己原来都不知道的自己，用精神分析专业术语就是发现自己的潜意识，我一直以为我们做什么，遇到什么人，发生什么事都是我们意识范围可控下发生的，当我发现自己其实在潜意识状态下支配自己时第一次非常的震惊。我不能接受自己不好的一面，不能接受那些坏的结果都是我潜意识干的。我以为都是别人的错，我一直活在过去被伤害的感觉里，以为全世界的人都对不起我。这个发现曾经让我痛苦不堪，痛让我也清醒，我不愿意活在过去的阴影里，不愿意活得稀里糊涂，日复一日。用我自己说的话就是，如果一成不变的生活，三十年后死和现在死没有任何区别。所以我决定不再让自己活在想象和现实分不清的状态里，希望自己活得通透，活得明白，活得自由，活在当下。分析电影，分析人生，分析自己，因为人生如戏。
《盗梦空间》我在上映的时候看过，在电影院，刚开始对这个电影题材特别感兴趣，觉得有意思。但是在我看到年轻女孩初次造梦时空间位置奇妙变换时，心里非常恐惧异常紧张，闭上眼睛心里就告诉自己没有关系这是电影而已，不是真实的，一会就过去了。但是后来回想那种感觉仍记得很深。
经过今年不断接触和学习心理学，现在有点想明白原因了，是自己一定要通过一种确定性概念化的东西来获得内心的安全感。凡是外在的不断变化不固定的或无法预知未来的东西都会使我在潜意识里感觉恐惧，感觉绝望，感觉无能为力。写出来这些感觉突然就有想哭的冲动，很委屈，很心疼自己。是自己从小就未从父母那里得到过足够的稳定感安全感和自我存在感价值感，所以虽然对人际关系很在意很渴望却知道自己没有能力去靠近别人，始终会保持一定的.距离。在上周第二次看电影的时候很高兴看懂了所有的情节，得到了心里期待的完美的结局，但是却对里面男主人公的一段内心独白念念不忘，它让我心情沉重、伤感：当一个已经苍老的灵魂重新回到一个年轻的身体中时，他怎么去判断这是真的现实还是另一个梦境呢?这段独白让我觉得特别难受，我特别理解他妻子的做法，因为已经感受不到真实的自己，活着又有什么意义?我不知道我自己心里是不是藏了太久太多痛的感觉，所以在平时会多愁善感，容易悲伤，只是大多时候愿意展现给别人的是自己的积极与努力。我潜意识里也想通过给别人展现的积极正向力量也能反过来感染我自己，给我勇气和力量!