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Excellent film. I have never rated Leonardo di Caprio highly as an actor (I still think of him as that pretty boy of the 90), but he carries this film well. There are a number of other well known actors in it including Michael Caine, Ellen Page and Marion Cotillard. The basic premise of this film is about dreams and the nature of reality, two areas of spirituality not really dealt with much in Mormonism, but regular fare in eastern religion.
I initially thought this was going to be a rip off of “The Matrix”, but I actually prefer it. Folk go into people’s dreams to steal information for commercial espionage. One client want something else though, “inception”, i.e. an idea to be planted in the head of a business rival rather than taken from it. Unfortunately there are some complications…
A surprisingly intelligent film for Hollywood fare, and also not one that leans too heavily on special FX. The twist is an obvious one, but it does get you thinking.
Yeah, I watched this awhile ago with jwald, and I had the same impressions. I thought it had some deep spiritual messages and “truths” in the film. My family all loved the film. It really was thought-provoking. I am the original cheapskate and rarely go to the theatre, but I paid to see this movie twice. Or was it three times? I can’t remember, but the movie was amazingly well-done and very imaginative. Was a bit put off by the trailers, which I do not believe do it justice. Made it look like a Matrix rip off. The thing I liked about it is that the SFX were there, but didn’t get in the way (very rare, e.g. Avatar which is all SFX and no substance). Also, it’s one of a handful of commercial films which mix action with decent philosophy.
And here’s a bonus… I was watching the end credits (yes I’m a geek sometimes), and it turns out that someone who worked on the film was a childhood friend of mine. How cool is that? (His name is distinctive, and it is his line of work)
I didn’t see it at the cinema, I got it cheap at the supermarket, but no worries, it’s a brilliant film.
Our family liked the film as well, it does get you thinking. One thing I thought, was that it was about placing ideas into others thoughts, and they think they come up with those things themselves, and that way it shapes their decisions and their buy-in to those decisions.
In some ways, this is kind of like religion. We are told there are certain truths, and if we go to the scriptures, we could find evidence that those truths are supported by the word of God. Inception?
PiperAlpha wrote:Our family liked the film as well, it does get you thinking.
One thing I thought, was that it was about placing ideas into others thoughts, and they think they come up with those things themselves, and that way it shapes their decisions and their buy-in to those decisions.
In some ways, this is kind of like religion. We are told there are certain truths, and if we go to the scriptures, we could find evidence that those truths are supported by the word of God.Inception? Oh. I like that.
Well… concerning the religious angle, I’ve always found it interesting how little we question reality. We admit the existence of a veil, and a spirit world, and other realms, but not that this reality might be bogus. SamBee wrote:Well… concerning the religious angle, I’ve always found it interesting how little we question reality. We admit the existence of a veil, and a spirit world, and other realms, but not that this reality might be bogus.
Especially for lifetime members like myself, many things we were taught our whole lives is accepted as reality, but not until our faith is pushed out of stage 3 do we question it at all.SamBee wrote:Well… concerning the religious angle, I’ve always found it interesting how little we question reality. We admit the existence of a veil, and a spirit world, and other realms, but not that this reality might be bogus.
I have always felt like this life is more of a complex ‘video game’ than anything else. It could be something like “the matrix” or “Inception” where we are plugged into a virtual reality that only exists in our consciousness. But even if we are here as flesh and blood, our body is still just an artificial self-healing carbon shell that our real consciousness (our soul or spirit) gets inserted into for the duration of our life. So we are controlling something that isn’t really us to try to experience an alternate reality. That’s a video game in my book. What I can’t figure out is how many extra lives we have and how many human shells we each get to control. Is it one of those games where you can keep restarting until you win, or is it 1 go and you are done? Are we all playing a big multiplayer game at once, or is everyone else on this planet a simulation. Since I only personally know maybe 100 people very well, maybe those are the 100 that are playing right with me and the other 5.99999 billion are simulated. I don’t know. Maybe your great grandpa, your favorite high school teacher, college mentor, and best friend growing up are all the same guy.
Man, this stuff blows my mind at all the possibilities.
Brown, hold that thought. Let your mind be blown. Peace will ensue in due time. Tom Haws wrote:Brown, hold that thought. Let your mind be blown. Peace will ensue in due time.
I’m sure after we die, the answer to it all is going to be one of those forehead slapping moments where it was right in front of your face the whole time.
Brown wrote:I’m sure after we die, the answer to it all is going to be one of those forehead slapping moments where it was right in front of your face the whole time.
I agree. I have a feeling it will be something around Love, and less around commandments.
PiperAlpha wrote:Brown wrote:I’m sure after we die…
Hmm. Hmmmmmm. This deserves comment, but I have none.
PiperAlpha wrote:SamBee wrote:Well… concerning the religious angle, I’ve always found it interesting how little we question reality. We admit the existence of a veil, and a spirit world, and other realms, but not that this reality might be bogus.
Especially for lifetime members like myself, many things we were taught our whole lives is accepted as reality, but not until our faith is pushed out of stage 3 do we question it at all.I don’t quite mean in that sense. I’m not just talking about our lives within the church, but out of it as well. There are odd things which happen in life which suggest it is a dream, like when you think of something, and someone else mentions it, or it appears.
Many of these are probably down to bad memory… but…
One of the most famous examples is Carl Jung’s scarab…
http://www.psychovision.ch/synw/scarab_synchronicity_Jung.htm Quote:A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me this dream I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window-pane from outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to a golden scarab that one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata), which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt an urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment.
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