百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:[20]Inception 盜夢(mèng)空間

Former dream architect Dominick “Dom” Cobb(Leonardo Dicaprio)and business partner Arthur(Joseph Gordon Levitt)perform corporate espionage by using an experimental military-developed machine to infiltrate the subconscious of their targets and extract information while dreaming, their latest target being powerful Japanese businessman Saito(Ken Watanabe). Tiered dream within a dream strategies are used and dreamers awaken by a sudden kick or by dying in the dream. However, if the dreamer is the one who dies, the dream “collapses”, Each extractor carries a totem, a personalized small object whose behavior is only predictable to its owner, that serves the purpose of identifying dream-state or reality. The way the totem works is that in the different states, the totem behaves differently. Cobb's totem is a spinning top that perpetually spins in the dream state. The extraction fails due to Mallorie “Mai” Cobb(Marion Cotillard), Cobb's deceased wife, whose memory projection sabotages the mission. Saito reveals that he is in fact auditioning the team to perform the difficult act of inception: implanting an idea or thought into a person's mind while their mind is subconscious.

Saito wishes to break up the energy conglomerate of his ailing competitor Maurice Fischer, by planting this idea in his son and heir Robert Fischer(Cillian Murphy)to disintegrate his father's company. Should Cobb succeed, Saito would use his influence to clear a murder charge against him, so he can return to the U.S. and his children. Cobb accepts the offer and assembles his team: Eames, an identity forger; Yusuf, a chemist who concocts the powerful sedative for a stable dream within a dream strategy; Ariadne, a young architecture student tasked with designing the labyrinth of the dream landscapes; and Athur. Saito accompanies so that he knows whether or not Cobb and his team succeeded in their mission.

The job is set in motion when Maurice Fischer dies and his son accompanies his fathers body from Sydney to Los Angeles. During the flight, Cobb sedates Fischer, and the team bring him into the shared dream. At each stage, the member of the team who is “creating” the dream remains to generate the “kick”, while the other team members fall asleep within the dream to travel further down into Fischer's subconscious. The dreamers will then ride a synchronized series of “kicks”(the van plunging off a bridge, a fall between hotel rooms, and a collapsing building)back up the levels to wake up to reality.

In the first level, Yusuf's rainy downtown dream, the team abducts Fischer. However Fischer's antibody-like trained subconscious projections attack, severely wounding Saito. Eames temporarily takes the appearance of Fischer's godfather, Peter Brawning, to suggest Fischer reconsider his tether's will. Yusuf drives the team in a van as they are sedated into Arthur's dream, a hotel, where the team recruit Fischer, convincing him his kidnapping was orchestrated by Browning. In the third dream level, a snowy mountain fortress dreamed by Eames, Fischer is told they are in Browning's subconscious, but they are, in fact, really going deeper into Fischer's. Yusuf, under assault by trained projections, initiates Ns kick too soon by driving off a bridge, sending Arthurs dream world into zero-gravity and causing an avalanche in Eames' dream. Arthur is forced to improvise a new kick using an elevator that will be synchronized with the van hitting the water, while the team in Eames' dream races to finish the job before the new round of kicks.

In the end, Eames defibrillates Fischer to bring him back up to the third-level mountain fortress, where he enters a safe room and discovers and accepts the idea to split up his father's business empire.

Leaving Cobb behind, the team members escape by riding the kicks back up the levels of the dream. Cobb eventually finds an elderly Saito who has been waiting in Limbo for decades in dream time(just a short time in real time), the two help each other to remember their arrangement, and the team awakens on the flight. Cobb passes through U.S. customs, and reunites with his children at home, where he uses Mal's totem, a spinning top, to test reality, but is distracted by his children before he can see the result.

前任造夢(mèng)師多明尼克“道姆”柯布(萊昂納多·迪卡普里奧飾)和商業(yè)伙伴亞瑟(約瑟夫·高登·萊維特飾)利用一種軍方研發(fā)的實(shí)驗(yàn)性工具來(lái)潛入他們目標(biāo)的潛意識(shí)里面，然后在他們做夢(mèng)的時(shí)候竊取信息，他們最近的目標(biāo)是日本的商業(yè)大亨齋藤(渡邊謙飾)。他們?cè)谝粋€(gè)夢(mèng)中使用了分層夢(mèng)境的策略，做夢(mèng)者要么由于一個(gè)突然的沖擊醒來(lái)，要么因?yàn)樵趬?mèng)中死亡而醒來(lái)。然而，如果做夢(mèng)者死了，那么這個(gè)夢(mèng)就“倒塌”了。每個(gè)竊取者有一個(gè)圖騰，一個(gè)私人的小物品，它的行為只有擁有者可以預(yù)料到，用來(lái)區(qū)分是夢(mèng)境還是現(xiàn)實(shí)。圖騰的工作原理是在不同的狀態(tài)下，它的表現(xiàn)是不同的?？虏嫉膱D騰是一個(gè)陀螺，它在夢(mèng)境中會(huì)一直旋轉(zhuǎn)。由于柯布的亡妻馬洛里“茉?xún)?rdquo;(瑪麗昂·歌迪亞飾)的記憶投射破壞了這次任務(wù)，竊取失敗了。齋藤指出實(shí)際上它是想測(cè)試這個(gè)團(tuán)隊(duì)，來(lái)讓他們執(zhí)行艱難的植入任務(wù)：在一個(gè)人處于潛意識(shí)的情況下，在他的腦子里面植入某種思想或者想法。

齋藤想通過(guò)對(duì)他生病的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手莫里斯·費(fèi)舍爾的兒子及繼承人羅伯特·費(fèi)舍爾(希里安·墨菲飾)植入解散他父親公司的想法來(lái)瓦解莫里斯·費(fèi)舍爾的能源聯(lián)合企業(yè)。如果柯布成功了，齋藤會(huì)用他的影響力來(lái)擺平對(duì)柯布的一個(gè)謀殺控告，這樣他就可以回到美國(guó)，回到他的孩子們身邊?？虏即饝?yīng)了這個(gè)提議并且招集了他的團(tuán)隊(duì)：偽裝者埃姆斯，在造夢(mèng)策略中為穩(wěn)定的夢(mèng)境提供強(qiáng)有力的鎮(zhèn)靜劑的藥劑師約瑟夫，擔(dān)任設(shè)計(jì)夢(mèng)境迷宮的年輕的建筑系學(xué)生阿里阿德涅還有亞瑟。齋藤和他們一起，這樣他才可以知道柯布和他的團(tuán)隊(duì)是否能成功完成他們的任務(wù)。

當(dāng)莫里斯·費(fèi)舍爾去世后，他的兒子將他的尸體從悉尼護(hù)送到洛杉磯時(shí)，工作開(kāi)始了。在飛行中，柯布給費(fèi)舍爾服用了鎮(zhèn)靜劑，接著團(tuán)隊(duì)帶著他進(jìn)入共享的夢(mèng)境中。在每一層夢(mèng)境中，團(tuán)隊(duì)中創(chuàng)造這層夢(mèng)境的人留下來(lái)制造“沖擊”，其他隊(duì)員在這個(gè)夢(mèng)里繼續(xù)沉睡，進(jìn)一步潛入到費(fèi)舍爾的潛意識(shí)中。接下來(lái)，做夢(mèng)者將控制一個(gè)同步系列的“沖擊”(廂式車(chē)從橋上掉下，旅館房間的下落，一個(gè)倒塌的建筑物)來(lái)倒退到不同層的夢(mèng)境以便在現(xiàn)實(shí)中醒來(lái)。

在第一層夢(mèng)境中，場(chǎng)景是約瑟夫創(chuàng)造的下著雨的市中心，團(tuán)隊(duì)綁架了費(fèi)舍爾。然而，他們受到費(fèi)舍爾被訓(xùn)練過(guò)的類(lèi)似抗體的潛意識(shí)保護(hù)攻擊，齋藤受了重傷。埃姆斯暫時(shí)裝扮成費(fèi)舍爾的教父彼得·勃朗寧的樣子，建議費(fèi)舍爾重新考慮他父親的遺愿。約瑟夫開(kāi)著廂式車(chē)載著團(tuán)隊(duì)的成員，他們正服用鎮(zhèn)靜劑進(jìn)入亞瑟的夢(mèng)境中，在這層夢(mèng)中，他們?cè)谝粋€(gè)旅館里使費(fèi)舍爾恢復(fù)健康，并且讓他相信，他被綁架是勃朗寧安排的。在第三層夢(mèng)境中，埃姆斯創(chuàng)造了一個(gè)大雪覆蓋的山中的一個(gè)堡壘，費(fèi)舍爾被告知，他們正在勃朗寧的潛意識(shí)里，但是實(shí)際上他們正在進(jìn)入費(fèi)舍爾的更深層的潛意識(shí)里。由于受到被訓(xùn)練的保護(hù)的攻擊，約瑟夫?qū)④?chē)開(kāi)下橋，過(guò)早地啟動(dòng)了他的“沖擊”，使亞瑟的夢(mèng)境世界失重，在埃姆斯的夢(mèng)境里面造成了雪崩。約瑟夫被迫即興創(chuàng)造一個(gè)用電梯和廂式車(chē)同步撞擊水面的新的沖擊，而在埃姆斯夢(mèng)境中的團(tuán)隊(duì)成員，必須趕在新的沖擊循環(huán)來(lái)到之前完成任務(wù)。

最后，埃姆斯使費(fèi)舍爾的心跳恢復(fù)正常，并把他帶到第三層夢(mèng)境，在山中的堡壘中，費(fèi)舍爾進(jìn)入一個(gè)安全的房間，發(fā)現(xiàn)并且接受了解散他父親商業(yè)王國(guó)的想法。

團(tuán)隊(duì)成員通過(guò)沖擊回到上層夢(mèng)境逃離，留下了柯布?？虏甲罱K找到了一個(gè)年老的齋藤，他一直在夢(mèng)里的邊緣地帶等了幾十年(在現(xiàn)實(shí)中是很短的一段時(shí)間)，他們幫助彼此記起他們的安排，接著團(tuán)隊(duì)在航班上醒來(lái)?？虏纪ㄟ^(guò)了美國(guó)海關(guān)，回到家和他的孩子們團(tuán)聚了，在那里，他用茉?xún)旱膱D騰陀螺來(lái)測(cè)試是否在現(xiàn)實(shí)中，但是在他看到答案之前，他的孩子們打斷了他。