百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:[20]Inception 盜夢空間

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)的實驗性工具來潛入他們目標的潛意識里面，然后在他們做夢的時候竊取信息，他們最近的目標是日本的商業(yè)大亨齋藤(渡邊謙飾)。他們在一個夢中使用了分層夢境的策略，做夢者要么由于一個突然的沖擊醒來，要么因為在夢中死亡而醒來。然而，如果做夢者死了，那么這個夢就“倒塌”了。每個竊取者有一個圖騰，一個私人的小物品，它的行為只有擁有者可以預(yù)料到，用來區(qū)分是夢境還是現(xiàn)實。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騰是一個陀螺，它在夢境中會一直旋轉(zhuǎn)。由于柯布的亡妻馬洛里“茉兒”(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。齋藤指出實際上它是想測試這個團隊，來讓他們執(zhí)行艱難的植入任務(wù)：在一個人處于潛意識的情況下，在他的腦子里面植入某種思想或者想法。

齋藤想通過對他生病的競爭對手莫里斯·費舍爾的兒子及繼承人羅伯特·費舍爾(希里安·墨菲飾)植入解散他父親公司的想法來瓦解莫里斯·費舍爾的能源聯(lián)合企業(yè)。如果柯布成功了，齋藤會用他的影響力來擺平對柯布的一個謀殺控告，這樣他就可以回到美國，回到他的孩子們身邊。柯布答應(yīng)了這個提議并且招集了他的團隊：偽裝者埃姆斯，在造夢策略中為穩(wěn)定的夢境提供強有力的鎮(zhèn)靜劑的藥劑師約瑟夫，擔任設(shè)計夢境迷宮的年輕的建筑系學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隊是否能成功完成他們的任務(wù)。

當莫里斯·費舍爾去世后，他的兒子將他的尸體從悉尼護送到洛杉磯時，工作開始了。在飛行中，柯布給費舍爾服用了鎮(zhèn)靜劑，接著團隊帶著他進入共享的夢境中。在每一層夢境中，團隊中創(chuàng)造這層夢境的人留下來制造“沖擊”，其他隊員在這個夢里繼續(xù)沉睡，進一步潛入到費舍爾的潛意識中。接下來，做夢者將控制一個同步系列的“沖擊”(廂式車從橋上掉下，旅館房間的下落，一個倒塌的建筑物)來倒退到不同層的夢境以便在現(xiàn)實中醒來。

在第一層夢境中，場景是約瑟夫創(chuàng)造的下著雨的市中心，團隊綁架了費舍爾。然而，他們受到費舍爾被訓練過的類似抗體的潛意識保護攻擊，齋藤受了重傷。埃姆斯暫時裝扮成費舍爾的教父彼得·勃朗寧的樣子，建議費舍爾重新考慮他父親的遺愿。約瑟夫開著廂式車載著團隊的成員，他們正服用鎮(zhèn)靜劑進入亞瑟的夢境中，在這層夢中，他們在一個旅館里使費舍爾恢復(fù)健康，并且讓他相信，他被綁架是勃朗寧安排的。在第三層夢境中，埃姆斯創(chuàng)造了一個大雪覆蓋的山中的一個堡壘，費舍爾被告知，他們正在勃朗寧的潛意識里，但是實際上他們正在進入費舍爾的更深層的潛意識里。由于受到被訓練的保護的攻擊，約瑟夫?qū)④囬_下橋，過早地啟動了他的“沖擊”，使亞瑟的夢境世界失重，在埃姆斯的夢境里面造成了雪崩。約瑟夫被迫即興創(chuàng)造一個用電梯和廂式車同步撞擊水面的新的沖擊，而在埃姆斯夢境中的團隊成員，必須趕在新的沖擊循環(huán)來到之前完成任務(wù)。

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

團隊成員通過沖擊回到上層夢境逃離，留下了柯布?？虏甲罱K找到了一個年老的齋藤，他一直在夢里的邊緣地帶等了幾十年(在現(xiàn)實中是很短的一段時間)，他們幫助彼此記起他們的安排，接著團隊在航班上醒來?？虏纪ㄟ^了美國海關(guān)，回到家和他的孩子們團聚了，在那里，他用茉兒的圖騰陀螺來測試是否在現(xiàn)實中，但是在他看到答案之前，他的孩子們打斷了他。