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“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”
What a ride Christopher Nolan brought us on. This show is HUGE, beyond imagination. Besides the excellent choice of actors like Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (oh this guy is SOOOO cute), Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page, the plot itself was clever. Although it is action-packed, I won’t say it is an action film. This movie makes the audience think, not a show you go watch to feel good, but I must say it is a movie I would pay weekend rates to watch and watch a second time.
No such thing as sex sells in this movie, Inception is all about substance and clever storytelling. I had my jaw dropped when watching the movie and I don’t usually do that. Even reading a abit of spoilier on Wiki about this movie, I was still very blown away while and after watching this film. As many would put it, it’s mindfuck.
I won’t put up a trailer, because the trailer wouldn’t make much sense. but wait no more & go book your tickets to watch it NOW!
if you’re interested to read more about Inception after watching the movie, click here
“Of course, there are cases where only a rare individual will have the vision to perceive a system which governs many people’s lives, a system which had never before even been recognized as a system; then such people often devote their lives to convincing other people that the system really is there, and that it ought to be existed from!” (p. 528-491=37 of “Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” 1979 Douglas Hofstadter).
The numbers 528 491 have significance in the Taoist I Ching: the numbers 0-9(or 1-10 if you prefer) are symbolic of the entire cosmos and how humans fit within that system. The #5 is the archetypal center, and as such, it can represent a physical center, a mental center (such as the subconcious) or the spiritual center. The River Lo arrangement of the numbers is in pairs: 9-1, 8-2, 7-3, 6-4. Each pair adds up to 10, 10 being another form of the center. This represents the ideal cosmos, but one which is not yet in motion.
The Yellow River arrangement is also in pairs: 9-4, 8-3, 7-2, 6-1. Subtract each of these pairs and you get the #5, the center. This is the beginning of movement in the cosmos – forward movement begins as a contraction (subtraction) and then moves to expansion. Play around by adding and subtracting the numbers 528 491 and you will soon come up with a repeated pattern.
This is a series of quotations f rom individuals who have ‘sensed’ the underlying processes in life: Carl G. Jung:: “I cannot define for you what God is, I cannot tell you even that God ‘is’ but what I can say is that all my work has scientifically proved that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at it’s disposal the greatest transforming energy of which mankind is capable.” (Laurens Van der Post quotes Jung, at the end of Remembering Jung, a video documentary)
”What is to happen in the future determines what happened in the past.” Paul Davies, Other Worlds
“Is there some way that nature communicates with us directly if we could but decode the hieroglyphs?” Rollo May, The Courage to Create The answer is: Yes.
”After my experiments……I began to understand that many philosophical and metaphysical speculations, entirely different in theme, form and terminology might in actual fact have been attempts to express precisely that which I came to know, which I have tried to describe. I understood that behind many of the systems of the study of the world and man, there might lie experiences and sensations very similar to my own, perhaps identical. I understood that for centuries and thousands of years human thought has been circling and circling round something that it has never succeeded in expressing.” P.D. Ouspensky, A New Model Of the Universe, page 304 in the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc edition
( In my opinion this is one of the most remarkable ideas that Ouspensky committed to words, and it’s not been written by any other author that I’ve come across.)
John Barrow, Pi In the Sky :
”A mystery lurks beneath the magic carpet of science, something that scientists have not been telling, something too shocking to mention except in rather esoterically refined circles; that at the root of the success of twentieth century science there lies a deeply ‘religious belief’–a belief in an unseen and perfect transcendental world that controls us in an unexplained way, yet upon which we seem to exert no influence whatsoever. What this world is, where it is and what it is to us is what this book is about…..”
P. S: CODES AND IMPLICIT MEANING
Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Page 267:
“Now it could be objected here that a coded message unlike an uncoded message does not express anything on its own. It requires knowledge of the code. But in Reality there is no such thing as an uncoded message, there are only messages written in more familiar codes and messages written in less familiar codes. If the meaning of a message is to be revealed it must be pulled out of the code by some sort of mechanism or isomorphism. It may be difficult to discover the method by which the decoding should be done; but once that method has been discovered the message becomes transparent as water. When a code is familiar enough it ceases to be appearing like a code. One forgets that there is a decoding mechanism. The message is a message and the meaning is so strong that it is hard for us to conceive of an alternate meaning residing in the same symbols.
Namely we are so prejudiced by the symbols……but Godels’ isomorphisms compel us to recognize this second level of meaning.”
About Inception: I thought the entire movie had a ‘second level of meaning’, its entire message was that, there were ‘levels’ and each level had it’s relationship to those above and below it. In opinion, it was an example of a real, ‘coincidence’ of the meaningful kind. I saw it 4 times in 4 day. I’ve thought Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series were written about this ‘hidden world’ that perpaps functions only because ‘we’ don’t all know it’s there, behind everything. There is truth in fiction it seems.