百年50部英文烧脑电影赏析:[20]Inception 盗梦空间

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.

前任造梦师多明尼克“道姆”柯布(莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥饰)和商业伙伴亚瑟(约瑟夫·高登·莱维特饰)利用一种军方研发的实验性工具来潜入他们目标的潜意识里面，然后在他们做梦的时候窃取信息，他们最近的目标是日本的商业大亨斋藤(渡边谦饰)。他们在一个梦中使用了分层梦境的策略，做梦者要么由于一个突然的冲击醒来，要么因为在梦中死亡而醒来。然而，如果做梦者死了，那么这个梦就“倒塌”了。每个窃取者有一个图腾，一个私人的小物品，它的行为只有拥有者可以预料到，用来区分是梦境还是现实。图腾的工作原理是在不同的状态下，它的表现是不同的。柯布的图腾是一个陀螺，它在梦境中会一直旋转。由于柯布的亡妻马洛里“茉儿”(玛丽昂·歌迪亚饰)的记忆投射破坏了这次任务，窃取失败了。斋藤指出实际上它是想测试这个团队，来让他们执行艰难的植入任务：在一个人处于潜意识的情况下，在他的脑子里面植入某种思想或者想法。

斋藤想通过对他生病的竞争对手莫里斯·费舍尔的儿子及继承人罗伯特·费舍尔(希里安·墨菲饰)植入解散他父亲公司的想法来瓦解莫里斯·费舍尔的能源联合企业。如果柯布成功了，斋藤会用他的影响力来摆平对柯布的一个谋杀控告，这样他就可以回到美国，回到他的孩子们身边。柯布答应了这个提议并且招集了他的团队：伪装者埃姆斯，在造梦策略中为稳定的梦境提供强有力的镇静剂的药剂师约瑟夫，担任设计梦境迷宫的年轻的建筑系学生阿里阿德涅还有亚瑟。斋藤和他们一起，这样他才可以知道柯布和他的团队是否能成功完成他们的任务。

当莫里斯·费舍尔去世后，他的儿子将他的尸体从悉尼护送到洛杉矶时，工作开始了。在飞行中，柯布给费舍尔服用了镇静剂，接着团队带着他进入共享的梦境中。在每一层梦境中，团队中创造这层梦境的人留下来制造“冲击”，其他队员在这个梦里继续沉睡，进一步潜入到费舍尔的潜意识中。接下来，做梦者将控制一个同步系列的“冲击”(厢式车从桥上掉下，旅馆房间的下落，一个倒塌的建筑物)来倒退到不同层的梦境以便在现实中醒来。

在第一层梦境中，场景是约瑟夫创造的下着雨的市中心，团队绑架了费舍尔。然而，他们受到费舍尔被训练过的类似抗体的潜意识保护攻击，斋藤受了重伤。埃姆斯暂时装扮成费舍尔的教父彼得·勃朗宁的样子，建议费舍尔重新考虑他父亲的遗愿。约瑟夫开着厢式车载着团队的成员，他们正服用镇静剂进入亚瑟的梦境中，在这层梦中，他们在一个旅馆里使费舍尔恢复健康，并且让他相信，他被绑架是勃朗宁安排的。在第三层梦境中，埃姆斯创造了一个大雪覆盖的山中的一个堡垒，费舍尔被告知，他们正在勃朗宁的潜意识里，但是实际上他们正在进入费舍尔的更深层的潜意识里。由于受到被训练的保护的攻击，约瑟夫将车开下桥，过早地启动了他的“冲击”，使亚瑟的梦境世界失重，在埃姆斯的梦境里面造成了雪崩。约瑟夫被迫即兴创造一个用电梯和厢式车同步撞击水面的新的冲击，而在埃姆斯梦境中的团队成员，必须赶在新的冲击循环来到之前完成任务。

最后，埃姆斯使费舍尔的心跳恢复正常，并把他带到第三层梦境，在山中的堡垒中，费舍尔进入一个安全的房间，发现并且接受了解散他父亲商业王国的想法。

团队成员通过冲击回到上层梦境逃离，留下了柯布。柯布最终找到了一个年老的斋藤，他一直在梦里的边缘地带等了几十年(在现实中是很短的一段时间)，他们帮助彼此记起他们的安排，接着团队在航班上醒来。柯布通过了美国海关，回到家和他的孩子们团聚了，在那里，他用茉儿的图腾陀螺来测试是否在现实中，但是在他看到答案之前，他的孩子们打断了他。

Christopher Nolan Interviewed by Izumi Hasegawa

Have you been fascinated by dreams in your lifetime? And do you think differently about them since working on this film?

I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that's always interested me, and I liked the idea of trying to portray dreams on film. I'd been working on the script for some time, really about ten years in the form that you've seen it in, with this idea of this kind of heist structure. I think really, for me, the primary interest in dreams and in making this film is this notion that, while you're asleep, you can create an entire world that you're also experiencing without realizing that you're doing that. I think that says a lot about the potential of the human mind, especially the creative potential. It's something I find fascinating.

Can you tell us a little more about the Fred Astaire fight sequence and the training for it, and the zero-G situation in the elevator?

The thing I just want to point out that people might not be aware of is that we had a stunt guy who looks exactly like Joe Gordon Levitt made up perfectly, and he stood there on set every day for three weeks and didn't do a thing 'cause Joe insisted on doing absolutely everything himself, apart from, as I've been reminded, one shot where the stunt guy performed. Everything else he did himself, and he just did the most incredible job with these bizarre rigs and these bizarre sort of torture devices.

I'm surprised to hear that Edith Piaf's song was always in the film. Did you want to touch on the concept of cinema as a layer of our dreaming?

For me, when you look a the idea of being able to create a limitless world and use it almost as a playground for action and adventure and so forth, I naturally gravitate toward cinematic worlds, whether it's the Bond films and things like that... So without being too self-conscious about it or without too much intention as I was writing it, I certainly allowed my mind to wander where it would naturally, and I think a lot of the tropes from different genres of movies, heist films, spy films, that kind of thing, they therefore sort of naturally sit in that world.

在你的人生中，是否一直都痴迷于梦?因为这部电影，你是否从不同的角度思考它们?

我的整个人生都一直为梦着迷，因为当我还是个孩子的时候，就对电影与梦之间的关系感兴趣。我喜欢这个试图在电影中描绘梦的主意。我花了很多时间，一直在编写脚本，大约用了十年时间，才有了你们今天看到的样子，才有了这种抢劫结构的创意。我认为实际上对我来说，对梦、对拍摄这部电影的主要兴趣是出于这一看法：在你睡着的时候，你可以创建一个完整的世界，并且你也能经历它，然而你却没有意识到。我认为它讲述了很多关于人类思想的潜力，特别是创造性潜力的东西。这正是让我觉得迷人的地方。

你能跟我们谈一些关于弗雷德·阿斯泰尔的战斗场面以及这方面训练，还有在电梯里的零重力情况吗?

关于这些，我只想指出的是，人们可能不知道，我们有一个特技演员，长相酷似乔·高登·莱维特，画完妆之后天衣无缝。但他在现场站了整整三周，什么都没有做。因为乔坚持所有的事情都由自己来做。除此之外，正如我已经提醒过的那样，只有一个镜头是由特技演员表演的。其他所有事情，他都是亲自做的，他就是用这些奇怪的钻探设备和这些怪异的类似刑具的东西，完成了最不可思议的任务。

我很惊讶地听到，伊迪丝·琵雅芙的歌总是在电影中出现。你是否想要暗示，电影这一概念也是我们梦境中的一层吗?

对我来说，当你看到一个的想法能够创建一个无限的世界，并能将它作为一个游乐场来行动和冒险等等，我自然倾向于电影的世界，无论是邦德电影还是同类的其他东西……所以，当我写剧本的时候，没有太强的自我意识或者太多的意图。我让自己的思绪自然地飘荡，也思考了很多不同类型电影的寓意，比如抢劫电影、间谍电影之类的，因此它们似乎是自然而然地就出现了。

片首，当柯布、亚瑟和斋藤各自在自己的梦境醒来时，都有一个镜头清楚拍到时钟倒转而行。

莱昂纳多是艾玛·托马斯(电影监制)和克里斯托弗·诺兰的唯一主角人选。

男主角的名字“Cobb”，即柯布，发音和梵语、北印度语、乌尔都语、旁遮普语里的“梦”的发音相同。

片中走廊失重中的打斗场景，演员约瑟夫·高登·莱维特没有使用替身，所有动作都由他自己完成。