Textual Analysis Of Inception

Every once in a while, there comes a movie that is so mind-bogglingly spectacular that the viewer can't possibly grasp it's greatness by watching it only once. The 2010 film Inception, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, is a prime example of such a movie. It centers around a man named Dom Cobb who is riddled with crippling guilt over the death of his wife, and his ultimate ambition is to return home to his children. The only available path he sees to achieve this goal is to perform a process called inception on Robert Fischer. Dom and his team attempt to undergo the inception at the behest of their employer Saito in order to get Fischer to dissolve his dying father's empire. According to Nolan, it took him ten years to write Inception, and every second of effort put forth into this movie certainly paid off.
Inception contains so many intricacies that it's impossible to catch them all the first time around. However, a few of these elaborate plot points are as follows. For starters, flashbacks excluded, Cobb only ever wears his wedding ring during dream sequences, which is symbolic of his subconscious refusal to move on from Mal's suicide. Additionally, the characters' names were not randomly selected; they each serve a purpose.
Some people even thought it so confusing that, in Japanese versions of the film, they edited numbers into a corner of the screen to indicate which dream level is currently being shown. On the other hand, the complicatedness of the film may only serve to intrigue other members of the audience, and, in turn, make them love it more.
Ergo, Inception is a film that certainly deserves to be watched time and time again. Despite the film's complexity, Nolan did a masterful job in making sure that the plot of the movie never once felt negatively convoluted, nor was there a wasted moment of screen