Dear readers,
I hope you have seen both the movies before you read any further. It is a Spoiler Alert!
Now, lets just get down to business.
Inception (wikipedia) (Leonardo starer) dealt with dreams.
ESSM (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) the Jim Carey, Kate Winslet one dealt with memories.
In Inception, you go down dream levels. Dreams within a dream.
In ESSM, you stay on in the same level, but yet, fragments of the past, which have been erased from your mind, come back sometimes.
Both, surprisingly use similar looking, almost same type of machines to get the individual into the dream mode.
In Inception I think, we are seeing an improved compact version of the same machine seen in ESSM.
One sends you into dream world, while the other deletes your memories. Both require a person to stay awake and help the person in or out of it. In both the cases, the real outside world, when the individual is asleep is felt in the dream world. In Inception, it is the sounds and things, e.g. the famous pre-kick song, Non, Je Regrette Rein by Edith Piaf, and the water in the dream due to water outside, etc. While in ESSM, we can see how the darkness tries to catch Jim Carey when he is trying to run away from it. Both have the protagonists searching and craving the past and the real life. Both have girl issues!
Last, but not the least, both have the protagonist going back in his world, his memories of his life, and the lady love, and the times spent together.
Both engage that projection of hers and try to keep her in their minds. In Inception, Cobb has preserved Mal's memory, when in Reality (or so we think!), she is dead. In ESSM, Joel is revisiting the memories of Clementine.
Both have artificial worlds
which are constructs of the human mind.
And although, they both start seeing each other again in ESSM, in Inception, we really don't know whether Cobb is in Reality or still stuck in some dream level, so we cannot naturally comment on his relationship with Mal.
Now, as it happened, I watched Inception first and ESSM later, hence I could connect the two together. Inception, then, doesn't seem so innovative after all! Seeing many similar concepts in the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Though, one has to congratulate both the movie's teams, for being so creative and making us still think and wonder about all the profound questions of life and the movies themselves, really impacting how we think of things. These are eternal questions, but those movies are eternal movies too, both masterpieces in their own right.
Hope you
enjoyed reading it.
Yours Truly,
TJ (Rudraraj)
I hope you have seen both the movies before you read any further. It is a Spoiler Alert!
Now, lets just get down to business.
In Inception, you go down dream levels. Dreams within a dream.
In ESSM, you stay on in the same level, but yet, fragments of the past, which have been erased from your mind, come back sometimes.
Both, surprisingly use similar looking, almost same type of machines to get the individual into the dream mode.
In Inception I think, we are seeing an improved compact version of the same machine seen in ESSM.
One sends you into dream world, while the other deletes your memories. Both require a person to stay awake and help the person in or out of it. In both the cases, the real outside world, when the individual is asleep is felt in the dream world. In Inception, it is the sounds and things, e.g. the famous pre-kick song, Non, Je Regrette Rein by Edith Piaf, and the water in the dream due to water outside, etc. While in ESSM, we can see how the darkness tries to catch Jim Carey when he is trying to run away from it. Both have the protagonists searching and craving the past and the real life. Both have girl issues!
Last, but not the least, both have the protagonist going back in his world, his memories of his life, and the lady love, and the times spent together.
Both engage that projection of hers and try to keep her in their minds. In Inception, Cobb has preserved Mal's memory, when in Reality (or so we think!), she is dead. In ESSM, Joel is revisiting the memories of Clementine.
Both have artificial worlds
which are constructs of the human mind.
And although, they both start seeing each other again in ESSM, in Inception, we really don't know whether Cobb is in Reality or still stuck in some dream level, so we cannot naturally comment on his relationship with Mal.
Now, as it happened, I watched Inception first and ESSM later, hence I could connect the two together. Inception, then, doesn't seem so innovative after all! Seeing many similar concepts in the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Though, one has to congratulate both the movie's teams, for being so creative and making us still think and wonder about all the profound questions of life and the movies themselves, really impacting how we think of things. These are eternal questions, but those movies are eternal movies too, both masterpieces in their own right.
enjoyed reading it.
Yours Truly,
TJ (Rudraraj)
yah i first watched inception and then ESSM. Then i realised inception is not the inception of this kind of idea. Any way both movies are masterpiece.
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