In the history of science fiction movies, the historical status of "Inception" is unshakable. Although there are many movies about dreams, "Inception"'s intuitive display of dreams is unprecedented in the history of movies.
fold.
mirror.
blast.
These unconstrained visual ingenuities, under Nolan's lens, make the audience both shocked and yearning.
Recently, a movie called the youth version of "Inception" was released. It is also a dream, but the difference is that when the people who travel through the dream and create the dream are a group of minors, how should the story continue -
"The Book of Silver and Dreams"
At the beginning of the story, Liv and her sister moved across the ocean from Germany to London.
Because the mother of the two sisters found a British stepfather for them, but this father also has two children, so this is a difficult reorganized family.
After the first meal, both parties broke up unhappy. The feeling of living under someone else's roof was not pleasant. When sleeping at night, Liv and her sister thought about their happy past again.
At that time, the father was still with the two sisters, and the family was extremely happy.
But an accident happened, and his father died unfortunately. His mother remarried many times, and each time the sisters had to move around like this.
Because Liv's clothes were stained by red wine at the dinner table, she took Grayson's sweatshirt and put it on when she came to the rescue.
Grayson is Liv's stepbrother.
The two of them had never met each other before, let alone dreamed of each other.
But unfortunately, on the first night she moved into this new home, Liv dreamed of Grayson.
There was an extra green door in the room for no reason. When opened, there was a long and narrow corridor with no end in sight, and there were doors on both sides of the corridor.
Liv felt curious and pushed one in casually. Unexpectedly, there was a cemetery inside the door.
In the middle of the cemetery, there were several boys chanting spells around a tombstone.
Upon closer inspection, Grayson is among them.
What are they doing? Liv wanted to follow him to see what was going on, but accidentally made a noise that alerted the other party.
The group of boys, including Grayson, were shocked when they saw someone breaking in.
How did you get in?
Liv couldn't explain clearly, so she asked why you guys were getting together so late. But when the boys were about to explain, Liv suddenly felt a wet and sticky feeling on her face. When she opened her eyes, she saw that it was a dog. Licking her face.
Looking around again, it turned out to be a dream.
On her first day of school, Liv couldn't stop thinking about that vivid dream.
Because not only did the cemetery that appeared in the dream actually exist, but even the boys in the dream were students at their school.
They have never seen this before, why is such a strange phenomenon happening?
Liv was a little panicked because she found that those boys were looking for her.
escaped the first day, but unexpectedly she dreamed of them again at night. After going back and forth several times, Liv couldn't bear it anymore, so she followed the guidance of the insider in the dream and took the initiative to find those boys.
As soon as the other party spoke, Liv was confused again, what? Dreaming?
It turns out that the reason why Liv met these boys in her dream was because she had the ability to travel through other people's dreams.
And the method is very simple, just wear that person's things, which also explains why Liv can always dream about Grayson, because she wears the sweatshirt that Grayson put in the bathroom for several days in a row .
This group of boys had previously obtained a book about dream travel, which predicted that in addition to the four boys, a girl, a "virgin", would be needed to travel through the dream.
This girl is like the last key to unlock the mechanism. Only when she appears can the ultimate secret of the Book of Dreams be cracked.
Before, everyone didn’t know where to look, but they didn’t expect Liv to fall from the sky. This was God’s will.
After listening to the chatter of several people, Liv thought they were crazy.
But I can't stand the serious expressions of a few people, okay, it's a prank, I'll play with you.
Under the guidance of that book, everyone held a ceremony similar to spiritual conjuring.
If you tell your biggest wish, you will have a dream related to this wish that night.
Everyone said one by one, some people want to be basketball players, some people want to be the president of the student union, and some people want to get back together with their ex.
When it was Liv's turn, she said she most wanted to see her father again.
Sure enough, after falling asleep that night, Liv really came to the mysterious corridor again. She opened the door of Grayson's dream, and Grayson really became the president of the student society.
But the next second, a man rushed onto the stage and took off Grayson's pants, causing him to die on the spot.
I thought this was a weird dream, but it turned out that the dream was replicated in reality. Grayson really became the president. When he was celebrating, someone rushed up from below and took off his pants.
The boy who said he wanted to play basketball broke his arm the next day and his season was scrapped.
Something was wrong. When Liv grabbed the dream book and read it carefully, she found that there was a sentence in it. Once the virgin joins the dream wearers, everyone's dreams will evolve into nightmares and transform into reality.
It’s over, this is playing Dream Fairy, but in the end, I got involved.
According to the order of one unlucky person a day, the last one is Liv herself. The other people's nightmares are at most humiliating and injured, while Liv's nightmare is that she fell into a lake and almost drowned when she was a child.
In fact, her father died unexpectedly just to save her.
So Liv must prevent the curse of this nightmare from coming true on herself, but the question is, what can she do to break the curse of the Book of Dreams on several people?
It is also a dream, and it also covers dreaming. "The Book of Silver and Dreams" is more youthful and energetic. Everyone is not for money or power, but just to realize their own little dreams.
Liv dreams about her father countless times, but the result is nothing more than experiencing the pain of losing her father again.
She was moved until she discovered that breaking the curse could not only reverse the tragedy, but even change reality.
Look for clues in reality and chase the truth in dreams.
The biggest climax of the whole film is when Liv and her friends travel through dreams. Although it is not as rigorous as a science fiction film, you still have to burn some brain cells if you want to understand it.
Of course, the movie does not forget to leave some suspense for the audience at the end.
In "Inception", the protagonists will use an object to prove that they are not in a dream, so Cobb, played by DiCaprio, will use a top to rotate.
As long as the top stops, it is in reality.
And the way to distinguish reality from dreams in this movie is to count on your fingers.
Because in a dream, you can't count your fingers at all.
So when all the battles were settled, Liv finally realized her wish. When she danced with her friends, the green door not far away was particularly dazzling.
Whether it was a dream or reality, Liv looked at her fingers and wondered. This magical ending also gave the movie more room for interpretation.
Just as the saying goes, it’s not that the dream is too beautiful, but that the reality is too cruel.
