In 2010, Inception released a new vision of how the world could be, taking the realities of dreams and using them to quite literally bend our perceptions of possibility.
Following the story of Dom Cobb, a master thief in the art of stealing ideas from the subconscious of others, Inception dives through layers of dream states, exploring how the mind perceives the world when it does not need to follow rules.
Imagine if we could bend whole cities into new kinds of shapes, have each street follow its own gravity and its own understanding of science. What if each house had different gravity, and each door led to a different part of the world?
The most key point that Inception suggests is this;
What if there were no rules?
The most key point that Inception suggests is this;
What if there were no rules?
Inception draws on some amazing ideas about how architecture and the built environment could be. The interesting thing about this film though is that it presents these in the modern day setting. Having buildings wrapped around curved surfaces and roads twisting upside down is not exactly something new. It is, however, often reserved for the future. It would not anything special, for example, if we saw this effect in space, set a thousand years from now. It is the fact that we are witnessing these ideas coming to life in our time, on our planet, amongst us. Thats what makes this film so special.
Inception literally presents us with the stuff of dreams, but does so in a way that makes us believe the possibility. Heading into the future we have all kinds of amazing technology, is it really too absurd to begin considering the idea of curving the world? Think of all the things that could be achieved from it! Some results may be less practical than others, but imaging a vertical two sided street, folded up into the sky with buildings rising horizontally out of each side.
Maybe it does seem a bit impractical, perhaps impossible. But thats what Inception does. It takes the smallest potential of possibility, those things that we escalate into full blown reality in our dreams, and brings them to life. It shows us what we could achieve if we forgot about rules, and brought our dreams into the world around us.
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