Inception/盗梦空间

Before watching it, I had heard of lots of praise to this movie. It was really good, the story, the editing and the vision effect. However, honestly speaking, the idea was not surprising, for example, in "Matrix" trilogy, we had known the discussion of the philosophy question: Can you logically reason whether everything around you was objective or just kind of feeling? This question was actually the key dividing line between idealism and materialism.

The discussion in "Matrix" trilogy was more deeper, which included the origin of this world and the human being's role in the world. The discussion in "Inception" was not that deep, which could be regarded as the best movie version of the Chinese allusion "Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly" (Zhuang zhou, a guy, once dreamed of a butterfly, but he was not sure whether it was he dreamed of a butterfly, or a butterfly dreamed of him). The movie focused on the human consciousness and existence, but it ended a little too quickly. Of course, the open ending went well with the philosophical proposition.

This kind of philosophical movie was hard to draw much attention, unless it had been well commercialized, like "Matrix" did. Yep, this was what had been done by "Inception": Well commercialization + somewhat in-depth philosophy, so it was understandable for it to arouse such a heated reaction.

在看这部电影之前，就已经听到了很多褒扬的声音。电影确实很棒，无论是创意、剪辑还是特技。但说实话这个创意其实并不稀奇，早在《Matrix》三部曲里面，我们就可以看到对这个哲学问题的探讨了：你是否能有逻辑地推论：你周围的一切，究竟是客观存在的，还是只是你感觉到的？这实际上是唯心主义和唯物主义的分野问题。

在《Matrix》里面的探讨要深刻得多，包括对这个世界的起源和人的作用。在本片里面，探讨要稍微浅显一点，它可以说是中国成语“庄生梦蝶”的最佳电影版本，探讨的是人的意识和存在的问题，但结尾结束得稍微有点仓促，当然这样的开放式结尾比较切合本片所反映的哲学命题。

这样探讨哲学问题的影片，很难引起轰动，除非它很好地被商业化，像《Matrix》那样。本片也确实是这样的：很好的商业化+比较有深度的哲学探讨。所以它引起这么大的反响也是可以理解的。

Performance impression:
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Caine, Marion Cotillard