Inception
This is not exhaustive. A work in progress post, yet I'm publishing.
Praise | Inception | 10th Anniversary
A decade ago on 17th July 2010, Christopher Nolan's mind-bending dream thriller "Inception" was released.
The character I have attempted to Study is Cobb, a dream intruder, if I can say so. He doesn't steal anything materialistic but instills, rather implants an idea in your mind when you are not awake, when you are dreaming.
He is an able thief with a unique specialty to instill or delete an idea, capable of creation and destruction. How he does is a mystery. Neither does he persuade you nor does he meet you. He is never with you. Instead, he becomes you, your subconscious, perhaps in your dreams. In the process of planting and stealing ideas from minds, he fears that his reality itself is caught up in a dream of another. Does he really exist or is he an imagination of someone else's fear. He leaves the question to you - open to interpretation.
Cinematography
Wally Pfister's cinematography of Inception is a mixture of realisim and surrealism intertwined well, the difference is subtle and can't be recognised. Because dreams are such. We never know when we enter a dream and sometimes know for sure when do we exit. That's how the cinematography of Inception is: The transition from the real world to the dream is seamless and linear.
IMAX cameras (70 mm film) were originally designed for nature and space photography. Because they typically photograph large format images, therefore, perceived not suitable for narrative films. Christopher Nolan is an advocate of photochemical film, along with his long time collaborator, cinematographer Wally Pfister chose to experiment IMAX film camera for 'The Dark Knight'. It worked. Nolan has evolved to using the humongous IMAX 70 mm film camera like a Go-Pro camera.
Authored by Balaji Thangapandian aka #BT - a spacefarer, who is also curious about film-making, connectivity technologies and military history.
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