Friday, 8 February 2013

Example of Todorov's narrative theory shown in a film

Film: Inception


Equalibrium: The first equalibrium starts with Cobb (Leonardo Dicaprio) doing a simple extaction job on Saito's (Ken Watanabe) mind through one of his dreams.


Disequalibrium: Saito realises he's in one of his dreams through the failure of Cobb's architect and drives Cobb back into reality, fleeing his mission/job.


Recognition: Cobb tries to escape the reality that he failed his job and flee's to Paris in search of a new architect (Ariadne/ Ellen Page) to sculpt the dreams they implant into their hosts.


Attempt to repair the damage: Saito manages to find Cobb and his team, offers them a job of incepting information into Robert Fischer's (Cillian Murphy) mind. Unaware of the dangers Cobb agrees and follows through with the mission, gathering a team together and incepting deeper and deeper into Fischers mind to plant an idea to destroy his fathers company.


New Equalibrium: Cobb succeeds witht he mission and returns to America to find his kids with their grandfather and continues to leave a peaceful life.

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