We've seen in Nolan films that he likes to structure the movie in such a way that the medium becomes the message. In "Memento", the backwards dynamic recreates the protagonist's short-term memory and confusion. In "The Prestige", the film itself plays out like a magic trick. In "Inception" the movie itself brings to light how many movie tropes are like a dream. Consider:
- In movies, like in dreams, we don't see how the characters get from place to place. Often the scenes start in the middle of action. We don't see characters go to the bathroom or sleep.
- In movies, like dreams, which take place in real time over several hours, entire months or years can transpire. Time is perceived differently.
- In movies, like in dreams, the reality is not quite right, details sometimes don't make sense, but we suspend our disbelief and make the world feel real. We take our own preconceived notions and projections into movies and dreams.
- The irony of this is that even if Cobb did wake up in the end, the world is not real because it transpires inside Nolan's movie.
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