Favorite Scene

One of my favorite scenes throughout the whole movie is when Leonardo recruits Ellen to his team as an architect. She is responsible for creating the environment of the dream the dreamer sees. In this scene Leonardo is sitting with her at a café explaining to her how all of this works and everything seems normal until he asks her to tell him how they got there. At first she says “We just came from…” but can’t remember where they actually were before. Then he asks her again and then she realizes they’re dreaming. As soon as this happens the entire reality changes, first her coffee starts to rattle and then everything these small shops were selling on the sidewalks blows up. The cement blocks of the road pop up and float in the air and everything explodes in slow motion in a way that would never happen in reality and then right before she asks another question she is hit with a mountain of glass and she wakes up in a chair of some warehouse where they were conducting this. In the next scene he has her try to create her own world and the two of them walk through a world where she starts to tamper with everything. The streets fold up on each other and the sky is just upside-down buildings with people and cars moving upside down. She creates bridges where there are none and a giant walkway where there wasn’t one before out of mirrors. This is where Leonardo recognizes that the place she created was and actual place and that’s where he warns her against the danger of creating dreams from places in your memory. Cinematically Inception is one of the best movies I’ve seen just completely defying reality but making it look real as it would in any dream. This is wear she learns though as the architect of the dream the more she changes it the more the subject’s subconscious realizes that someone else is creating the dream and then as a result the subjects projections which would be random people on the street would start to attack the creator. In these two scenes the viewer is ultimately Ellen as we are explained on how dreams work and why they work. This scene was not only visually appealing but gave us an understanding that was needed in order for the rest of the movie to make sense making it very important.