For most purposes, the words “complicated” and “complex” are synonymous. When searching for a little of everything however, there is a big difference between the two concepts, at least if you ask a bunch of philosophers and thinkers. In general, one thing is as complex as it is, but not too complex or not complex enough. At the same time, it makes sense in some things as simple and complex. Things can be too complicated, however, and it is hard to imagine something simple and complicated at the same time.
It is largely a strange and unnecessary distinction but it serves well to grasp where people often go wrong in trying to make things seem fairly intuitive. You see, things that stand out as seems very intelligent are usually quite complex, and in case of doubt, the idea is always to do something ever more complicated. For an easy example, compare the first Matrix film the aftermath.
Inception of Christopher Nolan falls prey to this idea worse than most movies, and although the end result is still a great deal of entertainment, it suffers from one of the worst crimes of a film can – is thought to be much smarter than it is.
The movie centers on a technological breakthrough that allows people to enter another’s dreams. Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a technician of this technology, and essentially operates as a corporate spy. Entering people’s dreams and discovering their secrets through a dream world created, Cobb gets information there is no other way to go. When a particular mission does not work as planned, he discovers that Cobb was a test (more or less), because the victim, Saito (Ken Watanabe) really wants to hire him for a different job.
What makes Cobb generally known as extraction, removal of some information (or thinking, I guess), but Saito want to come out of a building, putting an idea in the mind of a subject.
With his faithful sidekick Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Cobb is at work that most people consider impossible. Inception is too difficult, that the mind is what it is. Cobb is willing to give it a shot, because Saito promises that can pull the strings that Cobb will return home to their children. It’s in the race for the time, wanted in connection with the death of his wife.
Therefore, we are going to the races for one of the biggest jobs imaginable, and Saito are seeking is not easy, even in the field of creation. Cobb wants to plant an idea in the mind of Robert Fischer Jr. (Cillian Murphy) as to dissolve the company from its global parent as soon as power is inherited.
In order to throw the ball rolling, Cobb needs a new architect, and discover that someone who is potentially the perfect kind of genius for the job. An architecture student, Ariadne (Ellen Page), and is not ready to join the team after being shown the possibilities, and looking like someone who gets hooked your free trial of heroin.
From there we follow along as the web of self revolves increasingly tangled patterns, and try to keep attention to situations that make little sense, but angled toward the ultimate goal. Once inside the mind of Mr. Fischer, we see the muddy bottom game we’re playing, but the events are further complicated by the very psyche of Cobb, who, full of guilt, is beginning to become his own player.
While there is a note of the efforts Nolan brighter than they are (Following, Memento and The Prestige), which clearly began as an analysis of a complex idea was the time, and sadly, bear complications. Worse, without any real purpose. There are interesting issues at stake here is not, at least, simply by drawing the line between reality and fantasy, and how they become what they are based more in reality than you think, that everything that exists objectively.
(Clockwise from top left) Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur, Cillian Murphy as Robert Fischer, TOM BERENGER as Browning, Ellen Page as Ariadne, TOM HARDY as Eames, and Ken Watanabe in Warner as Saito Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ € ™ € ™ science fiction action film inception? A statement from Warner Bros. Pictures.
In the end, the film spins a tale based on a philosophical thread as The Matrix. Instead of, “How do you know you’re not a brain in a vat” that is, “How do you know that this is not the dream?” So simple that is a bit silly, but so complex that philosophers have shuffled longer than it seems sane. Both films deal worth a fun and celebration of the complexities of the mind, wrapped in an interesting effort in causing havoc in what is ultimately koan-esque puzzles.
The difference is that the Wachowski brothers waited until the second movie before deciding to leave the analysis playful, happy and adventurous who does not understand concepts, opening the door to pull random complications. All this work against the misconception about the relationship between what is complicated and complex. Nolan, however, sheds much effort into a movie.
Inception is undoubtedly a fine enough, and nice movie. High above the average fare to be sure. But, on the road to creating a kind of meta-maze, which has added complicatedness the extent that it has lost its complexity. It is so difficult to talk about their issues are not talking about them at all anymore.
As the movie ended, I began to think of the old quote Buckminster Fuller – “When I’m working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I’m done, if the solution is not beautiful I know that’s wrong. “Something about this step in the final product here, and while it is certainly an effective solution is not beautiful.
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