? Origin is a 2010 American science fiction film written, produced and directed by British Christopher Nolan, known for discussing psychology issues in his films. The origin immerses us in the world of dreams, the subconscious and the projection that traumas have in it. The film was very well received by the audience and generated a lot of debate about its ending.
Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a dream specialist, able to extract ideas from other people’s dreams, it’s not about getting into someone else’s dream, it’s about generating a shared dream and, in the dream, applying a plan. this, it takes several people: the dreamer; The architect, in charge of projecting the dream; and the person from which you want to extract information through your subconscious.
- In the dream we also encounter other people who are only projections of the subconscious of the individual accessed.
- These projections will try to defend themselves against the changes they perceive.
- Being able to become very violent.
- Especially in individuals trained to prevent others from entering your mind.
- Christopher Nolan is not inspired by a particular theory.
- He does not follow any line of research.
- But takes different elements of different theories and establishes his own dream logic.
Don Cobb, in addition to extracting ideas from a person’s subconscious, can implant in him a new idea, the so-called “origin”. However, this practice is much riskier and its consequences can lead to the madness or obsession of the person in question. The problem is that, to achieve this, they have to go through three different levels of sleep and the individual must believe that this idea comes from himself, he will never be able to suspect that it has been implanted.
The film presents these dreams as something false, prefabricated. “The Origin” does not study the nature of sleep, but rather the fact that dreams are made for an end. Dom Cobb and his colleagues will have to implant an idea in the mind of the heir to a business empire to help their main competitor. The film enters the world of dreams and immerses us in an action-packed plot.
?Origin? It takes us through different induced dreams shared by various people, in order to get something. There are three outings of these dreams: the end of the dream that leads to awakening; death in the dream, not in reality, which will make them awaken; and finally the kick, that is, the moment you feel like you’re falling and waking up. In “A Origin”, the kicks will be synchronized and accompanied by the song “No, I don’t regret it”.
In the film there are different levels of sleep, one in the other, to reach the origin they must go through three different sleeping spaces, reach the bottom of the subconscious of the individual and implant the idea, to reach these levels they will need a powerful sedative that will encourage them to sleep very deeply. The main problem is that at these sleep levels death will not awaken them, but will lead them to a dream space called limbo.
In limbo, time passes very slowly, so much so that, for the person who enters, it will be infinite, the time in dreams is not the same as when we are awake, it can take 10 minutes, but in sleep, it is will look like hours. When we dream, we live everything that happens as real. In the film, we see that the pain is in the mind and that all the sensations that are felt in the dream are perceived as real. sleep, the pain will be real in sleep; and if you live an infinite life, the perception of that will be real.
People should avoid dying in sleep because, even if it’s not a real death, they will move to a new level of sleep where they will believe they will live for the rest of their lives. The structure of dreams who? The origin?Representa is similar to a Russian doll, in which the more internal the sleep plan, the longer the nature of the dream. In real time, they will spend ten hours sleeping, but in a dream they will spend a week in the first level, six months in the second and ten years in the third. The structure of these dreams is influenced by Lacan and even By Saussure, authors who propose a linguistic structure in which dreams are subordinate phrases, that is, to each other.
Cobb and his team, so as not to go crazy and always know if they dream or not, have a totem Everyone has a personal and impassive object, of which they know all its characteristics, its weight, its texture, its color?so they will know whether they are dreaming or not, in dreams these totems can undergo changes, for example in weight, in the way they fall to the ground, etc. It is important that only the owner knows all the characteristics of the totem to avoid falling into error and always know what condition it is in.
The word trauma comes from Greek and means injury. Thus, we associate trauma with emotional wounds that have left a mark on the individual. Also, in German, Traum means dream. Freud was one of the first to investigate the depiction of trauma in the unconscious, so we access the unconscious through dreams, where traumas disguise or censor.
Following Freud, these traumas would have a symbolic representation in the unconscious, that is, when they appear in disguise, they need to be interpreted. However, in Nolan’s film we see that there are no such symbols, the unconscious mind defends itself from potential intruders, but it is not a place where the traumas are “disguised”, but a place. where the individual’s ideas are protected and the projections are the ones that attack the invaders. To analyze the film further, I have to give a spoiler, so if you haven’t seen it I recommend you stop reading now.
Projections are often associated with people known to the individual, in Cobb’s case, we see that his late wife constantly appears in dreams trying to sabotage his plans, this projection is not only the image that the protagonist makes of his wife, but the reflection of her. Cobb has mixed feelings about his wife’s death, do you feel guilty, sad, frustrated?and it’s something you can hide in real life, but not in your unconscious, so it’s no wonder your wife even appears in prefabricated. Dreams.
At this point, Nolan gets a little closer to the Junguian current, showing us that the unconscious projections have a component of the self. Cobb sees not only his wife, but his own fault for his death. It also targets Jung in the idea of mazes, because the structure or design of the dream should be closer to the maze.
Dreams were considered mystical and then received a rational explanation that resulted in several currents. Nolan is inspired by different theories, establishes his own conception of dreams and expresses it in “The Origin”.
“You create the world of dreams. We take the subject to this dream and he fills him with his subconscious. The origin?