영화 <인셉션>의 공간에 대한 연구

A Study on the Space of the Movie <Inception>

In this ambiguous and puzzle-like film <Inception>, there is a basic framework, and as the framework of dream within a dream duplicates, it produces “open interpretation” paradoxically. Also, these “evidence” create various maze of interpretation. In this film, there may be findings such as the intention of the writer-director and the text, its contextual consistency, discoveries found based on means systematical situation, and the findings of the audience-film interpreter. However, this thesis configures the limits of such interpretations (to exclude over-interpretation), and discusses the basic framework instead of drifting into dismantling reading. This film is made under the following frameworks. 1) A dream a film shown in the dark theater (the audience dreams of this dream)2) The dreams of the main character Cobb and others in this film (The dreams of Chemist Yusuf, Point man Arthur, and Forger Eames presented in three stages.)3) The dream of unconscious target (The dream of Robert Fisher, JR.) These duplicated dreams present various interpretations through many evidences. However, the main character Cobb's goal or his wish is to “come back home” in this maze-like complicated framework. The end point of this film is “Cobb's house” where his children Philipa and James live in. The main character Cobb had to leave his house and the law because of the police, and wants to come back to his house where his children live in through a dangerous adventure of dream-unconsciousness maze. In addition, the fim creates a discretionary conflict between the closed and open space of the space inside the brain called dream (and limbo), and the reality (outside of the brain). (Also, the audience may easily understand this text as not a close space, but an open space and a puzzle.) The “dangerous, or unstable space” which conflicts with the “stabilized space and house” which Cobb longs for means the space in the dream and the real space as an illegal fugitive. Cobb's journey starts at an unstable state (as a fugitive who cannot come back to his house) and returns to his stabilized space and house by going through unstable spaces inside the dreams. In addition, while “house” is a place where he can overcome his extrinsic trauma of his wife Mal, Mal completely loses her “house” by Cobb's inception and becomes a being who cannot even discriminate whether she is in a dream or a reality. The inception done to Mal was to leave her children, Cobb, and her house (completely disconnecting with her family), and the inception done to Robert Fisher Jr. can be understood as searching his own path (going beyond the influence from his father), instead of following his father's steps. After completing the mission which Saito suggested, he returns home and becomes one family with his children. This also means that he “became free from the influence” of his dead wife Mal.