Brief Screening Report

   The film that I am doing this blog post on is Inception. I choose this film because I found it interesting and suspenseful throughout its entire duration. One scene I believe that is really important to the film is when Ariadne (Ellen Page) figures out that she is in a dream for the first time. Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is looking for a new architecture for his team so he tests Ariadne to see what she can do and to see how she handles the idea of being in a dream.

      When we see this scene, it opens up at a wide shot so you can see their Cobb and Ariadne’s surroundings. They are sitting at an outside cafe surrounded by little shops and bakeries. The next shot is closer to them now, and you can hear Cobb and Ariadne's conversation; this allows the audience to feel like they are peaking in on this secretive conversation. After talking for a bit about dreams and what you do as a dreamer, Cobb lays a bomb shell on Ariadne which makes her realize that she is actually dreaming. Cobb convinces her of the reality of the situation by asking her how they had gotten to the cafe and why the dimensions and physics of this place seem off. Once everything sets in, there is a close up shot on Ariadne's face to show the audience her realization of what Cobb had just told her.

      After Ariadne puts together that she is in a dream, time seems to stand still while everything around them starts to explode. I found this a little symbolic in a way because, when you connect a chain of events together, it's usually not just a simple click, it's a giant bomb. The exploding that takes place around them symbolizes Ariadne's thoughts and feelings after she realizes that she had been dreaming all this time and she didn't even realize that anything was off about the situation. I enjoyed how Christopher Nolan (director and screen play) connected Ariadne's thoughts and realization to the explosions and the break of reality that was happening around them.