combination of these three, that person will gain a good luck throughout the year. Those are a few examples from numerous superstitious beliefs about dreams that I believe exist in many
countries. The existence of those beliefs in the societies implies that dreams really are powerful
and significant in people’s lives. Inception also suggests that dreams are influential; they are very powerful and can affect one’s behaviour through an idea one’s get from a dream. This
writing is also made in order to convey a message that dream is indeed meaningful because it helps us to get a better understanding of ourselves and sometimes influences our actions.
2. Summary of the Text
The story starts with a business conversation conducted by several men. Two of them are selling their skills: stealing secret information inside one person’s head through their
dreams when they are sleeping. It turns out that this meeting is a dream itself. The two men – Cobb DiCaprio and Arthur Gordon-Levitt get an order to steal information from Saito
Watanabe; therefore they try to trick Saito in a multilayered dream. Unfortunately, they failed in this mission because they could not get the whole information they needed. In the
first dream, Saito is aware that he is in a dream and locks up some information from Cobb; he knows that Cobb is attempting to trick him. However, when Saito wakes up and has a quarrel
with them, he then learns that he is still in a dream. Knowing that they really are capable of doing extraction stealing from a dream,
Saito asked them to work for him. His order is unusual though: he does not want them to steal information; instead he wants them to plant an idea inside his competitor’s – Fischer
Murphy – dreams. They refuse at the first time. Arthur says that inception cannot be done.
However, Cobb says that it is possible to plant an idea within someone’s mind; he does not want to do this though. Saito then tempts Cobb with a promise to remove Cobb’s charges and
send him back to his country, to his home and his children, which results in Cobb’s approval. Cobb assembles his team and finds the other three persons with their own specialties
to work with. Ariadne Page, as an architect, is in charge of designing the world within the three levels of the dreams. Eames Hardy, a professional forger, has to transform himself
into Peter Browning Fischer’s right-hand man in order to get information from Fischer. There is also Yusuf Rao, the chemist who has to make his own special sedative in order for
the team to be able to execute these almost-impossible three levels of dreams. So the team has 5 people to carry out the plan, but Saito insists on joining the team to make sure they do
the job properly; so there are 6 people in total doing the infiltration. The information has been collected; the preparation has been done; it is now the time
to execute the plan. They are now in a flight together with Fischer and succeed in making him fall asleep. The flight goes for 10 hours, which gives them a week in the first dream level, six
months in the second level, and 10 years in the third level. The time seems to be slower in the dream because the mind works more quickly. However, there are many unexpected problems
that happen due to Mal’s interference Mal is the projection of Cobb’s unconscious within the dreams in order to fail the mission. Saito also gets shot in the dream and therefore they are
now racing against the time to complete the mission and return safely into the reality.
3. Literature Review
