Difference between Inception and Matrix
Are dreams as real as the waking stage of third dimensional life? Is it possible that our thoughts and reactions in dreams are just as relevant to our personal evolution as the decisions we make in our more predictable version of existence? The dream world has been a matter of great fascination for directors in all times. This may be due to their unexplainable nature as well to the greater amount of freedom one seems to experience whilst dreaming.
Dreams and reality are seeming two separate dimensions which can borrow things from one another creating amazement as well as confusion. Most movie directories have explored this possibility in order to express in an artistic manner their own beliefs on the subject.
The imaginary worlds of movies like Inception and the Matrix may one day be accessible as virtual reality progresses and extensive dream research is performed and is ultimately better understood.
Plot
In the movie Inception, a team composed of a dream architect, a forger, a chemist and an expert in extracting information from subjects while they sleep receives a new challenge from a business man. They have to implant an idea in the mind of a subject by manipulating several layers of dreams thus performing a sci fi inspired process called inception. The web of dream states ensures the scenarios needed for the subject to think that it is his own idea, while it is, in fact, suggested by the team. Dreamtime parasites – if you will.
In the movie The Matrix, the reality people perceive is actually the creation of machines which keep people unaware of their current status as life support for the machines. A group of surviving humans based on the last front of Sion fight against them in an effort to preserve the human race, but they also find the One which can lead them. In their attempts they go back and forth from the real world where machines reign to the dream world created for humans. Its as though humans have had their memories of themselves, their reality, their mission as humans erased by the group of ill willed beings. The truth being that only accepting the truth about their diminished condition can lead to freedom.
Back to Reality
To cross the two dimensions of dream and reality, the team in Inception has to force several events such as driving a van off a bridge into the water or an explosion. These provide the kicks back to reality. To go back in the dream state, they connect to a sleeping machine monitored by a third party.
In movie The Matrix, the characters are connected to a system enabling them to access the Matrix through a phone call which is symbolic for ringing.
Death in the Dream
The dream world and reality are connected through the mind of the dreamer. In Inception and The Matrix, the death while in dream state leads to actual death in the reality dimension.
Even the kicks the team in Inception prepares are only meant to wake them up, but if they are too violent, death can occur at any time in both worlds.
Similarities and Differences
- In the movie Inception, a team of experts tries to perform a process of planting an idea through dream layers. In the movie The Matrix, human survivors fight against the machines to try to keep the community alive.
- To pass from dream to reality, the team in Inception creates events acting as kicks. In the Matrix, they use phone calls.
- A death in the Matrix dream corresponds to death in the real world.
