Inception - Why is it post-modern?

INCEPTION – AS A POST-MODERN TEXT

·       It is set in a world of hyper reality – The world isn’t real but is very realistic.  They are constantly going to different versions of different people’s imaginations throughout. This makes it post-modern in that it is completely imaginary but as people get into the film they distort actual reality from what they perceive as the new reality. The reason for this is that the new reality could be seen as more desirable than the real world

·       The music is manipulated, in that a classic French song has the start slowed down to create a dramatic sound.

·       It doesn’t have one single genre. The genres it used were action, adventure, sci-fi, thriller, drama and romance.

·       The staircase which is a paradox in the film is postmodern in that it gives people the idea that everything is possible, even when it isn’t.

·       I feel that the film is postmodern in that it uses futuristic technologies that still feel believable even though they aren’t around. There is no such thing as a passive dream machine, but people believe in it for the sake of the film.

·       The shot switches through the layers of the dream, through parallel editing, to show that what’s happening in one layer is also affecting the other layers. The effect is lessened by the time warp through the layers. E.G. When the van roles over, the whole other layer starts to role, but slowly as the time is moving 12x slower.