One of the classes I'm taking this semester is an English senior seminar centered around Carl Jung and pop culture. The past few weeks my class has been studying the film Inception very in depth, because believe it or not, the movie is really just a "...domestic drama-painted as large as possible" in the words of Jonathon Nolan, the director's brother. For those of you who are living under a rock, or are simply crazy enough to have not seen this movie yet, you truly have no idea what you're missing out on. The special effects are incredible in and of themselves, and unlike some other movies with great special effects i.e. Avatar, there is a plot to the film. Simple really, yet extremely deep when it comes to the heist part.
As I've been a part of the class discussions, I've come to gain an even greater appreciation for a film I loved since the first time I saw it. I didn't really internalize it the first several times I watched it, but the journey which Robert Fischer, the man who's being incepted, must take into his subconscious is not one that he takes alone. Cobb, too, has to come to terms with the mistakes of his past in order to achieve wholeness as a person as he comes face-to-face with the projection of his dead wife Mal, the guilt he has harbored within himself for so long. I could spend several posts going more in depth with Jung's psychological parallels, but suffice it to say that I too have had to come face-to-face with my own psychological issues and see them for what they really are. In so doing, I've come to accept so much more about myself than I ever have before. I've come to learn that in order to have charity towards all, you have to love yourself. Trying to
find love in other sources, besides Christ, will not be compensatory. Knowing that has changed my perspective so very much in a good way. Maybe someone has incepted me :)-
This week in FHE we discussed Christlike attributes and we left with the commitment to pray to recognize our weakness and what we can do to overcome them. I testify that when we do that, we can come closer to our Heavenly Father and gain a greater understanding of Him and ourselves personally. I hope that we will all be willing to do that. Not just admit that we have them, but acknowledge them for what they are and go to work on them. I'm so grateful that the Lord gives us continual opportunities to do this through His infinite and eternal Atonement.
So, if I haven't been able to convince you to go and watch this movie yet, at least listen to this song from the film. It's from the last scene and it is simply amazing. If I were to turn my feelings into words right now, I imagine it would sound similar to this. Letting go of things we have no control over is one of the hardest things we can do, but it brings a perspective that we could not otherwise obtain. I cannot express in words how grateful I am for the perspective I've been given by my trials and the lessons I've learned from them. Sometimes the hardest person to forgive and love is ourselves, but when we embrace those concepts fully, it literally changes us from the the inside out. The debate goes on about the conclusion of Inception, whether or not Cobb has really experienced everything or if it's all been a dream. However, I choose to believe, as many others of the cast have also concluded, that the top still spinning shows how irrelevant the whole concept has become to Cobb. It no longer matters to him whether or not he's dreaming. He's finally come home, he has finally become whole, and that's all that matters.
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