Chapter 335: Dream Stealing 1

Chapter 335: Dream Stealing 1

Chapter 335: Dream Stealing 1
In the Wanda Grand Theater, when the audience was still amazed by the criminal method of "stealing dreams".

On the big screen, Leonardo's character Cobb has begun to introduce himself to Ken Watanabe:
"Mr. Saito, we can definitely train your subconscious mind so that it can defend against the most dangerous dream stealers."

"How can you do that?" Saito, played by Ken Watanabe, finally put down his knife and fork and asked solemnly.

"Because I am the most dangerous dream stealer!"

Cobb answered with a very confident tone.

"I can find all the secrets in your brain, but I can also teach you, show you the tricks, the keys to it.

That way, even when you fall asleep, your subconscious mind will still be alert.”

Cobb stood up and picked up the wine glass in front of him.

"Of course, if you want me to teach you, you must trust me completely.

I know your mind better than your therapist, better than your wife, better than anyone else."

He stretched out his arms and paced back and forth, using his body language to emphasize the meaning of his words.

“If in your dream, there’s a safe full of secrets, I have to know what’s inside.

Your mind must be completely open to me before I can help you."

Hearing this, Saito chuckled, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, then shook his head and stood up.

"Please enjoy your meal, I will consider your proposal."

Obviously, he did not completely trust Cobb and his assistant.

As Saito turned around, two attendants opened the door and his figure disappeared in the crowd in the hall.

Cobb's assistant looked disappointed, "It seems he knows."

Cobb also put down his wine glass and was about to speak when the chandelier above their heads and the cups, plates and cutlery on the dining table all began to vibrate slightly.

"What's going on on the upper floor?" the assistant looked nervous.

Cobb quickly raised his hand, and the camera gave a close-up of his watch.

Amid the ticking of the second hand, there was a loud "bang" and a violent explosion suddenly appeared on the big screen. The raging fire and flames almost rushed towards the audience in the 3D perspective, scaring them all.

When the flames of the explosion dissipated, the audience saw that the camera of the movie had switched to a shabby street with an exotic atmosphere. The explosion just happened when a riot occurred on this street.

A person was looking through the window in the room at this scene with a serious expression.

The vibration of the explosion also affected Cobb, who was wearing a simple "subconscious therapy device" helmet, with his head hung and eyes closed and sleeping.

As the man in the house walked around, the audience also saw that in the next room, Saito was also wearing a "subconscious therapy device" helmet and sleeping quietly on a bed.

The noise and explosions of the riot grew louder and louder, and the man opened the window to see the chaos coming towards the house where they were.

This made him very anxious, and he looked at his assistant who was also wearing a helmet and sitting on the sofa, as well as Cobb's watch.

As a car exploded, Cobb, who was walking in the corridor with his assistant, also noticed the increasingly unstable situation around him.

"Saito should know it all. He's playing tricks on us!"

The assistant looked at Cobb, waiting for his decision.

Cobb is still so calm.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of everything. Trust me, the information is hidden in the safe. When I mentioned 'secret', he stared at the safe."

However, the assistant looked behind Cobb and said in surprise, "Why is she here?"

The person who surprised the assistant and made Cobb feel uncomfortable was Li Binbin, who was wearing a black evening dress.

Through the conversation between Cobb and Li Binbin, the audience also realized that the relationship between the two must be unusual.

It is even possible that they were once husband and wife, because Li Binbin also mentioned their children, which reminded the audience of the scene at the beginning of the movie.

But this is just an episode.

Soon, after communicating with Mary, played by Li Binbin, Cobb began to sneak into Saito's room with his skills and weapons and stole a document from the other party's safe.

However, at this moment, the lights came on, and Saito and Cobb's wife Mary walked in holding Cobb's assistant hostage.

"Turn around!"

"Put the gun down!"

Cobb raised his gun and confronted Saito and others.

"Return the property to its original owner, Mr. Cobb!"

Saito said coldly, and Mary also pointed the gun at Cobb's assistant.

Cobb took out the documents he had stolen. "Did she tell you? Or did you already know it?"

"Knowing that you are a thief, or knowing that we are actually in a dream?"

Saito's words completely verified the speculations of some movie fans and audiences, and also made more confused audiences suddenly realize the truth.

It turned out that what they were seeing now was in a dream.

The place where the riot just happened and where Cobb, Saito and others were sleeping should be reality.

Cobb and others are now performing "dream stealing" in Saito's dream.

All the audience reacted. On the big screen, Saito asked Cobb:
"I want to know, who hired you?"

Mary cooperated and pointed her gun at her assistant, but Cobb just shrugged.

"This is a dream. What's the point of you pointing a gun at him?"

Mary had a playful smile on her face.

“It depends on what you threaten him with. Killing him will only wake him up.

But, this..."

boom!
Mary shot her assistant in the thigh, causing him to wail loudly.

"His brain will feel pain, and when you fall into this kind of persistent and painful nightmare and can't wake up, your brain and body will often activate the self-protection program..."

As she spoke, she pointed the gun at the assistant's other leg.

At this moment, Cobb raised his gun and shot, hitting his assistant between the eyebrows.

The next second, the assistant in reality opened his eyes, and the entire building in the dream began to collapse rapidly amidst the violent shaking.

"What's going on? You woke up too early!"

The guy who was responsible for looking after Cobb and the other two in reality looked at his assistant who took off his helmet with a shocked expression.

The assistant quickly stood up and walked forward to adjust the equipment on Saito while explaining.

"I know that the dream has collapsed, but I have to find a way to keep Saito there. Cobb is about to succeed." The assistant in reality was busy. In the dream, Cobb was moving through the collapsed houses with a gun, killing the guards who rushed up one by one.

After finding a relatively safe position, he quickly took out the document that he had replaced in advance from his pocket and started reading it immediately.

In reality, the assistant saw Saito had already started to turn over, and said helplessly: "It's hopeless, wake him up quickly."

The guard quickly stepped forward, shook the unconscious Cobb, and slapped him in the face.

It was this slap that made Cobb in the dream seem to be hit and fly backwards, causing many in the audience to laugh.

The houses collapsed more and more severely, and even Saito woke up from his dream because he was buried in the rubble, and secretly reached his hand under the pillow.

But Cobb was still in the dream, insisting on looking at the documents in his hand.

However, the important parts of those documents were covered with black marks.

Obviously, Saito also had a trick up his sleeve.

In reality, the guard shouted anxiously, "I can't wake him up!"

The assistant immediately gave a suggestion, "Let him cross!"

"what?"

"Throw it in the water!"

The guard immediately did as he was told and pushed Cobb's body, causing him and the chair under him to fall into the bathtub at the back.

At this moment, on the big screen, Cobb's falling speed was gradually slowing down, and Cobb in the dream also clearly noticed the abnormality around him and the tilt of the space.

At this moment, time is clearly misaligned inside and outside the dream.

It felt like the time in the dream was stretched.

thump!
Finally, the real Cobb fell into a bathtub full of water.

In the dream, Cobb was standing in the middle of the hall, with turbulent water pouring out from the surrounding windows, echoing the scene in reality where he was submerged in water.

However, Saito, who had regained consciousness at this time, had already walked over with his assistant at gunpoint.

Fortunately, he did not notice Cobb and was pinned down again by Cobb in the water.

At this time, the riot outside the house was getting closer and closer. Cobb and his men tied up Saito again and continued to interrogate him about the key content that was blacked out on the confidential documents.

"You know what we are here for, the question is why did you let us in?"

The tied Saito replied confidently, "I want to test you."

"Test me on what?"

Saito shook his head, "It doesn't matter. You've already failed."

"We stole the information from your brain."

"But I've seen through your tricks." Saito looked at Cobb provocatively.

The explosion and the rioters outside were getting closer and closer, and the guard looked out the window nervously again.

As his head shook, the picture switched rapidly, and in a flash, the guard was sitting on a seat on a high-speed train, unconscious while wearing a helmet equipped with a subconscious therapy device.

Next to him was Cobb's assistant.

At this time, another caretaker sitting opposite the two of them looked at his watch nervously, then took out a mobile phone from his pocket, connected it to the Bluetooth of the caretaker's headphones, checked the time, and pressed the play button for the music.

As the music started, the scene switched back to the scene where Cobb and others were interrogating Saito and others.

At this point, almost all the audience members who had a little bit of thinking ability reacted.

It turns out that although Cobb and Saito woke up from one dream, they were still in another dream.

This is... a dream within a dream!

The audience had never imagined that dreams could be played in this way, like Russian nesting dolls, entering the dreams of others again while in one person's dream.

Among them, fans of the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" are particularly excited.

They originally thought that this "Inception" was just a "The Call" or "Source Code" with more grand scenes, more prominent special effects and more famous actors.

As a result, the concept of "dream within a dream" completely overturned their cognition and further expanded and sublimated the dream and subconscious therapy.

And the key point is that even without this sci-fi equipment, many people actually have more or less experienced "dreams within dreams".

That experience is when you are asleep and suddenly realize that you are dreaming, and then you struggle to get rid of the dream and wake up, but when you wake up, you are actually still dreaming.

It was not until I woke up the next day that I vaguely realized that I seemed to be dreaming last night.

Wang Hao's "Inception" accurately and intuitively presents this weird "dream within a dream" phenomenon to the audience at the beginning of the movie with clear images and a peculiar story, making them unable to help but empathize.

Some people even couldn't help but exclaim in their hearts, Wang Hao is simply a genius!

Of course Wang Hao couldn't hear the audience's exclamations, but he could guess that the concept of "dream within a dream" would definitely make everyone curious about the subsequent development of the story.

In this way, the beginning of the movie has achieved the desired effect.

And by then they will find that this "dream within a dream" is just an appetizer.

Before the audience had recovered from the amazement of the "dream within a dream", on the big screen, faint music could be heard in the ears of the watchman in the dream.

This made him suddenly stunned, and Cobb had already begun to threaten Saito with a gun, trying to pry relevant information out of him.

However, Saito realized that he was still in a dream because of the different material of the carpet under him.

At this time, the countdown in reality finally ended. Cobb's assistant woke up first and began to cooperate with the guards to clean up the scene.

Then Cobb and others woke up one after another, and while taking stock of the problems, they restored everything to its original state.

It was not until they left the train compartment that Saito woke up from his coma. He looked out the window in confusion and trance.

At this point, the first action of the male protagonist of "Inception" and the opening of the entire movie have finally ended.

Most audiences also have a certain understanding of the "Dream Inception" setting of this movie.

However, as a brain-burning suspense film, this alone is definitely not enough.

As the next short plot and dialogue played out, the audience also knew it.

It turns out that Cobb has two other children, and for some unknown reason, he is unable to see his children now and can only let them live with their grandfather.

After giving this short piece of information, Cobb and his assistant packed their bags, ready to escape before the client knew that their mission had failed.

But when they arrived at the rooftop of the hotel and were about to board the helicopter, the door of the helicopter was opened first.

Saito, who had been in their dream before, was now sitting inside, looking at Cobb and the others with a smile.

(End of this chapter)