Christopher Nolan Inception's Allegory Of The Cave

Christopher Nolan Inception has a dramatic connection to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Plato, born in 428 B.C.E was a student of Socrates, and had many beliefs that were inspired by Socrates. The allegory of the cave was one of his literatures writings that was inspired by Socrates. He believed that we are being hidden from the real world “To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images” (568) This can be seen in inception “If you go too deep into the dream you can’t tell if that dream is real or fake” These two examples are alike because both cannot tell real from fake. The helper of these dreams is Cobb which is a memory stealer. The protagonist Fisher explains that there is always a difference between two things and he uses the example,

Cobb which is the helper of making inception happen. Cobb is a memory stealer which means he sees memories from another person’s mind without affecting the dream itself. Instead of doing this he is forced to alter the memories of Robert Fisher. The memory that Cobb was altering from Fishers memory was a memory about Fisher’s father being disappointed in him. So Cobb had to alter the memory with barely any knowledge of how to do so. He had to do inception because he wanted to see his kids and the only way was to do inception the reason was because a man would give him his passport to finally go back to his kids. To get inception to work, Cobb has to have good team members so the plan can work. He hires an architect who designs the dream and some others. How inception is supposed to work is that they have to go inside a person’s dream, then within that dream they have to go into another dream and once more. Fisher was forced into inception and when he got lost and wanted to stay inside of inception he was forced out. Because of this Fisher wonders if he will ever go back into