Cinematography and Story Telling in Inception
After watching the ending once more and analyzing it, I am amazed by the cinematography that Wally Pfister produced in Christopher Nolan's Inception. He uses a variety of shots and angles to deepen the meaning of the story. In the order of how the scene goes, the first shot is an extreme close-up of Mr. Cobb. This contributes to the story because, paired with the confusion and emotion in his eyes, it shows how surprised he is to be awake, as if it were a miracle. Both Cobb and Saito were in the final level of the dream world, or limbo, for many years, both physically becoming old. Waking up in the real world just hours after they started dreaming was unexpected and took them a second to realize what was going on. The camera does a dolly effect to shift the focus to the rest of the people around him. The camera pans to show the different characters to share their reactions to him being awake. Fischer has almost no reaction because he was the victim of their 'inception' pla...