A particular movie that I had watched which impacted my life would be Inception. Directed by Christopher Nolan, this movie has a very complicated idea of implanting or extracting ideas from a person as a dream. After watching the movie, it got me thinking: Is this the real world?
In the movie, the only way to get out of the dream is to wake up in the "real" life or die in the dream. If we associate this with our present lives, would it mean that after we die, we just wake up in a new world? After all, we would not know that we are in the dream when we are in it and could this be the actual "life after death"? Since we can't get information from the dead, this question would never receive a satisfactory and definite answer, at least in the next few decades.
This movie impacted my life in firstly doubting that there is "life" in the first place. Even if it were just a movie, the idea behind it is also partly logical that we may not be in the real world! Secondly, as this movie and the idea behind it has always been etched in my head after I watched it, I begin to relate things and situations to the idea of the movie, leading me to feel that everything has happened but never happened. I start to think twice before asking questions, asking myself if I had already asked that question, searching for an answer myself and ending up answering my own question even before asking it. Also, I begin to think more.
Even before watching the movie, I was already a very "thoughtful" person, thinking about things all the time. I would come up with my own "theories" and use logic to try and see if these theories could actually be true. After watching this movie, I would think even further and venture even to the most bizarre ideas, setting my mind to think even more.
I would say Inception is a movie that made my thinking more mature, impacting my life greatly.
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