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What did he bealive?

Todorov in 1969 produced a theory which he believed to be able to be applied to any film. He believed that all films followed the same narrative pattern. They all went through stages called the equilibrium, disequilibrium, solving, and the equilibrium.

Todorov's Narritive Theory

The Stages – explained

There are five stages in which the narrative can pass:

1.A state equilibrium (All is as it should be)

2.A disruption of that order by an event

3.A recognition that the event has happened

4.An attempt to repair that damage that has happened

5.A return to the state of equilibrium, or a new state of equilibrium.

A film that follows the theory

Inception

 

1.The first equilibrium starts with Cobb (Leonardo D’caprio) doing a simple extraction job on Saito’s (Ken Waranabe) mind through on of hos dreams.

 

2.Saito realizes he’s in one of his dream through the failure of Cobb’s architect and drives Cobb back into reality. Subsequently fleeing his mission/job.

 

3.Cobb tries to escape the reality that he failed his job and flees to Paris in surch of a new architect (Ellen Page) to sculpt the dream that they implant into there hosts.

 

4.Saito manages to fins Cobb and his team, offers them a job of on accepting information into Robert Fischer’s (Cillian Murphy) mind. Unaware of the danger Cobb agrees and follows through with the mission, gathering a team together and incepting deeper and deeper into Fischer's mind to plant an idea to destroy his fathers company.

 

5.Cobb succeeds with the mission and retunes to America to find hos kids with hos grandfather and continue to lice a peaceful life.

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