Understand 'Inception' In One Minute With Mac OS X Finder (VIDEO)

A dream within a dream within a dream within a movie. If you had trouble figuring out what happened in Inception, the baffling blockbuster of last summer featuring Leonardo DiCaprio's grim face and a lot of confusing plot twists, you might want to check out this cheeky summary, made using Mac OS X's finder.

Here, you can see exactly which dream is inside of which, and spend about two hours and twenty minutes less time than if you actually re-watched the film.

INCEPTION_FOLDER from chris baker on Vimeo.

(via Kottke)

Comments

[independent32955-2]

10:22 PM on 05/11/2011

I am NEVER going to get that minute of my life back. DAMNIT!

[nevernot]

12:17 PM on 05/11/2011

yawn.....

[redmaple]

11:49 AM on 05/11/2011

Wow! Finder is a mess.

[ifyouseekay]

11:39 AM on 05/11/2011

that was better than the movie!

[Brad Stoneking]

08:25 AM on 05/11/2011

that.... was stupid.

[masterdaddy0]

10:51 PM on 05/10/2011

First time I saw Inception, it took me a while to grasp the general idea...then again I came late into the movie. The second time was easier to understand the movie.

[deweydecimal]

07:04 PM on 05/10/2011

Uh baffling? To who? Explorations of consciousness, self-awareness, dreams and reality are explored by reams upon reams of literature, especially if you read a lot of Science Fiction. Every time someone tells me they didn't "get it," I just cringe inside.

[Solstice1221]

12:45 PM on 05/12/2011

Absolutely! F&F'd. No one uses their brains anymore. I have to admit though I do read a lot of SciFi, so Inceptions concept wasn't that complex for me to understand.

[guitar7masta]

02:07 PM on 05/10/2011

it seems only the author didn't understand inception.

[TheSardonicAtheist]

12:14 PM on 05/10/2011

The film wasn't that hard to follow, then again, you do have to question the intellect with some people, like Glenn Beck.

[JudScott]

12:45 PM on 05/10/2011

and your point? every computer has a unique MAC address, and developers can see it too, so can network administrators. be afraid, be very afraid!!!

[ResearchtheFacts]

12:52 PM on 05/10/2011

There is a big difference in MAC address-A Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment,
I will help you learn it.

You should at least have some idea what you are posting about before you post.

[hypnotoad72]

06:38 PM on 05/10/2011

You beat me to it :)

And every CPU has its own serial # burned into it as well.  I remember the days when the first CPU s/n came out - the Pentium III.  There was a huge privacy uproar.  The uproar died down, the s/n came back but with an on/off switch... until the next generation came out.  AMD jumped on board as well.  And even if the CPUs didn't get serial numbers put into their code, that's okay - the Fritz chip (TPM) also ensures unique identification and purported protection.

[The Rogue Star]

11:03 AM on 05/10/2011

I did not think inception was clever. Plus the action involving tons of gun fight ruined what could have been potentially an ok flick (I just said ok because ok is the top potential for it).

[trojoe]

09:18 AM on 05/10/2011

Inception wasn't hard to follow. Are people really so dumb that they don't get it?

[deweydecimal]

07:05 PM on 05/10/2011

Apparently so. Then again the nation is fascinated by the Kardashian & Palin clans.

[Gerald Sheffield]

08:48 AM on 05/10/2011

epic

[DovS]

03:54 AM on 05/10/2011

It's a funny video but, really, "Inception" was not difficult to understand. Everything was explained very clearly throughout the film. I can't help but wonder if pretending that "Inception" was "baffling" is catering to the faux-populist idea that being stupid is somehow better than being smart.

[Gerald Sheffield]

08:48 AM on 05/10/2011

Fanned!

[deweydecimal]

07:05 PM on 05/10/2011

Anti-intellectualism will be the downfall of America.

[euromarkusx]

02:49 AM on 05/10/2011

Maybe the movie should have been called "Recursion" ;-)