

The plot has several action scenes and a structure similar to the levels of the game. However, I think that takes away some of the surrealism of the dream world, rarely shows the absurdity of the dream to reality for the dreamer are reasonable.
After seeing Paprika, Detective of Dreams of Satoshi Kon, Japanese animation, which handles the same subject, hoping that Nolan's film exceeded expectations. In the film by Satoshi Kon, a device stolen revolutionizing psychological therapies, allowing the therapist to immerse themselves in the minds of their patients and record their dreams, thus the city is in danger by being immersed in a collective dream. The film goes to all sorts of surreal images in dreams, and sometimes it is not clear the difference between dream and reality, which increases the stress along this crazy film.
While Kon animation exploits the dreamlike quality of dreams and instills the fear of not knowing whether we are awake or asleep does create a climate in my view more interesting than the Origin.
Lessing's novel shows two elderly people immersed in a series of "impossible love", Sarah and Stephen, Sarah love between an older woman and men who are twice his age, a taboo in many societies, Stephen love with a woman dead at least a century ago.
This drama unfolds in the context of a play, with the magic of a romantic story of Julie Vairon leads the troupe through strong passions that never materialize, but have their players in a state of constant desire and suffering by not having it.
So, Sarah, the protagonist of the story restates the need for physical closeness and sense of a man, now believed dead after 20 years of widowhood, and suffering that causes him not to. While Stephen will lead you down dark roads that ended their life.