Where am I?

When I was reading a book, there was nothing I thought that I could really connect it to. While reading Mariana Villa's blog, Dreams or Reality? I made the connection, Inception. It is impressive the resemblence they have, and it's just not one thing, but the whole plot. One of the things they have in common is that in Invisible Cities, there's a story about a story and in Inception there's a dream within a dream. Mariana made a point that I hadn't really catch on to in the book, is that theres a confusion between what's real and what's not. Even though we already have clear that the cities that Marco Polo is describing to Kublai Khan are fictional, one has a hard time really knowing what's real and what's not.

There's something special about Calvino, and that's the way he describes. The cities are so specific from the people that live there, to the color of the bathroom wall, one gets confused. His way of describing makes you feel the cities are real. Here comes inception again. In the movie when putting someone into a dream there's a point when you go to deep that you can't recognize wether you are in dreaming or in reality. They call it the limbo in the movie, in the real world it means when you are not either dead or alive, but in a space at the middle. Now it all make sense when Marco Polo explains he was describing Venice, sometimes I felt he got lost between reality and what he was trying to describe to Khan, he went to limbo. He got lost between Venice and imagination. 

What happened to him is what happened to Ariadne. She was a graduate architect, and was recruted to design the dream escapes of what they called inception. The first time she went into the dream she was amazed, she could defy gravity and the laws of physics, she could do what every arquitect would dream to do. The same happened to Marco Polo (Italo Calvino) realizing this, the freedom to do whatever he wanted, to explain to the emperor of Tartars his vast empire, he went above and beyond. He didn't just get lost between what was real and what was *bs*. All the cities explained seemed to be from a mind with no boundaries, and someone who lives Another thing I noticed was what I mentioned in my previous blog, The City Code, and that was that some of Marco Polo's cities were brought into life through memory. He made a city that he had dreamed of, or maybe something that already existed like how I mentioned with the city of Isidora. This same characteristics of building from memories appear in the movie, and usually constructing from memory is not good. And why is this? Because constructing from things that you already know is an easier way for one to loose grasp between what's real and what 's a dream. That can happen in Invisible Cities, and this can be the reason why Marco Polo and Kublai Khan lost theirs.