Inception

Inception is a 2010 science fiction film, which was written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio,Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Dileep Rao, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine. DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a specialized spy or corporate espionage thief. His work consists of secretly extracting valuable commercial information from the unconscious mind of his targets while they are asleep and dreaming. Unable to visit his children, Cobb is offered a chance to regain his old life in exchange for an almost impossible task: "inception", the planting of an idea into a target's subconscious.^[5]

^{In chapter 1, Cobb asks what's the most resilient parasite?  He answers his own question with an idea.  What we are left with is to try and discern if that idea is truly inspired and trustworthy or birthed from our own minds left to their own devices.}  

Romans 12:1-3 (The Message)

 ^1-2 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

 ³I'm speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it's important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.

In chapter 2, Arthur states to Mr. Saito that true inspiration is impossible to fake.  The word inspiration actually means 'breathed upon' and lends us to conclude that said inspiration is always external to ourselves.  That being said, should drive us to gauge wether or not said externality is trustworthy or not.  

Genesis 2:7 (New International Version)

⁷ Then the LORD God formed a man^[a] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

In chapter 14, ambiguity is our lasting impression as Cobb is seemingly reunited with his kids while his wobbling totem spins in the foreground.  We're left to wonder wether Cobb has returned to a meaningful reality or remains to embrace a meaningless dream.  At some point we're best served by abandoning the wondering of Cobb's, or more importantly, our own status in reference to ourselves and pushing ahead to embrace what the story's creator has to say about our status.  

1 Corinthians 13 12-13 (The Message)

 ¹²We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

 ¹³But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.