"Healthy Confusion"

As I was writing the essays for Brave New World, I couldn't help but relate one of the topics, the so-called "healthy confusion", into a film I just saw. I could talk of no other than the new release "Inception".

Like Melissa Bravo said earlier, that movie is good. Really good. What made it so entertaining was this state of confusion, though it does do it differently that Huxley's novel. In Brave New World, there is a whole flood of technology and an entire opposite of our customs, which makes the book confusing. In "Inception", the plot is so confusing at times that it can be hard to summarize it!

So, here goes: basically, there is technology that can penetrate people's dreams, in order to steal sensitive information. The protagonist is hired to plant an idea, which is very much harder, into a corporate heir. The stem of the confusion is that this so-called inception of an idea must involve a dream within a dream within a dream. In the film, the plots of the dreams happen at the same time.

Do Brave New World and "Inception" have this confusion in common? Yes. The concepts of new technologies and mental processes all seem to be a theme in both works. This confusion can be a great tool, since it keeps the audience on their toes and forces them to start paying attention to the details. If you've seen the movie, you know that the confusion comes to a climax at the end, when you are left utterly bewildered.

I think this film, and Huxley's book, has made me realized just how amazing this literary tool can be. Can you guys name any instances in a book or movie when this happened?