How is Inception Postmodern?

The Sound:

• The theme song 'Dream is Collapsing' by Hans Zimmer has been specifically made for the film, a soundtrack, which is typical of any film, but in some scenes in the movie they have slowed it down so as to give a multi-sensory experience to the film. This technique has also been used with the song 'Je Ne Regrette Rien' from the French artist Edith Paif-Non.
• Not only have slowed this music down to give a slow and distorted sound effect, but they have also mixed the two tracks together in a way that they create one song even though they are from different genres. I feel that the use of technology to mix these two pieces makes the film postmodern, as it is creating something new out of what already existed.
• Linking with the film, they have also slowed down diegetic sound within the film along with the appropriate sound, again, to give a multi-sensory feel to the audience about the dream  how actions and time in reality are perceived in the dream.

The Film:

• Straight away, I feel this film is postmodern because its different from any other film.You don't just sit there and watch it, it captivates you in its inception so you actually have to think about it to stay up to date with whats going on.
• The whole concept of the film. In modern times, people couldn't or wouldn't have thought about the whole idea of inception. Its different and its a new idea, and the film itself employs deeper thought into the theory of inception, which I feel is a postmodern feature.
• In the film they have used CGI technology to simulate what happens outside the dream. For example, towards the end of the film they drive the van off the bridge after the first 'kick' and they illustrate that in the film by putting the actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt in antigravity.
• The way all the characters address each other by their surname and not by their forename, I think is a postmodern feature. This is because the end credits show the surnames of all the characters as well, so there is continuity.