Inception Opening Scene analysis

In the opening scene of inception, the audience’s attention is centred primarily on one character and although this character does essentially nothing, it is done through the use of his surroundings, the moving diegesis he’s been placed in and how they act in relation to him. The man we are introduced to is seen to be lying motionless on the floor, he barely moves, but around him everything else does. kids playing on the beach, waves crashing into the shore and even a man with a gun that comes and physically interacts with him.it starts off with multiple shots of the ocean and its waves, as these waves slowly travel in a right direction, the camera also pans right and when the waves travel left the camera moves left thus following and focusing on the motion of his surroundings, enhancing the feeling of movement and with him being the only still thing in the scene, shifting the focus from the character to his surroundings. however, it is the fact that everything but the character moves that draws our attention back to him, as we as the audience know that someone lying motionless on the floor with the sort of gesture code he has, awkward and immobile, is not normal and that it signifies and has connotations with death and tragedy, the character also has a gun on him which we the audience see as an indexical sign of danger and death thus progressing this questionable diegesis we've decoded so far, it is a sunny day on the beach in which everything is brightly lit with low key lighting, there are diegetic sounds of the waves and children playing so it’s this blissful and carefree nature of his surroundings, specifically in contrast to him and his nature that provokes the audience. From all of this information encoded, the audience can decode mainly one thing, that something has happened prior to this making it possible for this to be a flash back or a scene from later in the film. Whichever it is the audience is left with a sense of wonder, serving as a tool to introduce them to the events of the film in a thought provoking and interesting way.