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July 20th, 2010

Dream A Little Bigger: A Guide To Understanding Inception

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Written by: Matt Joseph

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Inception is completely mind bending, there’s no doubt about it. When it comes down to it there really is no way to figure out the film. No matter what explanation you come up with for the film there will always be evidence to contradict it.

Every theory and idea as to what went on in the film has at least a couple plot holes. That being said, there are a few things that have been made clear. A few concepts, burning questions and theories have recently had some light shed on them. After seeing the movie twice, I now feel that I have a pretty good grasp on what happened and I think I can explain a fair bit about what really went on. So without further ado, here it is, Dream A Little Bigger: A Guide To Understanding Inception. Be warned, there are spoilers in this article.

1. What was up with the train on the street?

The explanation for the freight train that came crashing through the street can be one of two things. Firstly, some people like to think it came from Fischer. Fischer, being the important person that he is, has had his mind trained to defend itself from people like Cobb. This is why the team has such a tough time to begin with. Fischer’s subconscious is trying to protect itself from the extractors, hence the fact that the team is constantly being chased. The train is simply just another safeguard that is trying to deter the team from their goal.

Another explanation that people tend to think is that it came from Cobb’s subconscious, aka Mal. The train was the same one that took Cobb and Mal out of their dream world so it could be that Cobb unintentionally brought the train into the dream.

2. How does one wake up from a dream?

The bottom line on waking up from dreams is as follows. There are only 4 ways one can escape from a dream. To wake up, you must either receive a kick, the timer on the machine must run out, you must die in the dream or the sedative must wear off. That is the only way to wake up from a dream when you are hooked up to one of those machines.

3. Why is Saito so much older than Cobb when Cobb visits him in limbo?

The reason that Saito appears to be so much older than Cobb when they are in limbo is because of the time. Saito entered limbo before Cobb and due to the fact that time moves differently in limbo, this means that although Saito only entered limbo a short time before Cobb did, he will still appear much older since time moves at a different rate depending on how far down you are.

Although it doesn’t look it, the script says that Cobb has also aged slightly when he goes to visit Saito. Cobb technically spent years looking for Saito in limbo. This is why he looks so dazed and confused when he finally finds Saito. He is only able to remember Saito’s name at first, but after talking with Saito, the two start to remember everything.

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4. Why did Cobb have to perform inception on Mal?

Mal and Cobb created a dream world together. They were essentially gods in their world. They created whatever they wanted and did whatever they wanted. Mal started to lose her grip on reality since she was creating from memories. She started to lose touch on what was reality and what was a dream. In order for Mal to return to the real world, she had to believe that the world she was in was fake.

Cobb planted the idea in Mal’s head that this world was a dream world and to escape it she had to kill herself. This worked, and the two were able to get back to the real world. The only problem was, was that Mal still had this idea in her head. She now thought the same thing of the real world. She thought it was a dream and she had to kill herself to get back to reality. This is why she kills herself and this is why Cobb feels guilty.

Cobb probably could have just killed Mal to wake her up but he thought performing inception would be easier. Think about it, could you shoot the person you love, even if you knew it was a dream? He probably couldn’t bring himself to do it.

5. What exactly is a totem?

A totem is what you use to differentiate between reality and a dream world. Only the owner of the totem knows its exact balance, weight etc. Cobb’s totem is the top and he knows if it stops spinning, he is in reality but if it doesn’t stops spinning he is in a dream. This is what helps him differentiate. People say the top is insignificant because it was never Cobb’s to begin with, it belonged to Mal. Due to this, the top may have no value as a totem.

6. What was Arthur doing in the elevator scene?

Arthur was trying to deliver a kick to the team. He was unable to use gravity and he had to improvise and use the elevator shaft to create the same feeling that a kick would provide. He synced the charges with the other kicks that were going on in the level above.

The loss of gravity was due to the van in the level above falling off the bridge. The feeling of falling transferred over into the second level and therefore it seemed as if there was no gravity in the hotel. By setting off the explosive, Arthur improvises so that the people in the lift will feel a force, equal to the force of gravity. They will experience a falling sensation from the explosion.

By disconnecting the elevator from the cables and using an explosion to propel it, it is propelled as if there were gravity.

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7. What exactly is a kick?

A kick is one way to pull someone out of a dream. Usually a signal will be given to the dreamer to make them aware that a kick is coming.

After the signal is given the kick is performed. A kick is the feeling of falling and this feeling is what wakes you up. For example, when Cobb was sitting on the chair and he was pushed into the bathtub or when Arthur performs the elevator explosion or when Yusuf’s van drops etc. By disrupting the equilibrium of the dreamer you are able to wake them.

Kicks were used a lot in the final sequence and it got a bit confusing. I will attempt to clarify it all by working backwards.

Fischer and Ariadne jumped off the building in level 4. This was the first kick. Since the characters were so far under, they needed two synchronized kicks to boot them out of the level. Note that Cobb, who had already been stabbed at this point, decided to ignore the kick because he wanted to go after Saito in limbo.

After Fischer and Ariadne jump off the building, Eames provides a second kick to both of them by blowing up the compound.

Meanwhile in level 2, Arthur’s elevator explosion pulls all the level 3 characters (Eames, Fischer and Ariadne back to level 2. At the same time, Yusuf’s van hitting the water pulls everyone in level 2, back to level 1. To get from level 1 to reality is the tricky part. There are two possibilities. Some people say they had to wait for the sedatives to wear off and some people say they could just kill themselves and wake up since they were only one level down in the dream.

When the music is played it acts as a cue so the person knows a kick is coming soon. That person would then set up a kick for the people who are asleep in his level (eg: like Arthur did in the hotel).

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8. What exactly is limbo?

Limbo is pure sub consciousness. It is a state of mind. If you die under heavy sedation you are in danger of being stuck in limbo. Limbo is an infinite construct with nothing in it, except what is left over from anyone that is sharing who has been there before. It’s important to remember that limbo isn’t owned by any one dreamer.

To be in limbo, your mind must truly believe that you’re in reality and it is not a dream. The same goes for escaping limbo. To escape limbo you must truly believe that the world you are in is fake. The problem is, the deeper you go, the harder it becomes to distinguish between reality and a dream. When Cobb goes to limbo to find Saito he isn’t effected that much at the start. By the time we see him with Saito he clearly looks confused. This is because he’s been there for a while already and has started to lose his mind.

The reason limbo is so dangerous is because when you get that far down, you truly don’t know what is reality and what is a dream.  Your mind must truly believe you are dreaming and are in a dream world if you want to escape.

Limbo is something that wasn’t explained as well as it should have been in the film. There is a lot of confusion surrounding it and there are a lot of contradictions with it. Most of this stems from the ending which sees Saito going to limbo and Cobb following him.

The ending can be seen in one of two ways. Either you believe that Saito and Cobb escaped to the real world or they didn’t. If you believe that they did, then it is most likely that Cobb convinced Saito that his world wasn’t real and Saito truly believed him. Therefore when Saito picks up the gun, he shoots himself and Cobb and they are both kicked out of limbo and back onto the plane.

If you believe that the ending is a dream, then it is most likely that when Saito picked up the gun he only shot Cobb. Doing so would send Cobb into a deeper state of limbo in which he can build his own world and truly be happy.

He could finally be with his kids (although it is just a dream) and Saito will have kept up his end of the deal since he technically sent Cobb home.

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9. Why didn’t Ariadne and Fischer fall into limbo when they fell off the building in level 4? Didn’t they kill themselves?

You have to remember that limbo is just a state of mind. It is when you don’t realize that you are dreaming. It’s not technically a place.

Ariadne knew she was in a dream the whole time so therefore she could not enter limbo. That is why when she fell off the building she woke up in level 3 rather than going into limbo. Rather than killing herself, the fall acted as a kick and as soon as she started to fall, she woke up in level 3. She probably never even hit the ground, so technically she didn’t kill herself. The same goes for Fischer. Right when the falling sensation begun, it is assumed that it was at that moment they awoke in level 3, since the kicks were synced.

10. What exactly was that world that Cobb and Mal created for themselves?

Cobb and Mal created a dream world for themselves. In this world they pushed their subconscious to the edge, they went incredibly deep. Due to this, Mal started to slip into limbo. This is partially because Mal was creating from memories. Cobb was always full aware he was in a dream.

Mal and Cobb were able to play God in their world and Mal was able to grow old with Cobb which was her dream. To escape from this world, Cobb had to perform inception on Mal because Mal started to believe she was living in the real world.

11. Explain the events that took place during the final sequence.

I personally think that the plane is reality and I am going to base this answer on that fact. Everyone gets on the plane and is connected. It is only once they are connected that the dream starts. The first level is the city streets and Yusuf dreams it. The team kidnaps Robert Fischer and forces him to give them the numbers. They also start to plant the idea in his head that his dad wants him to break up the company.

Now level two begins. Yusef stays awake while the team goes into level two. The second level is the hotel and Arthur dreams it. Here the team tricks Fischer into thinking that Browning is an enemy. Cobb convinces Fischer to come with them to level 3.

Arthur stays awake while everyone goes into level 3. The third level is the snow fortress and Eames dreams it. Fischer is taken to the fortress where hopefully the idea that was planted will take hold. While at the fortress, Mal shoots Fischer and Cobb and Ariadne go into level four to save him.

Eames stays awake and everyone else goes into level 4. Ariadne is able to save Fischer and they both kick themselves back up to level 3. Cobb is the one dreaming in level 4 and eventually he stays back so he can go into limbo to find Saito. While in level 4 Cobb is stabbed by Mal.

After being brought back to level 3, Fischer goes into that room with his dad and that whole scene plays out and the idea takes hold of Fischer’s mind. Shortly after this, all the kicks happen. Saito and Cobb are in limbo but the rest of the group is kicked all the way back up to the top. Once they escape the van, Eames transforms into Browning to see if they got the job done.

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Cobb and Saito are currently in limbo at this point. Saito is in limbo because he died from the gunshot. The reason why Cobb is in limbo is because Mal stabs him and he presumably dies and enters Saito’s limbo since he is in shared dreaming with Saito. Since Cobb didn’t die from the stab wound right away he may have been able to kick himself back up but he purposefully missed the kick and stayed back to find Saito.

12. So what happened at the end?

The ending is the most confusing part of the film. There are a couple of theories as to what happened. The theories are as follows:

12a) Nothing Ever Happened

The nothing ever happened ending is the simplest. Some people believe that nothing ever happened and everything was just Cobb’s dream. People think that Cobb was just a normal businessman who came onto a plane and fell asleep.

No one knew anyone. During the plane ride, Cobb had a crazy dream (the events that took place in the film) and at the end of the film he woke up. That’s it. No inception, no such thing as entering people’s minds, nothing that was shown was real. It was all just a dream and Cobb is just an ordinary person who was flying home.

12b) Cobb started dreaming after he met Yusef

What if everything from when Cobb meets Yusef is just a dream? Think about it, Cobb goes down to the basement with Yusef and sees all those people who are dreaming. It is here that he decides to try out Yusef’s chemical. This could be the last moment he is truly awake. When he ‘wakes up’ from the chemical he tries to use his totem but is interrupted by Saito. Cobb isn’t able to see if he is still dreaming or not. From this point on we never again see the top fall, technically we never know if Cobb awoke from that dream in Yusef’s place. For all we know, he could still be asleep.

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12c) The inception was actually on Cobb

A popular theory is that the film wasn’t about planting an idea in Fishcer’s head, rather it was about planting an idea in Cobb’s head. Think about it, Cobb is racked with guilt and his father-in-law (Michael Caine’s character Miles) knows this. Surely he would want to see his son-in-law get back to normal wouldn’t he?

Could it be that he hired Ariadne, an exceptionally bright and talented architect, to perform inception on Cobb?

Think about it, when Cobb is walking through the airport at the end and sees Miles, Miles says “you’re welcome”. Why would Miles say this? Is he saying it because he has freed Cobb from the guilt and now Cobb can finally get on with his life?

If anyone was capable of performing inception on Cobb it would be Ariadne. She was always eager for more information on Mal and she was the only one who got a look inside Cobb’s mind. She is also the only one who knows about Cobb’s totem and how it works.

Perhaps the inception was on Cobb all along. It was to plant the idea that he wasn’t responsible for Mal’s death and that he could still live a normal and peaceful life if he let go. As for when the inception took place, that’s another story. It could be when Cobb went to try out the drugs in Yusef’s place and everything from there was in his head or it could be that the inception on Fischer was just a cover or an excuse for Ariadne to get into Cobb’s head and perform the inception. An interesting take on this theory can be found here. I’d summarize it but its quite long and this article is already getting a bit too lengthy.

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12d) The inception was on us the audience and was done by Christopher Nolan

An interesting thought going around is what if the inception was on us, the audience?

Think about it. Perhaps Christopher Nolan planted an idea in our head. No matter how we view the ending we will always have doubts. No theory or explanation is perfect. If it’s a dream then why does the top wobble, if it is reality then why are the kids wearing the same thing and why do they look the same age? Why after Cobb goes under in Yusef’s place is the top never shown to fall again? Nolan has planted a seed of doubt in our heads. If he hadn’t shown the last shot of the top, most people would just assume Cobb got back. Due to that last shot of the top, we all now have ‘creeping doubts’ as Mal calls it. We question what was real and what was a dream?

12e) Cobb wakes up at the end and is actually able to return to his kids

Most people still think that the ending is real and Cobb is back in the real world. Think about it, Cobb went into limbo to find Saito. He reminds old Saito of their deal and convinces Saito that this world is a dream and not reality. Since both of them realize that they are dreaming, perhaps they can escape limbo.

When Saito grabs the gun, and presumably kills himself and Cobb, maybe this sends them back to the plane. Or maybe the sedatives wear off by this point and they are able to escape limbo from the gunshot since they are not under sedatives. If in fact the sedatives had worn off and they were just normally dreaming, it would be reasonable to think that they can kick themselves out of limbo and back onto the plane.

The kick would be a straight kick back to the plane since they wouldn’t have to go through the other levels. This is because the other levels had already collapsed so technically they were only one level under.

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This theory calls into question the very very end. When Cobb returns home his kids are in the same spot and are wearing the same clothes. Another thing to point out is that the kids haven’t aged at all either, they look the exact same. This leads people to doubt this theory. The people who support it will argue that Nolan just did this to mess with us and to leave the ending open to interpretation. Another thing to point out is that Cobb is only seen wearing his wedding ring in dream scenes, never in reality. At the end of the movie he isn’t wearing the ring, maybe he is in the real world?

12f) The ending is just a dream and Cobb is still stuck in limbo

The theory I like to go with is that the Cobb is still dreaming at the end and doesn’t escape limbo. A few reasons give this theory validity. Firstly, the whole thing that was mentioned above about the children is a strong point for this theory. Another reason is because at the end, when Cobb spins the top, he just walks away. He doesn’t seem to care whether or not it stops spinning. Perhaps it’s because he knows he is in a dream but he doesn’t care because perhaps this is the only way he can see his kids.

Another reason I think this theory has some validity is because we see Saito pick up the gun at end. I think that when Saito shoots him, instead of going back up to the plane, Cobb enters an even deeper limbo. There is simply no way for Cobb or Saito to return to the plane since they both died while sedated. The very end is just a projection that Cobb created so he could be happy and at peace. By killing Cobb, Saito did complete his end of the deal, Cobb was able to return home to his kids, even if it was in a dream.

12g) The ending is really Cobb stuck in a loop state

Lastly, some people think Cobb is stuck in a loop state that is designed by Ariadne. This loop state is to relieve him of the unpleasant truth that he is trapped in limbo. Ariadne knows the trick of creating a loop and she knows it fools the subconscious of the sleeper into perceiving the dream as real for far longer than they normally would.

The concept of the loop comes up a few times in the movie and we do see Arthur teaching it to Ariadne. Perhaps, she creates a loop for Cobb and gets him to believe through inception, that he has made it back up into the plane and into reality. Maybe she has designed a closed loop for him and he will keep dreaming forever.

13. If Fischer was killed when he was shot, and they were able to resuscitate him, why couldn’t they save Saito the same way?

Saito was shot on the first level and died on the third. If they had brought him back to life he would only be brought back to the second level and he was still dying there. It wouldn’t have helped. Fischer was shot on the third level but his body on the previous levels was still fine. The defibrillator and the kicks were enough to bring him back.

14. How is Eames able to change his appearance?

A forger is trained to alter their appearance and take on the personality of someone else. Eames is able to do so by studying the target. Forging is his skill, just like extracting is Cobb’s skill and designing the dream is Ariadne’s skill.

15. Will we ever have a concrete answer that covers everything?

Absolutely not. There are just way too many contradictions in this film. No matter what you think, someone will poke holes through it. What I have stated above is what I beleive to be true.

This article could have been at least five pages longer, there is just so much that can be questioned in this film. Inception is a film that will be discussed for a long time. In the coming weeks I’m sure we will see more interesting theories and I’m sure more clues will be discovered. The best way to watch the film is just to formulate your own ideas and theories and not worry about what others say. Nothing will ever fill in all the holes so just go with what you think is best.

So there you have it, a pretty comprehensive guide to understanding undboutedly one of the most confusing films of the year. Hopefully after reading this you now have a better grasp on what happened in the film.

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  • Manithirani

    hey,really good summary. But, I find a few inconsistencies….In the eighth question you said that " One theory is that Saito shot himself and Cobb to get back to the real world..Another theory is that Saito shot Cobb which sent him to an even deeper level.."How is that possible?How can the same action yield two different results?I, too, am inclined towards the interpretation that just the end is a dream, ie, Cobb never got out of limbo.—Manit

  • Manithirani

    hey,really good summary. But, I find a few inconsistencies….In the eighth question you said that " One theory is that Saito shot himself and Cobb to get back to the real world..Another theory is that Saito shot Cobb which sent him to an even deeper level.."How is that possible?How can the same action yield two different results?I, too, am inclined towards the interpretation that just the end is a dream, ie, Cobb never got out of limbo.—Manit

  • Manithirani

    hey,really good summary. But, I find a few inconsistencies….In the eighth question you said that " One theory is that Saito shot himself and Cobb to get back to the real world..Another theory is that Saito shot Cobb which sent him to an even deeper level.."How is that possible?How can the same action yield two different results?I, too, am inclined towards the interpretation that just the end is a dream, ie, Cobb never got out of limbo.—Manit

  • Manithirani

    hey,really good summary. But, I find a few inconsistencies….In the eighth question you said that " One theory is that Saito shot himself and Cobb to get back to the real world..Another theory is that Saito shot Cobb which sent him to an even deeper level.."How is that possible?How can the same action yield two different results?I, too, am inclined towards the interpretation that just the end is a dream, ie, Cobb never got out of limbo.—Manit

  • Manithirani

    hey,really good summary. But, I find a few inconsistencies….In the eighth question you said that " One theory is that Saito shot himself and Cobb to get back to the real world..Another theory is that Saito shot Cobb which sent him to an even deeper level.."How is that possible?How can the same action yield two different results?I, too, am inclined towards the interpretation that just the end is a dream, ie, Cobb never got out of limbo.—Manit

  • Manithirani

    hey,really good summary. But, I find a few inconsistencies….In the eighth question you said that " One theory is that Saito shot himself and Cobb to get back to the real world..Another theory is that Saito shot Cobb which sent him to an even deeper level.."How is that possible?How can the same action yield two different results?I, too, am inclined towards the interpretation that just the end is a dream, ie, Cobb never got out of limbo.—Manit

  • Manithirani

    hey,really good summary. But, I find a few inconsistencies….In the eighth question you said that " One theory is that Saito shot himself and Cobb to get back to the real world..Another theory is that Saito shot Cobb which sent him to an even deeper level.."How is that possible?How can the same action yield two different results?I, too, am inclined towards the interpretation that just the end is a dream, ie, Cobb never got out of limbo.—Manit

  • Manithirani

    hey,really good summary. But, I find a few inconsistencies….In the eighth question you said that " One theory is that Saito shot himself and Cobb to get back to the real world..Another theory is that Saito shot Cobb which sent him to an even deeper level.."How is that possible?How can the same action yield two different results?I, too, am inclined towards the interpretation that just the end is a dream, ie, Cobb never got out of limbo.—Manit

  • Manithirani

    hey,really good summary. But, I find a few inconsistencies….In the eighth question you said that " One theory is that Saito shot himself and Cobb to get back to the real world..Another theory is that Saito shot Cobb which sent him to an even deeper level.."How is that possible?How can the same action yield two different results?I, too, am inclined towards the interpretation that just the end is a dream, ie, Cobb never got out of limbo.—Manit

  • Yeng

    12D) "This theory calls into question the very very end. When Cobb returns home his kids are in the same spot and are wearing the same clothes. Another thing to point out is that the kids haven’t aged at all either, they look the exact same."Actually if you watch it carefully, the kids are in different clothes. It looks alike but I thin its different at the end. Also we can't make the argument that the kids are the same age BECAUSE Cobb and the other and the grandpa are also the same age. Perhaps it can be just mere months that passed by. So this theory that Cobb is in reality fits real well..

  • Yeng

    12D) "This theory calls into question the very very end. When Cobb returns home his kids are in the same spot and are wearing the same clothes. Another thing to point out is that the kids haven’t aged at all either, they look the exact same."Actually if you watch it carefully, the kids are in different clothes. It looks alike but I thin its different at the end. Also we can't make the argument that the kids are the same age BECAUSE Cobb and the other and the grandpa are also the same age. Perhaps it can be just mere months that passed by. So this theory that Cobb is in reality fits real well..

  • Yeng

    12D) "This theory calls into question the very very end. When Cobb returns home his kids are in the same spot and are wearing the same clothes. Another thing to point out is that the kids haven’t aged at all either, they look the exact same."Actually if you watch it carefully, the kids are in different clothes. It looks alike but I thin its different at the end. Also we can't make the argument that the kids are the same age BECAUSE Cobb and the other and the grandpa are also the same age. Perhaps it can be just mere months that passed by. So this theory that Cobb is in reality fits real well..

  • Yeng

    12D) "This theory calls into question the very very end. When Cobb returns home his kids are in the same spot and are wearing the same clothes. Another thing to point out is that the kids haven’t aged at all either, they look the exact same."Actually if you watch it carefully, the kids are in different clothes. It looks alike but I thin its different at the end. Also we can't make the argument that the kids are the same age BECAUSE Cobb and the other and the grandpa are also the same age. Perhaps it can be just mere months that passed by. So this theory that Cobb is in reality fits real well..

  • Yeng

    12D) "This theory calls into question the very very end. When Cobb returns home his kids are in the same spot and are wearing the same clothes. Another thing to point out is that the kids haven’t aged at all either, they look the exact same."Actually if you watch it carefully, the kids are in different clothes. It looks alike but I thin its different at the end. Also we can't make the argument that the kids are the same age BECAUSE Cobb and the other and the grandpa are also the same age. Perhaps it can be just mere months that passed by. So this theory that Cobb is in reality fits real well..

  • Yeng

    12D) "This theory calls into question the very very end. When Cobb returns home his kids are in the same spot and are wearing the same clothes. Another thing to point out is that the kids haven’t aged at all either, they look the exact same."Actually if you watch it carefully, the kids are in different clothes. It looks alike but I thin its different at the end. Also we can't make the argument that the kids are the same age BECAUSE Cobb and the other and the grandpa are also the same age. Perhaps it can be just mere months that passed by. So this theory that Cobb is in reality fits real well..

  • Yeng

    12D) "This theory calls into question the very very end. When Cobb returns home his kids are in the same spot and are wearing the same clothes. Another thing to point out is that the kids haven’t aged at all either, they look the exact same."Actually if you watch it carefully, the kids are in different clothes. It looks alike but I thin its different at the end. Also we can't make the argument that the kids are the same age BECAUSE Cobb and the other and the grandpa are also the same age. Perhaps it can be just mere months that passed by. So this theory that Cobb is in reality fits real well..

  • Yeng

    12D) "This theory calls into question the very very end. When Cobb returns home his kids are in the same spot and are wearing the same clothes. Another thing to point out is that the kids haven’t aged at all either, they look the exact same."Actually if you watch it carefully, the kids are in different clothes. It looks alike but I thin its different at the end. Also we can't make the argument that the kids are the same age BECAUSE Cobb and the other and the grandpa are also the same age. Perhaps it can be just mere months that passed by. So this theory that Cobb is in reality fits real well..

  • Yeng

    12D) "This theory calls into question the very very end. When Cobb returns home his kids are in the same spot and are wearing the same clothes. Another thing to point out is that the kids haven’t aged at all either, they look the exact same."Actually if you watch it carefully, the kids are in different clothes. It looks alike but I thin its different at the end. Also we can't make the argument that the kids are the same age BECAUSE Cobb and the other and the grandpa are also the same age. Perhaps it can be just mere months that passed by. So this theory that Cobb is in reality fits real well..

  • Matt

    @Yeng I didn't notice that, I thought it was the same clothes, so did most people. And you don't know if Cobb and Miles are the same age, it's harder to tell if there older than it is for the kids. If a kid that young grows a year it is far more noticeable than if a grown man goes from 35 to 36.@Manithirani that is what I'm saying, there are so many contradictions with the theories. You can choose to beleive one or the other, you can't choose to believe both since they contradict each other.

  • Matt

    @Yeng I didn't notice that, I thought it was the same clothes, so did most people. And you don't know if Cobb and Miles are the same age, it's harder to tell if there older than it is for the kids. If a kid that young grows a year it is far more noticeable than if a grown man goes from 35 to 36.@Manithirani that is what I'm saying, there are so many contradictions with the theories. You can choose to beleive one or the other, you can't choose to believe both since they contradict each other.

  • Matt

    @Yeng I didn't notice that, I thought it was the same clothes, so did most people. And you don't know if Cobb and Miles are the same age, it's harder to tell if there older than it is for the kids. If a kid that young grows a year it is far more noticeable than if a grown man goes from 35 to 36.@Manithirani that is what I'm saying, there are so many contradictions with the theories. You can choose to beleive one or the other, you can't choose to believe both since they contradict each other.

  • Matt

    @Yeng I didn't notice that, I thought it was the same clothes, so did most people. And you don't know if Cobb and Miles are the same age, it's harder to tell if there older than it is for the kids. If a kid that young grows a year it is far more noticeable than if a grown man goes from 35 to 36.@Manithirani that is what I'm saying, there are so many contradictions with the theories. You can choose to beleive one or the other, you can't choose to believe both since they contradict each other.

  • Matt

    @Yeng I didn't notice that, I thought it was the same clothes, so did most people. And you don't know if Cobb and Miles are the same age, it's harder to tell if there older than it is for the kids. If a kid that young grows a year it is far more noticeable than if a grown man goes from 35 to 36.@Manithirani that is what I'm saying, there are so many contradictions with the theories. You can choose to beleive one or the other, you can't choose to believe both since they contradict each other.

  • Matt

    @Yeng I didn't notice that, I thought it was the same clothes, so did most people. And you don't know if Cobb and Miles are the same age, it's harder to tell if there older than it is for the kids. If a kid that young grows a year it is far more noticeable than if a grown man goes from 35 to 36.@Manithirani that is what I'm saying, there are so many contradictions with the theories. You can choose to beleive one or the other, you can't choose to believe both since they contradict each other.

  • Matt

    @Yeng I didn't notice that, I thought it was the same clothes, so did most people. And you don't know if Cobb and Miles are the same age, it's harder to tell if there older than it is for the kids. If a kid that young grows a year it is far more noticeable than if a grown man goes from 35 to 36.@Manithirani that is what I'm saying, there are so many contradictions with the theories. You can choose to beleive one or the other, you can't choose to believe both since they contradict each other.

  • Matt

    @Yeng I didn't notice that, I thought it was the same clothes, so did most people. And you don't know if Cobb and Miles are the same age, it's harder to tell if there older than it is for the kids. If a kid that young grows a year it is far more noticeable than if a grown man goes from 35 to 36.@Manithirani that is what I'm saying, there are so many contradictions with the theories. You can choose to beleive one or the other, you can't choose to believe both since they contradict each other.

  • Matt

    @Yeng I didn't notice that, I thought it was the same clothes, so did most people. And you don't know if Cobb and Miles are the same age, it's harder to tell if there older than it is for the kids. If a kid that young grows a year it is far more noticeable than if a grown man goes from 35 to 36.@Manithirani that is what I'm saying, there are so many contradictions with the theories. You can choose to beleive one or the other, you can't choose to believe both since they contradict each other.

  • Guest

    it bothers me that none of this speculating and theorizing has anything to do with the characters' motivations and conflicts or the themes of the story. this movie is completely overwhelming in its contrivances, which really takes a lot away from the bits of humanity and broader themes within the story.

  • Guest

    it bothers me that none of this speculating and theorizing has anything to do with the characters' motivations and conflicts or the themes of the story. this movie is completely overwhelming in its contrivances, which really takes a lot away from the bits of humanity and broader themes within the story.

  • Guest

    it bothers me that none of this speculating and theorizing has anything to do with the characters' motivations and conflicts or the themes of the story. this movie is completely overwhelming in its contrivances, which really takes a lot away from the bits of humanity and broader themes within the story.

  • Guest

    it bothers me that none of this speculating and theorizing has anything to do with the characters' motivations and conflicts or the themes of the story. this movie is completely overwhelming in its contrivances, which really takes a lot away from the bits of humanity and broader themes within the story.

  • Guest

    it bothers me that none of this speculating and theorizing has anything to do with the characters' motivations and conflicts or the themes of the story. this movie is completely overwhelming in its contrivances, which really takes a lot away from the bits of humanity and broader themes within the story.

  • Guest

    it bothers me that none of this speculating and theorizing has anything to do with the characters' motivations and conflicts or the themes of the story. this movie is completely overwhelming in its contrivances, which really takes a lot away from the bits of humanity and broader themes within the story.

  • Guest

    it bothers me that none of this speculating and theorizing has anything to do with the characters' motivations and conflicts or the themes of the story. this movie is completely overwhelming in its contrivances, which really takes a lot away from the bits of humanity and broader themes within the story.

  • Guest

    it bothers me that none of this speculating and theorizing has anything to do with the characters' motivations and conflicts or the themes of the story. this movie is completely overwhelming in its contrivances, which really takes a lot away from the bits of humanity and broader themes within the story.

  • Guest

    it bothers me that none of this speculating and theorizing has anything to do with the characters' motivations and conflicts or the themes of the story. this movie is completely overwhelming in its contrivances, which really takes a lot away from the bits of humanity and broader themes within the story.

  • Guest

    it bothers me that none of this speculating and theorizing has anything to do with the characters' motivations and conflicts or the themes of the story. this movie is completely overwhelming in its contrivances, which really takes a lot away from the bits of humanity and broader themes within the story.

  • Guest

    it bothers me that none of this speculating and theorizing has anything to do with the characters' motivations and conflicts or the themes of the story. this movie is completely overwhelming in its contrivances, which really takes a lot away from the bits of humanity and broader themes within the story.

  • Julie

    Thanks…I enjoyed reading this and it gave me a lot of clarity.!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YB75IM77GZ6OG5FVQY5MKSR3IQ Benjamin

    3) Saito didn't enter Limbo before Cobb. Cobb goes down with Ariadne while Eames is setting charges and Saito is fending off projections in Level 4. Cobb later says "Saito must be dead by now." My theory about the age is that while both Cobb and Saito spend "years" in Limbo, Cobb has already been there and knows how to control Limbo, so can keep himself at the younger age, while Saito has no experience even architecting dreams to a single level, so ages in his Limbo as his real self would expect to.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YB75IM77GZ6OG5FVQY5MKSR3IQ Benjamin

    3) Saito didn't enter Limbo before Cobb. Cobb goes down with Ariadne while Eames is setting charges and Saito is fending off projections in Level 4. Cobb later says "Saito must be dead by now." My theory about the age is that while both Cobb and Saito spend "years" in Limbo, Cobb has already been there and knows how to control Limbo, so can keep himself at the younger age, while Saito has no experience even architecting dreams to a single level, so ages in his Limbo as his real self would expect to.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YB75IM77GZ6OG5FVQY5MKSR3IQ Benjamin

    3) Saito didn't enter Limbo before Cobb. Cobb goes down with Ariadne while Eames is setting charges and Saito is fending off projections in Level 4. Cobb later says "Saito must be dead by now." My theory about the age is that while both Cobb and Saito spend "years" in Limbo, Cobb has already been there and knows how to control Limbo, so can keep himself at the younger age, while Saito has no experience even architecting dreams to a single level, so ages in his Limbo as his real self would expect to.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YB75IM77GZ6OG5FVQY5MKSR3IQ Benjamin

    3) Saito didn't enter Limbo before Cobb. Cobb goes down with Ariadne while Eames is setting charges and Saito is fending off projections in Level 4. Cobb later says "Saito must be dead by now." My theory about the age is that while both Cobb and Saito spend "years" in Limbo, Cobb has already been there and knows how to control Limbo, so can keep himself at the younger age, while Saito has no experience even architecting dreams to a single level, so ages in his Limbo as his real self would expect to.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YB75IM77GZ6OG5FVQY5MKSR3IQ Benjamin

    3) Saito didn't enter Limbo before Cobb. Cobb goes down with Ariadne while Eames is setting charges and Saito is fending off projections in Level 4. Cobb later says "Saito must be dead by now." My theory about the age is that while both Cobb and Saito spend "years" in Limbo, Cobb has already been there and knows how to control Limbo, so can keep himself at the younger age, while Saito has no experience even architecting dreams to a single level, so ages in his Limbo as his real self would expect to.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YB75IM77GZ6OG5FVQY5MKSR3IQ Benjamin

    3) Saito didn't enter Limbo before Cobb. Cobb goes down with Ariadne while Eames is setting charges and Saito is fending off projections in Level 4. Cobb later says "Saito must be dead by now." My theory about the age is that while both Cobb and Saito spend "years" in Limbo, Cobb has already been there and knows how to control Limbo, so can keep himself at the younger age, while Saito has no experience even architecting dreams to a single level, so ages in his Limbo as his real self would expect to.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YB75IM77GZ6OG5FVQY5MKSR3IQ Benjamin

    3) Saito didn't enter Limbo before Cobb. Cobb goes down with Ariadne while Eames is setting charges and Saito is fending off projections in Level 4. Cobb later says "Saito must be dead by now." My theory about the age is that while both Cobb and Saito spend "years" in Limbo, Cobb has already been there and knows how to control Limbo, so can keep himself at the younger age, while Saito has no experience even architecting dreams to a single level, so ages in his Limbo as his real self would expect to.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YB75IM77GZ6OG5FVQY5MKSR3IQ Benjamin

    3) Saito didn't enter Limbo before Cobb. Cobb goes down with Ariadne while Eames is setting charges and Saito is fending off projections in Level 4. Cobb later says "Saito must be dead by now." My theory about the age is that while both Cobb and Saito spend "years" in Limbo, Cobb has already been there and knows how to control Limbo, so can keep himself at the younger age, while Saito has no experience even architecting dreams to a single level, so ages in his Limbo as his real self would expect to.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YB75IM77GZ6OG5FVQY5MKSR3IQ Benjamin

    3) Saito didn't enter Limbo before Cobb. Cobb goes down with Ariadne while Eames is setting charges and Saito is fending off projections in Level 4. Cobb later says "Saito must be dead by now." My theory about the age is that while both Cobb and Saito spend "years" in Limbo, Cobb has already been there and knows how to control Limbo, so can keep himself at the younger age, while Saito has no experience even architecting dreams to a single level, so ages in his Limbo as his real self would expect to.

  • Robston

    Many thanks. Nicely written and very useful.

  • http://twitter.com/TylerDaVideoGuy Tyler Mann

    12c is what I came up after seeing the movie, save for one vital idea that you are missing: Ariadne is MAL in real life. She is alive, was right about still being in a dream, and is leading the inception on Cobb. Think about it…who was the only one to get close to him? Why was she so horrified at Cobb's projection of dream Mal? Why was she the such a fast learner? The answer is because she is an architect and FORGER. Mal is able to change her appearance just like Eames. She is the only one to accompany Cobb down into his subconcious (because she has been there before!).And one last thing…who introduced Cobb to Ariadne? His FATHER. How convenient…

    • somy

      Could be possible. Ariadne – the spider, spinning Cobb – the webb lol.

  • http://twitter.com/TylerDaVideoGuy Tyler Mann

    12c is what I came up after seeing the movie, save for one vital idea that you are missing: Ariadne is MAL in real life. She is alive, was right about still being in a dream, and is leading the inception on Cobb. Think about it…who was the only one to get close to him? Why was she so horrified at Cobb's projection of dream Mal? Why was she the such a fast learner? The answer is because she is an architect and FORGER. Mal is able to change her appearance just like Eames. She is the only one to accompany Cobb down into his subconcious (because she has been there before!).And one last thing…who introduced Cobb to Ariadne? His FATHER. How convenient…

  • http://twitter.com/TylerDaVideoGuy Tyler Mann

    12c is what I came up after seeing the movie, save for one vital idea that you are missing: Ariadne is MAL in real life. She is alive, was right about still being in a dream, and is leading the inception on Cobb. Think about it…who was the only one to get close to him? Why was she so horrified at Cobb's projection of dream Mal? Why was she the such a fast learner? The answer is because she is an architect and FORGER. Mal is able to change her appearance just like Eames. She is the only one to accompany Cobb down into his subconcious (because she has been there before!).And one last thing…who introduced Cobb to Ariadne? His FATHER. How convenient…

  • http://twitter.com/TylerDaVideoGuy Tyler Mann

    12c is what I came up after seeing the movie, save for one vital idea that you are missing: Ariadne is MAL in real life. She is alive, was right about still being in a dream, and is leading the inception on Cobb. Think about it…who was the only one to get close to him? Why was she so horrified at Cobb's projection of dream Mal? Why was she the such a fast learner? The answer is because she is an architect and FORGER. Mal is able to change her appearance just like Eames. She is the only one to accompany Cobb down into his subconcious (because she has been there before!).And one last thing…who introduced Cobb to Ariadne? His FATHER. How convenient…

  • http://twitter.com/TylerDaVideoGuy Tyler Mann

    12c is what I came up after seeing the movie, save for one vital idea that you are missing: Ariadne is MAL in real life. She is alive, was right about still being in a dream, and is leading the inception on Cobb. Think about it…who was the only one to get close to him? Why was she so horrified at Cobb's projection of dream Mal? Why was she the such a fast learner? The answer is because she is an architect and FORGER. Mal is able to change her appearance just like Eames. She is the only one to accompany Cobb down into his subconcious (because she has been there before!).And one last thing…who introduced Cobb to Ariadne? His FATHER. How convenient…

  • http://twitter.com/TylerDaVideoGuy Tyler Mann

    12c is what I came up after seeing the movie, save for one vital idea that you are missing: Ariadne is MAL in real life. She is alive, was right about still being in a dream, and is leading the inception on Cobb. Think about it…who was the only one to get close to him? Why was she so horrified at Cobb's projection of dream Mal? Why was she the such a fast learner? The answer is because she is an architect and FORGER. Mal is able to change her appearance just like Eames. She is the only one to accompany Cobb down into his subconcious (because she has been there before!).And one last thing…who introduced Cobb to Ariadne? His FATHER. How convenient…

  • http://twitter.com/TylerDaVideoGuy Tyler Mann

    12c is what I came up after seeing the movie, save for one vital idea that you are missing: Ariadne is MAL in real life. She is alive, was right about still being in a dream, and is leading the inception on Cobb. Think about it…who was the only one to get close to him? Why was she so horrified at Cobb's projection of dream Mal? Why was she the such a fast learner? The answer is because she is an architect and FORGER. Mal is able to change her appearance just like Eames. She is the only one to accompany Cobb down into his subconcious (because she has been there before!).And one last thing…who introduced Cobb to Ariadne? His FATHER. How convenient…

  • http://twitter.com/TylerDaVideoGuy Tyler Mann

    12c is what I came up after seeing the movie, save for one vital idea that you are missing: Ariadne is MAL in real life. She is alive, was right about still being in a dream, and is leading the inception on Cobb. Think about it…who was the only one to get close to him? Why was she so horrified at Cobb's projection of dream Mal? Why was she the such a fast learner? The answer is because she is an architect and FORGER. Mal is able to change her appearance just like Eames. She is the only one to accompany Cobb down into his subconcious (because she has been there before!).And one last thing…who introduced Cobb to Ariadne? His FATHER. How convenient…

  • http://twitter.com/TylerDaVideoGuy Tyler Mann

    12c is what I came up after seeing the movie, save for one vital idea that you are missing: Ariadne is MAL in real life. She is alive, was right about still being in a dream, and is leading the inception on Cobb. Think about it…who was the only one to get close to him? Why was she so horrified at Cobb's projection of dream Mal? Why was she the such a fast learner? The answer is because she is an architect and FORGER. Mal is able to change her appearance just like Eames. She is the only one to accompany Cobb down into his subconcious (because she has been there before!).And one last thing…who introduced Cobb to Ariadne? His FATHER. How convenient…

  • Manithirani

    hey,

    really good summary. But, I find a few inconsistencies….

    In the eighth question you said that ” One theory is that Saito shot himself and Cobb to get back to the real world..Another theory is that Saito shot Cobb which sent him to an even deeper level..”

    How is that possible?

    How can the same action yield two different results?

    I, too, am inclined towards the interpretation that just the end is a dream, ie, Cobb never got out of limbo.
    —Manit

  • Manithirani

    hey,

    really good summary. But, I find a few inconsistencies….

    In the eighth question you said that ” One theory is that Saito shot himself and Cobb to get back to the real world..Another theory is that Saito shot Cobb which sent him to an even deeper level..”

    How is that possible?

    How can the same action yield two different results?

    I, too, am inclined towards the interpretation that just the end is a dream, ie, Cobb never got out of limbo.
    —Manit

  • Manithirani

    hey,

    really good summary. But, I find a few inconsistencies….

    In the eighth question you said that ” One theory is that Saito shot himself and Cobb to get back to the real world..Another theory is that Saito shot Cobb which sent him to an even deeper level..”

    How is that possible?

    How can the same action yield two different results?

    I, too, am inclined towards the interpretation that just the end is a dream, ie, Cobb never got out of limbo.
    —Manit

  • Yeng

    12D) “This theory calls into question the very very end. When Cobb returns home his kids are in the same spot and are wearing the same clothes. Another thing to point out is that the kids haven’t aged at all either, they look the exact same.”

    Actually if you watch it carefully, the kids are in different clothes. It looks alike but I thin its different at the end.

    Also we can't make the argument that the kids are the same age BECAUSE Cobb and the other and the grandpa are also the same age. Perhaps it can be just mere months that passed by.

    So this theory that Cobb is in reality fits real well..

  • Yeng

    12D) “This theory calls into question the very very end. When Cobb returns home his kids are in the same spot and are wearing the same clothes. Another thing to point out is that the kids haven’t aged at all either, they look the exact same.”

    Actually if you watch it carefully, the kids are in different clothes. It looks alike but I thin its different at the end.

    Also we can't make the argument that the kids are the same age BECAUSE Cobb and the other and the grandpa are also the same age. Perhaps it can be just mere months that passed by.

    So this theory that Cobb is in reality fits real well..

  • Yeng

    12D) “This theory calls into question the very very end. When Cobb returns home his kids are in the same spot and are wearing the same clothes. Another thing to point out is that the kids haven’t aged at all either, they look the exact same.”

    Actually if you watch it carefully, the kids are in different clothes. It looks alike but I thin its different at the end.

    Also we can't make the argument that the kids are the same age BECAUSE Cobb and the other and the grandpa are also the same age. Perhaps it can be just mere months that passed by.

    So this theory that Cobb is in reality fits real well..

  • Matt

    @Yeng I didn't notice that, I thought it was the same clothes, so did most people. And you don't know if Cobb and Miles are the same age, it's harder to tell if there older than it is for the kids. If a kid that young grows a year it is far more noticeable than if a grown man goes from 35 to 36.

    @Manithirani that is what I'm saying, there are so many contradictions with the theories. You can choose to beleive one or the other, you can't choose to believe both since they contradict each other.

  • Matt

    @Yeng I didn't notice that, I thought it was the same clothes, so did most people. And you don't know if Cobb and Miles are the same age, it's harder to tell if there older than it is for the kids. If a kid that young grows a year it is far more noticeable than if a grown man goes from 35 to 36.

    @Manithirani that is what I'm saying, there are so many contradictions with the theories. You can choose to beleive one or the other, you can't choose to believe both since they contradict each other.

  • Matt

    @Yeng I didn't notice that, I thought it was the same clothes, so did most people. And you don't know if Cobb and Miles are the same age, it's harder to tell if there older than it is for the kids. If a kid that young grows a year it is far more noticeable than if a grown man goes from 35 to 36.

    @Manithirani that is what I'm saying, there are so many contradictions with the theories. You can choose to beleive one or the other, you can't choose to believe both since they contradict each other.

  • Guest

    it bothers me that none of this speculating and theorizing has anything to do with the characters' motivations and conflicts or the themes of the story. this movie is completely overwhelming in its contrivances, which really takes a lot away from the bits of humanity and broader themes within the story.

  • Julie

    Thanks…I enjoyed reading this and it gave me a lot of clarity.!

  • Julie

    Thanks…I enjoyed reading this and it gave me a lot of clarity.!

  • Julie

    Thanks…I enjoyed reading this and it gave me a lot of clarity.!

  • Julie

    Thanks…I enjoyed reading this and it gave me a lot of clarity.!

  • Julie

    Thanks…I enjoyed reading this and it gave me a lot of clarity.!

  • Julie

    Thanks…I enjoyed reading this and it gave me a lot of clarity.!

  • Julie

    Thanks…I enjoyed reading this and it gave me a lot of clarity.!

  • Julie

    Thanks…I enjoyed reading this and it gave me a lot of clarity.!

  • Julie

    Thanks…I enjoyed reading this and it gave me a lot of clarity.!

  • Julie

    Thanks…I enjoyed reading this and it gave me a lot of clarity.!

  • Julie

    Thanks…I enjoyed reading this and it gave me a lot of clarity.!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YB75IM77GZ6OG5FVQY5MKSR3IQ Benjamin

    3) Saito didn't enter Limbo before Cobb. Cobb goes down with Ariadne while Eames is setting charges and Saito is fending off projections in Level 4. Cobb later says “Saito must be dead by now.”

    My theory about the age is that while both Cobb and Saito spend “years” in Limbo, Cobb has already been there and knows how to control Limbo, so can keep himself at the younger age, while Saito has no experience even architecting dreams to a single level, so ages in his Limbo as his real self would expect to.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YB75IM77GZ6OG5FVQY5MKSR3IQ Benjamin

    3) Saito didn't enter Limbo before Cobb. Cobb goes down with Ariadne while Eames is setting charges and Saito is fending off projections in Level 4. Cobb later says “Saito must be dead by now.”

    My theory about the age is that while both Cobb and Saito spend “years” in Limbo, Cobb has already been there and knows how to control Limbo, so can keep himself at the younger age, while Saito has no experience even architecting dreams to a single level, so ages in his Limbo as his real self would expect to.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YB75IM77GZ6OG5FVQY5MKSR3IQ Benjamin

    3) Saito didn't enter Limbo before Cobb. Cobb goes down with Ariadne while Eames is setting charges and Saito is fending off projections in Level 4. Cobb later says “Saito must be dead by now.”

    My theory about the age is that while both Cobb and Saito spend “years” in Limbo, Cobb has already been there and knows how to control Limbo, so can keep himself at the younger age, while Saito has no experience even architecting dreams to a single level, so ages in his Limbo as his real self would expect to.

  • Amy S

    I am confused about part of the movie. It shows that Cobb and Mal grew old together, but when it showed them being run over by the train to wake up, they were young. Do you think this is an error?

  • Robston

    Many thanks. Nicely written and very useful.

  • Robston

    Many thanks. Nicely written and very useful.

  • Robston

    Many thanks. Nicely written and very useful.

  • Robston

    Many thanks. Nicely written and very useful.

  • Robston

    Many thanks. Nicely written and very useful.

  • Robston

    Many thanks. Nicely written and very useful.

  • Robston

    Many thanks. Nicely written and very useful.

  • Robston

    Many thanks. Nicely written and very useful.

  • Robston

    Many thanks. Nicely written and very useful.

  • Robston

    Many thanks. Nicely written and very useful.

  • Robston

    Many thanks. Nicely written and very useful.

  • http://twitter.com/TylerDaVideoGuy Tyler Mann

    12c is what I came up after seeing the movie, save for one vital idea that you are missing: Ariadne is MAL in real life. She is alive, was right about still being in a dream, and is leading the inception on Cobb. Think about it…who was the only one to get close to him? Why was she so horrified at Cobb's projection of dream Mal? Why was she the such a fast learner? The answer is because she is an architect and FORGER. Mal is able to change her appearance just like Eames. She is the only one to accompany Cobb down into his subconcious (because she has been there before!).And one last thing…who introduced Cobb to Ariadne? His FATHER. How convenient…

  • http://twitter.com/TylerDaVideoGuy Tyler Mann

    12c is what I came up after seeing the movie, save for one vital idea that you are missing: Ariadne is MAL in real life. She is alive, was right about still being in a dream, and is leading the inception on Cobb. Think about it…who was the only one to get close to him? Why was she so horrified at Cobb's projection of dream Mal? Why was she the such a fast learner? The answer is because she is an architect and FORGER. Mal is able to change her appearance just like Eames. She is the only one to accompany Cobb down into his subconcious (because she has been there before!).And one last thing…who introduced Cobb to Ariadne? His FATHER. How convenient…

  • http://twitter.com/TylerDaVideoGuy Tyler Mann

    12c is what I came up after seeing the movie, save for one vital idea that you are missing: Ariadne is MAL in real life. She is alive, was right about still being in a dream, and is leading the inception on Cobb. Think about it…who was the only one to get close to him? Why was she so horrified at Cobb's projection of dream Mal? Why was she the such a fast learner? The answer is because she is an architect and FORGER. Mal is able to change her appearance just like Eames. She is the only one to accompany Cobb down into his subconcious (because she has been there before!).And one last thing…who introduced Cobb to Ariadne? His FATHER. How convenient…

  • Noesis

    Why couldn't Dom have killed Mal, with perhaps a gunshot to the head from a rooftop so she wouldn't even know it was he who did it, instead of performing inception on her? Or why couldn't he simply tie her down to the train-track? Or put an atomic bomb inside one of their buildings, detonating it while they were in it? The movie explains that you need a "kick" in order to wake up from a dream while heavily sedated, especially if you're in a low level, because the amount of time it would take for the timer to run out would be decades or centuries, and your brain would have become a pudding from the intense processing of cramming several lifetimes into about 10 hours. Since Dom and Mal wake up for a train running over their skulls, I'm going to assume this isn't a kick. Even if it was, Dom could have had Mal sit in a chair while in limbo ,and lean back while he knocked it from under her.So assuming the train-crushing was a kick, it's easy to imagine that Dom could have put Mal in numerous kick-causing situations without doing inception on her.Likewise, if it wasn't a kick, and all they needed to do was die (so that means they hadn't taken a sedative) Dom should have just killed Mal in the dream, in any way necessary. Bomb, Gun, Poison, whatever. Also, if they were already in limbo, how could Dom have performed inception on Mal? Inception seems to require going through many levels of dream-states and using clever emotional and imaginative tricks on each level to "prime" the person to believe the idea originated in their own mind?

  • Noesis

    Why couldn't Dom have killed Mal, with perhaps a gunshot to the head from a rooftop so she wouldn't even know it was he who did it, instead of performing inception on her? Or why couldn't he simply tie her down to the train-track? Or put an atomic bomb inside one of their buildings, detonating it while they were in it? The movie explains that you need a "kick" in order to wake up from a dream while heavily sedated, especially if you're in a low level, because the amount of time it would take for the timer to run out would be decades or centuries, and your brain would have become a pudding from the intense processing of cramming several lifetimes into about 10 hours. Since Dom and Mal wake up for a train running over their skulls, I'm going to assume this isn't a kick. Even if it was, Dom could have had Mal sit in a chair while in limbo ,and lean back while he knocked it from under her.So assuming the train-crushing was a kick, it's easy to imagine that Dom could have put Mal in numerous kick-causing situations without doing inception on her.Likewise, if it wasn't a kick, and all they needed to do was die (so that means they hadn't taken a sedative) Dom should have just killed Mal in the dream, in any way necessary. Bomb, Gun, Poison, whatever. Also, if they were already in limbo, how could Dom have performed inception on Mal? Inception seems to require going through many levels of dream-states and using clever emotional and imaginative tricks on each level to "prime" the person to believe the idea originated in their own mind?

  • Noesis

    Why couldn't Dom have killed Mal, with perhaps a gunshot to the head from a rooftop so she wouldn't even know it was he who did it, instead of performing inception on her? Or why couldn't he simply tie her down to the train-track? Or put an atomic bomb inside one of their buildings, detonating it while they were in it? The movie explains that you need a "kick" in order to wake up from a dream while heavily sedated, especially if you're in a low level, because the amount of time it would take for the timer to run out would be decades or centuries, and your brain would have become a pudding from the intense processing of cramming several lifetimes into about 10 hours. Since Dom and Mal wake up for a train running over their skulls, I'm going to assume this isn't a kick. Even if it was, Dom could have had Mal sit in a chair while in limbo ,and lean back while he knocked it from under her.So assuming the train-crushing was a kick, it's easy to imagine that Dom could have put Mal in numerous kick-causing situations without doing inception on her.Likewise, if it wasn't a kick, and all they needed to do was die (so that means they hadn't taken a sedative) Dom should have just killed Mal in the dream, in any way necessary. Bomb, Gun, Poison, whatever. Also, if they were already in limbo, how could Dom have performed inception on Mal? Inception seems to require going through many levels of dream-states and using clever emotional and imaginative tricks on each level to "prime" the person to believe the idea originated in their own mind?

  • Noesis

    Why couldn't Dom have killed Mal, with perhaps a gunshot to the head from a rooftop so she wouldn't even know it was he who did it, instead of performing inception on her? Or why couldn't he simply tie her down to the train-track? Or put an atomic bomb inside one of their buildings, detonating it while they were in it? The movie explains that you need a "kick" in order to wake up from a dream while heavily sedated, especially if you're in a low level, because the amount of time it would take for the timer to run out would be decades or centuries, and your brain would have become a pudding from the intense processing of cramming several lifetimes into about 10 hours. Since Dom and Mal wake up for a train running over their skulls, I'm going to assume this isn't a kick. Even if it was, Dom could have had Mal sit in a chair while in limbo ,and lean back while he knocked it from under her.So assuming the train-crushing was a kick, it's easy to imagine that Dom could have put Mal in numerous kick-causing situations without doing inception on her.Likewise, if it wasn't a kick, and all they needed to do was die (so that means they hadn't taken a sedative) Dom should have just killed Mal in the dream, in any way necessary. Bomb, Gun, Poison, whatever. Also, if they were already in limbo, how could Dom have performed inception on Mal? Inception seems to require going through many levels of dream-states and using clever emotional and imaginative tricks on each level to "prime" the person to believe the idea originated in their own mind?

  • Noesis

    Why couldn't Dom have killed Mal, with perhaps a gunshot to the head from a rooftop so she wouldn't even know it was he who did it, instead of performing inception on her? Or why couldn't he simply tie her down to the train-track? Or put an atomic bomb inside one of their buildings, detonating it while they were in it? The movie explains that you need a "kick" in order to wake up from a dream while heavily sedated, especially if you're in a low level, because the amount of time it would take for the timer to run out would be decades or centuries, and your brain would have become a pudding from the intense processing of cramming several lifetimes into about 10 hours. Since Dom and Mal wake up for a train running over their skulls, I'm going to assume this isn't a kick. Even if it was, Dom could have had Mal sit in a chair while in limbo ,and lean back while he knocked it from under her.So assuming the train-crushing was a kick, it's easy to imagine that Dom could have put Mal in numerous kick-causing situations without doing inception on her.Likewise, if it wasn't a kick, and all they needed to do was die (so that means they hadn't taken a sedative) Dom should have just killed Mal in the dream, in any way necessary. Bomb, Gun, Poison, whatever. Also, if they were already in limbo, how could Dom have performed inception on Mal? Inception seems to require going through many levels of dream-states and using clever emotional and imaginative tricks on each level to "prime" the person to believe the idea originated in their own mind?

  • Noesis

    Why couldn't Dom have killed Mal, with perhaps a gunshot to the head from a rooftop so she wouldn't even know it was he who did it, instead of performing inception on her? Or why couldn't he simply tie her down to the train-track? Or put an atomic bomb inside one of their buildings, detonating it while they were in it? The movie explains that you need a "kick" in order to wake up from a dream while heavily sedated, especially if you're in a low level, because the amount of time it would take for the timer to run out would be decades or centuries, and your brain would have become a pudding from the intense processing of cramming several lifetimes into about 10 hours. Since Dom and Mal wake up for a train running over their skulls, I'm going to assume this isn't a kick. Even if it was, Dom could have had Mal sit in a chair while in limbo ,and lean back while he knocked it from under her.So assuming the train-crushing was a kick, it's easy to imagine that Dom could have put Mal in numerous kick-causing situations without doing inception on her.Likewise, if it wasn't a kick, and all they needed to do was die (so that means they hadn't taken a sedative) Dom should have just killed Mal in the dream, in any way necessary. Bomb, Gun, Poison, whatever. Also, if they were already in limbo, how could Dom have performed inception on Mal? Inception seems to require going through many levels of dream-states and using clever emotional and imaginative tricks on each level to "prime" the person to believe the idea originated in their own mind?

  • Noesis

    Why couldn't Dom have killed Mal, with perhaps a gunshot to the head from a rooftop so she wouldn't even know it was he who did it, instead of performing inception on her? Or why couldn't he simply tie her down to the train-track? Or put an atomic bomb inside one of their buildings, detonating it while they were in it? The movie explains that you need a "kick" in order to wake up from a dream while heavily sedated, especially if you're in a low level, because the amount of time it would take for the timer to run out would be decades or centuries, and your brain would have become a pudding from the intense processing of cramming several lifetimes into about 10 hours. Since Dom and Mal wake up for a train running over their skulls, I'm going to assume this isn't a kick. Even if it was, Dom could have had Mal sit in a chair while in limbo ,and lean back while he knocked it from under her.So assuming the train-crushing was a kick, it's easy to imagine that Dom could have put Mal in numerous kick-causing situations without doing inception on her.Likewise, if it wasn't a kick, and all they needed to do was die (so that means they hadn't taken a sedative) Dom should have just killed Mal in the dream, in any way necessary. Bomb, Gun, Poison, whatever. Also, if they were already in limbo, how could Dom have performed inception on Mal? Inception seems to require going through many levels of dream-states and using clever emotional and imaginative tricks on each level to "prime" the person to believe the idea originated in their own mind?

  • Noesis

    Why couldn't Dom have killed Mal, with perhaps a gunshot to the head from a rooftop so she wouldn't even know it was he who did it, instead of performing inception on her? Or why couldn't he simply tie her down to the train-track? Or put an atomic bomb inside one of their buildings, detonating it while they were in it? The movie explains that you need a "kick" in order to wake up from a dream while heavily sedated, especially if you're in a low level, because the amount of time it would take for the timer to run out would be decades or centuries, and your brain would have become a pudding from the intense processing of cramming several lifetimes into about 10 hours. Since Dom and Mal wake up for a train running over their skulls, I'm going to assume this isn't a kick. Even if it was, Dom could have had Mal sit in a chair while in limbo ,and lean back while he knocked it from under her.So assuming the train-crushing was a kick, it's easy to imagine that Dom could have put Mal in numerous kick-causing situations without doing inception on her.Likewise, if it wasn't a kick, and all they needed to do was die (so that means they hadn't taken a sedative) Dom should have just killed Mal in the dream, in any way necessary. Bomb, Gun, Poison, whatever. Also, if they were already in limbo, how could Dom have performed inception on Mal? Inception seems to require going through many levels of dream-states and using clever emotional and imaginative tricks on each level to "prime" the person to believe the idea originated in their own mind?

  • Noesis

    Why couldn't Dom have killed Mal, with perhaps a gunshot to the head from a rooftop so she wouldn't even know it was he who did it, instead of performing inception on her? Or why couldn't he simply tie her down to the train-track? Or put an atomic bomb inside one of their buildings, detonating it while they were in it? The movie explains that you need a "kick" in order to wake up from a dream while heavily sedated, especially if you're in a low level, because the amount of time it would take for the timer to run out would be decades or centuries, and your brain would have become a pudding from the intense processing of cramming several lifetimes into about 10 hours. Since Dom and Mal wake up for a train running over their skulls, I'm going to assume this isn't a kick. Even if it was, Dom could have had Mal sit in a chair while in limbo ,and lean back while he knocked it from under her.So assuming the train-crushing was a kick, it's easy to imagine that Dom could have put Mal in numerous kick-causing situations without doing inception on her.Likewise, if it wasn't a kick, and all they needed to do was die (so that means they hadn't taken a sedative) Dom should have just killed Mal in the dream, in any way necessary. Bomb, Gun, Poison, whatever. Also, if they were already in limbo, how could Dom have performed inception on Mal? Inception seems to require going through many levels of dream-states and using clever emotional and imaginative tricks on each level to "prime" the person to believe the idea originated in their own mind?

  • Dennis

    13. If Fischer was killed when he was shot, and they were able to resuscitate him, why couldn’t they save Saito the same way?I think Fischer wasn't completely dead yet, so if they rushed quickly enough they could kick him out from a deeper level where he would still be alive (due to time moving slower).

  • Dennis

    13. If Fischer was killed when he was shot, and they were able to resuscitate him, why couldn’t they save Saito the same way?I think Fischer wasn't completely dead yet, so if they rushed quickly enough they could kick him out from a deeper level where he would still be alive (due to time moving slower).

  • Dennis

    13. If Fischer was killed when he was shot, and they were able to resuscitate him, why couldn’t they save Saito the same way?I think Fischer wasn't completely dead yet, so if they rushed quickly enough they could kick him out from a deeper level where he would still be alive (due to time moving slower).

  • Dennis

    13. If Fischer was killed when he was shot, and they were able to resuscitate him, why couldn’t they save Saito the same way?I think Fischer wasn't completely dead yet, so if they rushed quickly enough they could kick him out from a deeper level where he would still be alive (due to time moving slower).

  • Dennis

    13. If Fischer was killed when he was shot, and they were able to resuscitate him, why couldn’t they save Saito the same way?I think Fischer wasn't completely dead yet, so if they rushed quickly enough they could kick him out from a deeper level where he would still be alive (due to time moving slower).

  • Dennis

    13. If Fischer was killed when he was shot, and they were able to resuscitate him, why couldn’t they save Saito the same way?I think Fischer wasn't completely dead yet, so if they rushed quickly enough they could kick him out from a deeper level where he would still be alive (due to time moving slower).

  • Dennis

    13. If Fischer was killed when he was shot, and they were able to resuscitate him, why couldn’t they save Saito the same way?I think Fischer wasn't completely dead yet, so if they rushed quickly enough they could kick him out from a deeper level where he would still be alive (due to time moving slower).

  • Dennis

    13. If Fischer was killed when he was shot, and they were able to resuscitate him, why couldn’t they save Saito the same way?I think Fischer wasn't completely dead yet, so if they rushed quickly enough they could kick him out from a deeper level where he would still be alive (due to time moving slower).

  • RJ

    Excellent! Thanks for spending so much time on this and for sharing your thoughts.Tyler Mann's comment is very interesting…I think people are going to be speculating about this film for a LONG time!

  • RJ

    Excellent! Thanks for spending so much time on this and for sharing your thoughts.Tyler Mann's comment is very interesting…I think people are going to be speculating about this film for a LONG time!

  • RJ

    Excellent! Thanks for spending so much time on this and for sharing your thoughts.Tyler Mann's comment is very interesting…I think people are going to be speculating about this film for a LONG time!

  • RJ

    Excellent! Thanks for spending so much time on this and for sharing your thoughts.Tyler Mann's comment is very interesting…I think people are going to be speculating about this film for a LONG time!

  • RJ

    Excellent! Thanks for spending so much time on this and for sharing your thoughts.Tyler Mann's comment is very interesting…I think people are going to be speculating about this film for a LONG time!

  • RJ

    Excellent! Thanks for spending so much time on this and for sharing your thoughts.Tyler Mann's comment is very interesting…I think people are going to be speculating about this film for a LONG time!

  • RJ

    Excellent! Thanks for spending so much time on this and for sharing your thoughts.Tyler Mann's comment is very interesting…I think people are going to be speculating about this film for a LONG time!

  • RJ

    Excellent! Thanks for spending so much time on this and for sharing your thoughts.Tyler Mann's comment is very interesting…I think people are going to be speculating about this film for a LONG time!

  • http://www.blog.koshashah.com Kosha

    Nice work… lots of thing at one place. But I don't agree with your explanation of 12e). I believe that Cobb wakes up and meets his kids. One thing to point out is, the kids clothes are similar looking but different, if seen closely. Also the kids have actually aged slightly. If you see the cast, you can see two sets of children of slightly different ages. So, Nolan has given very subtle clues, which are not obvious to everyone.And I don't agree to 15 either. If you see Nolan's previous movies, they are like a puzzle, but he will leave enough clues in the movie for you to deduce the correct answer. His puzzles always have a definitive single answer.

  • http://www.blog.koshashah.com Kosha

    Nice work… lots of thing at one place. But I don't agree with your explanation of 12e). I believe that Cobb wakes up and meets his kids. One thing to point out is, the kids clothes are similar looking but different, if seen closely. Also the kids have actually aged slightly. If you see the cast, you can see two sets of children of slightly different ages. So, Nolan has given very subtle clues, which are not obvious to everyone.And I don't agree to 15 either. If you see Nolan's previous movies, they are like a puzzle, but he will leave enough clues in the movie for you to deduce the correct answer. His puzzles always have a definitive single answer.

  • http://www.blog.koshashah.com Kosha

    Nice work… lots of thing at one place. But I don't agree with your explanation of 12e). I believe that Cobb wakes up and meets his kids. One thing to point out is, the kids clothes are similar looking but different, if seen closely. Also the kids have actually aged slightly. If you see the cast, you can see two sets of children of slightly different ages. So, Nolan has given very subtle clues, which are not obvious to everyone.And I don't agree to 15 either. If you see Nolan's previous movies, they are like a puzzle, but he will leave enough clues in the movie for you to deduce the correct answer. His puzzles always have a definitive single answer.

  • http://www.blog.koshashah.com Kosha

    Nice work… lots of thing at one place. But I don't agree with your explanation of 12e). I believe that Cobb wakes up and meets his kids. One thing to point out is, the kids clothes are similar looking but different, if seen closely. Also the kids have actually aged slightly. If you see the cast, you can see two sets of children of slightly different ages. So, Nolan has given very subtle clues, which are not obvious to everyone.And I don't agree to 15 either. If you see Nolan's previous movies, they are like a puzzle, but he will leave enough clues in the movie for you to deduce the correct answer. His puzzles always have a definitive single answer.

  • http://www.blog.koshashah.com Kosha

    Nice work… lots of thing at one place. But I don't agree with your explanation of 12e). I believe that Cobb wakes up and meets his kids. One thing to point out is, the kids clothes are similar looking but different, if seen closely. Also the kids have actually aged slightly. If you see the cast, you can see two sets of children of slightly different ages. So, Nolan has given very subtle clues, which are not obvious to everyone.And I don't agree to 15 either. If you see Nolan's previous movies, they are like a puzzle, but he will leave enough clues in the movie for you to deduce the correct answer. His puzzles always have a definitive single answer.

  • http://www.blog.koshashah.com Kosha

    Nice work… lots of thing at one place. But I don't agree with your explanation of 12e). I believe that Cobb wakes up and meets his kids. One thing to point out is, the kids clothes are similar looking but different, if seen closely. Also the kids have actually aged slightly. If you see the cast, you can see two sets of children of slightly different ages. So, Nolan has given very subtle clues, which are not obvious to everyone.And I don't agree to 15 either. If you see Nolan's previous movies, they are like a puzzle, but he will leave enough clues in the movie for you to deduce the correct answer. His puzzles always have a definitive single answer.

  • http://www.blog.koshashah.com Kosha

    Nice work… lots of thing at one place. But I don't agree with your explanation of 12e). I believe that Cobb wakes up and meets his kids. One thing to point out is, the kids clothes are similar looking but different, if seen closely. Also the kids have actually aged slightly. If you see the cast, you can see two sets of children of slightly different ages. So, Nolan has given very subtle clues, which are not obvious to everyone.And I don't agree to 15 either. If you see Nolan's previous movies, they are like a puzzle, but he will leave enough clues in the movie for you to deduce the correct answer. His puzzles always have a definitive single answer.

  • http://www.blog.koshashah.com Kosha

    Nice work… lots of thing at one place. But I don't agree with your explanation of 12e). I believe that Cobb wakes up and meets his kids. One thing to point out is, the kids clothes are similar looking but different, if seen closely. Also the kids have actually aged slightly. If you see the cast, you can see two sets of children of slightly different ages. So, Nolan has given very subtle clues, which are not obvious to everyone.And I don't agree to 15 either. If you see Nolan's previous movies, they are like a puzzle, but he will leave enough clues in the movie for you to deduce the correct answer. His puzzles always have a definitive single answer.

  • Amy S

    I am confused about part of the movie. It shows that Cobb and Mal grew old together, but when it showed them being run over by the train to wake up, they were young. Do you think this is an error?

  • Amy S

    I am confused about part of the movie. It shows that Cobb and Mal grew old together, but when it showed them being run over by the train to wake up, they were young. Do you think this is an error?

  • Amy S

    I am confused about part of the movie. It shows that Cobb and Mal grew old together, but when it showed them being run over by the train to wake up, they were young. Do you think this is an error?

  • Amy S

    I am confused about part of the movie. It shows that Cobb and Mal grew old together, but when it showed them being run over by the train to wake up, they were young. Do you think this is an error?

  • Amy S

    I am confused about part of the movie. It shows that Cobb and Mal grew old together, but when it showed them being run over by the train to wake up, they were young. Do you think this is an error?

  • Amy S

    I am confused about part of the movie. It shows that Cobb and Mal grew old together, but when it showed them being run over by the train to wake up, they were young. Do you think this is an error?

  • Amy S

    I am confused about part of the movie. It shows that Cobb and Mal grew old together, but when it showed them being run over by the train to wake up, they were young. Do you think this is an error?

  • Amy S

    I am confused about part of the movie. It shows that Cobb and Mal grew old together, but when it showed them being run over by the train to wake up, they were young. Do you think this is an error?

  • Amy S

    I am confused about part of the movie. It shows that Cobb and Mal grew old together, but when it showed them being run over by the train to wake up, they were young. Do you think this is an error?

  • Amy S

    I am confused about part of the movie. It shows that Cobb and Mal grew old together, but when it showed them being run over by the train to wake up, they were young. Do you think this is an error?

  • Amy S

    I am confused about part of the movie. It shows that Cobb and Mal grew old together, but when it showed them being run over by the train to wake up, they were young. Do you think this is an error?

  • JT

    You stole the “5 Levels Of Inception” image from CinemaBlend.com and you do not have our permission to repurpose it and use it as your own.

    Please remove it immediately.

    Original image which you stole can be found here:
    http://www.cinemablend.com/new/An-Illustrated-Guide-To-The-5-Levels-Of-Inception-19643.html

  • Noesis

    Why couldn't Dom have killed Mal, with perhaps a gunshot to the head from a rooftop so she wouldn't even know it was he who did it, instead of performing inception on her? Or why couldn't he simply tie her down to the train-track? Or put an atomic bomb inside one of their buildings, detonating it while they were in it?

    The movie explains that you need a “kick” in order to wake up from a dream while heavily sedated, especially if you're in a low level, because the amount of time it would take for the timer to run out would be decades or centuries, and your brain would have become a pudding from the intense processing of cramming several lifetimes into about 10 hours. Since Dom and Mal wake up for a train running over their skulls, I'm going to assume this isn't a kick. Even if it was, Dom could have had Mal sit in a chair while in limbo ,and lean back while he knocked it from under her.

    So assuming the train-crushing was a kick, it's easy to imagine that Dom could have put Mal in numerous kick-causing situations without doing inception on her.

    Likewise, if it wasn't a kick, and all they needed to do was die (so that means they hadn't taken a sedative) Dom should have just killed Mal in the dream, in any way necessary. Bomb, Gun, Poison, whatever.

    Also, if they were already in limbo, how could Dom have performed inception on Mal? Inception seems to require going through many levels of dream-states and using clever emotional and imaginative tricks on each level to “prime” the person to believe the idea originated in their own mind?

  • Noesis

    Why couldn't Dom have killed Mal, with perhaps a gunshot to the head from a rooftop so she wouldn't even know it was he who did it, instead of performing inception on her? Or why couldn't he simply tie her down to the train-track? Or put an atomic bomb inside one of their buildings, detonating it while they were in it?

    The movie explains that you need a “kick” in order to wake up from a dream while heavily sedated, especially if you're in a low level, because the amount of time it would take for the timer to run out would be decades or centuries, and your brain would have become a pudding from the intense processing of cramming several lifetimes into about 10 hours. Since Dom and Mal wake up for a train running over their skulls, I'm going to assume this isn't a kick. Even if it was, Dom could have had Mal sit in a chair while in limbo ,and lean back while he knocked it from under her.

    So assuming the train-crushing was a kick, it's easy to imagine that Dom could have put Mal in numerous kick-causing situations without doing inception on her.

    Likewise, if it wasn't a kick, and all they needed to do was die (so that means they hadn't taken a sedative) Dom should have just killed Mal in the dream, in any way necessary. Bomb, Gun, Poison, whatever.

    Also, if they were already in limbo, how could Dom have performed inception on Mal? Inception seems to require going through many levels of dream-states and using clever emotional and imaginative tricks on each level to “prime” the person to believe the idea originated in their own mind?

  • Noesis

    Why couldn't Dom have killed Mal, with perhaps a gunshot to the head from a rooftop so she wouldn't even know it was he who did it, instead of performing inception on her? Or why couldn't he simply tie her down to the train-track? Or put an atomic bomb inside one of their buildings, detonating it while they were in it?

    The movie explains that you need a “kick” in order to wake up from a dream while heavily sedated, especially if you're in a low level, because the amount of time it would take for the timer to run out would be decades or centuries, and your brain would have become a pudding from the intense processing of cramming several lifetimes into about 10 hours. Since Dom and Mal wake up for a train running over their skulls, I'm going to assume this isn't a kick. Even if it was, Dom could have had Mal sit in a chair while in limbo ,and lean back while he knocked it from under her.

    So assuming the train-crushing was a kick, it's easy to imagine that Dom could have put Mal in numerous kick-causing situations without doing inception on her.

    Likewise, if it wasn't a kick, and all they needed to do was die (so that means they hadn't taken a sedative) Dom should have just killed Mal in the dream, in any way necessary. Bomb, Gun, Poison, whatever.

    Also, if they were already in limbo, how could Dom have performed inception on Mal? Inception seems to require going through many levels of dream-states and using clever emotional and imaginative tricks on each level to “prime” the person to believe the idea originated in their own mind?

  • http://twitter.com/najmiyusoff najmiyusoff

    The 5 levels of inception chart is inconsistent with the explanation you give in the paragraphs above and below it. in the image chart level one start at reality, while in the explanation you identified the van chase as level one. look it up and change it to avoid further confusions. you're welcome.

  • http://twitter.com/najmiyusoff najmiyusoff

    The 5 levels of inception chart is inconsistent with the explanation you give in the paragraphs above and below it. in the image chart level one start at reality, while in the explanation you identified the van chase as level one. look it up and change it to avoid further confusions. you're welcome.

  • http://twitter.com/najmiyusoff najmiyusoff

    The 5 levels of inception chart is inconsistent with the explanation you give in the paragraphs above and below it. in the image chart level one start at reality, while in the explanation you identified the van chase as level one. look it up and change it to avoid further confusions. you're welcome.

  • http://twitter.com/najmiyusoff najmiyusoff

    The 5 levels of inception chart is inconsistent with the explanation you give in the paragraphs above and below it. in the image chart level one start at reality, while in the explanation you identified the van chase as level one. look it up and change it to avoid further confusions. you're welcome.

  • http://twitter.com/najmiyusoff najmiyusoff

    The 5 levels of inception chart is inconsistent with the explanation you give in the paragraphs above and below it. in the image chart level one start at reality, while in the explanation you identified the van chase as level one. look it up and change it to avoid further confusions. you're welcome.

  • http://twitter.com/najmiyusoff najmiyusoff

    The 5 levels of inception chart is inconsistent with the explanation you give in the paragraphs above and below it. in the image chart level one start at reality, while in the explanation you identified the van chase as level one. look it up and change it to avoid further confusions. you're welcome.

  • http://twitter.com/najmiyusoff najmiyusoff

    The 5 levels of inception chart is inconsistent with the explanation you give in the paragraphs above and below it. in the image chart level one start at reality, while in the explanation you identified the van chase as level one. look it up and change it to avoid further confusions. you're welcome.

  • http://twitter.com/najmiyusoff najmiyusoff

    The 5 levels of inception chart is inconsistent with the explanation you give in the paragraphs above and below it. in the image chart level one start at reality, while in the explanation you identified the van chase as level one. look it up and change it to avoid further confusions. you're welcome.

  • Dennis

    13. If Fischer was killed when he was shot, and they were able to resuscitate him, why couldn’t they save Saito the same way?
    I think Fischer wasn't completely dead yet, so if they rushed quickly enough they could kick him out from a deeper level where he would still be alive (due to time moving slower).

  • Dennis

    13. If Fischer was killed when he was shot, and they were able to resuscitate him, why couldn’t they save Saito the same way?
    I think Fischer wasn't completely dead yet, so if they rushed quickly enough they could kick him out from a deeper level where he would still be alive (due to time moving slower).

  • Dennis

    13. If Fischer was killed when he was shot, and they were able to resuscitate him, why couldn’t they save Saito the same way?
    I think Fischer wasn't completely dead yet, so if they rushed quickly enough they could kick him out from a deeper level where he would still be alive (due to time moving slower).

  • Dennis

    13. If Fischer was killed when he was shot, and they were able to resuscitate him, why couldn’t they save Saito the same way?
    I think Fischer wasn't completely dead yet, so if they rushed quickly enough they could kick him out from a deeper level where he would still be alive (due to time moving slower).

  • RJ

    Excellent! Thanks for spending so much time on this and for sharing your thoughts.

    Tyler Mann's comment is very interesting…

    I think people are going to be speculating about this film for a LONG time!

  • RJ

    Excellent! Thanks for spending so much time on this and for sharing your thoughts.

    Tyler Mann's comment is very interesting…

    I think people are going to be speculating about this film for a LONG time!

  • RJ

    Excellent! Thanks for spending so much time on this and for sharing your thoughts.

    Tyler Mann's comment is very interesting…

    I think people are going to be speculating about this film for a LONG time!

  • RJ

    Excellent! Thanks for spending so much time on this and for sharing your thoughts.

    Tyler Mann's comment is very interesting…

    I think people are going to be speculating about this film for a LONG time!

  • Jhtheking

    3.) He hasn't spent years searching for him.. he wakes up on the beach just as he has previously when entering limbo. The reason Saito is so old is that he dies in the first level, and then later Cobb drowns in the first level when he doesn't wake up (if you watch the movie closely, Arthur checks on Cobb when he wakes up to the first dream, and then he and Ariadne breathe oxygen via the equipment at hand). The short amount of time between Saito's and Cobb's death in level one was several decades in Limbo, so Saito was old.

  • Jhtheking

    3.) He hasn't spent years searching for him.. he wakes up on the beach just as he has previously when entering limbo. The reason Saito is so old is that he dies in the first level, and then later Cobb drowns in the first level when he doesn't wake up (if you watch the movie closely, Arthur checks on Cobb when he wakes up to the first dream, and then he and Ariadne breathe oxygen via the equipment at hand). The short amount of time between Saito's and Cobb's death in level one was several decades in Limbo, so Saito was old.

  • Jhtheking

    3.) He hasn't spent years searching for him.. he wakes up on the beach just as he has previously when entering limbo. The reason Saito is so old is that he dies in the first level, and then later Cobb drowns in the first level when he doesn't wake up (if you watch the movie closely, Arthur checks on Cobb when he wakes up to the first dream, and then he and Ariadne breathe oxygen via the equipment at hand). The short amount of time between Saito's and Cobb's death in level one was several decades in Limbo, so Saito was old.

  • Jhtheking

    3.) He hasn't spent years searching for him.. he wakes up on the beach just as he has previously when entering limbo. The reason Saito is so old is that he dies in the first level, and then later Cobb drowns in the first level when he doesn't wake up (if you watch the movie closely, Arthur checks on Cobb when he wakes up to the first dream, and then he and Ariadne breathe oxygen via the equipment at hand). The short amount of time between Saito's and Cobb's death in level one was several decades in Limbo, so Saito was old.

  • Jhtheking

    3.) He hasn't spent years searching for him.. he wakes up on the beach just as he has previously when entering limbo. The reason Saito is so old is that he dies in the first level, and then later Cobb drowns in the first level when he doesn't wake up (if you watch the movie closely, Arthur checks on Cobb when he wakes up to the first dream, and then he and Ariadne breathe oxygen via the equipment at hand). The short amount of time between Saito's and Cobb's death in level one was several decades in Limbo, so Saito was old.

  • Jhtheking

    3.) He hasn't spent years searching for him.. he wakes up on the beach just as he has previously when entering limbo. The reason Saito is so old is that he dies in the first level, and then later Cobb drowns in the first level when he doesn't wake up (if you watch the movie closely, Arthur checks on Cobb when he wakes up to the first dream, and then he and Ariadne breathe oxygen via the equipment at hand). The short amount of time between Saito's and Cobb's death in level one was several decades in Limbo, so Saito was old.

  • Jhtheking

    3.) He hasn't spent years searching for him.. he wakes up on the beach just as he has previously when entering limbo. The reason Saito is so old is that he dies in the first level, and then later Cobb drowns in the first level when he doesn't wake up (if you watch the movie closely, Arthur checks on Cobb when he wakes up to the first dream, and then he and Ariadne breathe oxygen via the equipment at hand). The short amount of time between Saito's and Cobb's death in level one was several decades in Limbo, so Saito was old.

  • Jhtheking

    3.) He hasn't spent years searching for him.. he wakes up on the beach just as he has previously when entering limbo. The reason Saito is so old is that he dies in the first level, and then later Cobb drowns in the first level when he doesn't wake up (if you watch the movie closely, Arthur checks on Cobb when he wakes up to the first dream, and then he and Ariadne breathe oxygen via the equipment at hand). The short amount of time between Saito's and Cobb's death in level one was several decades in Limbo, so Saito was old.

  • http://www.blog.koshashah.com Kosha

    Nice work… lots of thing at one place.

    But I don't agree with your explanation of 12e). I believe that Cobb wakes up and meets his kids. One thing to point out is, the kids clothes are similar looking but different, if seen closely. Also the kids have actually aged slightly. If you see the cast, you can see two sets of children of slightly different ages. So, Nolan has given very subtle clues, which are not obvious to everyone.

    And I don't agree to 15 either. If you see Nolan's previous movies, they are like a puzzle, but he will leave enough clues in the movie for you to deduce the correct answer. His puzzles always have a definitive single answer.

  • http://www.blog.koshashah.com Kosha

    Nice work… lots of thing at one place.

    But I don't agree with your explanation of 12e). I believe that Cobb wakes up and meets his kids. One thing to point out is, the kids clothes are similar looking but different, if seen closely. Also the kids have actually aged slightly. If you see the cast, you can see two sets of children of slightly different ages. So, Nolan has given very subtle clues, which are not obvious to everyone.

    And I don't agree to 15 either. If you see Nolan's previous movies, they are like a puzzle, but he will leave enough clues in the movie for you to deduce the correct answer. His puzzles always have a definitive single answer.

  • http://www.blog.koshashah.com Kosha

    Nice work… lots of thing at one place.

    But I don't agree with your explanation of 12e). I believe that Cobb wakes up and meets his kids. One thing to point out is, the kids clothes are similar looking but different, if seen closely. Also the kids have actually aged slightly. If you see the cast, you can see two sets of children of slightly different ages. So, Nolan has given very subtle clues, which are not obvious to everyone.

    And I don't agree to 15 either. If you see Nolan's previous movies, they are like a puzzle, but he will leave enough clues in the movie for you to deduce the correct answer. His puzzles always have a definitive single answer.

  • http://www.blog.koshashah.com Kosha

    Nice work… lots of thing at one place.

    But I don't agree with your explanation of 12e). I believe that Cobb wakes up and meets his kids. One thing to point out is, the kids clothes are similar looking but different, if seen closely. Also the kids have actually aged slightly. If you see the cast, you can see two sets of children of slightly different ages. So, Nolan has given very subtle clues, which are not obvious to everyone.

    And I don't agree to 15 either. If you see Nolan's previous movies, they are like a puzzle, but he will leave enough clues in the movie for you to deduce the correct answer. His puzzles always have a definitive single answer.

  • http://twitter.com/najmiyusoff najmiyusoff

    The 5 levels of inception chart is inconsistent with the explanation you give in the paragraphs above and below it. in the image chart level one start at reality, while in the explanation you identified the van chase as level one. look it up and change it to avoid further confusions. you're welcome.

  • http://twitter.com/najmiyusoff najmiyusoff

    The 5 levels of inception chart is inconsistent with the explanation you give in the paragraphs above and below it. in the image chart level one start at reality, while in the explanation you identified the van chase as level one. look it up and change it to avoid further confusions. you're welcome.

  • http://twitter.com/najmiyusoff najmiyusoff

    The 5 levels of inception chart is inconsistent with the explanation you give in the paragraphs above and below it. in the image chart level one start at reality, while in the explanation you identified the van chase as level one. look it up and change it to avoid further confusions. you're welcome.

  • http://twitter.com/najmiyusoff najmiyusoff

    The 5 levels of inception chart is inconsistent with the explanation you give in the paragraphs above and below it. in the image chart level one start at reality, while in the explanation you identified the van chase as level one. look it up and change it to avoid further confusions. you're welcome.

  • Jhtheking

    3.) He hasn't spent years searching for him.. he wakes up on the beach just as he has previously when entering limbo. The reason Saito is so old is that he dies in the first level, and then later Cobb drowns in the first level when he doesn't wake up (if you watch the movie closely, Arthur checks on Cobb when he wakes up to the first dream, and then he and Ariadne breathe oxygen via the equipment at hand). The short amount of time between Saito's and Cobb's death in level one was several decades in Limbo, so Saito was old.

  • Jhtheking

    3.) He hasn't spent years searching for him.. he wakes up on the beach just as he has previously when entering limbo. The reason Saito is so old is that he dies in the first level, and then later Cobb drowns in the first level when he doesn't wake up (if you watch the movie closely, Arthur checks on Cobb when he wakes up to the first dream, and then he and Ariadne breathe oxygen via the equipment at hand). The short amount of time between Saito's and Cobb's death in level one was several decades in Limbo, so Saito was old.

  • Jhtheking

    3.) He hasn't spent years searching for him.. he wakes up on the beach just as he has previously when entering limbo. The reason Saito is so old is that he dies in the first level, and then later Cobb drowns in the first level when he doesn't wake up (if you watch the movie closely, Arthur checks on Cobb when he wakes up to the first dream, and then he and Ariadne breathe oxygen via the equipment at hand). The short amount of time between Saito's and Cobb's death in level one was several decades in Limbo, so Saito was old.

  • Jhtheking

    3.) He hasn't spent years searching for him.. he wakes up on the beach just as he has previously when entering limbo. The reason Saito is so old is that he dies in the first level, and then later Cobb drowns in the first level when he doesn't wake up (if you watch the movie closely, Arthur checks on Cobb when he wakes up to the first dream, and then he and Ariadne breathe oxygen via the equipment at hand). The short amount of time between Saito's and Cobb's death in level one was several decades in Limbo, so Saito was old.

  • Vic

    In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids.

  • Vic

    In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids.

  • Vic

    In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids.

  • Vic

    In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids.

  • Vic

    In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids.

  • Vic

    In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids.

  • Vic

    In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids.

  • Vic

    In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids.

  • J1

    I think you're mixing up dying in a dream and getting a kick. A kick comes from a higher level. IT occurs when you're dreaming (as in Cobb dreaming at the beginning of the movie while sitting in the chair above the bath tub) and you're body is subjected to a change in equilibrium that wakes you up (as in Cobb's chair being pushed over and waking him from a lower level dream). Think about if you fell asleep in a chair at home. Your friend pushes the chair over – before it falls you're going to wake up. Your friend, in effect, gave you a kick. A kick comes from a level above. DEATH, on the other hand (at least in levels 1 and 2) just results in you waking up, b/c the mind can't process its own death, presumably. Killing oneself is not giving onself a kick, just like killing Mal wouldn't be Cobb giving her a kick. It simply results in death, and that takes you up a level (or back to reality, depending on the level you're already at). The problem with LIMBO is that it tends to make people forget that they are in a dream. They may also be so deeply into their subconscious that a kick from reality may not reach them, or death may result in coma or simply a lower level of limbo. (All speculation here). The point, though, is that a kick and death-in-a-dream are too very different things.

  • J1

    I think you're mixing up dying in a dream and getting a kick. A kick comes from a higher level. IT occurs when you're dreaming (as in Cobb dreaming at the beginning of the movie while sitting in the chair above the bath tub) and you're body is subjected to a change in equilibrium that wakes you up (as in Cobb's chair being pushed over and waking him from a lower level dream). Think about if you fell asleep in a chair at home. Your friend pushes the chair over – before it falls you're going to wake up. Your friend, in effect, gave you a kick. A kick comes from a level above. DEATH, on the other hand (at least in levels 1 and 2) just results in you waking up, b/c the mind can't process its own death, presumably. Killing oneself is not giving onself a kick, just like killing Mal wouldn't be Cobb giving her a kick. It simply results in death, and that takes you up a level (or back to reality, depending on the level you're already at). The problem with LIMBO is that it tends to make people forget that they are in a dream. They may also be so deeply into their subconscious that a kick from reality may not reach them, or death may result in coma or simply a lower level of limbo. (All speculation here). The point, though, is that a kick and death-in-a-dream are too very different things.

  • J1

    I think you're mixing up dying in a dream and getting a kick. A kick comes from a higher level. IT occurs when you're dreaming (as in Cobb dreaming at the beginning of the movie while sitting in the chair above the bath tub) and you're body is subjected to a change in equilibrium that wakes you up (as in Cobb's chair being pushed over and waking him from a lower level dream). Think about if you fell asleep in a chair at home. Your friend pushes the chair over – before it falls you're going to wake up. Your friend, in effect, gave you a kick. A kick comes from a level above. DEATH, on the other hand (at least in levels 1 and 2) just results in you waking up, b/c the mind can't process its own death, presumably. Killing oneself is not giving onself a kick, just like killing Mal wouldn't be Cobb giving her a kick. It simply results in death, and that takes you up a level (or back to reality, depending on the level you're already at). The problem with LIMBO is that it tends to make people forget that they are in a dream. They may also be so deeply into their subconscious that a kick from reality may not reach them, or death may result in coma or simply a lower level of limbo. (All speculation here). The point, though, is that a kick and death-in-a-dream are too very different things.

  • J1

    I think you're mixing up dying in a dream and getting a kick. A kick comes from a higher level. IT occurs when you're dreaming (as in Cobb dreaming at the beginning of the movie while sitting in the chair above the bath tub) and you're body is subjected to a change in equilibrium that wakes you up (as in Cobb's chair being pushed over and waking him from a lower level dream). Think about if you fell asleep in a chair at home. Your friend pushes the chair over – before it falls you're going to wake up. Your friend, in effect, gave you a kick. A kick comes from a level above. DEATH, on the other hand (at least in levels 1 and 2) just results in you waking up, b/c the mind can't process its own death, presumably. Killing oneself is not giving onself a kick, just like killing Mal wouldn't be Cobb giving her a kick. It simply results in death, and that takes you up a level (or back to reality, depending on the level you're already at). The problem with LIMBO is that it tends to make people forget that they are in a dream. They may also be so deeply into their subconscious that a kick from reality may not reach them, or death may result in coma or simply a lower level of limbo. (All speculation here). The point, though, is that a kick and death-in-a-dream are too very different things.

  • J1

    I think you're mixing up dying in a dream and getting a kick. A kick comes from a higher level. IT occurs when you're dreaming (as in Cobb dreaming at the beginning of the movie while sitting in the chair above the bath tub) and you're body is subjected to a change in equilibrium that wakes you up (as in Cobb's chair being pushed over and waking him from a lower level dream). Think about if you fell asleep in a chair at home. Your friend pushes the chair over – before it falls you're going to wake up. Your friend, in effect, gave you a kick. A kick comes from a level above. DEATH, on the other hand (at least in levels 1 and 2) just results in you waking up, b/c the mind can't process its own death, presumably. Killing oneself is not giving onself a kick, just like killing Mal wouldn't be Cobb giving her a kick. It simply results in death, and that takes you up a level (or back to reality, depending on the level you're already at). The problem with LIMBO is that it tends to make people forget that they are in a dream. They may also be so deeply into their subconscious that a kick from reality may not reach them, or death may result in coma or simply a lower level of limbo. (All speculation here). The point, though, is that a kick and death-in-a-dream are too very different things.

  • J1

    I think you're mixing up dying in a dream and getting a kick. A kick comes from a higher level. IT occurs when you're dreaming (as in Cobb dreaming at the beginning of the movie while sitting in the chair above the bath tub) and you're body is subjected to a change in equilibrium that wakes you up (as in Cobb's chair being pushed over and waking him from a lower level dream). Think about if you fell asleep in a chair at home. Your friend pushes the chair over – before it falls you're going to wake up. Your friend, in effect, gave you a kick. A kick comes from a level above. DEATH, on the other hand (at least in levels 1 and 2) just results in you waking up, b/c the mind can't process its own death, presumably. Killing oneself is not giving onself a kick, just like killing Mal wouldn't be Cobb giving her a kick. It simply results in death, and that takes you up a level (or back to reality, depending on the level you're already at). The problem with LIMBO is that it tends to make people forget that they are in a dream. They may also be so deeply into their subconscious that a kick from reality may not reach them, or death may result in coma or simply a lower level of limbo. (All speculation here). The point, though, is that a kick and death-in-a-dream are too very different things.

  • J1

    I think you're mixing up dying in a dream and getting a kick. A kick comes from a higher level. IT occurs when you're dreaming (as in Cobb dreaming at the beginning of the movie while sitting in the chair above the bath tub) and you're body is subjected to a change in equilibrium that wakes you up (as in Cobb's chair being pushed over and waking him from a lower level dream). Think about if you fell asleep in a chair at home. Your friend pushes the chair over – before it falls you're going to wake up. Your friend, in effect, gave you a kick. A kick comes from a level above. DEATH, on the other hand (at least in levels 1 and 2) just results in you waking up, b/c the mind can't process its own death, presumably. Killing oneself is not giving onself a kick, just like killing Mal wouldn't be Cobb giving her a kick. It simply results in death, and that takes you up a level (or back to reality, depending on the level you're already at). The problem with LIMBO is that it tends to make people forget that they are in a dream. They may also be so deeply into their subconscious that a kick from reality may not reach them, or death may result in coma or simply a lower level of limbo. (All speculation here). The point, though, is that a kick and death-in-a-dream are too very different things.

  • J1

    I think you're mixing up dying in a dream and getting a kick. A kick comes from a higher level. IT occurs when you're dreaming (as in Cobb dreaming at the beginning of the movie while sitting in the chair above the bath tub) and you're body is subjected to a change in equilibrium that wakes you up (as in Cobb's chair being pushed over and waking him from a lower level dream). Think about if you fell asleep in a chair at home. Your friend pushes the chair over – before it falls you're going to wake up. Your friend, in effect, gave you a kick. A kick comes from a level above. DEATH, on the other hand (at least in levels 1 and 2) just results in you waking up, b/c the mind can't process its own death, presumably. Killing oneself is not giving onself a kick, just like killing Mal wouldn't be Cobb giving her a kick. It simply results in death, and that takes you up a level (or back to reality, depending on the level you're already at). The problem with LIMBO is that it tends to make people forget that they are in a dream. They may also be so deeply into their subconscious that a kick from reality may not reach them, or death may result in coma or simply a lower level of limbo. (All speculation here). The point, though, is that a kick and death-in-a-dream are too very different things.

  • J1

    I think you're mixing up dying in a dream and getting a kick. A kick comes from a higher level. IT occurs when you're dreaming (as in Cobb dreaming at the beginning of the movie while sitting in the chair above the bath tub) and you're body is subjected to a change in equilibrium that wakes you up (as in Cobb's chair being pushed over and waking him from a lower level dream). Think about if you fell asleep in a chair at home. Your friend pushes the chair over – before it falls you're going to wake up. Your friend, in effect, gave you a kick. A kick comes from a level above. DEATH, on the other hand (at least in levels 1 and 2) just results in you waking up, b/c the mind can't process its own death, presumably. Killing oneself is not giving onself a kick, just like killing Mal wouldn't be Cobb giving her a kick. It simply results in death, and that takes you up a level (or back to reality, depending on the level you're already at). The problem with LIMBO is that it tends to make people forget that they are in a dream. They may also be so deeply into their subconscious that a kick from reality may not reach them, or death may result in coma or simply a lower level of limbo. (All speculation here). The point, though, is that a kick and death-in-a-dream are too very different things.

  • Vic

    In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids.

  • Vic

    In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids.

  • Vic

    In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids.

  • Vic

    In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids.

  • Matt

    For some reason I am unable to edit the post, I try to remove the picture and update it but it won't update. It could have something to do with our server as we just moved servers last night

  • zer0ed77

    Honestly, I am a huge Nolan fan. I am not a fan of the "whole thing was a dream" scenario. In fact, upon second viewing, before I started reading online opinions, I believed I had the whole film figured out. It is to be taken at face value. When Memento came out, so many people believed the film to not hold any answers to its end. Nolan made it clear the answers are in the film and that he would NEVER do an open ended film left to conjecture. Rather than I argue the point that the film is NOT a dream, I'll let one of the films stars do it for me. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/in…..

  • zer0ed77

    Honestly, I am a huge Nolan fan. I am not a fan of the "whole thing was a dream" scenario. In fact, upon second viewing, before I started reading online opinions, I believed I had the whole film figured out. It is to be taken at face value. When Memento came out, so many people believed the film to not hold any answers to its end. Nolan made it clear the answers are in the film and that he would NEVER do an open ended film left to conjecture. Rather than I argue the point that the film is NOT a dream, I'll let one of the films stars do it for me. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/in…..

  • zer0ed77

    Honestly, I am a huge Nolan fan. I am not a fan of the "whole thing was a dream" scenario. In fact, upon second viewing, before I started reading online opinions, I believed I had the whole film figured out. It is to be taken at face value. When Memento came out, so many people believed the film to not hold any answers to its end. Nolan made it clear the answers are in the film and that he would NEVER do an open ended film left to conjecture. Rather than I argue the point that the film is NOT a dream, I'll let one of the films stars do it for me. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/in…..

  • zer0ed77

    Honestly, I am a huge Nolan fan. I am not a fan of the "whole thing was a dream" scenario. In fact, upon second viewing, before I started reading online opinions, I believed I had the whole film figured out. It is to be taken at face value. When Memento came out, so many people believed the film to not hold any answers to its end. Nolan made it clear the answers are in the film and that he would NEVER do an open ended film left to conjecture. Rather than I argue the point that the film is NOT a dream, I'll let one of the films stars do it for me. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/in…..

  • zer0ed77

    Honestly, I am a huge Nolan fan. I am not a fan of the "whole thing was a dream" scenario. In fact, upon second viewing, before I started reading online opinions, I believed I had the whole film figured out. It is to be taken at face value. When Memento came out, so many people believed the film to not hold any answers to its end. Nolan made it clear the answers are in the film and that he would NEVER do an open ended film left to conjecture. Rather than I argue the point that the film is NOT a dream, I'll let one of the films stars do it for me. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/in…..

  • zer0ed77

    Honestly, I am a huge Nolan fan. I am not a fan of the "whole thing was a dream" scenario. In fact, upon second viewing, before I started reading online opinions, I believed I had the whole film figured out. It is to be taken at face value. When Memento came out, so many people believed the film to not hold any answers to its end. Nolan made it clear the answers are in the film and that he would NEVER do an open ended film left to conjecture. Rather than I argue the point that the film is NOT a dream, I'll let one of the films stars do it for me. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/in…..

  • zer0ed77

    Honestly, I am a huge Nolan fan. I am not a fan of the "whole thing was a dream" scenario. In fact, upon second viewing, before I started reading online opinions, I believed I had the whole film figured out. It is to be taken at face value. When Memento came out, so many people believed the film to not hold any answers to its end. Nolan made it clear the answers are in the film and that he would NEVER do an open ended film left to conjecture. Rather than I argue the point that the film is NOT a dream, I'll let one of the films stars do it for me. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/in…..

  • zer0ed77

    Honestly, I am a huge Nolan fan. I am not a fan of the "whole thing was a dream" scenario. In fact, upon second viewing, before I started reading online opinions, I believed I had the whole film figured out. It is to be taken at face value. When Memento came out, so many people believed the film to not hold any answers to its end. Nolan made it clear the answers are in the film and that he would NEVER do an open ended film left to conjecture. Rather than I argue the point that the film is NOT a dream, I'll let one of the films stars do it for me. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/in…..

  • Me

    I agree 100% with Vic"In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids'.

  • Me

    I agree 100% with Vic"In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids'.

  • Me

    I agree 100% with Vic"In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids'.

  • Me

    I agree 100% with Vic"In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids'.

  • Me

    I agree 100% with Vic"In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids'.

  • Me

    I agree 100% with Vic"In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids'.

  • Me

    I agree 100% with Vic"In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids'.

  • Me

    I agree 100% with Vic"In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids'.

  • Bob

    The same action can yield two different results depending on the circumstances. If the sedative was still active/active enough(?), shooting Cobb would have sent him deeper into limbo.

  • Blue

    I think they just showed them young when Cobb was telling Ariadne what happened. Later, I believe they showed elderly Mal and Cobb holding hands the same way young Mal and Cobb did while on the train tracks, presumably signifying that it was elderly Mal and Cobb who were actually on the tracks.

  • Blue

    To answer question 1: Didn't Ariadne blame Cobb for the freight train?

  • Blue

    To answer question 1: Didn't Ariadne blame Cobb for the freight train?

  • Blue

    To answer question 1: Didn't Ariadne blame Cobb for the freight train?

  • Blue

    To answer question 1: Didn't Ariadne blame Cobb for the freight train?

  • Blue

    To answer question 1: Didn't Ariadne blame Cobb for the freight train?

  • Blue

    To answer question 1: Didn't Ariadne blame Cobb for the freight train?

  • Blue

    To answer question 1: Didn't Ariadne blame Cobb for the freight train?

  • Blue

    To answer question 1: Didn't Ariadne blame Cobb for the freight train?

  • J1

    I think you're mixing up dying in a dream and getting a kick. A kick comes from a higher level. IT occurs when you're dreaming (as in Cobb dreaming at the beginning of the movie while sitting in the chair above the bath tub) and you're body is subjected to a change in equilibrium that wakes you up (as in Cobb's chair being pushed over and waking him from a lower level dream). Think about if you fell asleep in a chair at home. Your friend pushes the chair over – before it falls you're going to wake up. Your friend, in effect, gave you a kick.

    A kick comes from a level above. DEATH, on the other hand (at least in levels 1 and 2) just results in you waking up, b/c the mind can't process its own death, presumably. Killing oneself is not giving onself a kick, just like killing Mal wouldn't be Cobb giving her a kick. It simply results in death, and that takes you up a level (or back to reality, depending on the level you're already at).

    The problem with LIMBO is that it tends to make people forget that they are in a dream. They may also be so deeply into their subconscious that a kick from reality may not reach them, or death may result in coma or simply a lower level of limbo. (All speculation here).

    The point, though, is that a kick and death-in-a-dream are too very different things.

  • J1

    I think you're mixing up dying in a dream and getting a kick. A kick comes from a higher level. IT occurs when you're dreaming (as in Cobb dreaming at the beginning of the movie while sitting in the chair above the bath tub) and you're body is subjected to a change in equilibrium that wakes you up (as in Cobb's chair being pushed over and waking him from a lower level dream). Think about if you fell asleep in a chair at home. Your friend pushes the chair over – before it falls you're going to wake up. Your friend, in effect, gave you a kick.

    A kick comes from a level above. DEATH, on the other hand (at least in levels 1 and 2) just results in you waking up, b/c the mind can't process its own death, presumably. Killing oneself is not giving onself a kick, just like killing Mal wouldn't be Cobb giving her a kick. It simply results in death, and that takes you up a level (or back to reality, depending on the level you're already at).

    The problem with LIMBO is that it tends to make people forget that they are in a dream. They may also be so deeply into their subconscious that a kick from reality may not reach them, or death may result in coma or simply a lower level of limbo. (All speculation here).

    The point, though, is that a kick and death-in-a-dream are too very different things.

  • J1

    I think you're mixing up dying in a dream and getting a kick. A kick comes from a higher level. IT occurs when you're dreaming (as in Cobb dreaming at the beginning of the movie while sitting in the chair above the bath tub) and you're body is subjected to a change in equilibrium that wakes you up (as in Cobb's chair being pushed over and waking him from a lower level dream). Think about if you fell asleep in a chair at home. Your friend pushes the chair over – before it falls you're going to wake up. Your friend, in effect, gave you a kick.

    A kick comes from a level above. DEATH, on the other hand (at least in levels 1 and 2) just results in you waking up, b/c the mind can't process its own death, presumably. Killing oneself is not giving onself a kick, just like killing Mal wouldn't be Cobb giving her a kick. It simply results in death, and that takes you up a level (or back to reality, depending on the level you're already at).

    The problem with LIMBO is that it tends to make people forget that they are in a dream. They may also be so deeply into their subconscious that a kick from reality may not reach them, or death may result in coma or simply a lower level of limbo. (All speculation here).

    The point, though, is that a kick and death-in-a-dream are too very different things.

  • zer0ed77

    Yes.

  • zer0ed77

    Honestly, I am a huge Nolan fan. I am not a fan of the “whole thing was a dream” scenario. In fact, upon second viewing, before I started reading online opinions, I believed I had the whole film figured out. It is to be taken at face value. When Memento came out, so many people believed the film to not hold any answers to its end. Nolan made it clear the answers are in the film and that he would NEVER do an open ended film left to conjecture. Rather than I argue the point that the film is NOT a dream, I'll let one of the films stars do it for me.

    http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/in…

  • zer0ed77

    Honestly, I am a huge Nolan fan. I am not a fan of the “whole thing was a dream” scenario. In fact, upon second viewing, before I started reading online opinions, I believed I had the whole film figured out. It is to be taken at face value. When Memento came out, so many people believed the film to not hold any answers to its end. Nolan made it clear the answers are in the film and that he would NEVER do an open ended film left to conjecture. Rather than I argue the point that the film is NOT a dream, I'll let one of the films stars do it for me.

    http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/in…

  • zer0ed77

    Honestly, I am a huge Nolan fan. I am not a fan of the “whole thing was a dream” scenario. In fact, upon second viewing, before I started reading online opinions, I believed I had the whole film figured out. It is to be taken at face value. When Memento came out, so many people believed the film to not hold any answers to its end. Nolan made it clear the answers are in the film and that he would NEVER do an open ended film left to conjecture. Rather than I argue the point that the film is NOT a dream, I'll let one of the films stars do it for me.

    http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/in…

  • zer0ed77

    Honestly, I am a huge Nolan fan. I am not a fan of the “whole thing was a dream” scenario. In fact, upon second viewing, before I started reading online opinions, I believed I had the whole film figured out. It is to be taken at face value. When Memento came out, so many people believed the film to not hold any answers to its end. Nolan made it clear the answers are in the film and that he would NEVER do an open ended film left to conjecture. Rather than I argue the point that the film is NOT a dream, I'll let one of the films stars do it for me.

    http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/in…

  • Me

    I agree 100% with Vic

    “In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids'.

  • Me

    I agree 100% with Vic

    “In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids'.

  • Me

    I agree 100% with Vic

    “In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids'.

  • Me

    I agree 100% with Vic

    “In the end it didn't matter if he was dreaming – he walked away from the top indicating he didn't care as long as he could be with his kids'.

  • Bob

    The same action can yield two different results depending on the circumstances. If the sedative was still active/active enough(?), shooting Cobb would have sent him deeper into limbo.

  • Bob

    The same action can yield two different results depending on the circumstances. If the sedative was still active/active enough(?), shooting Cobb would have sent him deeper into limbo.

  • Bob

    The same action can yield two different results depending on the circumstances. If the sedative was still active/active enough(?), shooting Cobb would have sent him deeper into limbo.

  • Bob

    The same action can yield two different results depending on the circumstances. If the sedative was still active/active enough(?), shooting Cobb would have sent him deeper into limbo.

  • Bob

    The same action can yield two different results depending on the circumstances. If the sedative was still active/active enough(?), shooting Cobb would have sent him deeper into limbo.

  • Bob

    The same action can yield two different results depending on the circumstances. If the sedative was still active/active enough(?), shooting Cobb would have sent him deeper into limbo.

  • Bob

    The same action can yield two different results depending on the circumstances. If the sedative was still active/active enough(?), shooting Cobb would have sent him deeper into limbo.

  • Bob

    The same action can yield two different results depending on the circumstances. If the sedative was still active/active enough(?), shooting Cobb would have sent him deeper into limbo.

  • Bob

    The same action can yield two different results depending on the circumstances. If the sedative was still active/active enough(?), shooting Cobb would have sent him deeper into limbo.

  • Bob

    The same action can yield two different results depending on the circumstances. If the sedative was still active/active enough(?), shooting Cobb would have sent him deeper into limbo.

  • Bob

    The same action can yield two different results depending on the circumstances. If the sedative was still active/active enough(?), shooting Cobb would have sent him deeper into limbo.

  • Blue

    I think they just showed them young when Cobb was telling Ariadne what happened. Later, I believe they showed elderly Mal and Cobb holding hands the same way young Mal and Cobb did while on the train tracks, presumably signifying that it was elderly Mal and Cobb who were actually on the tracks.

  • Blue

    I think they just showed them young when Cobb was telling Ariadne what happened. Later, I believe they showed elderly Mal and Cobb holding hands the same way young Mal and Cobb did while on the train tracks, presumably signifying that it was elderly Mal and Cobb who were actually on the tracks.

  • Blue

    I think they just showed them young when Cobb was telling Ariadne what happened. Later, I believe they showed elderly Mal and Cobb holding hands the same way young Mal and Cobb did while on the train tracks, presumably signifying that it was elderly Mal and Cobb who were actually on the tracks.

  • Blue

    I think they just showed them young when Cobb was telling Ariadne what happened. Later, I believe they showed elderly Mal and Cobb holding hands the same way young Mal and Cobb did while on the train tracks, presumably signifying that it was elderly Mal and Cobb who were actually on the tracks.

  • Blue

    I think they just showed them young when Cobb was telling Ariadne what happened. Later, I believe they showed elderly Mal and Cobb holding hands the same way young Mal and Cobb did while on the train tracks, presumably signifying that it was elderly Mal and Cobb who were actually on the tracks.

  • Blue

    I think they just showed them young when Cobb was telling Ariadne what happened. Later, I believe they showed elderly Mal and Cobb holding hands the same way young Mal and Cobb did while on the train tracks, presumably signifying that it was elderly Mal and Cobb who were actually on the tracks.

  • Blue

    I think they just showed them young when Cobb was telling Ariadne what happened. Later, I believe they showed elderly Mal and Cobb holding hands the same way young Mal and Cobb did while on the train tracks, presumably signifying that it was elderly Mal and Cobb who were actually on the tracks.

  • Blue

    I think they just showed them young when Cobb was telling Ariadne what happened. Later, I believe they showed elderly Mal and Cobb holding hands the same way young Mal and Cobb did while on the train tracks, presumably signifying that it was elderly Mal and Cobb who were actually on the tracks.

  • Blue

    I think they just showed them young when Cobb was telling Ariadne what happened. Later, I believe they showed elderly Mal and Cobb holding hands the same way young Mal and Cobb did while on the train tracks, presumably signifying that it was elderly Mal and Cobb who were actually on the tracks.

  • Blue

    I think they just showed them young when Cobb was telling Ariadne what happened. Later, I believe they showed elderly Mal and Cobb holding hands the same way young Mal and Cobb did while on the train tracks, presumably signifying that it was elderly Mal and Cobb who were actually on the tracks.

  • Blue

    I think they just showed them young when Cobb was telling Ariadne what happened. Later, I believe they showed elderly Mal and Cobb holding hands the same way young Mal and Cobb did while on the train tracks, presumably signifying that it was elderly Mal and Cobb who were actually on the tracks.

  • Blue

    To answer question 1: Didn't Ariadne blame Cobb for the freight train?

  • Blue

    To answer question 1: Didn't Ariadne blame Cobb for the freight train?

  • Blue

    To answer question 1: Didn't Ariadne blame Cobb for the freight train?

  • Blue

    To answer question 1: Didn't Ariadne blame Cobb for the freight train?

  • zer0ed77

    Yes.

  • zer0ed77

    Yes.

  • zer0ed77

    Yes.

  • zer0ed77

    Yes.

  • zer0ed77

    Yes.

  • zer0ed77

    Yes.

  • zer0ed77

    Yes.

  • zer0ed77

    Yes.

  • zer0ed77

    Yes.

  • zer0ed77

    Yes.

  • zer0ed77

    Yes.

  • austin

    the totem does determine whether your in reality or a dream…. it only determines whether or not you're in someone else's dream

  • austin

    the totem does determine whether your in reality or a dream…. it only determines whether or not you're in someone else's dream

  • austin

    the totem does determine whether your in reality or a dream…. it only determines whether or not you're in someone else's dream

  • austin

    the totem does determine whether your in reality or a dream…. it only determines whether or not you're in someone else's dream

  • austin

    the totem does determine whether your in reality or a dream…. it only determines whether or not you're in someone else's dream

  • austin

    the totem does determine whether your in reality or a dream…. it only determines whether or not you're in someone else's dream

  • austin

    the totem does determine whether your in reality or a dream…. it only determines whether or not you're in someone else's dream

  • austin

    the totem does determine whether your in reality or a dream…. it only determines whether or not you're in someone else's dream

  • austin

    the totem does determine whether your in reality or a dream…. it only determines whether or not you're in someone else's dream

  • Austin

    totem doesn't *

  • Austin

    totem doesn't *

  • Austin

    totem doesn't *

  • Austin

    totem doesn't *

  • Austin

    totem doesn't *

  • Austin

    totem doesn't *

  • Austin

    totem doesn't *

  • Austin

    totem doesn't *

  • Austin

    totem doesn't *

  • austin

    the totem does determine whether your in reality or a dream…. it only determines whether or not you're in someone else's dream

  • austin

    the totem does determine whether your in reality or a dream…. it only determines whether or not you're in someone else's dream

  • austin

    the totem does determine whether your in reality or a dream…. it only determines whether or not you're in someone else's dream

  • Austin

    totem doesn't *

  • Austin

    totem doesn't *

  • Austin

    totem doesn't *

  • johnkimble

    Who cares – 2001 is hardly memorable for its characters (except HAL I suppose).

  • kokhsien

    I don't agree with some of your points..A better explanation is at http://kokhsien.blogspot.com

  • kokhsien

    I don't agree with some of your points..A better explanation is at http://kokhsien.blogspot.com

  • kokhsien

    I don't agree with some of your points..A better explanation is at http://kokhsien.blogspot.com

  • kokhsien

    I don't agree with some of your points..A better explanation is at http://kokhsien.blogspot.com

  • kokhsien

    I don't agree with some of your points..A better explanation is at http://kokhsien.blogspot.com

  • kokhsien

    I don't agree with some of your points..A better explanation is at http://kokhsien.blogspot.com

  • kokhsien

    I don't agree with some of your points..A better explanation is at http://kokhsien.blogspot.com

  • kokhsien

    I don't agree with some of your points..A better explanation is at http://kokhsien.blogspot.com

  • johnkimble

    Who cares – 2001 is hardly memorable for its characters (except HAL I suppose).

  • johnkimble

    Who cares – 2001 is hardly memorable for its characters (except HAL I suppose).

  • johnkimble

    Who cares – 2001 is hardly memorable for its characters (except HAL I suppose).

  • johnkimble

    Who cares – 2001 is hardly memorable for its characters (except HAL I suppose).

  • johnkimble

    Who cares – 2001 is hardly memorable for its characters (except HAL I suppose).

  • johnkimble

    Who cares – 2001 is hardly memorable for its characters (except HAL I suppose).

  • johnkimble

    Who cares – 2001 is hardly memorable for its characters (except HAL I suppose).

  • johnkimble

    Who cares – 2001 is hardly memorable for its characters (except HAL I suppose).

  • johnkimble

    Who cares – 2001 is hardly memorable for its characters (except HAL I suppose).

  • johnkimble

    Who cares – 2001 is hardly memorable for its characters (except HAL I suppose).

  • johnkimble

    Who cares – 2001 is hardly memorable for its characters (except HAL I suppose).

  • kokhsien

    I don't agree with some of your points..
    A better explanation is at http://kokhsien.blogspot.com

  • kokhsien

    I don't agree with some of your points..
    A better explanation is at http://kokhsien.blogspot.com

  • kokhsien

    I don't agree with some of your points..
    A better explanation is at http://kokhsien.blogspot.com

  • kokhsien

    I don't agree with some of your points..
    A better explanation is at http://kokhsien.blogspot.com

  • Tippo

    You forgot to mention the anniversary scene why was Mal on the opposite ledge from the hotel window? I found that to be strange and it queries me to believe that he possibly was never married.

  • Tippo

    You forgot to mention the anniversary scene why was Mal on the opposite ledge from the hotel window? I found that to be strange and it queries me to believe that he possibly was never married.

  • Tippo

    You forgot to mention the anniversary scene why was Mal on the opposite ledge from the hotel window? I found that to be strange and it queries me to believe that he possibly was never married.

  • Tippo

    You forgot to mention the anniversary scene why was Mal on the opposite ledge from the hotel window? I found that to be strange and it queries me to believe that he possibly was never married.

  • Tippo

    You forgot to mention the anniversary scene why was Mal on the opposite ledge from the hotel window? I found that to be strange and it queries me to believe that he possibly was never married.

  • Tippo

    You forgot to mention the anniversary scene why was Mal on the opposite ledge from the hotel window? I found that to be strange and it queries me to believe that he possibly was never married.

  • Tippo

    You forgot to mention the anniversary scene why was Mal on the opposite ledge from the hotel window? I found that to be strange and it queries me to believe that he possibly was never married.

  • Tippo

    You forgot to mention the anniversary scene why was Mal on the opposite ledge from the hotel window? I found that to be strange and it queries me to believe that he possibly was never married.

  • Tippo

    You forgot to mention the anniversary scene why was Mal on the opposite ledge from the hotel window? I found that to be strange and it queries me to believe that he possibly was never married.

  • Tippo

    You forgot to mention the anniversary scene why was Mal on the opposite ledge from the hotel window? I found that to be strange and it queries me to believe that he possibly was never married.

  • Tippo

    You forgot to mention the anniversary scene why was Mal on the opposite ledge from the hotel window? I found that to be strange and it queries me to believe that he possibly was never married.

  • Tippo

    You forgot to mention the anniversary scene why was Mal on the opposite ledge from the hotel window? I found that to be strange and it queries me to believe that he possibly was never married.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lscarrozzi Louis Stephen Carroz

    Excellent! I agree with all of your points, but I am going to go with a combination of:12d) The Inception was on us the audience and was done by Christopher Nolan and12a) Nothing Ever Happened. All of it was just Cobb's dream on the plane.The ONE character that I have yet to fully figure out is Mal, but I think I have FINALLY got it. It seems pretty obvious to me that if Michael Caine is "Grandpa" in real life (and not a professor) then he's taking care of the kids and Mal is dead. Yes, Cobb and Mal were supposed to grow old together, but she killed herself, and the fact that there was nothing Cobb could do to stop it is where all of his guilt comes from. In the dream world in Limbo, on level 5 they had 50 years together and they did grow old – just like Saito had – but that was only a projection of Cobb in a dream. He wanted to grow old with her. He wanted to build a life with her. He wanted to die with her at the end. He would have put himself on the train tracks with her and killed himself if he thought it could have saved her. He would have died for her, but in the end there was nothing he could do. But because of what happened, now he never can be with her. When he sees her in the end, he has to let her go because no matter how hard he tries, his vision of her in his dreams could never actually replace her. He even says in the dream that she saw "3 psychiatrists and all of them said she was sane." He is angry about the fact that they were wrong. The movie says that you should never create dreams from your memory or you will lose all sense of reality and will be unable to tell if you are dreaming. The ONE and ONLY scene with Mal in the movie that is real is the night with a smashed up hotel room and her jumping from the building. Even the idea of "Inception" itself was never Cobb planting an idea in her head. It was her going insane and the last words she said to Cobb before she killed herself planted the idea of Inception in HIS mind which is where everything else in the movie comes from. Everything else, the beach, the shared dreaming, the Inception, the train tracks, the train, all that was just projections of Cobb's mind playing tricks on him simply because in real life he would have died for her on the train tracks. Cobb is having a terrible time getting over her which is why he is afraid to look at his child's faces. If he sees them, he knows he is in the real world, and that Mal is gone forever.It took me 2 times seeing the movie and a hell of a lot of thinking and I had to go through as many theories about the movie as everyone else until I finally really asked what Mal was really doing there. This is a love story about a man who lost his wife to a mental illness and about his love for his kids.The second time I saw it, I cried at the end. For people who say that this movie doesn't have any characters that we can care about or any emotional impact just simply don't get it, in my opinion. This is easily one of the best movies I have ever seen, and it might just be #1 on my list of all time.If The Academy passes on 'Inception' because they think it is a movie about a team of people trying to plant an illegal thought into a rich man's mind, not only do they NOT get it, but they will be missing out on one of the best movies of all time.Best Original ScreenplayBest DirectorBest Actor (Leonardo Di Caprio) he absolutely should get it this timeBest CinematographyBest Sound EditingBest Film EditingBest PictureI just can't imagine anything else that's going to come out this year that's going to be better than 'Inception.'Christopher Nolan: Good luck and thank you for making me believe in movies again.To everyone else, take my "take" on this movie, and go back and watch it again.Done. Peace.

    • Gia

      Very good insight.

    • Michael

      Did you notice how long Cobb was gone for? Did you also notice that Cobb’s KIDS NEVER AGED!!!!?

      • Phaedrus

        Watch the credits. The children’s character’s are played by two sets of actors, and the character’s ages are two years apart (James at 20 months and 3 years, Phillipa at 3 years and 5 years). This supports the theory that the children at the end are Cobb’s children in “reality”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lscarrozzi Louis Stephen Carroz

    Excellent! I agree with all of your points, but I think there is WAY more to this movie, and I think my interpretation is the "right one".I am going to go with a combination of:12d) The Inception was on us the audience and was done by Christopher Nolan and12a) Nothing Ever Happened. All of it was just Cobb's dream on the plane.However, if you stop there, you are missing out – emotionally. The ONE character that I has yet to fully figure out is Mal, but I think I have FINALLY got it. It seems pretty obvious to me that if Michael Caine is "Grandpa" in real life (and not a professor) then he's taking care of the kids and Mal is dead. Yes, Cobb and Mal were supposed to grow old together, but she killed herself, and the fact that there was nothing Cobb could do to stop it is where all of his guilt comes from. In the dream world in Limbo, on level 5 they had 50 years together and they did grow old – just like Saito had – but that was only a projection of Cobb in a dream. He wanted to grow old with her. He wanted to build a life with her. He wanted to die with her at the end. He would have put himself on the train tracks with her and killed himself if he thought it could have saved her. He would have died for her, but in the end there was nothing he could do. But because of what happened, now he never can be with her. When he sees her in the end, he has to let her go because no matter how hard he tries, his vision of her in his dreams could never actually replace her. He even says in the dream that she saw "3 psychiatrists and all of them said she was sane." He is angry about the fact that they were wrong. The movie says that you should never create dreams from your memory or you will lose all sense of reality and will be unable to tell if you are dreaming. The ONE and ONLY scene with Mal in the movie that is real is the night with a smashed up hotel room and her jumping from the building. Even the idea of "Inception" itself was never Cobb planting an idea in her head. It was her going insane and the last words she said to Cobb before she killed herself planted the idea of Inception in HIS mind which is where everything else in the movie comes from. Everything else, the beach, the shared dreaming, the Inception, the train tracks, the train, all that was just projections of Cobb's mind playing tricks on him simply because in real life he would have died for her on the train tracks. Cobb is having a terrible time getting over her which is why he is afraid to look at his child's faces. If he sees them, he knows he is in the real world, and that Mal is gone forever.It took me 2 times seeing the movie and a hell of a lot of thinking and I had to go through as many theories about the movie as everyone else until I finally really asked what Mal was really doing there. This is a love story about a man who lost his wife to a mental illness and about his love for his kids.The second time I saw it, I cried at the end. For people who say that this movie doesn't have any characters that we can care about or any emotional impact just simply don't get it, in my opinion. This is easily one of the best movies I have ever seen, and it might just be #1 on my list of all time.If The Academy passes on 'Inception' because they think it is a movie about a team of people trying to plant an illegal thought into a rich man's mind, not only do they NOT get it, but they will be missing out on one of the best movies of all time.Best Original ScreenplayBest DirectorBest Actor (Leonardo Di Caprio) he absolutely should get it this timeBest CinematographyBest Sound EditingBest Film EditingBest PictureI just can't imagine anything else that's going to come out this year that's going to be better than 'Inception.'Christopher Nolan: Good luck and thank you for making me believe in movies again.To everyone else, take my "take" on this movie, and go back and watch it again.Done. Peace.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lscarrozzi Louis Stephen Carroz

    Excellent! I agree with all of your points, but I think there is WAY more to this movie, and I think my interpretation is the "right one".I am going to go with a combination of:12d) The Inception was on us the audience and was done by Christopher Nolan and12a) Nothing Ever Happened. All of it was just Cobb's dream on the plane.However, if you stop there, you are missing out – emotionally. The ONE character that I has yet to fully figure out is Mal, but I think I have FINALLY got it. It seems pretty obvious to me that if Michael Caine is "Grandpa" in real life (and not a professor) then he's taking care of the kids and Mal is dead. Yes, Cobb and Mal were supposed to grow old together, but she killed herself, and the fact that there was nothing Cobb could do to stop it is where all of his guilt comes from. In the dream world in Limbo, on level 5 they had 50 years together and they did grow old – just like Saito had – but that was only a projection of Cobb in a dream. He wanted to grow old with her. He wanted to build a life with her. He wanted to die with her at the end. He would have put himself on the train tracks with her and killed himself if he thought it could have saved her. He would have died for her, but in the end there was nothing he could do. But because of what happened, now he never can be with her. When he sees her in the end, he has to let her go because no matter how hard he tries, his vision of her in his dreams could never actually replace her. He even says in the dream that she saw "3 psychiatrists and all of them said she was sane." He is angry about the fact that they were wrong. The movie says that you should never create dreams from your memory or you will lose all sense of reality and will be unable to tell if you are dreaming. The ONE and ONLY scene with Mal in the movie that is real is the night with a smashed up hotel room and her jumping from the building. Even the idea of "Inception" itself was never Cobb planting an idea in her head. It was her going insane and the last words she said to Cobb before she killed herself planted the idea of Inception in HIS mind which is where everything else in the movie comes from. Everything else, the beach, the shared dreaming, the Inception, the train tracks, the train, all that was just projections of Cobb's mind playing tricks on him simply because in real life he would have died for her on the train tracks. Cobb is having a terrible time getting over her which is why he is afraid to look at his child's faces. If he sees them, he knows he is in the real world, and that Mal is gone forever.It took me 2 times seeing the movie and a hell of a lot of thinking and I had to go through as many theories about the movie as everyone else until I finally really asked what Mal was really doing there. This is a love story about a man who lost his wife to a mental illness and about his love for his kids.The second time I saw it, I cried at the end. For people who say that this movie doesn't have any characters that we can care about or any emotional impact just simply don't get it, in my opinion. This is easily one of the best movies I have ever seen, and it might just be #1 on my list of all time.If The Academy passes on 'Inception' because they think it is a movie about a team of people trying to plant an illegal thought into a rich man's mind, not only do they NOT get it, but they will be missing out on one of the best movies of all time.Best Original ScreenplayBest DirectorBest Actor (Leonardo Di Caprio) he absolutely should get it this timeBest CinematographyBest Sound EditingBest Film EditingBest PictureI just can't imagine anything else that's going to come out this year that's going to be better than 'Inception.'Christopher Nolan: Good luck and thank you for making me believe in movies again.To everyone else, take my "take" on this movie, and go back and watch it again.Done. Peace.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lscarrozzi Louis Stephen Carroz

    Excellent! I agree with all of your points, but I think there is WAY more to this movie, and I think my interpretation is the "right one".I am going to go with a combination of:12d) The Inception was on us the audience and was done by Christopher Nolan and12a) Nothing Ever Happened. All of it was just Cobb's dream on the plane.However, if you stop there, you are missing out – emotionally. The ONE character that I has yet to fully figure out is Mal, but I think I have FINALLY got it. It seems pretty obvious to me that if Michael Caine is "Grandpa" in real life (and not a professor) then he's taking care of the kids and Mal is dead. Yes, Cobb and Mal were supposed to grow old together, but she killed herself, and the fact that there was nothing Cobb could do to stop it is where all of his guilt comes from. In the dream world in Limbo, on level 5 they had 50 years together and they did grow old – just like Saito had – but that was only a projection of Cobb in a dream. He wanted to grow old with her. He wanted to build a life with her. He wanted to die with her at the end. He would have put himself on the train tracks with her and killed himself if he thought it could have saved her. He would have died for her, but in the end there was nothing he could do. But because of what happened, now he never can be with her. When he sees her in the end, he has to let her go because no matter how hard he tries, his vision of her in his dreams could never actually replace her. He even says in the dream that she saw "3 psychiatrists and all of them said she was sane." He is angry about the fact that they were wrong. The movie says that you should never create dreams from your memory or you will lose all sense of reality and will be unable to tell if you are dreaming. The ONE and ONLY scene with Mal in the movie that is real is the night with a smashed up hotel room and her jumping from the building. Even the idea of "Inception" itself was never Cobb planting an idea in her head. It was her going insane and the last words she said to Cobb before she killed herself planted the idea of Inception in HIS mind which is where everything else in the movie comes from. Everything else, the beach, the shared dreaming, the Inception, the train tracks, the train, all that was just projections of Cobb's mind playing tricks on him simply because in real life he would have died for her on the train tracks. Cobb is having a terrible time getting over her which is why he is afraid to look at his child's faces. If he sees them, he knows he is in the real world, and that Mal is gone forever.It took me 2 times seeing the movie and a hell of a lot of thinking and I had to go through as many theories about the movie as everyone else until I finally really asked what Mal was really doing there. This is a love story about a man who lost his wife to a mental illness and about his love for his kids.The second time I saw it, I cried at the end. For people who say that this movie doesn't have any characters that we can care about or any emotional impact just simply don't get it, in my opinion. This is easily one of the best movies I have ever seen, and it might just be #1 on my list of all time.If The Academy passes on 'Inception' because they think it is a movie about a team of people trying to plant an illegal thought into a rich man's mind, not only do they NOT get it, but they will be missing out on one of the best movies of all time.Best Original ScreenplayBest DirectorBest Actor (Leonardo Di Caprio) he absolutely should get it this timeBest CinematographyBest Sound EditingBest Film EditingBest PictureI just can't imagine anything else that's going to come out this year that's going to be better than 'Inception.'Christopher Nolan: Good luck and thank you for making me believe in movies again.To everyone else, take my "take" on this movie, and go back and watch it again.Done. Peace.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lscarrozzi Louis Stephen Carroz

    Excellent! I agree with all of your points, but I think there is WAY more to this movie, and I think my interpretation is the "right one".I am going to go with a combination of:12d) The Inception was on us the audience and was done by Christopher Nolan and12a) Nothing Ever Happened. All of it was just Cobb's dream on the plane.However, if you stop there, you are missing out – emotionally. The ONE character that I has yet to fully figure out is Mal, but I think I have FINALLY got it. It seems pretty obvious to me that if Michael Caine is "Grandpa" in real life (and not a professor) then he's taking care of the kids and Mal is dead. Yes, Cobb and Mal were supposed to grow old together, but she killed herself, and the fact that there was nothing Cobb could do to stop it is where all of his guilt comes from. In the dream world in Limbo, on level 5 they had 50 years together and they did grow old – just like Saito had – but that was only a projection of Cobb in a dream. He wanted to grow old with her. He wanted to build a life with her. He wanted to die with her at the end. He would have put himself on the train tracks with her and killed himself if he thought it could have saved her. He would have died for her, but in the end there was nothing he could do. But because of what happened, now he never can be with her. When he sees her in the end, he has to let her go because no matter how hard he tries, his vision of her in his dreams could never actually replace her. He even says in the dream that she saw "3 psychiatrists and all of them said she was sane." He is angry about the fact that they were wrong. The movie says that you should never create dreams from your memory or you will lose all sense of reality and will be unable to tell if you are dreaming. The ONE and ONLY scene with Mal in the movie that is real is the night with a smashed up hotel room and her jumping from the building. Even the idea of "Inception" itself was never Cobb planting an idea in her head. It was her going insane and the last words she said to Cobb before she killed herself planted the idea of Inception in HIS mind which is where everything else in the movie comes from. Everything else, the beach, the shared dreaming, the Inception, the train tracks, the train, all that was just projections of Cobb's mind playing tricks on him simply because in real life he would have died for her on the train tracks. Cobb is having a terrible time getting over her which is why he is afraid to look at his child's faces. If he sees them, he knows he is in the real world, and that Mal is gone forever.It took me 2 times seeing the movie and a hell of a lot of thinking and I had to go through as many theories about the movie as everyone else until I finally really asked what Mal was really doing there. This is a love story about a man who lost his wife to a mental illness and about his love for his kids.The second time I saw it, I cried at the end. For people who say that this movie doesn't have any characters that we can care about or any emotional impact just simply don't get it, in my opinion. This is easily one of the best movies I have ever seen, and it might just be #1 on my list of all time.If The Academy passes on 'Inception' because they think it is a movie about a team of people trying to plant an illegal thought into a rich man's mind, not only do they NOT get it, but they will be missing out on one of the best movies of all time.Best Original ScreenplayBest DirectorBest Actor (Leonardo Di Caprio) he absolutely should get it this timeBest CinematographyBest Sound EditingBest Film EditingBest PictureI just can't imagine anything else that's going to come out this year that's going to be better than 'Inception.'Christopher Nolan: Good luck and thank you for making me believe in movies again.To everyone else, take my "take" on this movie, and go back and watch it again.Done. Peace.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lscarrozzi Louis Stephen Carroz

    Excellent! I agree with all of your points, but I think there is WAY more to this movie, and I think my interpretation is the "right one".I am going to go with a combination of:12d) The Inception was on us the audience and was done by Christopher Nolan and12a) Nothing Ever Happened. All of it was just Cobb's dream on the plane.However, if you stop there, you are missing out – emotionally. The ONE character that I has yet to fully figure out is Mal, but I think I have FINALLY got it. It seems pretty obvious to me that if Michael Caine is "Grandpa" in real life (and not a professor) then he's taking care of the kids and Mal is dead. Yes, Cobb and Mal were supposed to grow old together, but she killed herself, and the fact that there was nothing Cobb could do to stop it is where all of his guilt comes from. In the dream world in Limbo, on level 5 they had 50 years together and they did grow old – just like Saito had – but that was only a projection of Cobb in a dream. He wanted to grow old with her. He wanted to build a life with her. He wanted to die with her at the end. He would have put himself on the train tracks with her and killed himself if he thought it could have saved her. He would have died for her, but in the end there was nothing he could do. But because of what happened, now he never can be with her. When he sees her in the end, he has to let her go because no matter how hard he tries, his vision of her in his dreams could never actually replace her. He even says in the dream that she saw "3 psychiatrists and all of them said she was sane." He is angry about the fact that they were wrong. The movie says that you should never create dreams from your memory or you will lose all sense of reality and will be unable to tell if you are dreaming. The ONE and ONLY scene with Mal in the movie that is real is the night with a smashed up hotel room and her jumping from the building. Even the idea of "Inception" itself was never Cobb planting an idea in her head. It was her going insane and the last words she said to Cobb before she killed herself planted the idea of Inception in HIS mind which is where everything else in the movie comes from. Everything else, the beach, the shared dreaming, the Inception, the train tracks, the train, all that was just projections of Cobb's mind playing tricks on him simply because in real life he would have died for her on the train tracks. Cobb is having a terrible time getting over her which is why he is afraid to look at his child's faces. If he sees them, he knows he is in the real world, and that Mal is gone forever.It took me 2 times seeing the movie and a hell of a lot of thinking and I had to go through as many theories about the movie as everyone else until I finally really asked what Mal was really doing there. This is a love story about a man who lost his wife to a mental illness and about his love for his kids.The second time I saw it, I cried at the end. For people who say that this movie doesn't have any characters that we can care about or any emotional impact just simply don't get it, in my opinion. This is easily one of the best movies I have ever seen, and it might just be #1 on my list of all time.If The Academy passes on 'Inception' because they think it is a movie about a team of people trying to plant an illegal thought into a rich man's mind, not only do they NOT get it, but they will be missing out on one of the best movies of all time.Best Original ScreenplayBest DirectorBest Actor (Leonardo Di Caprio) he absolutely should get it this timeBest CinematographyBest Sound EditingBest Film EditingBest PictureI just can't imagine anything else that's going to come out this year that's going to be better than 'Inception.'Christopher Nolan: Good luck and thank you for making me believe in movies again.To everyone else, take my "take" on this movie, and go back and watch it again.Done. Peace.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lscarrozzi Louis Stephen Carroz

    Excellent! I agree with all of your points, but I think there is WAY more to this movie, and I think my interpretation is the "right one".I am going to go with a combination of:12d) The Inception was on us the audience and was done by Christopher Nolan and12a) Nothing Ever Happened. All of it was just Cobb's dream on the plane.However, if you stop there, you are missing out – emotionally. The ONE character that I has yet to fully figure out is Mal, but I think I have FINALLY got it. It seems pretty obvious to me that if Michael Caine is "Grandpa" in real life (and not a professor) then he's taking care of the kids and Mal is dead. Yes, Cobb and Mal were supposed to grow old together, but she killed herself, and the fact that there was nothing Cobb could do to stop it is where all of his guilt comes from. In the dream world in Limbo, on level 5 they had 50 years together and they did grow old – just like Saito had – but that was only a projection of Cobb in a dream. He wanted to grow old with her. He wanted to build a life with her. He wanted to die with her at the end. He would have put himself on the train tracks with her and killed himself if he thought it could have saved her. He would have died for her, but in the end there was nothing he could do. But because of what happened, now he never can be with her. When he sees her in the end, he has to let her go because no matter how hard he tries, his vision of her in his dreams could never actually replace her. He even says in the dream that she saw "3 psychiatrists and all of them said she was sane." He is angry about the fact that they were wrong. The movie says that you should never create dreams from your memory or you will lose all sense of reality and will be unable to tell if you are dreaming. The ONE and ONLY scene with Mal in the movie that is real is the night with a smashed up hotel room and her jumping from the building. Even the idea of "Inception" itself was never Cobb planting an idea in her head. It was her going insane and the last words she said to Cobb before she killed herself planted the idea of Inception in HIS mind which is where everything else in the movie comes from. Everything else, the beach, the shared dreaming, the Inception, the train tracks, the train, all that was just projections of Cobb's mind playing tricks on him simply because in real life he would have died for her on the train tracks. Cobb is having a terrible time getting over her which is why he is afraid to look at his child's faces. If he sees them, he knows he is in the real world, and that Mal is gone forever.It took me 2 times seeing the movie and a hell of a lot of thinking and I had to go through as many theories about the movie as everyone else until I finally really asked what Mal was really doing there. This is a love story about a man who lost his wife to a mental illness and about his love for his kids.The second time I saw it, I cried at the end. For people who say that this movie doesn't have any characters that we can care about or any emotional impact just simply don't get it, in my opinion. This is easily one of the best movies I have ever seen, and it might just be #1 on my list of all time.If The Academy passes on 'Inception' because they think it is a movie about a team of people trying to plant an illegal thought into a rich man's mind, not only do they NOT get it, but they will be missing out on one of the best movies of all time.Best Original ScreenplayBest DirectorBest Actor (Leonardo Di Caprio) he absolutely should get it this timeBest CinematographyBest Sound EditingBest Film EditingBest PictureI just can't imagine anything else that's going to come out this year that's going to be better than 'Inception.'Christopher Nolan: Good luck and thank you for making me believe in movies again.To everyone else, take my "take" on this movie, and go back and watch it again.Done. Peace.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lscarrozzi Louis Stephen Carroz

    Excellent! I agree with all of your points, but I think there is WAY more to this movie, and I think my interpretation is the "right one".I am going to go with a combination of:12d) The Inception was on us the audience and was done by Christopher Nolan and12a) Nothing Ever Happened. All of it was just Cobb's dream on the plane.However, if you stop there, you are missing out – emotionally. The ONE character that I has yet to fully figure out is Mal, but I think I have FINALLY got it. It seems pretty obvious to me that if Michael Caine is "Grandpa" in real life (and not a professor) then he's taking care of the kids and Mal is dead. Yes, Cobb and Mal were supposed to grow old together, but she killed herself, and the fact that there was nothing Cobb could do to stop it is where all of his guilt comes from. In the dream world in Limbo, on level 5 they had 50 years together and they did grow old – just like Saito had – but that was only a projection of Cobb in a dream. He wanted to grow old with her. He wanted to build a life with her. He wanted to die with her at the end. He would have put himself on the train tracks with her and killed himself if he thought it could have saved her. He would have died for her, but in the end there was nothing he could do. But because of what happened, now he never can be with her. When he sees her in the end, he has to let her go because no matter how hard he tries, his vision of her in his dreams could never actually replace her. He even says in the dream that she saw "3 psychiatrists and all of them said she was sane." He is angry about the fact that they were wrong. The movie says that you should never create dreams from your memory or you will lose all sense of reality and will be unable to tell if you are dreaming. The ONE and ONLY scene with Mal in the movie that is real is the night with a smashed up hotel room and her jumping from the building. Even the idea of "Inception" itself was never Cobb planting an idea in her head. It was her going insane and the last words she said to Cobb before she killed herself planted the idea of Inception in HIS mind which is where everything else in the movie comes from. Everything else, the beach, the shared dreaming, the Inception, the train tracks, the train, all that was just projections of Cobb's mind playing tricks on him simply because in real life he would have died for her on the train tracks. Cobb is having a terrible time getting over her which is why he is afraid to look at his child's faces. If he sees them, he knows he is in the real world, and that Mal is gone forever.It took me 2 times seeing the movie and a hell of a lot of thinking and I had to go through as many theories about the movie as everyone else until I finally really asked what Mal was really doing there. This is a love story about a man who lost his wife to a mental illness and about his love for his kids.The second time I saw it, I cried at the end. For people who say that this movie doesn't have any characters that we can care about or any emotional impact just simply don't get it, in my opinion. This is easily one of the best movies I have ever seen, and it might just be #1 on my list of all time.If The Academy passes on 'Inception' because they think it is a movie about a team of people trying to plant an illegal thought into a rich man's mind, not only do they NOT get it, but they will be missing out on one of the best movies of all time.Best Original ScreenplayBest DirectorBest Actor (Leonardo Di Caprio) he absolutely should get it this timeBest CinematographyBest Sound EditingBest Film EditingBest PictureI just can't imagine anything else that's going to come out this year that's going to be better than 'Inception.'Christopher Nolan: Good luck and thank you for making me believe in movies again.To everyone else, take my "take" on this movie, and go back and watch it again.Done. Peace.

  • Duki

    There is one point you're missing. The spinning top at the end, it indicates he is stuck in the dream, therefore if your theory holds true, Araidne failed. And also, what is Ariadne trying to accomplish if Mal is still alive?

  • Duki

    There is one point you're missing. The spinning top at the end, it indicates he is stuck in the dream, therefore if your theory holds true, Araidne failed. And also, what is Ariadne trying to accomplish if Mal is still alive?

  • Duki

    There is one point you're missing. The spinning top at the end, it indicates he is stuck in the dream, therefore if your theory holds true, Araidne failed. And also, what is Ariadne trying to accomplish if Mal is still alive?

  • Duki

    There is one point you're missing. The spinning top at the end, it indicates he is stuck in the dream, therefore if your theory holds true, Araidne failed. And also, what is Ariadne trying to accomplish if Mal is still alive?

  • Duki

    There is one point you're missing. The spinning top at the end, it indicates he is stuck in the dream, therefore if your theory holds true, Araidne failed. And also, what is Ariadne trying to accomplish if Mal is still alive?

  • Duki

    There is one point you're missing. The spinning top at the end, it indicates he is stuck in the dream, therefore if your theory holds true, Araidne failed. And also, what is Ariadne trying to accomplish if Mal is still alive?

  • Duki

    There is one point you're missing. The spinning top at the end, it indicates he is stuck in the dream, therefore if your theory holds true, Araidne failed. And also, what is Ariadne trying to accomplish if Mal is still alive?

  • Duki

    There is one point you're missing. The spinning top at the end, it indicates he is stuck in the dream, therefore if your theory holds true, Araidne failed. And also, what is Ariadne trying to accomplish if Mal is still alive?

  • Duki

    There is one point you're missing. The spinning top at the end, it indicates he is stuck in the dream, therefore if your theory holds true, Araidne failed. And also, what is Ariadne trying to accomplish if Mal is still alive?

  • Marc

    "if it is reality then why are the kids wearing the same thing and why do they look the same age?"1) The girl is older. Longer hair, taller, and her features are much more that of a 7-year-old than the toddler in the flashbacks. Her dress is also different (white sleeves)2) The shirt the boy is wearing in the ending is different than in the flashbacks. The shirt in the flashbacks appears to be red plaid, whereas in the ending, it is more white plaid. His hair is also slightly longer.

  • Marc

    "if it is reality then why are the kids wearing the same thing and why do they look the same age?"1) The girl is older. Longer hair, taller, and her features are much more that of a 7-year-old than the toddler in the flashbacks. Her dress is also different (white sleeves)2) The shirt the boy is wearing in the ending is different than in the flashbacks. The shirt in the flashbacks appears to be red plaid, whereas in the ending, it is more white plaid. His hair is also slightly longer.

  • Marc

    "if it is reality then why are the kids wearing the same thing and why do they look the same age?"1) The girl is older. Longer hair, taller, and her features are much more that of a 7-year-old than the toddler in the flashbacks. Her dress is also different (white sleeves)2) The shirt the boy is wearing in the ending is different than in the flashbacks. The shirt in the flashbacks appears to be red plaid, whereas in the ending, it is more white plaid. His hair is also slightly longer.

  • Marc

    "if it is reality then why are the kids wearing the same thing and why do they look the same age?"1) The girl is older. Longer hair, taller, and her features are much more that of a 7-year-old than the toddler in the flashbacks. Her dress is also different (white sleeves)2) The shirt the boy is wearing in the ending is different than in the flashbacks. The shirt in the flashbacks appears to be red plaid, whereas in the ending, it is more white plaid. His hair is also slightly longer.

  • Marc

    "if it is reality then why are the kids wearing the same thing and why do they look the same age?"1) The girl is older. Longer hair, taller, and her features are much more that of a 7-year-old than the toddler in the flashbacks. Her dress is also different (white sleeves)2) The shirt the boy is wearing in the ending is different than in the flashbacks. The shirt in the flashbacks appears to be red plaid, whereas in the ending, it is more white plaid. His hair is also slightly longer.

  • Marc

    "if it is reality then why are the kids wearing the same thing and why do they look the same age?"1) The girl is older. Longer hair, taller, and her features are much more that of a 7-year-old than the toddler in the flashbacks. Her dress is also different (white sleeves)2) The shirt the boy is wearing in the ending is different than in the flashbacks. The shirt in the flashbacks appears to be red plaid, whereas in the ending, it is more white plaid. His hair is also slightly longer.

  • Marc

    "if it is reality then why are the kids wearing the same thing and why do they look the same age?"1) The girl is older. Longer hair, taller, and her features are much more that of a 7-year-old than the toddler in the flashbacks. Her dress is also different (white sleeves)2) The shirt the boy is wearing in the ending is different than in the flashbacks. The shirt in the flashbacks appears to be red plaid, whereas in the ending, it is more white plaid. His hair is also slightly longer.

  • Marc

    "if it is reality then why are the kids wearing the same thing and why do they look the same age?"1) The girl is older. Longer hair, taller, and her features are much more that of a 7-year-old than the toddler in the flashbacks. Her dress is also different (white sleeves)2) The shirt the boy is wearing in the ending is different than in the flashbacks. The shirt in the flashbacks appears to be red plaid, whereas in the ending, it is more white plaid. His hair is also slightly longer.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lscarrozzi Louis Stephen Carrozzi

    Excellent! I agree with all of your points, but I think there is WAY more to this movie, and I think my interpretation is the “right one”.

    I am going to go with a combination of:

    12d) The Inception was on us the audience and was done by Christopher Nolan and
    12a) Nothing Ever Happened. All of it was just Cobb's dream on the plane.

    However, if you stop there, you are missing out – emotionally.

    The ONE character that I has yet to fully figure out is Mal, but I think I have FINALLY got it.

    It seems pretty obvious to me that if Michael Caine is “Grandpa” in real life (and not a professor) then he's taking care of the kids and Mal is dead. Yes, Cobb and Mal were supposed to grow old together, but she killed herself, and the fact that there was nothing Cobb could do to stop it is where all of his guilt comes from. In the dream world in Limbo, on level 5 they had 50 years together and they did grow old – just like Saito had – but that was only a projection of Cobb in a dream. He wanted to grow old with her. He wanted to build a life with her. He wanted to die with her at the end. He would have put himself on the train tracks with her and killed himself if he thought it could have saved her. He would have died for her, but in the end there was nothing he could do. But because of what happened, now he never can be with her. When he sees her in the end, he has to let her go because no matter how hard he tries, his vision of her in his dreams could never actually replace her. He even says in the dream that she saw “3 psychiatrists and all of them said she was sane.” He is angry about the fact that they were wrong. The movie says that you should never create dreams from your memory or you will lose all sense of reality and will be unable to tell if you are dreaming. The ONE and ONLY scene with Mal in the movie that is real is the night with a smashed up hotel room and her jumping from the building. Even the idea of “Inception” itself was never Cobb planting an idea in her head. It was her going insane and the last words she said to Cobb before she killed herself planted the idea of Inception in HIS mind which is where everything else in the movie comes from. Everything else, the beach, the shared dreaming, the Inception, the train tracks, the train, all that was just projections of Cobb's mind playing tricks on him simply because in real life he would have died for her on the train tracks. Cobb is having a terrible time getting over her which is why he is afraid to look at his child's faces. If he sees them, he knows he is in the real world, and that Mal is gone forever.

    It took me 2 times seeing the movie and a hell of a lot of thinking and I had to go through as many theories about the movie as everyone else until I finally really asked what Mal was really doing there.

    This is a love story about a man who lost his wife to a mental illness and about his love for his kids.

    The second time I saw it, I cried at the end. For people who say that this movie doesn't have any characters that we can care about or any emotional impact just simply don't get it, in my opinion. This is easily one of the best movies I have ever seen, and it might just be #1 on my list of all time.

    If The Academy passes on 'Inception' because they think it is a movie about a team of people trying to plant an illegal thought into a rich man's mind, not only do they NOT get it, but they will be missing out on one of the best movies of all time.

    Best Original Screenplay
    Best Director
    Best Actor (Leonardo Di Caprio) he absolutely should get it this time
    Best Cinematography
    Best Sound Editing
    Best Film Editing
    Best Picture

    I just can't imagine anything else that's going to come out this year that's going to be better than 'Inception.'

    Christopher Nolan: Good luck and thank you for making me believe in movies again.

    To everyone else, take my “take” on this movie, and go back and watch it again.

    Done. Peace.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lscarrozzi Louis Stephen Carrozzi

    Excellent! I agree with all of your points, but I think there is WAY more to this movie, and I think my interpretation is the “right one”.

    I am going to go with a combination of:

    12d) The Inception was on us the audience and was done by Christopher Nolan and
    12a) Nothing Ever Happened. All of it was just Cobb's dream on the plane.

    However, if you stop there, you are missing out – emotionally.

    The ONE character that I has yet to fully figure out is Mal, but I think I have FINALLY got it.

    It seems pretty obvious to me that if Michael Caine is “Grandpa” in real life (and not a professor) then he's taking care of the kids and Mal is dead. Yes, Cobb and Mal were supposed to grow old together, but she killed herself, and the fact that there was nothing Cobb could do to stop it is where all of his guilt comes from. In the dream world in Limbo, on level 5 they had 50 years together and they did grow old – just like Saito had – but that was only a projection of Cobb in a dream. He wanted to grow old with her. He wanted to build a life with her. He wanted to die with her at the end. He would have put himself on the train tracks with her and killed himself if he thought it could have saved her. He would have died for her, but in the end there was nothing he could do. But because of what happened, now he never can be with her. When he sees her in the end, he has to let her go because no matter how hard he tries, his vision of her in his dreams could never actually replace her. He even says in the dream that she saw “3 psychiatrists and all of them said she was sane.” He is angry about the fact that they were wrong. The movie says that you should never create dreams from your memory or you will lose all sense of reality and will be unable to tell if you are dreaming. The ONE and ONLY scene with Mal in the movie that is real is the night with a smashed up hotel room and her jumping from the building. Even the idea of “Inception” itself was never Cobb planting an idea in her head. It was her going insane and the last words she said to Cobb before she killed herself planted the idea of Inception in HIS mind which is where everything else in the movie comes from. Everything else, the beach, the shared dreaming, the Inception, the train tracks, the train, all that was just projections of Cobb's mind playing tricks on him simply because in real life he would have died for her on the train tracks. Cobb is having a terrible time getting over her which is why he is afraid to look at his child's faces. If he sees them, he knows he is in the real world, and that Mal is gone forever.

    It took me 2 times seeing the movie and a hell of a lot of thinking and I had to go through as many theories about the movie as everyone else until I finally really asked what Mal was really doing there.

    This is a love story about a man who lost his wife to a mental illness and about his love for his kids.

    The second time I saw it, I cried at the end. For people who say that this movie doesn't have any characters that we can care about or any emotional impact just simply don't get it, in my opinion. This is easily one of the best movies I have ever seen, and it might just be #1 on my list of all time.

    If The Academy passes on 'Inception' because they think it is a movie about a team of people trying to plant an illegal thought into a rich man's mind, not only do they NOT get it, but they will be missing out on one of the best movies of all time.

    Best Original Screenplay
    Best Director
    Best Actor (Leonardo Di Caprio) he absolutely should get it this time
    Best Cinematography
    Best Sound Editing
    Best Film Editing
    Best Picture

    I just can't imagine anything else that's going to come out this year that's going to be better than 'Inception.'

    Christopher Nolan: Good luck and thank you for making me believe in movies again.

    To everyone else, take my “take” on this movie, and go back and watch it again.

    Done. Peace.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lscarrozzi Louis Stephen Carrozzi

    Excellent! I agree with all of your points, but I think there is WAY more to this movie, and I think my interpretation is the “right one”.

    I am going to go with a combination of:

    12d) The Inception was on us the audience and was done by Christopher Nolan and
    12a) Nothing Ever Happened. All of it was just Cobb's dream on the plane.

    However, if you stop there, you are missing out – emotionally.

    The ONE character that I has yet to fully figure out is Mal, but I think I have FINALLY got it.

    It seems pretty obvious to me that if Michael Caine is “Grandpa” in real life (and not a professor) then he's taking care of the kids and Mal is dead. Yes, Cobb and Mal were supposed to grow old together, but she killed herself, and the fact that there was nothing Cobb could do to stop it is where all of his guilt comes from. In the dream world in Limbo, on level 5 they had 50 years together and they did grow old – just like Saito had – but that was only a projection of Cobb in a dream. He wanted to grow old with her. He wanted to build a life with her. He wanted to die with her at the end. He would have put himself on the train tracks with her and killed himself if he thought it could have saved her. He would have died for her, but in the end there was nothing he could do. But because of what happened, now he never can be with her. When he sees her in the end, he has to let her go because no matter how hard he tries, his vision of her in his dreams could never actually replace her. He even says in the dream that she saw “3 psychiatrists and all of them said she was sane.” He is angry about the fact that they were wrong. The movie says that you should never create dreams from your memory or you will lose all sense of reality and will be unable to tell if you are dreaming. The ONE and ONLY scene with Mal in the movie that is real is the night with a smashed up hotel room and her jumping from the building. Even the idea of “Inception” itself was never Cobb planting an idea in her head. It was her going insane and the last words she said to Cobb before she killed herself planted the idea of Inception in HIS mind which is where everything else in the movie comes from. Everything else, the beach, the shared dreaming, the Inception, the train tracks, the train, all that was just projections of Cobb's mind playing tricks on him simply because in real life he would have died for her on the train tracks. Cobb is having a terrible time getting over her which is why he is afraid to look at his child's faces. If he sees them, he knows he is in the real world, and that Mal is gone forever.

    It took me 2 times seeing the movie and a hell of a lot of thinking and I had to go through as many theories about the movie as everyone else until I finally really asked what Mal was really doing there.

    This is a love story about a man who lost his wife to a mental illness and about his love for his kids.

    The second time I saw it, I cried at the end. For people who say that this movie doesn't have any characters that we can care about or any emotional impact just simply don't get it, in my opinion. This is easily one of the best movies I have ever seen, and it might just be #1 on my list of all time.

    If The Academy passes on 'Inception' because they think it is a movie about a team of people trying to plant an illegal thought into a rich man's mind, not only do they NOT get it, but they will be missing out on one of the best movies of all time.

    Best Original Screenplay
    Best Director
    Best Actor (Leonardo Di Caprio) he absolutely should get it this time
    Best Cinematography
    Best Sound Editing
    Best Film Editing
    Best Picture

    I just can't imagine anything else that's going to come out this year that's going to be better than 'Inception.'

    Christopher Nolan: Good luck and thank you for making me believe in movies again.

    To everyone else, take my “take” on this movie, and go back and watch it again.

    Done. Peace.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lscarrozzi Louis Stephen Carrozzi

    Excellent! I agree with all of your points, but I think there is WAY more to this movie, and I think my interpretation is the “right one”.

    I am going to go with a combination of:

    12d) The Inception was on us the audience and was done by Christopher Nolan and
    12a) Nothing Ever Happened. All of it was just Cobb's dream on the plane.

    However, if you stop there, you are missing out – emotionally.

    The ONE character that I has yet to fully figure out is Mal, but I think I have FINALLY got it.

    It seems pretty obvious to me that if Michael Caine is “Grandpa” in real life (and not a professor) then he's taking care of the kids and Mal is dead. Yes, Cobb and Mal were supposed to grow old together, but she killed herself, and the fact that there was nothing Cobb could do to stop it is where all of his guilt comes from. In the dream world in Limbo, on level 5 they had 50 years together and they did grow old – just like Saito had – but that was only a projection of Cobb in a dream. He wanted to grow old with her. He wanted to build a life with her. He wanted to die with her at the end. He would have put himself on the train tracks with her and killed himself if he thought it could have saved her. He would have died for her, but in the end there was nothing he could do. But because of what happened, now he never can be with her. When he sees her in the end, he has to let her go because no matter how hard he tries, his vision of her in his dreams could never actually replace her. He even says in the dream that she saw “3 psychiatrists and all of them said she was sane.” He is angry about the fact that they were wrong. The movie says that you should never create dreams from your memory or you will lose all sense of reality and will be unable to tell if you are dreaming. The ONE and ONLY scene with Mal in the movie that is real is the night with a smashed up hotel room and her jumping from the building. Even the idea of “Inception” itself was never Cobb planting an idea in her head. It was her going insane and the last words she said to Cobb before she killed herself planted the idea of Inception in HIS mind which is where everything else in the movie comes from. Everything else, the beach, the shared dreaming, the Inception, the train tracks, the train, all that was just projections of Cobb's mind playing tricks on him simply because in real life he would have died for her on the train tracks. Cobb is having a terrible time getting over her which is why he is afraid to look at his child's faces. If he sees them, he knows he is in the real world, and that Mal is gone forever.

    It took me 2 times seeing the movie and a hell of a lot of thinking and I had to go through as many theories about the movie as everyone else until I finally really asked what Mal was really doing there.

    This is a love story about a man who lost his wife to a mental illness and about his love for his kids.

    The second time I saw it, I cried at the end. For people who say that this movie doesn't have any characters that we can care about or any emotional impact just simply don't get it, in my opinion. This is easily one of the best movies I have ever seen, and it might just be #1 on my list of all time.

    If The Academy passes on 'Inception' because they think it is a movie about a team of people trying to plant an illegal thought into a rich man's mind, not only do they NOT get it, but they will be missing out on one of the best movies of all time.

    Best Original Screenplay
    Best Director
    Best Actor (Leonardo Di Caprio) he absolutely should get it this time
    Best Cinematography
    Best Sound Editing
    Best Film Editing
    Best Picture

    I just can't imagine anything else that's going to come out this year that's going to be better than 'Inception.'

    Christopher Nolan: Good luck and thank you for making me believe in movies again.

    To everyone else, take my “take” on this movie, and go back and watch it again.

    Done. Peace.

  • Xxx

    To analyze it in linear mathematical terms is… incomplete. :) 2 books: Yog VashishtEnoch

  • Xxx

    To analyze it in linear mathematical terms is… incomplete. :) 2 books: Yog VashishtEnoch

  • Xxx

    To analyze it in linear mathematical terms is… incomplete. :) 2 books: Yog VashishtEnoch

  • Xxx

    To analyze it in linear mathematical terms is… incomplete. :) 2 books: Yog VashishtEnoch

  • Xxx

    To analyze it in linear mathematical terms is… incomplete. :) 2 books: Yog VashishtEnoch

  • Xxx

    To analyze it in linear mathematical terms is… incomplete. :) 2 books: Yog VashishtEnoch

  • Xxx

    To analyze it in linear mathematical terms is… incomplete. :) 2 books: Yog VashishtEnoch

  • Xxx

    To analyze it in linear mathematical terms is… incomplete. :) 2 books: Yog VashishtEnoch

  • Xxx

    To analyze it in linear mathematical terms is… incomplete. :) 2 books: Yog VashishtEnoch

  • Xxx

    No one can look past a choice they do not understand, No one. – Oracle. Matrix 2

  • Xxx

    If you did not get Matrix 2 & 3 and love the movies.. The evolution of your consciousness cannot grasp this either… You have to ask…WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF "ALL" THOUGHT?

  • Xxx

    If you did not get Matrix 2 & 3 and love the movies.. The evolution of your consciousness cannot grasp this either… You have to ask…WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF "ALL" THOUGHT?

  • Xxx

    If you did not get Matrix 2 & 3 and love the movies.. The evolution of your consciousness cannot grasp this either… You have to ask…WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF "ALL" THOUGHT?

  • Xxx

    If you did not get Matrix 2 & 3 and love the movies.. The evolution of your consciousness cannot grasp this either… You have to ask…WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF "ALL" THOUGHT?

  • Xxx

    If you did not get Matrix 2 & 3 and love the movies.. The evolution of your consciousness cannot grasp this either… You have to ask…WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF "ALL" THOUGHT?

  • Xxx

    If you did not get Matrix 2 & 3 and love the movies.. The evolution of your consciousness cannot grasp this either… You have to ask…WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF "ALL" THOUGHT?

  • Xxx

    If you did not get Matrix 2 & 3 and love the movies.. The evolution of your consciousness cannot grasp this either… You have to ask…WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF "ALL" THOUGHT?

  • Xxx

    If you did not get Matrix 2 & 3 and love the movies.. The evolution of your consciousness cannot grasp this either… You have to ask…WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF "ALL" THOUGHT?

  • Xxx

    If you did not get Matrix 2 & 3 and love the movies.. The evolution of your consciousness cannot grasp this either… You have to ask…WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF "ALL" THOUGHT?

  • Xxx

    How can you tell the REAL WORLD.. from the DREAM WORLD..?

  • Duki

    There is one point you're missing. The spinning top at the end, it indicates he is stuck in the dream, therefore if your theory holds true, Araidne failed. And also, what is Ariadne trying to accomplish if Mal is still alive?

  • Duki

    There is one point you're missing. The spinning top at the end, it indicates he is stuck in the dream, therefore if your theory holds true, Araidne failed. And also, what is Ariadne trying to accomplish if Mal is still alive?

  • Duki

    There is one point you're missing. The spinning top at the end, it indicates he is stuck in the dream, therefore if your theory holds true, Araidne failed. And also, what is Ariadne trying to accomplish if Mal is still alive?

  • Marc

    “if it is reality then why are the kids wearing the same thing and why do they look the same age?”

    1) The girl is older. Longer hair, taller, and her features are much more that of a 7-year-old than the toddler in the flashbacks. Her dress is also different (white sleeves)

    2) The shirt the boy is wearing in the ending is different than in the flashbacks. The shirt in the flashbacks appears to be red plaid, whereas in the ending, it is more white plaid. His hair is also slightly longer.

  • Marc

    “if it is reality then why are the kids wearing the same thing and why do they look the same age?”

    1) The girl is older. Longer hair, taller, and her features are much more that of a 7-year-old than the toddler in the flashbacks. Her dress is also different (white sleeves)

    2) The shirt the boy is wearing in the ending is different than in the flashbacks. The shirt in the flashbacks appears to be red plaid, whereas in the ending, it is more white plaid. His hair is also slightly longer.

  • Marc

    “if it is reality then why are the kids wearing the same thing and why do they look the same age?”

    1) The girl is older. Longer hair, taller, and her features are much more that of a 7-year-old than the toddler in the flashbacks. Her dress is also different (white sleeves)

    2) The shirt the boy is wearing in the ending is different than in the flashbacks. The shirt in the flashbacks appears to be red plaid, whereas in the ending, it is more white plaid. His hair is also slightly longer.

  • Marc

    “if it is reality then why are the kids wearing the same thing and why do they look the same age?”

    1) The girl is older. Longer hair, taller, and her features are much more that of a 7-year-old than the toddler in the flashbacks. Her dress is also different (white sleeves)

    2) The shirt the boy is wearing in the ending is different than in the flashbacks. The shirt in the flashbacks appears to be red plaid, whereas in the ending, it is more white plaid. His hair is also slightly longer.

  • Xxx

    To analyze it in linear mathematical terms is… incomplete. :)
    2 books:
    Yog Vashisht
    Enoch

  • Xxx

    To analyze it in linear mathematical terms is… incomplete. :)
    2 books:
    Yog Vashisht
    Enoch

  • Xxx

    To analyze it in linear mathematical terms is… incomplete. :)
    2 books:
    Yog Vashisht
    Enoch

  • Xxx

    No one can look past a choice they do not understand, No one. – Oracle. Matrix 2

  • Xxx

    No one can look past a choice they do not understand, No one. – Oracle. Matrix 2

  • Xxx

    No one can look past a choice they do not understand, No one. – Oracle. Matrix 2

  • Xxx

    No one can look past a choice they do not understand, No one. – Oracle. Matrix 2

  • Xxx

    No one can look past a choice they do not understand, No one. – Oracle. Matrix 2

  • Xxx

    No one can look past a choice they do not understand, No one. – Oracle. Matrix 2

  • Xxx

    No one can look past a choice they do not understand, No one. – Oracle. Matrix 2

  • Xxx

    No one can look past a choice they do not understand, No one. – Oracle. Matrix 2

  • Xxx

    No one can look past a choice they do not understand, No one. – Oracle. Matrix 2

  • Xxx

    No one can look past a choice they do not understand, No one. – Oracle. Matrix 2

  • Xxx

    No one can look past a choice they do not understand, No one. – Oracle. Matrix 2

  • Xxx

    If you did not get Matrix 2 & 3 and love the movies.. The evolution of your consciousness cannot grasp this either…
    You have to ask…
    WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF “ALL” THOUGHT?

  • Xxx

    If you did not get Matrix 2 & 3 and love the movies.. The evolution of your consciousness cannot grasp this either…
    You have to ask…
    WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF “ALL” THOUGHT?

  • Xxx

    If you did not get Matrix 2 & 3 and love the movies.. The evolution of your consciousness cannot grasp this either…
    You have to ask…
    WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF “ALL” THOUGHT?

  • Xxx

    How can you tell the REAL WORLD.. from the DREAM WORLD..?

  • Xxx

    How can you tell the REAL WORLD.. from the DREAM WORLD..?

  • Xxx

    How can you tell the REAL WORLD.. from the DREAM WORLD..?

  • Xxx

    How can you tell the REAL WORLD.. from the DREAM WORLD..?

  • Xxx

    How can you tell the REAL WORLD.. from the DREAM WORLD..?

  • Xxx

    How can you tell the REAL WORLD.. from the DREAM WORLD..?

  • Xxx

    How can you tell the REAL WORLD.. from the DREAM WORLD..?

  • Xxx

    How can you tell the REAL WORLD.. from the DREAM WORLD..?

  • Xxx

    How can you tell the REAL WORLD.. from the DREAM WORLD..?

  • Xxx

    How can you tell the REAL WORLD.. from the DREAM WORLD..?

  • Xxx

    How can you tell the REAL WORLD.. from the DREAM WORLD..?

  • Rooster

    I think the article above actually does a good job of explaining this one. Limbo is not so much a place (or dream level) as it is a state of mind. If you've gone deep enough, you COULD lose yourself and forget that you're dreaming. Once you believe your dream is real, limbo reflects your version of reality. Mal believed she was in reality for what felt like 50 years. So, naturally, she grew old with her husband. Saito believed he was in reality for what felt like decades as well. So, naturally, he aged as he feared… old and alone in his chamber. But Cobb, with his sharp grip on the nature of dreaming, was able to keep his grasp in both instances… mostly. With Mal, Cobb knew they were still in a dream. He stayed down there to experiment and to build a world like gods. Since he knew it was all a dream, neither of them would age FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE. With Saito, you could tell Cobb was starting to lose his grip. In fact, he did seem pretty haggard. But he likely wasn't in limbo as long as Saito, he kept his mind focused in order to hunt down Saito, and, of course, he understood the dream world much better than Saito.

  • Rooster

    I think the article above actually does a good job of explaining this one. Limbo is not so much a place (or dream level) as it is a state of mind. If you've gone deep enough, you COULD lose yourself and forget that you're dreaming. Once you believe your dream is real, limbo reflects your version of reality. Mal believed she was in reality for what felt like 50 years. So, naturally, she grew old with her husband. Saito believed he was in reality for what felt like decades as well. So, naturally, he aged as he feared… old and alone in his chamber. But Cobb, with his sharp grip on the nature of dreaming, was able to keep his grasp in both instances… mostly. With Mal, Cobb knew they were still in a dream. He stayed down there to experiment and to build a world like gods. Since he knew it was all a dream, neither of them would age FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE. With Saito, you could tell Cobb was starting to lose his grip. In fact, he did seem pretty haggard. But he likely wasn't in limbo as long as Saito, he kept his mind focused in order to hunt down Saito, and, of course, he understood the dream world much better than Saito.

  • Rooster

    I think the article above actually does a good job of explaining this one. Limbo is not so much a place (or dream level) as it is a state of mind. If you've gone deep enough, you COULD lose yourself and forget that you're dreaming. Once you believe your dream is real, limbo reflects your version of reality. Mal believed she was in reality for what felt like 50 years. So, naturally, she grew old with her husband. Saito believed he was in reality for what felt like decades as well. So, naturally, he aged as he feared… old and alone in his chamber. But Cobb, with his sharp grip on the nature of dreaming, was able to keep his grasp in both instances… mostly. With Mal, Cobb knew they were still in a dream. He stayed down there to experiment and to build a world like gods. Since he knew it was all a dream, neither of them would age FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE. With Saito, you could tell Cobb was starting to lose his grip. In fact, he did seem pretty haggard. But he likely wasn't in limbo as long as Saito, he kept his mind focused in order to hunt down Saito, and, of course, he understood the dream world much better than Saito.

  • Rooster

    I think the article above actually does a good job of explaining this one. Limbo is not so much a place (or dream level) as it is a state of mind. If you've gone deep enough, you COULD lose yourself and forget that you're dreaming. Once you believe your dream is real, limbo reflects your version of reality. Mal believed she was in reality for what felt like 50 years. So, naturally, she grew old with her husband. Saito believed he was in reality for what felt like decades as well. So, naturally, he aged as he feared… old and alone in his chamber. But Cobb, with his sharp grip on the nature of dreaming, was able to keep his grasp in both instances… mostly. With Mal, Cobb knew they were still in a dream. He stayed down there to experiment and to build a world like gods. Since he knew it was all a dream, neither of them would age FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE. With Saito, you could tell Cobb was starting to lose his grip. In fact, he did seem pretty haggard. But he likely wasn't in limbo as long as Saito, he kept his mind focused in order to hunt down Saito, and, of course, he understood the dream world much better than Saito.

  • Rooster

    I think the article above actually does a good job of explaining this one. Limbo is not so much a place (or dream level) as it is a state of mind. If you've gone deep enough, you COULD lose yourself and forget that you're dreaming. Once you believe your dream is real, limbo reflects your version of reality. Mal believed she was in reality for what felt like 50 years. So, naturally, she grew old with her husband. Saito believed he was in reality for what felt like decades as well. So, naturally, he aged as he feared… old and alone in his chamber. But Cobb, with his sharp grip on the nature of dreaming, was able to keep his grasp in both instances… mostly. With Mal, Cobb knew they were still in a dream. He stayed down there to experiment and to build a world like gods. Since he knew it was all a dream, neither of them would age FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE. With Saito, you could tell Cobb was starting to lose his grip. In fact, he did seem pretty haggard. But he likely wasn't in limbo as long as Saito, he kept his mind focused in order to hunt down Saito, and, of course, he understood the dream world much better than Saito.

  • Rooster

    I think the article above actually does a good job of explaining this one. Limbo is not so much a place (or dream level) as it is a state of mind. If you've gone deep enough, you COULD lose yourself and forget that you're dreaming. Once you believe your dream is real, limbo reflects your version of reality. Mal believed she was in reality for what felt like 50 years. So, naturally, she grew old with her husband. Saito believed he was in reality for what felt like decades as well. So, naturally, he aged as he feared… old and alone in his chamber. But Cobb, with his sharp grip on the nature of dreaming, was able to keep his grasp in both instances… mostly. With Mal, Cobb knew they were still in a dream. He stayed down there to experiment and to build a world like gods. Since he knew it was all a dream, neither of them would age FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE. With Saito, you could tell Cobb was starting to lose his grip. In fact, he did seem pretty haggard. But he likely wasn't in limbo as long as Saito, he kept his mind focused in order to hunt down Saito, and, of course, he understood the dream world much better than Saito.

  • Rooster

    I think the article above actually does a good job of explaining this one. Limbo is not so much a place (or dream level) as it is a state of mind. If you've gone deep enough, you COULD lose yourself and forget that you're dreaming. Once you believe your dream is real, limbo reflects your version of reality. Mal believed she was in reality for what felt like 50 years. So, naturally, she grew old with her husband. Saito believed he was in reality for what felt like decades as well. So, naturally, he aged as he feared… old and alone in his chamber. But Cobb, with his sharp grip on the nature of dreaming, was able to keep his grasp in both instances… mostly. With Mal, Cobb knew they were still in a dream. He stayed down there to experiment and to build a world like gods. Since he knew it was all a dream, neither of them would age FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE. With Saito, you could tell Cobb was starting to lose his grip. In fact, he did seem pretty haggard. But he likely wasn't in limbo as long as Saito, he kept his mind focused in order to hunt down Saito, and, of course, he understood the dream world much better than Saito.

  • Rooster

    I think the article above actually does a good job of explaining this one. Limbo is not so much a place (or dream level) as it is a state of mind. If you've gone deep enough, you COULD lose yourself and forget that you're dreaming. Once you believe your dream is real, limbo reflects your version of reality. Mal believed she was in reality for what felt like 50 years. So, naturally, she grew old with her husband. Saito believed he was in reality for what felt like decades as well. So, naturally, he aged as he feared… old and alone in his chamber. But Cobb, with his sharp grip on the nature of dreaming, was able to keep his grasp in both instances… mostly. With Mal, Cobb knew they were still in a dream. He stayed down there to experiment and to build a world like gods. Since he knew it was all a dream, neither of them would age FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE. With Saito, you could tell Cobb was starting to lose his grip. In fact, he did seem pretty haggard. But he likely wasn't in limbo as long as Saito, he kept his mind focused in order to hunt down Saito, and, of course, he understood the dream world much better than Saito.

  • Rooster

    I think the article above actually does a good job of explaining this one. Limbo is not so much a place (or dream level) as it is a state of mind. If you've gone deep enough, you COULD lose yourself and forget that you're dreaming. Once you believe your dream is real, limbo reflects your version of reality. Mal believed she was in reality for what felt like 50 years. So, naturally, she grew old with her husband. Saito believed he was in reality for what felt like decades as well. So, naturally, he aged as he feared… old and alone in his chamber. But Cobb, with his sharp grip on the nature of dreaming, was able to keep his grasp in both instances… mostly. With Mal, Cobb knew they were still in a dream. He stayed down there to experiment and to build a world like gods. Since he knew it was all a dream, neither of them would age FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE. With Saito, you could tell Cobb was starting to lose his grip. In fact, he did seem pretty haggard. But he likely wasn't in limbo as long as Saito, he kept his mind focused in order to hunt down Saito, and, of course, he understood the dream world much better than Saito.

  • Inceptor

    Ahh, EVERYBODY missed the Limo driver sign that said "LAM" on it. "Mal" in reverse. Could this be Mal's dream?

  • Inceptor

    Ahh, EVERYBODY missed the Limo driver sign that said "LAM" on it. "Mal" in reverse. Could this be Mal's dream?

  • Inceptor

    Ahh, EVERYBODY missed the Limo driver sign that said "LAM" on it. "Mal" in reverse. Could this be Mal's dream?

  • Inceptor

    Ahh, EVERYBODY missed the Limo driver sign that said "LAM" on it. "Mal" in reverse. Could this be Mal's dream?

  • Inceptor

    Ahh, EVERYBODY missed the Limo driver sign that said "LAM" on it. "Mal" in reverse. Could this be Mal's dream?

  • Inceptor

    Ahh, EVERYBODY missed the Limo driver sign that said "LAM" on it. "Mal" in reverse. Could this be Mal's dream?

  • Inceptor

    Ahh, EVERYBODY missed the Limo driver sign that said "LAM" on it. "Mal" in reverse. Could this be Mal's dream?

  • Inceptor

    Ahh, EVERYBODY missed the Limo driver sign that said "LAM" on it. "Mal" in reverse. Could this be Mal's dream?

  • Inceptor

    Ahh, EVERYBODY missed the Limo driver sign that said "LAM" on it. "Mal" in reverse. Could this be Mal's dream?

  • Rooster

    I think the article above actually does a good job of explaining this one. Limbo is not so much a place (or dream level) as it is a state of mind. If you've gone deep enough, you COULD lose yourself and forget that you're dreaming. Once you believe your dream is real, limbo reflects your version of reality. Mal believed she was in reality for what felt like 50 years. So, naturally, she grew old with her husband. Saito believed he was in reality for what felt like decades as well. So, naturally, he aged as he feared… old and alone in his chamber. But Cobb, with his sharp grip on the nature of dreaming, was able to keep his grasp in both instances… mostly. With Mal, Cobb knew they were still in a dream. He stayed down there to experiment and to build a world like gods. Since he knew it was all a dream, neither of them would age FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE. With Saito, you could tell Cobb was starting to lose his grip. In fact, he did seem pretty haggard. But he likely wasn't in limbo as long as Saito, he kept his mind focused in order to hunt down Saito, and, of course, he understood the dream world much better than Saito.

  • Rooster

    I think the article above actually does a good job of explaining this one. Limbo is not so much a place (or dream level) as it is a state of mind. If you've gone deep enough, you COULD lose yourself and forget that you're dreaming. Once you believe your dream is real, limbo reflects your version of reality. Mal believed she was in reality for what felt like 50 years. So, naturally, she grew old with her husband. Saito believed he was in reality for what felt like decades as well. So, naturally, he aged as he feared… old and alone in his chamber. But Cobb, with his sharp grip on the nature of dreaming, was able to keep his grasp in both instances… mostly. With Mal, Cobb knew they were still in a dream. He stayed down there to experiment and to build a world like gods. Since he knew it was all a dream, neither of them would age FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE. With Saito, you could tell Cobb was starting to lose his grip. In fact, he did seem pretty haggard. But he likely wasn't in limbo as long as Saito, he kept his mind focused in order to hunt down Saito, and, of course, he understood the dream world much better than Saito.

  • Rooster

    I think the article above actually does a good job of explaining this one. Limbo is not so much a place (or dream level) as it is a state of mind. If you've gone deep enough, you COULD lose yourself and forget that you're dreaming. Once you believe your dream is real, limbo reflects your version of reality. Mal believed she was in reality for what felt like 50 years. So, naturally, she grew old with her husband. Saito believed he was in reality for what felt like decades as well. So, naturally, he aged as he feared… old and alone in his chamber. But Cobb, with his sharp grip on the nature of dreaming, was able to keep his grasp in both instances… mostly. With Mal, Cobb knew they were still in a dream. He stayed down there to experiment and to build a world like gods. Since he knew it was all a dream, neither of them would age FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE. With Saito, you could tell Cobb was starting to lose his grip. In fact, he did seem pretty haggard. But he likely wasn't in limbo as long as Saito, he kept his mind focused in order to hunt down Saito, and, of course, he understood the dream world much better than Saito.

  • sneppo

    I don't get how they can use a machine to go into limbo.You only go into limbo through dying, so that means it was just Cobbs dream they went into. When he died in the dream, he went to the real limbo and met Saito…. Any thoughts?

  • sneppo

    I don't get how they can use a machine to go into limbo.You only go into limbo through dying, so that means it was just Cobbs dream they went into. When he died in the dream, he went to the real limbo and met Saito…. Any thoughts?

  • sneppo

    I don't get how they can use a machine to go into limbo.You only go into limbo through dying, so that means it was just Cobbs dream they went into. When he died in the dream, he went to the real limbo and met Saito…. Any thoughts?

  • sneppo

    I don't get how they can use a machine to go into limbo.You only go into limbo through dying, so that means it was just Cobbs dream they went into. When he died in the dream, he went to the real limbo and met Saito…. Any thoughts?

  • sneppo

    I don't get how they can use a machine to go into limbo.You only go into limbo through dying, so that means it was just Cobbs dream they went into. When he died in the dream, he went to the real limbo and met Saito…. Any thoughts?

  • sneppo

    I don't get how they can use a machine to go into limbo.You only go into limbo through dying, so that means it was just Cobbs dream they went into. When he died in the dream, he went to the real limbo and met Saito…. Any thoughts?

  • sneppo

    I don't get how they can use a machine to go into limbo.You only go into limbo through dying, so that means it was just Cobbs dream they went into. When he died in the dream, he went to the real limbo and met Saito…. Any thoughts?

  • sneppo

    I don't get how they can use a machine to go into limbo.You only go into limbo through dying, so that means it was just Cobbs dream they went into. When he died in the dream, he went to the real limbo and met Saito…. Any thoughts?

  • sneppo

    I don't get how they can use a machine to go into limbo.You only go into limbo through dying, so that means it was just Cobbs dream they went into. When he died in the dream, he went to the real limbo and met Saito…. Any thoughts?

  • Soraai

    The kids did age, thus the different sets of actors. Do your research (in this case checking the casting on imdb would have been enough).

  • Inceptor

    Ahh, EVERYBODY missed the Limo driver sign that said “LAM” on it. “Mal” in reverse. Could this be Mal's dream?

  • Inceptor

    Ahh, EVERYBODY missed the Limo driver sign that said “LAM” on it. “Mal” in reverse. Could this be Mal's dream?

  • Inceptor

    Ahh, EVERYBODY missed the Limo driver sign that said “LAM” on it. “Mal” in reverse. Could this be Mal's dream?

  • sneppo

    I don't get how they can use a machine to go into limbo.

    You only go into limbo through dying, so that means it was just Cobbs dream they went into. When he died in the dream, he went to the real limbo and met Saito…. Any thoughts?

  • sneppo

    I don't get how they can use a machine to go into limbo.

    You only go into limbo through dying, so that means it was just Cobbs dream they went into. When he died in the dream, he went to the real limbo and met Saito…. Any thoughts?

  • sneppo

    I don't get how they can use a machine to go into limbo.

    You only go into limbo through dying, so that means it was just Cobbs dream they went into. When he died in the dream, he went to the real limbo and met Saito…. Any thoughts?

  • Soraai

    The kids did age, thus the different sets of actors. Do your research (in this case checking the casting on imdb would have been enough).

  • Soraai

    The kids did age, thus the different sets of actors. Do your research (in this case checking the casting on imdb would have been enough).

  • Soraai

    The kids did age, thus the different sets of actors. Do your research (in this case checking the casting on imdb would have been enough).

  • Soraai

    The kids did age, thus the different sets of actors. Do your research (in this case checking the casting on imdb would have been enough).

  • Soraai

    The kids did age, thus the different sets of actors. Do your research (in this case checking the casting on imdb would have been enough).

  • Soraai

    The kids did age, thus the different sets of actors. Do your research (in this case checking the casting on imdb would have been enough).

  • Soraai

    The kids did age, thus the different sets of actors. Do your research (in this case checking the casting on imdb would have been enough).

  • Soraai

    The kids did age, thus the different sets of actors. Do your research (in this case checking the casting on imdb would have been enough).

  • Soraai

    The kids did age, thus the different sets of actors. Do your research (in this case checking the casting on imdb would have been enough).

  • Soraai

    The kids did age, thus the different sets of actors. Do your research (in this case checking the casting on imdb would have been enough).

  • Soraai

    The kids did age, thus the different sets of actors. Do your research (in this case checking the casting on imdb would have been enough).

  • Nathalie Boehler

    Thanks, I have really liked the movie and your interpretations are very interested.This is what I think:I think that the the job with Fisher is a distraction for him like the blond girl is a distraction for Fisher. He does not do one job but two. First he tries with Seito but fails because the architecture of the dream was not good enough. Who is attaacked in this dream when there is the violent stike? The architect which means that the people attacks him in order to defend the subject. Why the subject could not be Cobb already and not Seito?So he decides to find a new architect. When he goes to Paris isn´t strange that his father in law already tells him "why dont you come to reality?" Why would it say such a think if Cobb was already awake?Then he decides to do the job with Fisher and he knows that he will have to face the projections of his own mind (which means his ex wife) since both Fischer and him will be asleep and thus in the dream.That is why he needs the architect to know the maze of the dream but does not want to know it.What is important about the dreams is that if you are in one level dream, you can wake up easily or if you die in this one level dream then you can wake up. But the thing is that if you die in one dream with different levels, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains trapped in the bottom level. That is why when Seito died in the dream, he went to the bottom level and that is precisely the reason why the movie starts with Cobb on the beach: in fact he is in the bottom level looking for the guy as when they stared the job and he got shoot, he promised him to come and get him in Limbo. And it is what happened with his wife as well: he created for her the perfect dream and this dream was at the edge of subconscious, where everything was deep and perfect. Then he realized that this was not reality and he wanted to return to reality. That is why they decided to kill themselves under the train. After killing themselves, they got back to what they thought was reality but in fact it was not! It was still an other dream. I think so because of the reason that if you want to have access to the deepest dream, you have to pass by different other level of dream before. So when they woke up there are still in a dream: Cobbe´s dream of having a house and childrenThe wife feels that something is not right and that is why she always thinks about killing herself: by killing herself she knows that she will return to the bottom level dream. Why? Precisely because if you die in one of the other level, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains in the bottom level for ever. So she kills herself by the window and then Cobb decides to go to get her. They live a second time in limdo and this time they grow old together. If you remember this scene when she tells him that he gave up on their dram which was to get old together, then he answers that they did get old together and that she died but she could not remember.During the whole movie he cannot accept that she died that is why he keeps projecting her when he does a job in someone else’s mind. He keeps and he wants to keep imagining that he can still be with her. But after doing that last job, he realizes that it is not true: he cannot search for her in dreams for ever and he has to admit to himself that if she died it is because of him: because he was the one putting in HER mind the idea of an eternal dream. That is the moment when he tells to her that what he feels is guiltiness. Once he admit that he feels guilty then he can free himself from her.This end is of course ambiguous but according to me he does not decide to go back to reality but to the dream: he chooses the dream with his Children. The reality with his children is still a dream. In my opinion, all the scenes with the wife and the children are part of his dream. I think that at the end he accepts that his wife died but still chooses not to live in reality but in this dream where the wife is dead and where he is a father and must take care of his children. Exactly like these people in the abasement who chooses to live in their dream and come there "to be awaken" as the old man says. according to me that is why the totem is still spinning at the end.But maybe he does not chooses, maybe he does not have the choice as it is brightly explain in interpretation f: "There is simply no way for Cobb or Saito to return to the plane since they both died while sedated. The very end is just a projection that Cobb created so he could be happy and at peace. By killing Cobb, Saito did complete his end of the deal, Cobb was able to return home to his kids, even if it was in a dream."totems help to have a small idea of what is real and what is not but i think we also need to look at the yellow filter used. For me, when there is a yellow hue it is a dream…

  • Nathalie Boehler

    Thanks, I have really liked the movie and your interpretations are very interested.This is what I think:I think that the the job with Fisher is a distraction for him like the blond girl is a distraction for Fisher. He does not do one job but two. First he tries with Seito but fails because the architecture of the dream was not good enough. Who is attaacked in this dream when there is the violent stike? The architect which means that the people attacks him in order to defend the subject. Why the subject could not be Cobb already and not Seito?So he decides to find a new architect. When he goes to Paris isn´t strange that his father in law already tells him "why dont you come to reality?" Why would it say such a think if Cobb was already awake?Then he decides to do the job with Fisher and he knows that he will have to face the projections of his own mind (which means his ex wife) since both Fischer and him will be asleep and thus in the dream.That is why he needs the architect to know the maze of the dream but does not want to know it.What is important about the dreams is that if you are in one level dream, you can wake up easily or if you die in this one level dream then you can wake up. But the thing is that if you die in one dream with different levels, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains trapped in the bottom level. That is why when Seito died in the dream, he went to the bottom level and that is precisely the reason why the movie starts with Cobb on the beach: in fact he is in the bottom level looking for the guy as when they stared the job and he got shoot, he promised him to come and get him in Limbo. And it is what happened with his wife as well: he created for her the perfect dream and this dream was at the edge of subconscious, where everything was deep and perfect. Then he realized that this was not reality and he wanted to return to reality. That is why they decided to kill themselves under the train. After killing themselves, they got back to what they thought was reality but in fact it was not! It was still an other dream. I think so because of the reason that if you want to have access to the deepest dream, you have to pass by different other level of dream before. So when they woke up there are still in a dream: Cobbe´s dream of having a house and childrenThe wife feels that something is not right and that is why she always thinks about killing herself: by killing herself she knows that she will return to the bottom level dream. Why? Precisely because if you die in one of the other level, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains in the bottom level for ever. So she kills herself by the window and then Cobb decides to go to get her. They live a second time in limdo and this time they grow old together. If you remember this scene when she tells him that he gave up on their dram which was to get old together, then he answers that they did get old together and that she died but she could not remember.During the whole movie he cannot accept that she died that is why he keeps projecting her when he does a job in someone else’s mind. He keeps and he wants to keep imagining that he can still be with her. But after doing that last job, he realizes that it is not true: he cannot search for her in dreams for ever and he has to admit to himself that if she died it is because of him: because he was the one putting in HER mind the idea of an eternal dream. That is the moment when he tells to her that what he feels is guiltiness. Once he admit that he feels guilty then he can free himself from her.This end is of course ambiguous but according to me he does not decide to go back to reality but to the dream: he chooses the dream with his Children. The reality with his children is still a dream. In my opinion, all the scenes with the wife and the children are part of his dream. I think that at the end he accepts that his wife died but still chooses not to live in reality but in this dream where the wife is dead and where he is a father and must take care of his children. Exactly like these people in the abasement who chooses to live in their dream and come there "to be awaken" as the old man says. according to me that is why the totem is still spinning at the end.But maybe he does not chooses, maybe he does not have the choice as it is brightly explain in interpretation f: "There is simply no way for Cobb or Saito to return to the plane since they both died while sedated. The very end is just a projection that Cobb created so he could be happy and at peace. By killing Cobb, Saito did complete his end of the deal, Cobb was able to return home to his kids, even if it was in a dream."totems help to have a small idea of what is real and what is not but i think we also need to look at the yellow filter used. For me, when there is a yellow hue it is a dream…

  • Nathalie Boehler

    Thanks, I have really liked the movie and your interpretations are very interested.This is what I think:I think that the the job with Fisher is a distraction for him like the blond girl is a distraction for Fisher. He does not do one job but two. First he tries with Seito but fails because the architecture of the dream was not good enough. Who is attaacked in this dream when there is the violent stike? The architect which means that the people attacks him in order to defend the subject. Why the subject could not be Cobb already and not Seito?So he decides to find a new architect. When he goes to Paris isn´t strange that his father in law already tells him "why dont you come to reality?" Why would it say such a think if Cobb was already awake?Then he decides to do the job with Fisher and he knows that he will have to face the projections of his own mind (which means his ex wife) since both Fischer and him will be asleep and thus in the dream.That is why he needs the architect to know the maze of the dream but does not want to know it.What is important about the dreams is that if you are in one level dream, you can wake up easily or if you die in this one level dream then you can wake up. But the thing is that if you die in one dream with different levels, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains trapped in the bottom level. That is why when Seito died in the dream, he went to the bottom level and that is precisely the reason why the movie starts with Cobb on the beach: in fact he is in the bottom level looking for the guy as when they stared the job and he got shoot, he promised him to come and get him in Limbo. And it is what happened with his wife as well: he created for her the perfect dream and this dream was at the edge of subconscious, where everything was deep and perfect. Then he realized that this was not reality and he wanted to return to reality. That is why they decided to kill themselves under the train. After killing themselves, they got back to what they thought was reality but in fact it was not! It was still an other dream. I think so because of the reason that if you want to have access to the deepest dream, you have to pass by different other level of dream before. So when they woke up there are still in a dream: Cobbe´s dream of having a house and childrenThe wife feels that something is not right and that is why she always thinks about killing herself: by killing herself she knows that she will return to the bottom level dream. Why? Precisely because if you die in one of the other level, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains in the bottom level for ever. So she kills herself by the window and then Cobb decides to go to get her. They live a second time in limdo and this time they grow old together. If you remember this scene when she tells him that he gave up on their dram which was to get old together, then he answers that they did get old together and that she died but she could not remember.During the whole movie he cannot accept that she died that is why he keeps projecting her when he does a job in someone else’s mind. He keeps and he wants to keep imagining that he can still be with her. But after doing that last job, he realizes that it is not true: he cannot search for her in dreams for ever and he has to admit to himself that if she died it is because of him: because he was the one putting in HER mind the idea of an eternal dream. That is the moment when he tells to her that what he feels is guiltiness. Once he admit that he feels guilty then he can free himself from her.This end is of course ambiguous but according to me he does not decide to go back to reality but to the dream: he chooses the dream with his Children. The reality with his children is still a dream. In my opinion, all the scenes with the wife and the children are part of his dream. I think that at the end he accepts that his wife died but still chooses not to live in reality but in this dream where the wife is dead and where he is a father and must take care of his children. Exactly like these people in the abasement who chooses to live in their dream and come there "to be awaken" as the old man says. according to me that is why the totem is still spinning at the end.But maybe he does not chooses, maybe he does not have the choice as it is brightly explain in interpretation f: "There is simply no way for Cobb or Saito to return to the plane since they both died while sedated. The very end is just a projection that Cobb created so he could be happy and at peace. By killing Cobb, Saito did complete his end of the deal, Cobb was able to return home to his kids, even if it was in a dream."totems help to have a small idea of what is real and what is not but i think we also need to look at the yellow filter used. For me, when there is a yellow hue it is a dream…

  • Nathalie Boehler

    Thanks, I have really liked the movie and your interpretations are very interested.This is what I think:I think that the the job with Fisher is a distraction for him like the blond girl is a distraction for Fisher. He does not do one job but two. First he tries with Seito but fails because the architecture of the dream was not good enough. Who is attaacked in this dream when there is the violent stike? The architect which means that the people attacks him in order to defend the subject. Why the subject could not be Cobb already and not Seito?So he decides to find a new architect. When he goes to Paris isn´t strange that his father in law already tells him "why dont you come to reality?" Why would it say such a think if Cobb was already awake?Then he decides to do the job with Fisher and he knows that he will have to face the projections of his own mind (which means his ex wife) since both Fischer and him will be asleep and thus in the dream.That is why he needs the architect to know the maze of the dream but does not want to know it.What is important about the dreams is that if you are in one level dream, you can wake up easily or if you die in this one level dream then you can wake up. But the thing is that if you die in one dream with different levels, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains trapped in the bottom level. That is why when Seito died in the dream, he went to the bottom level and that is precisely the reason why the movie starts with Cobb on the beach: in fact he is in the bottom level looking for the guy as when they stared the job and he got shoot, he promised him to come and get him in Limbo. And it is what happened with his wife as well: he created for her the perfect dream and this dream was at the edge of subconscious, where everything was deep and perfect. Then he realized that this was not reality and he wanted to return to reality. That is why they decided to kill themselves under the train. After killing themselves, they got back to what they thought was reality but in fact it was not! It was still an other dream. I think so because of the reason that if you want to have access to the deepest dream, you have to pass by different other level of dream before. So when they woke up there are still in a dream: Cobbe´s dream of having a house and childrenThe wife feels that something is not right and that is why she always thinks about killing herself: by killing herself she knows that she will return to the bottom level dream. Why? Precisely because if you die in one of the other level, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains in the bottom level for ever. So she kills herself by the window and then Cobb decides to go to get her. They live a second time in limdo and this time they grow old together. If you remember this scene when she tells him that he gave up on their dram which was to get old together, then he answers that they did get old together and that she died but she could not remember.During the whole movie he cannot accept that she died that is why he keeps projecting her when he does a job in someone else’s mind. He keeps and he wants to keep imagining that he can still be with her. But after doing that last job, he realizes that it is not true: he cannot search for her in dreams for ever and he has to admit to himself that if she died it is because of him: because he was the one putting in HER mind the idea of an eternal dream. That is the moment when he tells to her that what he feels is guiltiness. Once he admit that he feels guilty then he can free himself from her.This end is of course ambiguous but according to me he does not decide to go back to reality but to the dream: he chooses the dream with his Children. The reality with his children is still a dream. In my opinion, all the scenes with the wife and the children are part of his dream. I think that at the end he accepts that his wife died but still chooses not to live in reality but in this dream where the wife is dead and where he is a father and must take care of his children. Exactly like these people in the abasement who chooses to live in their dream and come there "to be awaken" as the old man says. according to me that is why the totem is still spinning at the end.But maybe he does not chooses, maybe he does not have the choice as it is brightly explain in interpretation f: "There is simply no way for Cobb or Saito to return to the plane since they both died while sedated. The very end is just a projection that Cobb created so he could be happy and at peace. By killing Cobb, Saito did complete his end of the deal, Cobb was able to return home to his kids, even if it was in a dream."totems help to have a small idea of what is real and what is not but i think we also need to look at the yellow filter used. For me, when there is a yellow hue it is a dream…

  • Nathalie Boehler

    Thanks, I have really liked the movie and your interpretations are very interested.This is what I think:I think that the the job with Fisher is a distraction for him like the blond girl is a distraction for Fisher. He does not do one job but two. First he tries with Seito but fails because the architecture of the dream was not good enough. Who is attaacked in this dream when there is the violent stike? The architect which means that the people attacks him in order to defend the subject. Why the subject could not be Cobb already and not Seito?So he decides to find a new architect. When he goes to Paris isn´t strange that his father in law already tells him "why dont you come to reality?" Why would it say such a think if Cobb was already awake?Then he decides to do the job with Fisher and he knows that he will have to face the projections of his own mind (which means his ex wife) since both Fischer and him will be asleep and thus in the dream.That is why he needs the architect to know the maze of the dream but does not want to know it.What is important about the dreams is that if you are in one level dream, you can wake up easily or if you die in this one level dream then you can wake up. But the thing is that if you die in one dream with different levels, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains trapped in the bottom level. That is why when Seito died in the dream, he went to the bottom level and that is precisely the reason why the movie starts with Cobb on the beach: in fact he is in the bottom level looking for the guy as when they stared the job and he got shoot, he promised him to come and get him in Limbo. And it is what happened with his wife as well: he created for her the perfect dream and this dream was at the edge of subconscious, where everything was deep and perfect. Then he realized that this was not reality and he wanted to return to reality. That is why they decided to kill themselves under the train. After killing themselves, they got back to what they thought was reality but in fact it was not! It was still an other dream. I think so because of the reason that if you want to have access to the deepest dream, you have to pass by different other level of dream before. So when they woke up there are still in a dream: Cobbe´s dream of having a house and childrenThe wife feels that something is not right and that is why she always thinks about killing herself: by killing herself she knows that she will return to the bottom level dream. Why? Precisely because if you die in one of the other level, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains in the bottom level for ever. So she kills herself by the window and then Cobb decides to go to get her. They live a second time in limdo and this time they grow old together. If you remember this scene when she tells him that he gave up on their dram which was to get old together, then he answers that they did get old together and that she died but she could not remember.During the whole movie he cannot accept that she died that is why he keeps projecting her when he does a job in someone else’s mind. He keeps and he wants to keep imagining that he can still be with her. But after doing that last job, he realizes that it is not true: he cannot search for her in dreams for ever and he has to admit to himself that if she died it is because of him: because he was the one putting in HER mind the idea of an eternal dream. That is the moment when he tells to her that what he feels is guiltiness. Once he admit that he feels guilty then he can free himself from her.This end is of course ambiguous but according to me he does not decide to go back to reality but to the dream: he chooses the dream with his Children. The reality with his children is still a dream. In my opinion, all the scenes with the wife and the children are part of his dream. I think that at the end he accepts that his wife died but still chooses not to live in reality but in this dream where the wife is dead and where he is a father and must take care of his children. Exactly like these people in the abasement who chooses to live in their dream and come there "to be awaken" as the old man says. according to me that is why the totem is still spinning at the end.But maybe he does not chooses, maybe he does not have the choice as it is brightly explain in interpretation f: "There is simply no way for Cobb or Saito to return to the plane since they both died while sedated. The very end is just a projection that Cobb created so he could be happy and at peace. By killing Cobb, Saito did complete his end of the deal, Cobb was able to return home to his kids, even if it was in a dream."totems help to have a small idea of what is real and what is not but i think we also need to look at the yellow filter used. For me, when there is a yellow hue it is a dream…

  • Nathalie Boehler

    Thanks, I have really liked the movie and your interpretations are very interested.This is what I think:I think that the the job with Fisher is a distraction for him like the blond girl is a distraction for Fisher. He does not do one job but two. First he tries with Seito but fails because the architecture of the dream was not good enough. Who is attaacked in this dream when there is the violent stike? The architect which means that the people attacks him in order to defend the subject. Why the subject could not be Cobb already and not Seito?So he decides to find a new architect. When he goes to Paris isn´t strange that his father in law already tells him "why dont you come to reality?" Why would it say such a think if Cobb was already awake?Then he decides to do the job with Fisher and he knows that he will have to face the projections of his own mind (which means his ex wife) since both Fischer and him will be asleep and thus in the dream.That is why he needs the architect to know the maze of the dream but does not want to know it.What is important about the dreams is that if you are in one level dream, you can wake up easily or if you die in this one level dream then you can wake up. But the thing is that if you die in one dream with different levels, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains trapped in the bottom level. That is why when Seito died in the dream, he went to the bottom level and that is precisely the reason why the movie starts with Cobb on the beach: in fact he is in the bottom level looking for the guy as when they stared the job and he got shoot, he promised him to come and get him in Limbo. And it is what happened with his wife as well: he created for her the perfect dream and this dream was at the edge of subconscious, where everything was deep and perfect. Then he realized that this was not reality and he wanted to return to reality. That is why they decided to kill themselves under the train. After killing themselves, they got back to what they thought was reality but in fact it was not! It was still an other dream. I think so because of the reason that if you want to have access to the deepest dream, you have to pass by different other level of dream before. So when they woke up there are still in a dream: Cobbe´s dream of having a house and childrenThe wife feels that something is not right and that is why she always thinks about killing herself: by killing herself she knows that she will return to the bottom level dream. Why? Precisely because if you die in one of the other level, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains in the bottom level for ever. So she kills herself by the window and then Cobb decides to go to get her. They live a second time in limdo and this time they grow old together. If you remember this scene when she tells him that he gave up on their dram which was to get old together, then he answers that they did get old together and that she died but she could not remember.During the whole movie he cannot accept that she died that is why he keeps projecting her when he does a job in someone else’s mind. He keeps and he wants to keep imagining that he can still be with her. But after doing that last job, he realizes that it is not true: he cannot search for her in dreams for ever and he has to admit to himself that if she died it is because of him: because he was the one putting in HER mind the idea of an eternal dream. That is the moment when he tells to her that what he feels is guiltiness. Once he admit that he feels guilty then he can free himself from her.This end is of course ambiguous but according to me he does not decide to go back to reality but to the dream: he chooses the dream with his Children. The reality with his children is still a dream. In my opinion, all the scenes with the wife and the children are part of his dream. I think that at the end he accepts that his wife died but still chooses not to live in reality but in this dream where the wife is dead and where he is a father and must take care of his children. Exactly like these people in the abasement who chooses to live in their dream and come there "to be awaken" as the old man says. according to me that is why the totem is still spinning at the end.But maybe he does not chooses, maybe he does not have the choice as it is brightly explain in interpretation f: "There is simply no way for Cobb or Saito to return to the plane since they both died while sedated. The very end is just a projection that Cobb created so he could be happy and at peace. By killing Cobb, Saito did complete his end of the deal, Cobb was able to return home to his kids, even if it was in a dream."totems help to have a small idea of what is real and what is not but i think we also need to look at the yellow filter used. For me, when there is a yellow hue it is a dream…

  • Nathalie Boehler

    Thanks, I have really liked the movie and your interpretations are very interested.This is what I think:I think that the the job with Fisher is a distraction for him like the blond girl is a distraction for Fisher. He does not do one job but two. First he tries with Seito but fails because the architecture of the dream was not good enough. Who is attaacked in this dream when there is the violent stike? The architect which means that the people attacks him in order to defend the subject. Why the subject could not be Cobb already and not Seito?So he decides to find a new architect. When he goes to Paris isn´t strange that his father in law already tells him "why dont you come to reality?" Why would it say such a think if Cobb was already awake?Then he decides to do the job with Fisher and he knows that he will have to face the projections of his own mind (which means his ex wife) since both Fischer and him will be asleep and thus in the dream.That is why he needs the architect to know the maze of the dream but does not want to know it.What is important about the dreams is that if you are in one level dream, you can wake up easily or if you die in this one level dream then you can wake up. But the thing is that if you die in one dream with different levels, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains trapped in the bottom level. That is why when Seito died in the dream, he went to the bottom level and that is precisely the reason why the movie starts with Cobb on the beach: in fact he is in the bottom level looking for the guy as when they stared the job and he got shoot, he promised him to come and get him in Limbo. And it is what happened with his wife as well: he created for her the perfect dream and this dream was at the edge of subconscious, where everything was deep and perfect. Then he realized that this was not reality and he wanted to return to reality. That is why they decided to kill themselves under the train. After killing themselves, they got back to what they thought was reality but in fact it was not! It was still an other dream. I think so because of the reason that if you want to have access to the deepest dream, you have to pass by different other level of dream before. So when they woke up there are still in a dream: Cobbe´s dream of having a house and childrenThe wife feels that something is not right and that is why she always thinks about killing herself: by killing herself she knows that she will return to the bottom level dream. Why? Precisely because if you die in one of the other level, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains in the bottom level for ever. So she kills herself by the window and then Cobb decides to go to get her. They live a second time in limdo and this time they grow old together. If you remember this scene when she tells him that he gave up on their dram which was to get old together, then he answers that they did get old together and that she died but she could not remember.During the whole movie he cannot accept that she died that is why he keeps projecting her when he does a job in someone else’s mind. He keeps and he wants to keep imagining that he can still be with her. But after doing that last job, he realizes that it is not true: he cannot search for her in dreams for ever and he has to admit to himself that if she died it is because of him: because he was the one putting in HER mind the idea of an eternal dream. That is the moment when he tells to her that what he feels is guiltiness. Once he admit that he feels guilty then he can free himself from her.This end is of course ambiguous but according to me he does not decide to go back to reality but to the dream: he chooses the dream with his Children. The reality with his children is still a dream. In my opinion, all the scenes with the wife and the children are part of his dream. I think that at the end he accepts that his wife died but still chooses not to live in reality but in this dream where the wife is dead and where he is a father and must take care of his children. Exactly like these people in the abasement who chooses to live in their dream and come there "to be awaken" as the old man says. according to me that is why the totem is still spinning at the end.But maybe he does not chooses, maybe he does not have the choice as it is brightly explain in interpretation f: "There is simply no way for Cobb or Saito to return to the plane since they both died while sedated. The very end is just a projection that Cobb created so he could be happy and at peace. By killing Cobb, Saito did complete his end of the deal, Cobb was able to return home to his kids, even if it was in a dream."totems help to have a small idea of what is real and what is not but i think we also need to look at the yellow filter used. For me, when there is a yellow hue it is a dream…

  • Nathalie Boehler

    Thanks, I have really liked the movie and your interpretations are very interested.This is what I think:I think that the the job with Fisher is a distraction for him like the blond girl is a distraction for Fisher. He does not do one job but two. First he tries with Seito but fails because the architecture of the dream was not good enough. Who is attaacked in this dream when there is the violent stike? The architect which means that the people attacks him in order to defend the subject. Why the subject could not be Cobb already and not Seito?So he decides to find a new architect. When he goes to Paris isn´t strange that his father in law already tells him "why dont you come to reality?" Why would it say such a think if Cobb was already awake?Then he decides to do the job with Fisher and he knows that he will have to face the projections of his own mind (which means his ex wife) since both Fischer and him will be asleep and thus in the dream.That is why he needs the architect to know the maze of the dream but does not want to know it.What is important about the dreams is that if you are in one level dream, you can wake up easily or if you die in this one level dream then you can wake up. But the thing is that if you die in one dream with different levels, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains trapped in the bottom level. That is why when Seito died in the dream, he went to the bottom level and that is precisely the reason why the movie starts with Cobb on the beach: in fact he is in the bottom level looking for the guy as when they stared the job and he got shoot, he promised him to come and get him in Limbo. And it is what happened with his wife as well: he created for her the perfect dream and this dream was at the edge of subconscious, where everything was deep and perfect. Then he realized that this was not reality and he wanted to return to reality. That is why they decided to kill themselves under the train. After killing themselves, they got back to what they thought was reality but in fact it was not! It was still an other dream. I think so because of the reason that if you want to have access to the deepest dream, you have to pass by different other level of dream before. So when they woke up there are still in a dream: Cobbe´s dream of having a house and childrenThe wife feels that something is not right and that is why she always thinks about killing herself: by killing herself she knows that she will return to the bottom level dream. Why? Precisely because if you die in one of the other level, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains in the bottom level for ever. So she kills herself by the window and then Cobb decides to go to get her. They live a second time in limdo and this time they grow old together. If you remember this scene when she tells him that he gave up on their dram which was to get old together, then he answers that they did get old together and that she died but she could not remember.During the whole movie he cannot accept that she died that is why he keeps projecting her when he does a job in someone else’s mind. He keeps and he wants to keep imagining that he can still be with her. But after doing that last job, he realizes that it is not true: he cannot search for her in dreams for ever and he has to admit to himself that if she died it is because of him: because he was the one putting in HER mind the idea of an eternal dream. That is the moment when he tells to her that what he feels is guiltiness. Once he admit that he feels guilty then he can free himself from her.This end is of course ambiguous but according to me he does not decide to go back to reality but to the dream: he chooses the dream with his Children. The reality with his children is still a dream. In my opinion, all the scenes with the wife and the children are part of his dream. I think that at the end he accepts that his wife died but still chooses not to live in reality but in this dream where the wife is dead and where he is a father and must take care of his children. Exactly like these people in the abasement who chooses to live in their dream and come there "to be awaken" as the old man says. according to me that is why the totem is still spinning at the end.But maybe he does not chooses, maybe he does not have the choice as it is brightly explain in interpretation f: "There is simply no way for Cobb or Saito to return to the plane since they both died while sedated. The very end is just a projection that Cobb created so he could be happy and at peace. By killing Cobb, Saito did complete his end of the deal, Cobb was able to return home to his kids, even if it was in a dream."totems help to have a small idea of what is real and what is not but i think we also need to look at the yellow filter used. For me, when there is a yellow hue it is a dream…

  • Nathalie Boehler

    Thanks, I have really liked the movie and your interpretations are very interested.This is what I think:I think that the the job with Fisher is a distraction for him like the blond girl is a distraction for Fisher. He does not do one job but two. First he tries with Seito but fails because the architecture of the dream was not good enough. Who is attaacked in this dream when there is the violent stike? The architect which means that the people attacks him in order to defend the subject. Why the subject could not be Cobb already and not Seito?So he decides to find a new architect. When he goes to Paris isn´t strange that his father in law already tells him "why dont you come to reality?" Why would it say such a think if Cobb was already awake?Then he decides to do the job with Fisher and he knows that he will have to face the projections of his own mind (which means his ex wife) since both Fischer and him will be asleep and thus in the dream.That is why he needs the architect to know the maze of the dream but does not want to know it.What is important about the dreams is that if you are in one level dream, you can wake up easily or if you die in this one level dream then you can wake up. But the thing is that if you die in one dream with different levels, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains trapped in the bottom level. That is why when Seito died in the dream, he went to the bottom level and that is precisely the reason why the movie starts with Cobb on the beach: in fact he is in the bottom level looking for the guy as when they stared the job and he got shoot, he promised him to come and get him in Limbo. And it is what happened with his wife as well: he created for her the perfect dream and this dream was at the edge of subconscious, where everything was deep and perfect. Then he realized that this was not reality and he wanted to return to reality. That is why they decided to kill themselves under the train. After killing themselves, they got back to what they thought was reality but in fact it was not! It was still an other dream. I think so because of the reason that if you want to have access to the deepest dream, you have to pass by different other level of dream before. So when they woke up there are still in a dream: Cobbe´s dream of having a house and childrenThe wife feels that something is not right and that is why she always thinks about killing herself: by killing herself she knows that she will return to the bottom level dream. Why? Precisely because if you die in one of the other level, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains in the bottom level for ever. So she kills herself by the window and then Cobb decides to go to get her. They live a second time in limdo and this time they grow old together. If you remember this scene when she tells him that he gave up on their dram which was to get old together, then he answers that they did get old together and that she died but she could not remember.During the whole movie he cannot accept that she died that is why he keeps projecting her when he does a job in someone else’s mind. He keeps and he wants to keep imagining that he can still be with her. But after doing that last job, he realizes that it is not true: he cannot search for her in dreams for ever and he has to admit to himself that if she died it is because of him: because he was the one putting in HER mind the idea of an eternal dream. That is the moment when he tells to her that what he feels is guiltiness. Once he admit that he feels guilty then he can free himself from her.This end is of course ambiguous but according to me he does not decide to go back to reality but to the dream: he chooses the dream with his Children. The reality with his children is still a dream. In my opinion, all the scenes with the wife and the children are part of his dream. I think that at the end he accepts that his wife died but still chooses not to live in reality but in this dream where the wife is dead and where he is a father and must take care of his children. Exactly like these people in the abasement who chooses to live in their dream and come there "to be awaken" as the old man says. according to me that is why the totem is still spinning at the end.But maybe he does not chooses, maybe he does not have the choice as it is brightly explain in interpretation f: "There is simply no way for Cobb or Saito to return to the plane since they both died while sedated. The very end is just a projection that Cobb created so he could be happy and at peace. By killing Cobb, Saito did complete his end of the deal, Cobb was able to return home to his kids, even if it was in a dream."totems help to have a small idea of what is real and what is not but i think we also need to look at the yellow filter used. For me, when there is a yellow hue it is a dream…

  • Nathalie

    But what about COBOL??? isn´t the key word of the movie?

  • Nathalie

    But what about COBOL??? isn´t the key word of the movie?

  • Nathalie Boehler

    Thanks, I have really liked the movie and your interpretations are very interested.

    This is what I think:

    I think that the the job with Fisher is a distraction for him like the blond girl is a distraction for Fisher. He does not do one job but two. First he tries with Seito but fails because the architecture of the dream was not good enough. Who is attaacked in this dream when there is the violent stike? The architect which means that the people attacks him in order to defend the subject. Why the subject could not be Cobb already and not Seito?

    So he decides to find a new architect. When he goes to Paris isn´t strange that his father in law already tells him “why dont you come to reality?” Why would it say such a think if Cobb was already awake?

    Then he decides to do the job with Fisher and he knows that he will have to face the projections of his own mind (which means his ex wife) since both Fischer and him will be asleep and thus in the dream.That is why he needs the architect to know the maze of the dream but does not want to know it.

    What is important about the dreams is that if you are in one level dream, you can wake up easily or if you die in this one level dream then you can wake up. But the thing is that if you die in one dream with different levels, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains trapped in the bottom level. That is why when Seito died in the dream, he went to the bottom level and that is precisely the reason why the movie starts with Cobb on the beach: in fact he is in the bottom level looking for the guy as when they stared the job and he got shoot, he promised him to come and get him in Limbo.

    And it is what happened with his wife as well: he created for her the perfect dream and this dream was at the edge of subconscious, where everything was deep and perfect. Then he realized that this was not reality and he wanted to return to reality. That is why they decided to kill themselves under the train. After killing themselves, they got back to what they thought was reality but in fact it was not! It was still an other dream. I think so because of the reason that if you want to have access to the deepest dream, you have to pass by different other level of dream before. So when they woke up there are still in a dream: Cobbe´s dream of having a house and children

    The wife feels that something is not right and that is why she always thinks about killing herself: by killing herself she knows that she will return to the bottom level dream. Why? Precisely because if you die in one of the other level, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains in the bottom level for ever. So she kills herself by the window and then Cobb decides to go to get her. They live a second time in limdo and this time they grow old together. If you remember this scene when she tells him that he gave up on their dram which was to get old together, then he answers that they did get old together and that she died but she could not remember.

    During the whole movie he cannot accept that she died that is why he keeps projecting her when he does a job in someone else’s mind. He keeps and he wants to keep imagining that he can still be with her. But after doing that last job, he realizes that it is not true: he cannot search for her in dreams for ever and he has to admit to himself that if she died it is because of him: because he was the one putting in HER mind the idea of an eternal dream. That is the moment when he tells to her that what he feels is guiltiness. Once he admit that he feels guilty then he can free himself from her.

    This end is of course ambiguous but according to me he does not decide to go back to reality but to the dream: he chooses the dream with his Children. The reality with his children is still a dream. In my opinion, all the scenes with the wife and the children are part of his dream. I think that at the end he accepts that his wife died but still chooses not to live in reality but in this dream where the wife is dead and where he is a father and must take care of his children. Exactly like these people in the abasement who chooses to live in their dream and come there “to be awaken” as the old man says. according to me that is why the totem is still spinning at the end.

    But maybe he does not chooses, maybe he does not have the choice as it is brightly explain in interpretation f: “There is simply no way for Cobb or Saito to return to the plane since they both died while sedated. The very end is just a projection that Cobb created so he could be happy and at peace. By killing Cobb, Saito did complete his end of the deal, Cobb was able to return home to his kids, even if it was in a dream.”

    totems help to have a small idea of what is real and what is not but i think we also need to look at the yellow filter used. For me, when there is a yellow hue it is a dream…

  • Nathalie Boehler

    Thanks, I have really liked the movie and your interpretations are very interested.

    This is what I think:

    I think that the the job with Fisher is a distraction for him like the blond girl is a distraction for Fisher. He does not do one job but two. First he tries with Seito but fails because the architecture of the dream was not good enough. Who is attaacked in this dream when there is the violent stike? The architect which means that the people attacks him in order to defend the subject. Why the subject could not be Cobb already and not Seito?

    So he decides to find a new architect. When he goes to Paris isn´t strange that his father in law already tells him “why dont you come to reality?” Why would it say such a think if Cobb was already awake?

    Then he decides to do the job with Fisher and he knows that he will have to face the projections of his own mind (which means his ex wife) since both Fischer and him will be asleep and thus in the dream.That is why he needs the architect to know the maze of the dream but does not want to know it.

    What is important about the dreams is that if you are in one level dream, you can wake up easily or if you die in this one level dream then you can wake up. But the thing is that if you die in one dream with different levels, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains trapped in the bottom level. That is why when Seito died in the dream, he went to the bottom level and that is precisely the reason why the movie starts with Cobb on the beach: in fact he is in the bottom level looking for the guy as when they stared the job and he got shoot, he promised him to come and get him in Limbo.

    And it is what happened with his wife as well: he created for her the perfect dream and this dream was at the edge of subconscious, where everything was deep and perfect. Then he realized that this was not reality and he wanted to return to reality. That is why they decided to kill themselves under the train. After killing themselves, they got back to what they thought was reality but in fact it was not! It was still an other dream. I think so because of the reason that if you want to have access to the deepest dream, you have to pass by different other level of dream before. So when they woke up there are still in a dream: Cobbe´s dream of having a house and children

    The wife feels that something is not right and that is why she always thinks about killing herself: by killing herself she knows that she will return to the bottom level dream. Why? Precisely because if you die in one of the other level, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains in the bottom level for ever. So she kills herself by the window and then Cobb decides to go to get her. They live a second time in limdo and this time they grow old together. If you remember this scene when she tells him that he gave up on their dram which was to get old together, then he answers that they did get old together and that she died but she could not remember.

    During the whole movie he cannot accept that she died that is why he keeps projecting her when he does a job in someone else’s mind. He keeps and he wants to keep imagining that he can still be with her. But after doing that last job, he realizes that it is not true: he cannot search for her in dreams for ever and he has to admit to himself that if she died it is because of him: because he was the one putting in HER mind the idea of an eternal dream. That is the moment when he tells to her that what he feels is guiltiness. Once he admit that he feels guilty then he can free himself from her.

    This end is of course ambiguous but according to me he does not decide to go back to reality but to the dream: he chooses the dream with his Children. The reality with his children is still a dream. In my opinion, all the scenes with the wife and the children are part of his dream. I think that at the end he accepts that his wife died but still chooses not to live in reality but in this dream where the wife is dead and where he is a father and must take care of his children. Exactly like these people in the abasement who chooses to live in their dream and come there “to be awaken” as the old man says. according to me that is why the totem is still spinning at the end.

    But maybe he does not chooses, maybe he does not have the choice as it is brightly explain in interpretation f: “There is simply no way for Cobb or Saito to return to the plane since they both died while sedated. The very end is just a projection that Cobb created so he could be happy and at peace. By killing Cobb, Saito did complete his end of the deal, Cobb was able to return home to his kids, even if it was in a dream.”

    totems help to have a small idea of what is real and what is not but i think we also need to look at the yellow filter used. For me, when there is a yellow hue it is a dream…

  • Nathalie Boehler

    Thanks, I have really liked the movie and your interpretations are very interested.

    This is what I think:

    I think that the the job with Fisher is a distraction for him like the blond girl is a distraction for Fisher. He does not do one job but two. First he tries with Seito but fails because the architecture of the dream was not good enough. Who is attaacked in this dream when there is the violent stike? The architect which means that the people attacks him in order to defend the subject. Why the subject could not be Cobb already and not Seito?

    So he decides to find a new architect. When he goes to Paris isn´t strange that his father in law already tells him “why dont you come to reality?” Why would it say such a think if Cobb was already awake?

    Then he decides to do the job with Fisher and he knows that he will have to face the projections of his own mind (which means his ex wife) since both Fischer and him will be asleep and thus in the dream.That is why he needs the architect to know the maze of the dream but does not want to know it.

    What is important about the dreams is that if you are in one level dream, you can wake up easily or if you die in this one level dream then you can wake up. But the thing is that if you die in one dream with different levels, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains trapped in the bottom level. That is why when Seito died in the dream, he went to the bottom level and that is precisely the reason why the movie starts with Cobb on the beach: in fact he is in the bottom level looking for the guy as when they stared the job and he got shoot, he promised him to come and get him in Limbo.

    And it is what happened with his wife as well: he created for her the perfect dream and this dream was at the edge of subconscious, where everything was deep and perfect. Then he realized that this was not reality and he wanted to return to reality. That is why they decided to kill themselves under the train. After killing themselves, they got back to what they thought was reality but in fact it was not! It was still an other dream. I think so because of the reason that if you want to have access to the deepest dream, you have to pass by different other level of dream before. So when they woke up there are still in a dream: Cobbe´s dream of having a house and children

    The wife feels that something is not right and that is why she always thinks about killing herself: by killing herself she knows that she will return to the bottom level dream. Why? Precisely because if you die in one of the other level, it is not possible for you to wake up: your mind remains in the bottom level for ever. So she kills herself by the window and then Cobb decides to go to get her. They live a second time in limdo and this time they grow old together. If you remember this scene when she tells him that he gave up on their dram which was to get old together, then he answers that they did get old together and that she died but she could not remember.

    During the whole movie he cannot accept that she died that is why he keeps projecting her when he does a job in someone else’s mind. He keeps and he wants to keep imagining that he can still be with her. But after doing that last job, he realizes that it is not true: he cannot search for her in dreams for ever and he has to admit to himself that if she died it is because of him: because he was the one putting in HER mind the idea of an eternal dream. That is the moment when he tells to her that what he feels is guiltiness. Once he admit that he feels guilty then he can free himself from her.

    This end is of course ambiguous but according to me he does not decide to go back to reality but to the dream: he chooses the dream with his Children. The reality with his children is still a dream. In my opinion, all the scenes with the wife and the children are part of his dream. I think that at the end he accepts that his wife died but still chooses not to live in reality but in this dream where the wife is dead and where he is a father and must take care of his children. Exactly like these people in the abasement who chooses to live in their dream and come there “to be awaken” as the old man says. according to me that is why the totem is still spinning at the end.

    But maybe he does not chooses, maybe he does not have the choice as it is brightly explain in interpretation f: “There is simply no way for Cobb or Saito to return to the plane since they both died while sedated. The very end is just a projection that Cobb created so he could be happy and at peace. By killing Cobb, Saito did complete his end of the deal, Cobb was able to return home to his kids, even if it was in a dream.”

    totems help to have a small idea of what is real and what is not but i think we also need to look at the yellow filter used. For me, when there is a yellow hue it is a dream…

  • Nathalie

    But what about COBOL??? isn´t the key word of the movie?

  • Nathalie

    But what about COBOL??? isn´t the key word of the movie?

  • Nathalie

    But what about COBOL??? isn´t the key word of the movie?

  • Nathalie

    But what about COBOL??? isn´t the key word of the movie?

  • Nathalie

    But what about COBOL??? isn´t the key word of the movie?

  • Nathalie

    But what about COBOL??? isn´t the key word of the movie?

  • Nathalie

    But what about COBOL??? isn´t the key word of the movie?

  • Nathalie

    But what about COBOL??? isn´t the key word of the movie?

  • Nathalie

    But what about COBOL??? isn´t the key word of the movie?

  • Nathalie

    But what about COBOL??? isn´t the key word of the movie?

  • lakshmi

    ty for this….as a person who doesnt normally watch thrillers, i dint understand the movie properly and got distracted by other things…….and i loved ur 5 levels chart!!!

  • lakshmi

    ty for this….as a person who doesnt normally watch thrillers, i dint understand the movie properly and got distracted by other things…….and i loved ur 5 levels chart!!!

  • lakshmi

    ty for this….as a person who doesnt normally watch thrillers, i dint understand the movie properly and got distracted by other things…….and i loved ur 5 levels chart!!!

  • lakshmi

    ty for this….as a person who doesnt normally watch thrillers, i dint understand the movie properly and got distracted by other things…….and i loved ur 5 levels chart!!!

  • lakshmi

    ty for this….as a person who doesnt normally watch thrillers, i dint understand the movie properly and got distracted by other things…….and i loved ur 5 levels chart!!!

  • lakshmi

    ty for this….as a person who doesnt normally watch thrillers, i dint understand the movie properly and got distracted by other things…….and i loved ur 5 levels chart!!!

  • lakshmi

    ty for this….as a person who doesnt normally watch thrillers, i dint understand the movie properly and got distracted by other things…….and i loved ur 5 levels chart!!!

  • lakshmi

    ty for this….as a person who doesnt normally watch thrillers, i dint understand the movie properly and got distracted by other things…….and i loved ur 5 levels chart!!!

  • lakshmi

    ty for this….as a person who doesnt normally watch thrillers, i dint understand the movie properly and got distracted by other things…….and i loved ur 5 levels chart!!!

  • lakshmi

    ty for this….as a person who doesnt normally watch thrillers, i dint understand the movie properly and got distracted by other things…….and i loved ur 5 levels chart!!!

  • lakshmi

    ty for this….as a person who doesnt normally watch thrillers, i dint understand the movie properly and got distracted by other things…….and i loved ur 5 levels chart!!!

  • Sheila

    12n: Cobb is still in his dream. Mal was right all along. Mal was the first to forget reality so Cobb did the inception on her. Cobb's "real world" level was still actually a dream several levels down. Perhaps Mal has already arrived in the Real World and tries to wake up Cobb but to Cobb, he'll wake up several years later since his "real world" is still several levels deep.Remember what Mal said in Limbo towards the end? That there are so many "holes" in his real world starting with this mystery organisation chasing him, etc. etc..?It's also possible that Cobb is trying to reconcile the pain of his "real world" level before going another level up closer to reality. It makes sense if after him seeing the kids he goes back to the desk and sees the top still spinning… of course we'll never know… Unless the sequel starts with Cobb looking at the top still spinning! ;-) "But the top DID stop spinning in one scene"… I don't think so since he kinda interrupted the top from spinning, IIRC…

  • Sheila

    12n: Cobb is still in his dream. Mal was right all along. Mal was the first to forget reality so Cobb did the inception on her. Cobb's "real world" level was still actually a dream several levels down. Perhaps Mal has already arrived in the Real World and tries to wake up Cobb but to Cobb, he'll wake up several years later since his "real world" is still several levels deep.Remember what Mal said in Limbo towards the end? That there are so many "holes" in his real world starting with this mystery organisation chasing him, etc. etc..?It's also possible that Cobb is trying to reconcile the pain of his "real world" level before going another level up closer to reality. It makes sense if after him seeing the kids he goes back to the desk and sees the top still spinning… of course we'll never know… Unless the sequel starts with Cobb looking at the top still spinning! ;-) "But the top DID stop spinning in one scene"… I don't think so since he kinda interrupted the top from spinning, IIRC…

  • Sheila

    12n: Cobb is still in his dream. Mal was right all along. Mal was the first to forget reality so Cobb did the inception on her. Cobb's "real world" level was still actually a dream several levels down. Perhaps Mal has already arrived in the Real World and tries to wake up Cobb but to Cobb, he'll wake up several years later since his "real world" is still several levels deep.Remember what Mal said in Limbo towards the end? That there are so many "holes" in his real world starting with this mystery organisation chasing him, etc. etc..?It's also possible that Cobb is trying to reconcile the pain of his "real world" level before going another level up closer to reality. It makes sense if after him seeing the kids he goes back to the desk and sees the top still spinning… of course we'll never know… Unless the sequel starts with Cobb looking at the top still spinning! ;-) "But the top DID stop spinning in one scene"… I don't think so since he kinda interrupted the top from spinning, IIRC…

  • Sheila

    12n: Cobb is still in his dream. Mal was right all along. Mal was the first to forget reality so Cobb did the inception on her. Cobb's "real world" level was still actually a dream several levels down. Perhaps Mal has already arrived in the Real World and tries to wake up Cobb but to Cobb, he'll wake up several years later since his "real world" is still several levels deep.Remember what Mal said in Limbo towards the end? That there are so many "holes" in his real world starting with this mystery organisation chasing him, etc. etc..?It's also possible that Cobb is trying to reconcile the pain of his "real world" level before going another level up closer to reality. It makes sense if after him seeing the kids he goes back to the desk and sees the top still spinning… of course we'll never know… Unless the sequel starts with Cobb looking at the top still spinning! ;-) "But the top DID stop spinning in one scene"… I don't think so since he kinda interrupted the top from spinning, IIRC…

  • Sheila

    12n: Cobb is still in his dream. Mal was right all along. Mal was the first to forget reality so Cobb did the inception on her. Cobb's "real world" level was still actually a dream several levels down. Perhaps Mal has already arrived in the Real World and tries to wake up Cobb but to Cobb, he'll wake up several years later since his "real world" is still several levels deep.Remember what Mal said in Limbo towards the end? That there are so many "holes" in his real world starting with this mystery organisation chasing him, etc. etc..?It's also possible that Cobb is trying to reconcile the pain of his "real world" level before going another level up closer to reality. It makes sense if after him seeing the kids he goes back to the desk and sees the top still spinning… of course we'll never know… Unless the sequel starts with Cobb looking at the top still spinning! ;-) "But the top DID stop spinning in one scene"… I don't think so since he kinda interrupted the top from spinning, IIRC…

  • Sheila

    12n: Cobb is still in his dream. Mal was right all along. Mal was the first to forget reality so Cobb did the inception on her. Cobb's "real world" level was still actually a dream several levels down. Perhaps Mal has already arrived in the Real World and tries to wake up Cobb but to Cobb, he'll wake up several years later since his "real world" is still several levels deep.Remember what Mal said in Limbo towards the end? That there are so many "holes" in his real world starting with this mystery organisation chasing him, etc. etc..?It's also possible that Cobb is trying to reconcile the pain of his "real world" level before going another level up closer to reality. It makes sense if after him seeing the kids he goes back to the desk and sees the top still spinning… of course we'll never know… Unless the sequel starts with Cobb looking at the top still spinning! ;-) "But the top DID stop spinning in one scene"… I don't think so since he kinda interrupted the top from spinning, IIRC…

  • Sheila

    12n: Cobb is still in his dream. Mal was right all along. Mal was the first to forget reality so Cobb did the inception on her. Cobb's “real world” level was still actually a dream several levels down. Perhaps Mal has already arrived in the Real World and tries to wake up Cobb but to Cobb, he'll wake up several years later since his “real world” is still several levels deep.

    Remember what Mal said in Limbo towards the end? That there are so many “holes” in his real world starting with this mystery organisation chasing him, etc. etc..?

    It's also possible that Cobb is trying to reconcile the pain of his “real world” level before going another level up closer to reality. It makes sense if after him seeing the kids he goes back to the desk and sees the top still spinning… of course we'll never know… Unless the sequel starts with Cobb looking at the top still spinning! ;-)

    “But the top DID stop spinning in one scene”… I don't think so since he kinda interrupted the top from spinning, IIRC…

  • Johanliebert

    About 13, wouldn't the crashing of the other levels that you mentioned in 12E also apply? I.e., if there are no other levels between Saito's death – wherever it takes place – and the plane, he would wake up in reality by default?

  • Johanliebert

    About 13, wouldn't the crashing of the other levels that you mentioned in 12E also apply? I.e., if there are no other levels between Saito's death – wherever it takes place – and the plane, he would wake up in reality by default?

  • Johanliebert

    About 13, wouldn't the crashing of the other levels that you mentioned in 12E also apply? I.e., if there are no other levels between Saito's death – wherever it takes place – and the plane, he would wake up in reality by default?

  • Johanliebert

    About 13, wouldn't the crashing of the other levels that you mentioned in 12E also apply? I.e., if there are no other levels between Saito's death – wherever it takes place – and the plane, he would wake up in reality by default?

  • Johanliebert

    About 13, wouldn't the crashing of the other levels that you mentioned in 12E also apply? I.e., if there are no other levels between Saito's death – wherever it takes place – and the plane, he would wake up in reality by default?

  • Johanliebert

    About 13, wouldn't the crashing of the other levels that you mentioned in 12E also apply? I.e., if there are no other levels between Saito's death – wherever it takes place – and the plane, he would wake up in reality by default?

  • Johanliebert

    About 13, wouldn't the crashing of the other levels that you mentioned in 12E also apply? I.e., if there are no other levels between Saito's death – wherever it takes place – and the plane, he would wake up in reality by default?

  • Amirmishali

    I have two problems with most of the theories:1. When Cobb finally meets his kids, they look exactly the same like in his dreams, including their position and clothes. This proves that Cobb is still im a dream, but which dream is it?2. When Cobb and Ariadne are in level 3, Fischer dies. Then whose conciousness do they enter next? It can't be Fischer's. It seems to be Cobb's. But how can that be? How can they enter Cobb's dream from Fischer's? The only reasonable explanation is that they were in Cobb's dream all along.This is my explanation to what happens:1. Cobb and Mal create a dream world of their own and enter Limbo.2. Cobb understands they are still in Limbo and convinces MAl to commit suicide together.3. This fails to wake them up, and they get stuck at some other state of dreaming, still in Limbo.4. Mal understands them and commits suicide again, probably waking up, and leaving Cobb in Limbo.5. Either Cobb tries to wake himself up, or someone (Mal?) tries to create inception, convincing Cobb he's still dreaming, but fails.6. Cobb stays in Limbo, but in a drean world he can still see his kids.

  • Amirmishali

    I have two problems with most of the theories:1. When Cobb finally meets his kids, they look exactly the same like in his dreams, including their position and clothes. This proves that Cobb is still im a dream, but which dream is it?2. When Cobb and Ariadne are in level 3, Fischer dies. Then whose conciousness do they enter next? It can't be Fischer's. It seems to be Cobb's. But how can that be? How can they enter Cobb's dream from Fischer's? The only reasonable explanation is that they were in Cobb's dream all along.This is my explanation to what happens:1. Cobb and Mal create a dream world of their own and enter Limbo.2. Cobb understands they are still in Limbo and convinces MAl to commit suicide together.3. This fails to wake them up, and they get stuck at some other state of dreaming, still in Limbo.4. Mal understands them and commits suicide again, probably waking up, and leaving Cobb in Limbo.5. Either Cobb tries to wake himself up, or someone (Mal?) tries to create inception, convincing Cobb he's still dreaming, but fails.6. Cobb stays in Limbo, but in a drean world he can still see his kids.

  • Amirmishali

    I have two problems with most of the theories:1. When Cobb finally meets his kids, they look exactly the same like in his dreams, including their position and clothes. This proves that Cobb is still im a dream, but which dream is it?2. When Cobb and Ariadne are in level 3, Fischer dies. Then whose conciousness do they enter next? It can't be Fischer's. It seems to be Cobb's. But how can that be? How can they enter Cobb's dream from Fischer's? The only reasonable explanation is that they were in Cobb's dream all along.This is my explanation to what happens:1. Cobb and Mal create a dream world of their own and enter Limbo.2. Cobb understands they are still in Limbo and convinces MAl to commit suicide together.3. This fails to wake them up, and they get stuck at some other state of dreaming, still in Limbo.4. Mal understands them and commits suicide again, probably waking up, and leaving Cobb in Limbo.5. Either Cobb tries to wake himself up, or someone (Mal?) tries to create inception, convincing Cobb he's still dreaming, but fails.6. Cobb stays in Limbo, but in a drean world he can still see his kids.

  • Amirmishali

    I have two problems with most of the theories:1. When Cobb finally meets his kids, they look exactly the same like in his dreams, including their position and clothes. This proves that Cobb is still im a dream, but which dream is it?2. When Cobb and Ariadne are in level 3, Fischer dies. Then whose conciousness do they enter next? It can't be Fischer's. It seems to be Cobb's. But how can that be? How can they enter Cobb's dream from Fischer's? The only reasonable explanation is that they were in Cobb's dream all along.This is my explanation to what happens:1. Cobb and Mal create a dream world of their own and enter Limbo.2. Cobb understands they are still in Limbo and convinces MAl to commit suicide together.3. This fails to wake them up, and they get stuck at some other state of dreaming, still in Limbo.4. Mal understands them and commits suicide again, probably waking up, and leaving Cobb in Limbo.5. Either Cobb tries to wake himself up, or someone (Mal?) tries to create inception, convincing Cobb he's still dreaming, but fails.6. Cobb stays in Limbo, but in a drean world he can still see his kids.

  • Amirmishali

    I have two problems with most of the theories:1. When Cobb finally meets his kids, they look exactly the same like in his dreams, including their position and clothes. This proves that Cobb is still im a dream, but which dream is it?2. When Cobb and Ariadne are in level 3, Fischer dies. Then whose conciousness do they enter next? It can't be Fischer's. It seems to be Cobb's. But how can that be? How can they enter Cobb's dream from Fischer's? The only reasonable explanation is that they were in Cobb's dream all along.This is my explanation to what happens:1. Cobb and Mal create a dream world of their own and enter Limbo.2. Cobb understands they are still in Limbo and convinces MAl to commit suicide together.3. This fails to wake them up, and they get stuck at some other state of dreaming, still in Limbo.4. Mal understands them and commits suicide again, probably waking up, and leaving Cobb in Limbo.5. Either Cobb tries to wake himself up, or someone (Mal?) tries to create inception, convincing Cobb he's still dreaming, but fails.6. Cobb stays in Limbo, but in a drean world he can still see his kids.

  • Amirmishali

    I have two problems with most of the theories:1. When Cobb finally meets his kids, they look exactly the same like in his dreams, including their position and clothes. This proves that Cobb is still im a dream, but which dream is it?2. When Cobb and Ariadne are in level 3, Fischer dies. Then whose conciousness do they enter next? It can't be Fischer's. It seems to be Cobb's. But how can that be? How can they enter Cobb's dream from Fischer's? The only reasonable explanation is that they were in Cobb's dream all along.This is my explanation to what happens:1. Cobb and Mal create a dream world of their own and enter Limbo.2. Cobb understands they are still in Limbo and convinces MAl to commit suicide together.3. This fails to wake them up, and they get stuck at some other state of dreaming, still in Limbo.4. Mal understands them and commits suicide again, probably waking up, and leaving Cobb in Limbo.5. Either Cobb tries to wake himself up, or someone (Mal?) tries to create inception, convincing Cobb he's still dreaming, but fails.6. Cobb stays in Limbo, but in a drean world he can still see his kids.

  • Amirmishali

    I have two problems with most of the theories:

    1. When Cobb finally meets his kids, they look exactly the same like in his dreams, including their position and clothes. This proves that Cobb is still im a dream, but which dream is it?

    2. When Cobb and Ariadne are in level 3, Fischer dies. Then whose conciousness do they enter next? It can't be Fischer's. It seems to be Cobb's. But how can that be? How can they enter Cobb's dream from Fischer's? The only reasonable explanation is that they were in Cobb's dream all along.

    This is my explanation to what happens:
    1. Cobb and Mal create a dream world of their own and enter Limbo.
    2. Cobb understands they are still in Limbo and convinces MAl to commit suicide together.
    3. This fails to wake them up, and they get stuck at some other state of dreaming, still in Limbo.
    4. Mal understands them and commits suicide again, probably waking up, and leaving Cobb in Limbo.
    5. Either Cobb tries to wake himself up, or someone (Mal?) tries to create inception, convincing Cobb he's still dreaming, but fails.
    6. Cobb stays in Limbo, but in a drean world he can still see his kids.

  • Laktor

    This is good, but when you say Cobb had to perform inception on Mal, I don't know what inception is. I could never figure that out in the film. And how can someone enjoy the film if there are so many scenes that you can't figure out what is happening? For me, from the point where Fischer is in the hotel lobby and Cobb comes up to talk with him….from then on, I did not understand anything that was happening. So the actions scenes were pretty well rendered meaningless as well as Cobb and Mal's big scene at the end. I had no idea what that was about.

  • Laktor

    This is good, but when you say Cobb had to perform inception on Mal, I don't know what inception is. I could never figure that out in the film. And how can someone enjoy the film if there are so many scenes that you can't figure out what is happening? For me, from the point where Fischer is in the hotel lobby and Cobb comes up to talk with him….from then on, I did not understand anything that was happening. So the actions scenes were pretty well rendered meaningless as well as Cobb and Mal's big scene at the end. I had no idea what that was about.

  • Laktor

    This is good, but when you say Cobb had to perform inception on Mal, I don't know what inception is. I could never figure that out in the film. And how can someone enjoy the film if there are so many scenes that you can't figure out what is happening? For me, from the point where Fischer is in the hotel lobby and Cobb comes up to talk with him….from then on, I did not understand anything that was happening. So the actions scenes were pretty well rendered meaningless as well as Cobb and Mal's big scene at the end. I had no idea what that was about.

  • Laktor

    This is good, but when you say Cobb had to perform inception on Mal, I don't know what inception is. I could never figure that out in the film. And how can someone enjoy the film if there are so many scenes that you can't figure out what is happening? For me, from the point where Fischer is in the hotel lobby and Cobb comes up to talk with him….from then on, I did not understand anything that was happening. So the actions scenes were pretty well rendered meaningless as well as Cobb and Mal's big scene at the end. I had no idea what that was about.

  • Laktor

    This is good, but when you say Cobb had to perform inception on Mal, I don't know what inception is. I could never figure that out in the film. And how can someone enjoy the film if there are so many scenes that you can't figure out what is happening? For me, from the point where Fischer is in the hotel lobby and Cobb comes up to talk with him….from then on, I did not understand anything that was happening. So the actions scenes were pretty well rendered meaningless as well as Cobb and Mal's big scene at the end. I had no idea what that was about.

  • Laktor

    This is good, but when you say Cobb had to perform inception on Mal, I don't know what inception is. I could never figure that out in the film. And how can someone enjoy the film if there are so many scenes that you can't figure out what is happening? For me, from the point where Fischer is in the hotel lobby and Cobb comes up to talk with him….from then on, I did not understand anything that was happening. So the actions scenes were pretty well rendered meaningless as well as Cobb and Mal's big scene at the end. I had no idea what that was about.

  • Laktor

    This is good, but when you say Cobb had to perform inception on Mal, I don't know what inception is. I could never figure that out in the film. And how can someone enjoy the film if there are so many scenes that you can't figure out what is happening? For me, from the point where Fischer is in the hotel lobby and Cobb comes up to talk with him….from then on, I did not understand anything that was happening. So the actions scenes were pretty well rendered meaningless as well as Cobb and Mal's big scene at the end. I had no idea what that was about.

  • Fofl

    My explanation as well.

  • Suestonto

    Everything is a dream. From start to finish, every scene is a dream.a. Mel is right, Cob is still stuck in Limbo (or in a dream), they never got back from their experiments (or alternatively even pre-experiment they were in a dream)Death will only result in going to a deeper dream level. You get confused in that dream level thinking it's real. That's what limbo means.Cobb and Mal went to deep dream level. The time in real life is very slow. After 50 yr in one of the level, they decide to kill themselves, each got thrown into a deeper level. Since they did not use the machine, the Mal who was supposed to be in real life, is actually imagined by Cobb. Cobb imagined the entire movie. Each time he uses the machine, he goes even deeper. (There's a total of 4 times). Then he died again in level 4. He gets to send into a deeper level in which he is now totally confused (in limbo state). He and Saito decided to kill themselves. Cobb goes into another deeper level. This time he is completely unaware he is still in the dream.After so many levels of dream, the time in real life literally paused. Where is Cobb? He is actually in his house next to Mal.Major evidence:Mal sitting on the other building when she committed suicide.- it is not logical, therefore it's not reality.

  • Suestonto

    Everything is a dream. From start to finish, every scene is a dream.a. Mel is right, Cob is still stuck in Limbo (or in a dream), they never got back from their experiments (or alternatively even pre-experiment they were in a dream)Death will only result in going to a deeper dream level. You get confused in that dream level thinking it's real. That's what limbo means.Cobb and Mal went to deep dream level. The time in real life is very slow. After 50 yr in one of the level, they decide to kill themselves, each got thrown into a deeper level. Since they did not use the machine, the Mal who was supposed to be in real life, is actually imagined by Cobb. Cobb imagined the entire movie. Each time he uses the machine, he goes even deeper. (There's a total of 4 times). Then he died again in level 4. He gets to send into a deeper level in which he is now totally confused (in limbo state). He and Saito decided to kill themselves. Cobb goes into another deeper level. This time he is completely unaware he is still in the dream.After so many levels of dream, the time in real life literally paused. Where is Cobb? He is actually in his house next to Mal.Major evidence:Mal sitting on the other building when she committed suicide.- it is not logical, therefore it's not reality.

  • Suestonto

    Everything is a dream. From start to finish, every scene is a dream.a. Mel is right, Cob is still stuck in Limbo (or in a dream), they never got back from their experiments (or alternatively even pre-experiment they were in a dream)Death will only result in going to a deeper dream level. You get confused in that dream level thinking it's real. That's what limbo means.Cobb and Mal went to deep dream level. The time in real life is very slow. After 50 yr in one of the level, they decide to kill themselves, each got thrown into a deeper level. Since they did not use the machine, the Mal who was supposed to be in real life, is actually imagined by Cobb. Cobb imagined the entire movie. Each time he uses the machine, he goes even deeper. (There's a total of 4 times). Then he died again in level 4. He gets to send into a deeper level in which he is now totally confused (in limbo state). He and Saito decided to kill themselves. Cobb goes into another deeper level. This time he is completely unaware he is still in the dream.After so many levels of dream, the time in real life literally paused. Where is Cobb? He is actually in his house next to Mal.Major evidence:Mal sitting on the other building when she committed suicide.- it is not logical, therefore it's not reality.

  • Suestonto

    Everything is a dream. From start to finish, every scene is a dream.a. Mel is right, Cob is still stuck in Limbo (or in a dream), they never got back from their experiments (or alternatively even pre-experiment they were in a dream)Death will only result in going to a deeper dream level. You get confused in that dream level thinking it's real. That's what limbo means.Cobb and Mal went to deep dream level. The time in real life is very slow. After 50 yr in one of the level, they decide to kill themselves, each got thrown into a deeper level. Since they did not use the machine, the Mal who was supposed to be in real life, is actually imagined by Cobb. Cobb imagined the entire movie. Each time he uses the machine, he goes even deeper. (There's a total of 4 times). Then he died again in level 4. He gets to send into a deeper level in which he is now totally confused (in limbo state). He and Saito decided to kill themselves. Cobb goes into another deeper level. This time he is completely unaware he is still in the dream.After so many levels of dream, the time in real life literally paused. Where is Cobb? He is actually in his house next to Mal.Major evidence:Mal sitting on the other building when she committed suicide.- it is not logical, therefore it's not reality.

  • Suestonto

    Everything is a dream. From start to finish, every scene is a dream.a. Mel is right, Cob is still stuck in Limbo (or in a dream), they never got back from their experiments (or alternatively even pre-experiment they were in a dream)Death will only result in going to a deeper dream level. You get confused in that dream level thinking it's real. That's what limbo means.Cobb and Mal went to deep dream level. The time in real life is very slow. After 50 yr in one of the level, they decide to kill themselves, each got thrown into a deeper level. Since they did not use the machine, the Mal who was supposed to be in real life, is actually imagined by Cobb. Cobb imagined the entire movie. Each time he uses the machine, he goes even deeper. (There's a total of 4 times). Then he died again in level 4. He gets to send into a deeper level in which he is now totally confused (in limbo state). He and Saito decided to kill themselves. Cobb goes into another deeper level. This time he is completely unaware he is still in the dream.After so many levels of dream, the time in real life literally paused. Where is Cobb? He is actually in his house next to Mal.Major evidence:Mal sitting on the other building when she committed suicide.- it is not logical, therefore it's not reality.

  • Suestonto

    Everything is a dream. From start to finish, every scene is a dream.a. Mel is right, Cob is still stuck in Limbo (or in a dream), they never got back from their experiments (or alternatively even pre-experiment they were in a dream)Death will only result in going to a deeper dream level. You get confused in that dream level thinking it's real. That's what limbo means.Cobb and Mal went to deep dream level. The time in real life is very slow. After 50 yr in one of the level, they decide to kill themselves, each got thrown into a deeper level. Since they did not use the machine, the Mal who was supposed to be in real life, is actually imagined by Cobb. Cobb imagined the entire movie. Each time he uses the machine, he goes even deeper. (There's a total of 4 times). Then he died again in level 4. He gets to send into a deeper level in which he is now totally confused (in limbo state). He and Saito decided to kill themselves. Cobb goes into another deeper level. This time he is completely unaware he is still in the dream.After so many levels of dream, the time in real life literally paused. Where is Cobb? He is actually in his house next to Mal.Major evidence:Mal sitting on the other building when she committed suicide.- it is not logical, therefore it's not reality.

  • Suestonto

    Everything is a dream. From start to finish, every scene is a dream.a. Mel is right, Cob is still stuck in Limbo (or in a dream), they never got back from their experiments (or alternatively even pre-experiment they were in a dream)Death will only result in going to a deeper dream level. You get confused in that dream level thinking it's real. That's what limbo means.Cobb and Mal went to deep dream level. The time in real life is very slow. After 50 yr in one of the level, they decide to kill themselves, each got thrown into a deeper level. Since they did not use the machine, the Mal who was supposed to be in real life, is actually imagined by Cobb. Cobb imagined the entire movie. Each time he uses the machine, he goes even deeper. (There's a total of 4 times). Then he died again in level 4. He gets to send into a deeper level in which he is now totally confused (in limbo state). He and Saito decided to kill themselves. Cobb goes into another deeper level. This time he is completely unaware he is still in the dream.After so many levels of dream, the time in real life literally paused. Where is Cobb? He is actually in his house next to Mal.Major evidence:Mal sitting on the other building when she committed suicide.- it is not logical, therefore it's not reality.

  • Fofl

    My explanation as well.

  • Fofl

    My explanation as well.

  • Fofl

    My explanation as well.

  • Fofl

    My explanation as well.

  • Fofl

    My explanation as well.

  • Fofl

    My explanation as well.

  • Suestonto

    Gotta add something to this Cobb and Mal in limbo theoryThere's no pool Limbo. Mal and Cobb did not get together after they commit the suicide. Why? Dream Machine is the only thing that enable a person to enter another person's dream. Both Cobb and Mal did not use the machine to get into a new level. Cobb is in limbo after the suicide. In this case, Cobb is dreaming of this place he subconsciously wanted, his home with his wife and children. He was also very concern about his wife's mental health. He started to dream of his wife wanting to commit suicide. Mal in that reality isn't real. Cobb's perception of his wife is rather fixed. Mal is always maniac and suicidal. The Mal from the reality Cobb believed in has the same personality as every Mal in the dream levels. The real Mal wasn't with Cobb in the reality level.Similarly, Cobb and Saito limbo isn't really a shared limbo. Saito is not actually there.

  • Suestonto

    Gotta add something to this Cobb and Mal in limbo theoryThere's no pool Limbo. Mal and Cobb did not get together after they commit the suicide. Why? Dream Machine is the only thing that enable a person to enter another person's dream. Both Cobb and Mal did not use the machine to get into a new level. Cobb is in limbo after the suicide. In this case, Cobb is dreaming of this place he subconsciously wanted, his home with his wife and children. He was also very concern about his wife's mental health. He started to dream of his wife wanting to commit suicide. Mal in that reality isn't real. Cobb's perception of his wife is rather fixed. Mal is always maniac and suicidal. The Mal from the reality Cobb believed in has the same personality as every Mal in the dream levels. The real Mal wasn't with Cobb in the reality level.Similarly, Cobb and Saito limbo isn't really a shared limbo. Saito is not actually there.

  • Suestonto

    Gotta add something to this Cobb and Mal in limbo theoryThere's no pool Limbo. Mal and Cobb did not get together after they commit the suicide. Why? Dream Machine is the only thing that enable a person to enter another person's dream. Both Cobb and Mal did not use the machine to get into a new level. Cobb is in limbo after the suicide. In this case, Cobb is dreaming of this place he subconsciously wanted, his home with his wife and children. He was also very concern about his wife's mental health. He started to dream of his wife wanting to commit suicide. Mal in that reality isn't real. Cobb's perception of his wife is rather fixed. Mal is always maniac and suicidal. The Mal from the reality Cobb believed in has the same personality as every Mal in the dream levels. The real Mal wasn't with Cobb in the reality level.Similarly, Cobb and Saito limbo isn't really a shared limbo. Saito is not actually there.

  • Suestonto

    Gotta add something to this Cobb and Mal in limbo theoryThere's no pool Limbo. Mal and Cobb did not get together after they commit the suicide. Why? Dream Machine is the only thing that enable a person to enter another person's dream. Both Cobb and Mal did not use the machine to get into a new level. Cobb is in limbo after the suicide. In this case, Cobb is dreaming of this place he subconsciously wanted, his home with his wife and children. He was also very concern about his wife's mental health. He started to dream of his wife wanting to commit suicide. Mal in that reality isn't real. Cobb's perception of his wife is rather fixed. Mal is always maniac and suicidal. The Mal from the reality Cobb believed in has the same personality as every Mal in the dream levels. The real Mal wasn't with Cobb in the reality level.Similarly, Cobb and Saito limbo isn't really a shared limbo. Saito is not actually there.

  • Suestonto

    Gotta add something to this Cobb and Mal in limbo theoryThere's no pool Limbo. Mal and Cobb did not get together after they commit the suicide. Why? Dream Machine is the only thing that enable a person to enter another person's dream. Both Cobb and Mal did not use the machine to get into a new level. Cobb is in limbo after the suicide. In this case, Cobb is dreaming of this place he subconsciously wanted, his home with his wife and children. He was also very concern about his wife's mental health. He started to dream of his wife wanting to commit suicide. Mal in that reality isn't real. Cobb's perception of his wife is rather fixed. Mal is always maniac and suicidal. The Mal from the reality Cobb believed in has the same personality as every Mal in the dream levels. The real Mal wasn't with Cobb in the reality level.Similarly, Cobb and Saito limbo isn't really a shared limbo. Saito is not actually there.

  • Suestonto

    Gotta add something to this Cobb and Mal in limbo theoryThere's no pool Limbo. Mal and Cobb did not get together after they commit the suicide. Why? Dream Machine is the only thing that enable a person to enter another person's dream. Both Cobb and Mal did not use the machine to get into a new level. Cobb is in limbo after the suicide. In this case, Cobb is dreaming of this place he subconsciously wanted, his home with his wife and children. He was also very concern about his wife's mental health. He started to dream of his wife wanting to commit suicide. Mal in that reality isn't real. Cobb's perception of his wife is rather fixed. Mal is always maniac and suicidal. The Mal from the reality Cobb believed in has the same personality as every Mal in the dream levels. The real Mal wasn't with Cobb in the reality level.Similarly, Cobb and Saito limbo isn't really a shared limbo. Saito is not actually there.

  • Suestonto

    Gotta add something to this Cobb and Mal in limbo theory

    There's no pool Limbo. Mal and Cobb did not get together after they commit the suicide. Why? Dream Machine is the only thing that enable a person to enter another person's dream. Both Cobb and Mal did not use the machine to get into a new level. Cobb is in limbo after the suicide. In this case, Cobb is dreaming of this place he subconsciously wanted, his home with his wife and children. He was also very concern about his wife's mental health. He started to dream of his wife wanting to commit suicide. Mal in that reality isn't real. Cobb's perception of his wife is rather fixed. Mal is always maniac and suicidal. The Mal from the reality Cobb believed in has the same personality as every Mal in the dream levels. The real Mal wasn't with Cobb in the reality level.

    Similarly, Cobb and Saito limbo isn't really a shared limbo. Saito is not actually there.

  • TJ

    He is dreaming: he can see his kids in the real world anytime if that is what he wanted. He can use skype or just fly them to France… So get over it…

  • TJ

    It's (almost?) all a dream: Cobb can see his kids in the real world any time if that is what he wanted. He can use Skype or just fly them to France (for example)… So: not by doing the obvious: Cobb must be dreaming then…

  • TJ

    It's (almost?) all a dream: Cobb can see his kids in the real world any time if that is what he wanted. He can use Skype or just fly them to France (for example)… So: not by doing the obvious: Cobb must be dreaming then…

  • TJ

    It's (almost?) all a dream: Cobb can see his kids in the real world any time if that is what he wanted. He can use Skype or just fly them to France (for example)… So: not by doing the obvious: Cobb must be dreaming then…

  • TJ

    It's (almost?) all a dream: Cobb can see his kids in the real world any time if that is what he wanted. He can use Skype or just fly them to France (for example)… So: not by doing the obvious: Cobb must be dreaming then…

  • TJ

    It's (almost?) all a dream: Cobb can see his kids in the real world any time if that is what he wanted. He can use Skype or just fly them to France (for example)… So: not by doing the obvious: Cobb must be dreaming then…

  • TJ

    It's (almost?) all a dream: Cobb can see his kids in the real world any time if that is what he wanted. He can use Skype or just fly them to France (for example)… So: not by doing the obvious: Cobb must be dreaming then…

  • TJ

    It's (almost?) all a dream: Cobb can see his kids in the real world any time if that is what he wanted. He can use Skype or just fly them to France (for example)… So: not by doing the obvious: Cobb must be dreaming then…

  • Danny12

    The final is pure and simple … we are all in a dream (NOW in this present ) . This is what Nolan , is telling us , even if you wake up we are still dreaming because even this physical world is not real . We are pure consciousness , that is all we are , so we live in a dream . Call this crazy or whatever you like , if you do not believe this fact study Dr . Amit Goswami .This movie has a lot of things you can understand and reflect about our own lives .

  • Danny12

    The final is pure and simple … we are all in a dream (NOW in this present ) . This is what Nolan , is telling us , even if you wake up we are still dreaming because even this physical world is not real . We are pure consciousness , that is all we are , so we live in a dream . Call this crazy or whatever you like , if you do not believe this fact study Dr . Amit Goswami .This movie has a lot of things you can understand and reflect about our own lives .

  • Danny12

    The final is pure and simple … we are all in a dream (NOW in this present ) . This is what Nolan , is telling us , even if you wake up we are still dreaming because even this physical world is not real . We are pure consciousness , that is all we are , so we live in a dream . Call this crazy or whatever you like , if you do not believe this fact study Dr . Amit Goswami .This movie has a lot of things you can understand and reflect about our own lives .

  • Danny12

    The final is pure and simple … we are all in a dream (NOW in this present ) . This is what Nolan , is telling us , even if you wake up we are still dreaming because even this physical world is not real . We are pure consciousness , that is all we are , so we live in a dream . Call this crazy or whatever you like , if you do not believe this fact study Dr . Amit Goswami .This movie has a lot of things you can understand and reflect about our own lives .

  • Danny12

    The final is pure and simple … we are all in a dream (NOW in this present ) . This is what Nolan , is telling us , even if you wake up we are still dreaming because even this physical world is not real . We are pure consciousness , that is all we are , so we live in a dream . Call this crazy or whatever you like , if you do not believe this fact study Dr . Amit Goswami .This movie has a lot of things you can understand and reflect about our own lives .

  • Danny12

    The final is pure and simple … we are all in a dream (NOW in this present ) . This is what Nolan , is telling us , even if you wake up we are still dreaming because even this physical world is not real . We are pure consciousness , that is all we are , so we live in a dream . Call this crazy or whatever you like , if you do not believe this fact study Dr . Amit Goswami .This movie has a lot of things you can understand and reflect about our own lives .

  • Danny12

    The final is pure and simple … we are all in a dream (NOW in this present ) . This is what Nolan , is telling us , even if you wake up we are still dreaming because even this physical world is not real . We are pure consciousness , that is all we are , so we live in a dream . Call this crazy or whatever you like , if you do not believe this fact study Dr . Amit Goswami .This movie has a lot of things you can understand and reflect about our own lives .

  • TJ

    He is dreaming: he can see his kids in the real world anytime if that is what he wanted. He can use skype or just fly them to France… So get over it…

  • TJ

    He is dreaming: he can see his kids in the real world anytime if that is what he wanted. He can use skype or just fly them to France… So get over it…

  • TJ

    He is dreaming: he can see his kids in the real world anytime if that is what he wanted. He can use skype or just fly them to France… So get over it…

  • TJ

    He is dreaming: he can see his kids in the real world anytime if that is what he wanted. He can use skype or just fly them to France… So get over it…

  • TJ

    He is dreaming: he can see his kids in the real world anytime if that is what he wanted. He can use skype or just fly them to France… So get over it…

  • TJ

    He is dreaming: he can see his kids in the real world anytime if that is what he wanted. He can use skype or just fly them to France… So get over it…

  • Pffft

    or it could just be that he was waiting for an asian person.

  • Pffft

    or it could just be that he was waiting for an asian person.

  • Pffft

    or it could just be that he was waiting for an asian person.

  • Pffft

    or it could just be that he was waiting for an asian person.

  • Pffft

    or it could just be that he was waiting for an asian person.

  • Pffft

    or it could just be that he was waiting for an asian person.

  • Pffft

    or it could just be that he was waiting for an asian person.

  • Cool_cool_kit

    i watched it twice also but i think you most got all the points, but there is one very funny thing i havn't seen anyone pointing out and that is when saito came back to the bullet train and looked across the young man reading and laughed. I think it is because, the young man read the comic manga UPSIDE DOWN!! And I think saito believes some of them did a poor job even in reality. :)

  • Guy72277

    They grew old together in their dream world, but when they decided to return to reality by putting their heads on the train tracks, they were young. Were they in a different dream levels when they grew old and when they committed suicide?

  • Guest

    The reason for this is because you can not truly physically age in limbo, for it is a dream. This is why onceMal and Cobb realize they are in limbo and set themselves up in front of the train they look young, for once they realize they are dreaming they shed the illusion of old age. Just like everything else in a dream, age/appearance can be altered at will.

  • Wishmaster

    Grandpa is in Europe, Cobb is in Europe, children are not.
    How come the only way to see his children is going to USA?
    He is stuck in a dreamworld be it limbo or level 1000 does not matter.
    Period.

  • http://twitter.com/kiana_mylove Kiana Choi Ka Yan

    This is a great article that can explain my plentiful questions about Inception. Although i don’t want to admit, i believe that he is still dreaming at the end. T~T

  • http://twitter.com/kiana_mylove Kiana Choi Ka Yan

    Tis is a great article that can explain my plentiful questions about Inception. Although i don't want to admit, i believe that he is still dreaming at the end. T~T

  • http://www.parkesweb.com/ Steve P

    Good article.

    Sorry if this has been pointed out already, but I haven’t read through all the comments.

    The kids were certainly NOT in the same clothes at the end, although they were similar enough that it’s understandble people think so. Obviously Nolan wouldn’t have made them so similar, but not the same, by chance. He wanted at least some of the audience to think this – it’s kind of his inception on the audience.

    Many people have commented that they did not find that the kids were in exactly the same position. Again, it was similar: they were playing together in a sunlit backyard. But not the same.

    The ages are hard to judge, given how little you see of them in the scenes before the end. So, given that these things are not ‘exactly the same’ as often gets stated, and at least one thing (the clothes) are definitely different, Given that this part with the children is the main object to “12e” interpretation, these points leaves 12e as the most likely option.

  • http://twitter.com/CoyAlpaca CoyAlpaca

    who knows the opera songs during the count down moment

  • PMG

    The answer is simple….

    This is just a movie, written with an ending that makes no sense so that people can’t figure it out and keep talking about it.

    Nothing more to it than that. There is no 12a, 12c, this or that theory, it`s just movie deliberately written to be ambiguous so that you keep thinking and talking about it.

  • Jimmy

    alot of good points here. yes there will never be any definative answer, however i think we can rule out 12a as when cobb wakes up and looks at saito, saito instantly picks up the phone. This would be too much of a coincidence otherwise. 12a would also ruin the film.

  • Rsv7388

    there are some doubts I have regarding inception. Can you help me solving them.
    http://rsvblogger.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/inception-doubts/

  • Claude

    Just saw Inception for the first time. Great movie. Then I read this article and I gotta say, I think you guys are all over-thinking this one. But there is a lot going on, so please forgive me if I say anything that is clearly wrong, but I think I grasped everything quite well. My biggest issue lies in this question:

    What really happened at the end?

    I find 12B to be intriguing but let’s leave this at 2 options for now. It’s either real or it’s a dream.

    I find it interesting that nobody has mentioned some key facts here such as: DiCaprio throughout the movie is constantly being driven by the same haunted image of his kids. He is filled with regret that he doesn’t see their faces that “last time”. Also throughout we see his kids showing up in his missions during the dreams, basically distracting him. Translation – He doesn’t care whether the totem stops spinning or not because he doesn’t want to miss his kids faces.
    Next fact – When in a dream, the subconscious has a way of letting you know or warning you that you are in fact in a dream. One of these ways is that people unrelated to your dream, in essence the extras of the dream, will start to look at you or whatever is out of place. This in essence, let’s you know that you are in dreamworld. Well, what I instantly noticed is that this begins to happen as he walks through the airport, I believe after he passes customs. Everyone starts to look at him, and it seemed to me that he noticed for a split second but disregarded it or something changed which caused the people to stop looking. Maybe I just imagined this.
    Then there is also the fact that the events of this movie, as it seemed to me, all occur very quickly. 50 years of limbo occur throughout a ten hour plane ride. So it seems inconceivable to me that Michael Caine would be in Paris or wherever the hell they were, and then suddenly be in the USA to pick him up. So Caine being there to me is an instant clue that this in fact is a dream. Plus Caine seemed to be his pops, not the wife’s. After all, she was presumed murdered. If Caine were the wife’s father, I doubt he would still be on speaking terms with his wife’s murderer.
    So we get to the final scene. Thing is spinning, and it looks like it could keep going on spinning, thus signifying he is still dreaming, but it also looks like it is beginning to get a little wobbly, and it may in fact stop but he is too distracted by his children to care or notice. Either way, we don’t truly get to find out because it jumps to the credits, thus letting us come up with our own conclusions. But though it may look like it could stop, the fact is it doesn’t.
    This to me all adds up to: He is dreaming. He has now entered his own personal limbo, where he has finally found peace. Just my humble opinion, but what I can say for sure is, Great fucken movie.

  • Metro_man

    Not enough boobage in all levels.

  • Dalton

    This movie was alright except for the major glitch in the plot, in dream level 1, the van is in free fall (no gravity), which causes no gravity in level 2 (the hotel), so if there is no gravity in level 2 why is there gravity in level 3? it doesn’t make sense to me