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https://aibaranov.github.io/inception/

Dumb question.

I just rewatched inception for first time since it came out. While it’s not perfect, in a lot of ways it is. The way Nolan deals with the mind and dreaming is so fascinating.

For some reason I figured Mal was his totem. If Mal or his children showed up then he knew he was dreaming.

I haven’t made up my mind if the whole thing took place in cobbs dream but the presence of Mal and his children was such an interesting theme. I love how there was almost jumpscare levels of dread when she would show up.

And I guess that’s partly why he might still be in a dream in the end.

Mal makes a really good point with secret agencies chasing him and how his motivations don’t really sound that believable.

ABSOLUTE 10/10 MOVIE WITHOUT QUESTION, EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS PERFECTION EXCEPT FOR THE LAST 10 SECOND HOW TF CAN YOU END A MASTERPIECE LIKE THAT??

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Sorry if this question has been posted before, but I searched it on Reddit and I got nothing. People have asked this question online before (eg on Quora) but the answers aren't really clear imo.

A totem's mechanism is something that should be kept a secret because if someone else knows about it, they can use it to make you believe that you're in real life. Both Cobb and Arthur drill the importance of secrecy into Ariadne. However, pretty early on into the movie, Cobb reveals the mechanism of the spinning top to Ariadne, telling her that the top would keep spinning if he was in a dream. Does this not explicitly go against everything that he'd told her earlier on?

There are some theories I've seen about this which is that:

1. Cobb's real totem is his wedding ring, which appears on his hand in a dream but not in reality, so explaning the spinning top mechanism would come at no cost to him. This is another debate in itself so for the sake of the question I'm going to assume that the top is his true totem.

2. Cobb didn't fully explain the mechanism to Ariadne, only telling her that the top will continue to spin indefinitely in a dream. In a dream, the dreamer can bend reality as they see fit. What Cobbs doesn't tell Ariadne is that whether the top spins indefinitely or not, is dependent on his own reality-bending when he is in a dream. Thus, it doesn't matter whether Ariadne knows that it will keep spinning or not, since it is ultimately Cobb who decides how long the top spins. Even if she, as the Architect, constructs a world where the top falls over, Cobb would easily be able to will it back to spin forever. However, if this is true, why wouldn't everyone be able to use minor reality-bending as their totem? (I say minor, since otherwise the subject's subconscious would attack them)

3. Cobb kind of just messed up and had a moment of vulnerability with Ariadne. I guess this could be true since Ariadne already knows so many of Cobbs's secrets, so he might not think that another one would even matter anymore.

Have watched it recently again at Cinemas on IMAX, watched it at my sister's place, recently got a home theatre and have been watching it almost everyday trying to analyse, looking for things I missed and feeling calm with the amazing Hans Zimmers score. My comfort movie!!!! what's wrong with me. i am an Inception addict. 😭

I want to know the rules of tottem, like can a cup of a coffee be a tottem?

I have to write an essay for psychology on why Cobb was dreaming at the end of the movie, a lot of evidence I found seems to have been proven false (ex: the kids looking the same). Can someone please provide good evidence?

Please give an actual answer and not just “he wasn’t dreaming”.

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Okay, so... I just watched the movie for the first time in my life (yeah, yeah, blabla, very late, bla ^^). I don't really wanna talk about anything in the story, but there one thing...

In the airport scene at the end, when Cobb is heading towards the exit, he passes some people. One of those is the guy with the "Fischer"-sign... although: That's not a guy, that's a cardboard cutout!!

Or am I going insane?

Ive rewatched this movie countless of times and each time I stay entertained from the fact that this technology could or could not be possible. We’re already aware of CIA doing studies of the effects of LSD and countless psychological torture experiments, although inception may or may not be torture is there any possibility that the CIA could of done dream studies of tapping into someones subconscious and altering their ideas?

I've just finished watching Inception for the first time and WOW this movie is mind-bogglingly good - some of the best vfx in the last 15 years (and they still hold up) - a great story (even if I have literally no idea what's going on most of the time) and is genuienly just an incredible movie

He was a professor in paris and seemingly didnt know about the job outside of the brief meeting they both had..

Do any of you guys lucid dream and build ur dream worlds and spend time in different layers like inception is clearly real from my experiences. Just when I tell people they look at me like I'm insane. Just looking to see if anyone else has some fun in their sleep. Ig it also brings up the question if we are currently in limbo. Life is so funny sometimes.

What kind of inception would he have implanted then?

A question that haunts me ever since I first watched this movie 10 years ago was the following. Cobb and Mal were in the Limbo for years. When they decided to return, they just killed themselves and woke up. Why didn't Saito do the same when he entered the Limbo?

I've noticed that Inception is currently on offer in my territory on Apple TV and is listed as a Dolby Vision presentation. I'm sure that this is likely some sort of algorithmic re-encoding, but I was wondering if any AV enthusiasts owned it and if there was any difference over regular HDR?

I rewatched yesterday and it got me thinking, Nolan successfully proves that Inception is possible because he's doing it to the viewer the whole time. With the movie, he implants the seed, which is the possibility of Cobb being still in the fourth layer or not. It's you, the viewer, that uses the base ideia and grows it into the final product, which is you deciding whether Cobb is still in the dream world or not based on the events of the final scene.

What do you think?

Hi,

I am just wondering, stupid question: but why didn't they just leave anyone in Limbo regardless of their experiences in the deeper layers and just make sure they wake them up in higher levels or in real world afterwards?
Lets say Saito was stuck in Limbo, but what would have happened in real life when sedatives wore off for Saito? Would they be able to wake him up or would he die in real life? Why retrieve him? Why not wake him up.

Tried to google this couldnt find an answer.

Why didnt Cobb call his kids on video call or something, or ask someone for a picture since he cant remember their faces ?

I guess my main question here is how did Fischer not realise his mind was being broken into when he finally woke up on the plane? The whole plan was predicated on him being told about extractors and someone trying to break into his mind, so surely he would have realised something was wrong when he woke up from a 10 hour sleep and saw the very people entering his subconscious right next to him on the plane. How did this not make him suspicious and make him think maybe they were behind it all? Or did he not remember the specifics?

Also, in the third level, Ariadne says right in front of Fischer that she designed that level of the dream. If what Cobb had said to him about entering Browning's mind was true, how would this have made any sense to him? That pretty much gives away the secret that the whole thing was pre-planned.

You know it’s a great movie when you still have questions after your 4th rewatch:

So I was wondering how Cobb incepted Mal’s mind, and from what we know in the movie, he introduced the idea that their limbo world isn’t real (and possibly made her discover the safe with the endlessly spinning totem).

So they leave limbo but she still has the idea in her mind. She still thinks the reality world isn’t real. But instead of killing herself, why doesn’t she simply spin the totem?

I looked through countless articles to understand inception (the pure art it is) ,and i think everybody deserves to understand it and not sit there feeling dumb like i did so i wrote a full inception breakdown for dummies

I broke down each dream level individually for maximum understanding. Here ya go:

Inception; a Beginner’s Breakdown

let me know what you think

My apologies if this poll has been done before. Due to the limit of poll options, I only included protagonists. I'll make another poll soon with Mal and other characters.

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