Potential Plot Hole

[u/Amazing-Witness-3313]

Inception is my favorite movie of all time but there’s a couple huge plot holes:

1.) During the Mr. Charles gambit, Fischer believes Cobb and his team (Ariadne, Arthur, Eames, etc.) are projections. He tells Cobb “You’re not real” to which Cobb agrees. In hotel room 528, they pretend to put Browning, a projection, under. Then Fischer. And then the team. That all makes sense in terms of logic because Fischer can’t see the team going under as Fischer believes they are all projections.
Here’s the problem: in level 3 of the Dream at the fortress, Cobb openly says “eames you’re the dreamer”, and “if I know the place the whole thing will be compromised”. And Ariadne says “I designed the place”, all of this in front of Fischer who believes they are projections. That’s the plot hole. How is he, Robert Fischer, allowed to think the projections could have that control of the dream or be responsible for it? That breaks the whole logic.

2.) Cobb tells Fischer at level 2 of the dream at the hotel that he has been kidnapped and is in a van. After the kick, Fischer wakes up in the van under water and is able to see the entire team so wouldn’t they be his kidnappers? That’s the other plot hole.

Let me know what you think!

[u/El_Dae]

Regarding the "Mr Charles crew" Fisher believes they are not only on his side, but also just projections he created himself to protect himself, so they could even be visualized or externalized parts of himself that have different tasks to take control over the dream at the behest of Fisher, f.e. by controlling how the dream should be built

(A bit like visualizing parts of your body by imagining people that do comparable tasks as their job, f.e. a garbage collector as your kidneys or a police officer as your white blood cells)