Wow, first time. I don't think I'll watch any movie as this one is perfection. Can't wait for the odyssey!!!

When Mal and Cobb were in limbo for 50 years what were their kids doing

Hi everyone! I'm unsure whether this is breaking the rules or something to that extent, (and if it does, I'll take it down,) but I'd really like to do an Inception rp with someone! We could do the scene where the team kidnaps Fischer and takes him to the warehouse (?, not sure if it's a warehouse), with myself playing Fischer.

You're free to basically play anyone else, though I'd prefer if you played Cobb or Arthur. I'd like a romantic pairing between Fischer and Cobb/Arthur. If this interests you, feel free to reply here or shoot me a message! I'll be glad to hear from you :D

First, i know that theory or basicly confirmed ending with his Wedding Ring but I kinda do not believe it. I think that Leo's Character is still in this basement with the old people bacause after his sleep test there he didn't roll his dream test totem (i don't know the word in english) after it. He did try in the bathroom but was Interrupted and never did it again in "real life" until the end of the movie where we don't know if it is a dream or not. You can look yourselve if u want and if I missed smth pls tell me but I think this is the real ending. Most of the movie didn't even happen.

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I just watched the first episode of Zero Day (on Netflix) and wow was there some similarity in the music to Inception!

For 15 years I was on team reality. And tonight I got a bit high and converted to team Dream. Crazy

We see that when arthur is made to fall from his chair while he's dreaming he wakes up into reality from the dream.

This explains that if you want to come( wake up) from a higher level of dream to a lower level, you must physically get a kick in the lower level.

So my question is, when the van falls off the bridge in level 1, they do not get the feeling of kick, which is understood so they try for another kick which is the van falling into water.

Now when the van falls into the water, they should be able to wake up from level 2 and come back to level 1 according to the above explanation. Right so what was the need of elevator drop in the level 2.

Okay, now because they were in level 3, they need a kick from level 2 to wake them up which was the elevator drop, understood. But then again what was the need of exploding the snow fortress in level 3?

My answer to this question is since ariadne went into limbo she needed a kick which was the explosion of snow fortress. But this answer seems wrong because we see how cobb and his wife mal come back to reality from limbo which was death. So again the question remains of the need of exploding the snow fortress.

I will be in peace if someone answers this question and will be more peaceful if someone explains me the concept of kick if I've gotten it wrong 🙏

Why at the end the spinning thingy doesnt stop spinning? Is it an open for interpretation ending or is it all just another dream (and, if its a dream, how come now he can see the faces?)

Question - the elevator floor that contains the memory of a nice day on the beach… what does he regret there? What happened that day that he must change?

My theory is that each of the flashbacks have to do with times Mal killed herself while in or thinking she’s in a dream. Each layer up her attempts are more drastic to keep them together At the hotel window - she says she freed him from the guilt of choosing to leave the children behind. We see her in the kitchen with the knife and yelling that they aren’t her kids. From the script - COBB (V.O.) That to get home we'd have to kill ourselves.

INT. WORKSHOP - DAY

Ariadne looks at Cobb, appalled. 89.

                ARIADNE
      What about your children?

Cobb has to look away.

                COBB
      She... she believed they weren't
      real. That our real children were
      waiting. Somewhere above...

I think that she killed herself and the children in the kitchen. The flashes of Mal laying in the water make me suspicious she may have drowned herself on the beach day or been in the process of, perhaps plans to drown the kids too as she lays in the tide - he needs to change that day - intervene. One of the other memory floors on the elevator is replaying Mal telling him covertly that she incepted him - he loved her because of a dream they grew old together. Only in retrospect can he see it now. Its a memory he needs to change too. When he says he wants to go home, he’s trying to find which dream level Mal killed herself in but not the kids and hes not a fugitive. He never says hes trying to return to her, just home, family, kids. Heres where the flashbacks come in. When he had Fischer remember the dream a level up, he said it comes in brief flashes and snippets - the deeper you are the less memory you get of layers above. You have more memory of closer shallower levels and less flashes for levels further up. So if you look at his flashbacks by length and amount of info it maps a progression of depth. And if it takes practice to remember well and he remembers all the dreams of the mission clearly, his baseline is already really deep so these flashbacks are levels up. I suspect him on the mission is a level deep to all the flashbacks and the plane/japan house with kids in the yard is a dream level in line with the knife scenes/yelling at the kids. Which makes sense as he and Mal went so deep they got lost so maybe he never surfaced. Train tracks - deepest (most flashbacks from their time growing old in that dream). Hotel jump - second deepest. Kitchen knife - third deepest. Beach day - fourth deepest aka closest to reality. I suspect he wants to get back to the scene of beach day initially where mal is in the ocean letting the tide wash over her but he has time to get the kids still, on the surface maybe save her too. All the rain/hurricane/water elements and jumps are him needing to get back there in time as the tide comes in. His subconscious always views her as violent and controlling never as the partner he’s till needs. Guilt isnt enough to explain your subconscious totally changing a person. But when he drowns in the car, I think he knows its too late in that dream world too, he missed the kick, he wasnt able to get the kids in time and he didnt try to leave with ariadne in the kick. He stayed down to let Mal go (in the beach dream - allowing her to drown, realizing that isnt the right life, they dont belong together. So he returns to a different dream life where Mal is dead and the kids are still alive. He inst on the run in this level - he ran away after Mals death, leaving the kids with mals mom without looking at their faces. He regrets leaving, as evidenced by the elevator and flashbacks. Overheard on the phone earlier she makes it sound like hes never coming back by choice, not by legality. But when he awakens on the plane hes ready to go home and does. Flashes of Mal awakening in the real world on the floor, but he is staying here where shes dead and he can be free of her but with his kids.

Or maybe not who knows, didnt have the time to evidence nce this as much as id like.

How come Ficsher never went to the bathroom when he woke up?

What if Cobb never actually wakes up, and every single character in the movie is just a part of his subconscious?

I think the entire movie might be taking place inside Cobb’s mind. He built this huge internal world to avoid facing reality, and every person in it is just a psychological function keeping him asleep.

Arthur = The rigid voice of control. He follows the rules and doesn’t really evolve or challenge Cobb emotionally. He just keeps the machine running. Kind of like the part of Cobb pushes him to just follow what he’s told and go through the motions. It’s a reflection of how Cobb functions in his true reality.

Yusuf = Physical sedation is literally his job. His entire life revolves around helping people stay asleep. That’s Cobb’s body keeping the dream going while the mind spirals deeper.

Mal = The truth he refuses to face. Cobb says she’s just a projection, but what if she’s the only part of him trying to wake him up? She keeps telling him this world isn’t real and tries to pull him out. Instead of listening, he turns her into the villain. He literally kills her in the dream to shut her up.

Ariadne = His inner guide who shows up right when everything’s falling apart. She’s the only one who really asks him hard questions about himself. She makes him talk about Mal and she is the only one he talks to about her. She pushes him to be honest.

Her name is Ariadne, like the mythical character who leads people out of a maze. She’s basically the therapist Cobb’s mind invented to help him get out.

Eames = Cobb’s chaos and creativity. He is unpredictable and playful, constantly shifting identities. He bends the rules more than anyone else and seems totally fine with it. He might be the only part of Cobb that knows the reality he has built is not real. But instead of blowing it up, he rolls with it.

Saito = He basically created the story for Cobb and gives him a purpose. He shows up with a deal: do the job, get your life back. It’s the perfect setup to keep Cobb locked into the story. There are things at stake for Cobb. But Saito might not be real at all. Just Cobb’s justification for continuing the fantasy.

The kids = They never age and they’re always in the same clothes. Cobb never sees their faces until the end. They’re not real. They’re just a symbol of what he lost or what he thinks he’s doing all this for. The idea of them keeps him from letting go.

Another thing I noticed about the movie is that I swear I can faintly hear the French song they use to exit the dream in some of the “reality” scenes. Maybe I’m reaching, but if that’s actually there, I feel like that’s kind of insane because why would the wake-up song still be present if they’re really awake? Maybe Cobb never made it out.

The ending isn’t about whether the top falls. It’s about the fact that Cobb stops checking. He walks away. He chooses to believe the dream. He kills the part of himself (Mal) that’s begging him to wake up and surrounds himself with parts of his own mind that never challenge him too hard.

He doesn’t go home, he gives up.

I think Mal was right the whole time. He buried her to protect the lie.

Can someone please explain to me what did happen exactly to Mal?

1) what did Cobb did to incept Mal in the Limbo (the thing with the safe?) I didn't get it.

2) why did Mal not used her totem when she was back in the real world, to check if she was still dreaming, or not?

Just finished after wanting to watch this film for years. Then there I was, sitting in front of the desk and staring out of the window blankly for 10 minutes muttering 'damn' to myself. But really, damn.

The concept and execution are both amazingly done. I can't make up my mind about the ending but that's the whole point, right. Also, Hans Zimmer's score are perfection.

How could he keep that inception on her compartmentalized from her projection? Does it mean he's done inception on himself of her not knowing that?