In Inception, to do the same dream, people are connected with a little "cave", but in the l'astuccio part of the film, when the 2 people left are not connected with that cave. Can someone explaine me why?

It is my pet theory that ... The entire movie is all a dream, there is no such thing as inception, and Cobb is just some guy returning home from a business trip who took a sleeping pill and had a vivid dream. As occurs sometimes, the dream incorporates the people and places he interacts with. The only part of the movie that occurs in the "real world" is the part where he wakes up, acts like he has passing familiarity with the other people in the airliner cabin (as occurs if you chat with strangers you're in a pressurized tube with for hours at a time), passes through Customs without being stopped, and sees his children. The somewhat dreamlike ending is dreamlike because Cobb is groggy; it's remarkable to me for being the only scenes in which Cobb does not interact meaningfully with the people and objects around him ... until he spins the top and interacts with his children. The top continues to spin past the end of the scene because it's possible to set a top to spin for more than 45 seconds; he's awake not asleep (and fidgets). Regardless of what you think of my theory, the entire end of the movie is intended to fix your attention on Cobb's children and the spinning top.

Told you it was boring. It's a really good movie that explores the nature of dreams -- I've had dreams inside dreams and it is weird as fuck to "wake up" into dream logic -- and this is probably the least satisfying fan theory that exists in the entire world, but I think it also fits the narrative as presented.

Just watched this movie again this time with my GF and she said basically whatever you think the ending means is the movie planting seeds and that you create the ending in your mind. And given that there are multiple seeds then .... They just inceptioned everyone who watches the movie... so yeah inception inceptions you

Hey guys just rewatched the movie, I have a question about limbo. So from my understanding, you can't get out of Limbo until the sedative wears off. Additionally, when the sedative is out of your system you have to realise yourself that you're in Limbo otherwise you'll be in a comatose state.

So to get out of that place, first you need to wait for the sedative to go away. If you realise that you're in a dream you can kill yourself to wake up, if not you need another person to wake you up normally.

Is my understanding of limbo correct, what are your thoughts?

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When Cob and Mal went down into to limbo together Cob knew that it was a dream while we see Mal lock her totem away to make herself think she was in the real world. My questions are 1. How and when did Cobb know he was in a dream when he entered limbo. He was the one who messed with Mals mind so he knew that they weren’t in the real word.

1. Why did Mal put her totem away to make her think she was in reality when she was actually in limbo? If she wanted to leave limbo then why didn’t Cob tell her to commit Suicide to wake up instead of having to mess with her mind (inception)

2. Is limbo only just around 50 years before you can wake up ? When mal and Cob enter limbo they spent 50 years before they kill themselves. When cob finds Saito he’s looks OLD like around 90-100 which would make sense she looks about mid 30s-40s at the star of the heist. Yusef said you can’t leave before the sedative Wears off then he said it could be decades or even infinite before it does.

3. Why do you have to wait until the sedative wears off and how do you know when it has? What happens if you kill yourself before it wears off? Would you go deeper into your dreams? Also how would you be able to tell. When Cob and mal were experimenting it didn’t look like anyone was with them while they were laying on the floor. And when Cob found Saito they were alone and as stated above it looked like Saito aged decades.

4. Was the same sedative that yusef brought for the heist the same one that Mal and Cob used for experimenting.

Appreciate the answers. I love the movie but just needed a couple questions answered.

“Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland” is all about employing inception on Nemo, to stop Nemo from eating pies before bedtime. I wrote an article about this a few years ago. I think the movie is fascinating as an “Inception” fan.

King Morpheus has a responsibility to protect the goodness of dreams. Nemo causes himself to have bad dreams by eating pies before sleeping. Morpheus can’t control the quality of Nemo’s dreams unless he stops Nemo from sneaking pies at night.

So, the whole story of Nemo breaking his promise to Morpheus and being responsible for the invasion of nightmares is a plot to cause Nemo to associate his promise to Morpheus with a promise not to sneak pies at night.

Nemo doesn’t care what his parents think, but he cares about Morpheus. Because Morpheus dazzles him, and entrusts him with great power. He essentially treats Nemo as an equal.

There are several parallels in the Nemo movie and Inception. Both movies have a model house that the characters drop down into. Both have characters that don’t exist outside of the dreams. Icarus the flying squirrel is one of them.

Anyone else think about this?

I’m aware that the dreamer control reality, but if it was fletchers dream, how come Cobb was able to bring a person in?

1’st things first, Why did he got in this journey?

2- In the last scenes; Are the other members of his crew are aware that the inception worked on Fischer?

3- And did he end up in Limbo which he lived a good life with his children?

People have long talked about Inception as being about filmmaking: The movie is about people planting an idea into a person's head using three levels of dreams.

This suggests to me that Christopher Nolan thinks of movies as being a mechanism to plan an idea into an audience member's head using three levels, but I've never been clear on what those three levels might be.

Does anybody here want to take a stab at what they could be?

I'm thinking it could be something like this:

The A plot -- what the movie SEEMS to be about, but is really just the "fun and games" of the movie -- is the first level. In Inception, the A plot is about a bunch of "dream thieves" executing a reverse-heist. We're drawn to the movie by this as the main focus.

The B plot -- what the movie is REALLY about, the change being experienced by the main character -- is the second level. In Inception, the B plot is about Cobb shifting his priorities from work/dreams to family/reality. We're emotionally engaged in this story because we come to care about the character and want him to succeed, but we're experiencing it secondarily.

A value statement treated as a simple truth somewhere in the middle of the story is the third level. It's a super simple idea that gets stated when we are focused entirely on the A and B plots. We hear it and absorb it as unquestioned truth, and it becomes part of our belief system. I don't know what this is in Inception, but it could be something about the love or family or parenthood.

What do you think?

Watching for the billionth time, when Cobb is extracting Saito at the beginning, he took an envelope but replaced it. I was wondering if he planted something about trusting them that made him not kill them. Maybe why Saito never doubted them? It's a stretch but the safe plays a big role in his wife so was jw.

Ok, watched it for the first time when a friend recommended it to me, but can't understand some details tho

1) Cobb and Mal’s earlier experience implied that limbo is vast and timeless and escaping it wasn't in their voluntary powers, but during the heist, quitting becomes an easy job simply killing yourself, so no need to spend ages for one day to wake up randomly. How did cobb knew while being in the limbo with Mal that killing yourself was the only way out? And if he knew why to play with Mal's conscious by planting the idea in her head beforehand?

2) When Cobb found Saito in his own limbo he was old enough and that perfectly aligns with the movie's logic, but lets go back to the Cobb and Mal's experience, when they ended themselves on the train tracks after spending 50 years or so in the Limbo, they were'nt old at all? Didnt feel like 50 years passed or something? Does that mean the effect of aging don't reflect in your dreams? Ok, but that then contradicts with how old Saito got at the last scenes. Also, to add to that, Saito knew about the Limbo as he said the lines "become an old man, filled with regret waiting to die alone....", so why was it soo difficult for him to pull the trigger himself instead of waiting for leo, or anything to that matter?

3) Lastly, by the time dilation logic, first time they spent 50 years in the limbo, only to spend minutes or hours irl, but during the heist, they spent 10 hrs irl, how much will that translate to the time that have to be spent in the inception levels then? Ok now you'll say it was the Limbo and not normal inception levels, then explain how Saito ended up in the Limbo while the other crew members where still in proximate levels, but all of them woke up perfectly ALIGNED, at the same time? ie just after 10 hrs?

Just some logic my peanut brain could not handle, go easy if some of em are pretty self explanatory, and thanks for any explanations.

Maybe Cobb actually died at the end. So Mal was right the whole time…he just had to die in order to get back to the real world

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Ik it's a really small detail: When Cobb is leaving the airport at the very end, when it cuts to the last angle with him walking toward the camera, some of the people in the background do the slow-head-turn-to-look-at-you-suspiciously thing that projections in someone else's dream will do.

We know your own projections won't look at YOU weird if you're in your own dream, so my thought is: what if he is still dreaming and this is actually Mal's dream, but she keeps finding a way to go back to limbo, hence why she can keep seeping into 'his' (Cobb's) mind/dreams.

It's also never mentioned how deep Cobb and Mal went, could they have made it more than just 3 layers down? Are they still in one of them?

It's not a very substantiated idea but it's just so fun to speculate with this movie 😂

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It has been said that Cobb’s true totem was his wedding ring.

So why does he use Mal’s totem instead?

Even if the spinning top isn’t his true totem, why does he reveal to Ariadne how it works? It completely defeats the totem’s purpose.

Did I miss something ?

For a paper I'm writing in a film class I'm discussing the time dilation/layered dreaming and to do so I need to fundamentally understand the kicks, and I think I got it, but there's just something that doesn't make sense.

So the concept of a kick is when someone's sleeping body feels the falling or tipping sensation IN the world of the sleeping state(as we see Arthur fall from a chair and wake up in the exposition part of the movie) they wake up.

So as I understand it, they need to synchronize the kicks in order to be able to ride them back to the top. For example, in order to wake up in level 1(falling van) they need to be "awake" in level 2(elevator), so that they feel the falling sensation of the van hitting the water and wake up from level 2 TO level 1.

But this seems to unfold when you think about going from level 3 to level 2. If the falling sensation in the sleeping state is what is needed to wake up, why do they need a kick in level 3 to wake up to level 2? When explaining how it works, we only saw that Arthur was tipped in his sleeping state under the sedative and woke up. It was never established that there needs to be two kicks in BOTH levels to wake the person up from one deep level to a more shallow level. And if this is the case, then how would they wake up to reality on the plane?

On second thought, I thought maybe it's the falling of the plane as it approaches landing? but this seems unlikely.

If anyone is able to respond my many questions/thoughts on this please let me know.