[SPOILER]As Cobb clarified in Dream one. If Saito died there in dream one or any of them. They were soo deep that instead of just waking up they were lost in limbo. The only one who had been down that deep was Cobb, so it bears to reason he is the one to bring anyone back. As far as Saito being fully healthy, that’s easy. The affect of his dying was in the dream not in reality. So once Cobb found him it was just easy to bring him up the line. He needed a life line and that was Cobb.
As far as the first part I missed it to. I just hope that was the true reality. [/spoiler]
Just saw it again. To my surprise I didn’t pick up much more new stuff. The movie walks you through everything pretty well.
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I did notice that at the ‘top’ level there are several references to Cobb needing to come back to reality. Aside from Mol, his father tells him that, and one of the team members (I forget which. I should have brought a notepad.)
I figured out what people are hearing at the end. When the credits flash up, there is a sound that syncs with the credits. I’m not sure what it is, but it sounds like a top wobbling. It may be part of the score itself (the score is synced to the credits or vis versa.) You can hear it the first four or so credits, and then you don’t hear it for a while.
One of my original nits with the film was that if time dilation works like they say, they wouldn’t hear the musical cues in real time. Of course, it would be harder for the audience to follow. It just clicked for me that the score’s use of ‘slowed down’ Piaf motifs is much closer to what they’d actually be hearing.
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Wow. We just got back from Inception, in Imax, and have been discussing it all the way home, and are still doing so. My 14yr old immediately set to making a diagram to explain the levels/events/time-lines, and that’s the first time I’ve seen that happen!
The final scene is still frakking with me, and probably will be for some time.
I’m still processing the multiple layers of awesome of this movie, or at least attempting to. But if you’ve waited this long to see Inception, don’t wait anymore.
I have to say after everything I heard about it I was on the edge of my seat watching and recording every detail as it was possible BUT, the movie is not that complex.
The script is so well written and they walk you trough each step as they are making them. Rule #1 when you watch a movie : 1st 10min should bookend the last 10min and this movie those this well.
Of course it plays of the end as well. Since the movie Start in a limbo it should, in some kind of way finish in a Limbo.
And the ending, as we are we seem to Need a definitive answer. The movie does a pretty good job at not giving one and I find it’s the perfect way to do that kind of movie.
Let’s parallel the original Matrix. ‘‘I didn’t came here to tell you how it’s going to end. I’m here to tell you how it’s going to begin.’’ And that is where the movie begin in your mind.
The movie insert different clue to confirm or infirm any theory you might have.
You know, in the land of McMovie it was good to have a movie that let you ‘‘make your goddamn mind about it’’ and not just follow with a mash up ending just to satisfy people but make people satisfy themselves with the most rewarding ending they want to.
I just hope they win the Oscar for editing. The way the last hour is cut just kept me on the edge of my seat like movie do for there last 5min usually.
I also like ambiguous endings, when they are well done. This one is. I also agree that what is important for Dom, at the end, is that he has accepted A reality and decided not to care whether it is THE reality. Fact is, totems or not, once you know that you can move in and out of structured semi-realities like that, you’ll never know for certain that you aren’t in someone else’s dream, or that someone else hasn’t put you to sleep to enter your dream. You’ll never be certain. What if Arthur and Eames led the crew on a heist to start stealing other people’s totems? The top seemed to be the only one that defied the laws of physics in dream space and behaved normally in waking space. Arthur’s top simply had to be correctly weighted in the way that only he knew. We never learned what was special about Ariadne’s totem.
My point is, if a person had that technology, Mol wouldn’t be the only one to go nuts. At some point, you have to simply choose your reality. At the end, Dom chose his.
Thanks for that link. I completely buy that theory as one of the ways that Inception is intended to be read.
Pike, are you saying that
[spoiler]Cobb locked away and forgot that another reality existed while he was in limbo with Mol? That he stole her totem before her death/and thus caused her death? That he took her totem after her suicide in an attempt to embrace only a reality in which she was present, thus destabilizing his own ability to perceive reality?[/spoiler]
After the g/f and I saw it, we both said on the way home, “I liked it, but I don’t want to talk about it yet.” I think I need to see it a few more times before I am ready to lay out the number of different ways that I think the movie can be read and understood.
I have more thoughts on Ariadne but I’ll save them. Except to say that I wonder if g/f and I wrote Ellen Page a very nice letter, if she would accept our proposal to take her as our wife.
After the g/f and I saw it, we both said on the way home, “I liked it, but I don’t want to talk about it yet.” I think I need to see it a few more times before I am ready to lay out the number of different ways that I think the movie can be read and understood.
You’d think that, but we found that a second viewing doesn’t add very much (I’m sure some people would find it more useful.)
I have more thoughts on Ariadne but I’ll save them. Except to say that I wonder if g/f and I wrote Ellen Page a very nice letter, if she would accept our proposal to take her as our wife.
We couldn’t remember her name after we saw it the first time, so we just started calling her ‘Jailbait.’
Just saw it again. Still love the movie! I think my favorite effects (other than the fresh prince stuff above) were the paradox loops with the Escher stairs (both times).
I kind of wish that the side characters (especially Arthur and Ariadne) were more devloped. They were great, but I never understood their real motivations (other than reality not being enough for them once they’ve experienced dreams that way) behind doing their respective jobs.
