Inception was AMAZING (spoilers)

[darthdevidem01]

Reasonable said:

darthdevidem01 said:

Reasonable said:

Packie said:

I can't believe how much I loved this film. This IS Nolan's best film. Hell, I saw this movie yesterday and I still can't stop thinking about it. Bravo to Nolan!

Question to anyone who understood the film entirely. How the heck did Cobb rescue Saito in the dream? I still didn't get how he was able to reach him in the end.

TBH that's open to interpretation.  For example, what if the whole film is Cobb's dream (possible and doesn't go against anything shown).  In that case there was no rescue.  It was just another part of Cobb's own dream.

But I swear in the ending, when he rolls that thingy on the table before going to finally meet his kids that spinning thing was just about to fall before they just end the movie

so I don't think the whole movie was Cobb's dream...

Check my earlier post.  Note that after he wakes up on the plane Cobb is never shown speaking to anyone, just catching their eye.

The film toys, deliberately, with the idea that when Cobb wakes up on the plane that's the first time he is actually awake, the whole preceeding sequence was a dream, he walks through customs catching the eye of a few of his fellow first class passangers, then greets his kids and goes home.  In which case of course the top would wobble as only that part was real.

Alternatively, I'd note the concept the top will always spin in a dream is false (no reason why it couldn't be dreamt of as ceasing to spin and, more importantly, that Totem was Mal's and Cobb using it is breaking the rule of something only you know over anyone else.

Note that we're never shown nor told what was really Cobb's own Totem before he apparently made Mal's Totem his own.

It's interesting to note that by walking away at the end it implies Cobb may no longer care to see the results of the Totem - finally embracing a false but desirable dream life - or that he's abandoning Mal's Totem and moving on, or both combined.

It could also imlpy his children's faces are his own Totem - which I like as an idea but I think it fails the goal they are uniquely known to him.

 

Very interesting. I did think they didn't speak because they didn't wanna make the guy they were hired to carry out inception in suspicious. They had to still act like they were complete strangers to each other.

Also I think it showed Saito just waking up after Cobb does and Saito puts his hand to where he got injured in the dream (I think this happens..saw it a week ago, can't exactly remember)....but Saito could have had his own independent dream where he got hurt.

@packie

True the bit where Saito suddenly got to him in that place was very suspicious! 

But then again knowing Saito, and the kind of power that they showed he had in terms of "connections with important people", it might not be impossible to believe that Saito was keeping a track on Cobb through spies.

Its good the film is making us think after the end credits roll, we hardly get films that do this.

EDIT: argh I need to see this movie again to explore the concepts some people in this thread are throwing out, there's some things I didn't notice. But i never see a movie twice in theatres. (only seen 2 movies more than once in theatres)