Inception was AMAZING (spoilers)

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bmmb1 said:

Soriku said:

Only things I didn't understand was what was up with the riot in the beginning of the film; that seemed kinda random. And also why there was gravity in level 3 (snow area) in the dreams but not in level 2 (hotel). I know the van falling caused the no gravity thing in level 2, but why not the same for level 3? Does that mean that the environment in a dream only affects things one level up, not two or more?

I don't remember the fine details of the beginning anymore, but I would think that the riot in the beginning would be the main dreamer's "antibodies". I don't think there is anything random in this movie , I think each and every scene was carefully considered. 

As to gravity in the snow area, the further removed you are from a level, the less effect it has. There WAS the avalanche in this level, maybe it depends how strong the occurence is as far as whether and how it manifests to some extent more than a level down or not.

The reasoning seemed to be Arthur's dream (the hotel) would be affected directly by his environment one level up whereas the snow level, being the dream of someone in Arthur's level, was not.

I think there was a potential flaw here as if Arthur's dream level is affected by the location of his body then given the snow level is based on someone dreaming in Arthur's dream who is weightless I'm not sure the effect shouldn't also have been passed down.

But, it's made up rules and as defined they do cover the idea of the snow level being one level further away from the van dream and therefore outside its direct influence.

The crowd as noted by others was in a dream and therefore easy to explain as defenses to the dreamers being present much as later the dreamers are attacked almost right away in Fischer's case.