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***BEWARE OF EPIC SPOILERS*** And even if you did read them, you wouldn't understand any of it anyway until you saw the movie or read the script.
I saw Inception opening day in Imax at White Marsh theater in Baltimore on Friday (spent the night and saturday at my brother's new apartment and checked out ArtScape (OMG at the prices they were asking for food and drink. $10 for the equivalent of 2-3 (depending on the vender) super small chicken fingers and the equivalent of a small fry at any fast food chain with no beverage (not even a cup of water...). I didn't eat anything there because of that).
Inception is now my favorite Science Fiction film of all time (Star Wars doesn't count, that's fantasy. Alien+Aliens is horror, and Terminator is in a category of its own).
I can't stop thinking about the movie, especially because of the ending. I can't stop listening to the soundtrack (I'm a huge movie score fan (Hans Zimmer, John Williams, James Horner, James Howard, Klaus Badelt, A.R. Rahman, etc)). And most of all...I want to see the movie again!
***EPIC SPOILER ALERT***
Now with the ending, I personally think the movie is simple. Cobb came back to reality and the top (his totem) would've eventually stopped spinning despite the editing since it started to wobble (where it would've kept spinning flawlessly and perpetually if he was still dreaming).
Here's the problem. All the other times in the movie you see him spin the top...he stops it before he can truly find out what is going on (if he's in a dream or awake). Other people say that when he is in Mombasa and tries the new powerful sedative, from then on he's in the dream because he sees Mal in the mirror's reflection in the bathroom. Other people suggest Cobb was dreaming the whole time. Cobb informs to Ariadne (Ellen Page) in the movie that the dreamer's subconscious detects the intrusion of the other people and sends their projections of people to attack the intruders like how white blood cells attack virii and infections. Mal later in the film at 5 levels down (dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream) (who I believe is a projection of Cobb's mind in the dream) attempts to give Cobb a revelation that maybe he is the dreamer, after all Cobb has a corporation he calls Cobol with a death warrant on him, he can't go back to the USA to be with his family so the USA authorities are after him...etc. But then again, if Cobb is dreaming why would his own subconscious attack him through 'Cobol' and USA law enforcement?
I, and other people have a theory for that. One, is that Cobb is still in limbo to the point where he is dreaming inside his already limbo self (kind of an infinite loop type thing) and that's why his subconscious is attacking him. Or, that he is actually in Saito's dream and that Saito is actually pulling a 'Mr. Charles' on him to try and get information out of Cobb (extraction) or do perform inception onto him.
Anyway here's a link that has even more theories and explains it all better: http://www.cinematical.com/2010/07/19/dissecting-inception-six-interpretations-and-five-plot-holes/
So what do you guys think that saw the movie? Was the whole movie a dream and Cobb is in limbo? Were the parts leading up to Mombasa before he tries the sedative real and after he takes the sedative everything after that is his dream? Or that he really does wake up after trying the Sedative and at the end of the movie he really does come back to reality and is reunited with his family in USA and Christopher Nolan just edited the final scene with the spinning top to f*ck around with our heads (LOL)???
I personally think it's the latter...
~Ed
I saw Inception opening day in Imax at White Marsh theater in Baltimore on Friday (spent the night and saturday at my brother's new apartment and checked out ArtScape (OMG at the prices they were asking for food and drink. $10 for the equivalent of 2-3 (depending on the vender) super small chicken fingers and the equivalent of a small fry at any fast food chain with no beverage (not even a cup of water...). I didn't eat anything there because of that).
Inception is now my favorite Science Fiction film of all time (Star Wars doesn't count, that's fantasy. Alien+Aliens is horror, and Terminator is in a category of its own).
I can't stop thinking about the movie, especially because of the ending. I can't stop listening to the soundtrack (I'm a huge movie score fan (Hans Zimmer, John Williams, James Horner, James Howard, Klaus Badelt, A.R. Rahman, etc)). And most of all...I want to see the movie again!
***EPIC SPOILER ALERT***
Now with the ending, I personally think the movie is simple. Cobb came back to reality and the top (his totem) would've eventually stopped spinning despite the editing since it started to wobble (where it would've kept spinning flawlessly and perpetually if he was still dreaming).
Here's the problem. All the other times in the movie you see him spin the top...he stops it before he can truly find out what is going on (if he's in a dream or awake). Other people say that when he is in Mombasa and tries the new powerful sedative, from then on he's in the dream because he sees Mal in the mirror's reflection in the bathroom. Other people suggest Cobb was dreaming the whole time. Cobb informs to Ariadne (Ellen Page) in the movie that the dreamer's subconscious detects the intrusion of the other people and sends their projections of people to attack the intruders like how white blood cells attack virii and infections. Mal later in the film at 5 levels down (dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream) (who I believe is a projection of Cobb's mind in the dream) attempts to give Cobb a revelation that maybe he is the dreamer, after all Cobb has a corporation he calls Cobol with a death warrant on him, he can't go back to the USA to be with his family so the USA authorities are after him...etc. But then again, if Cobb is dreaming why would his own subconscious attack him through 'Cobol' and USA law enforcement?
I, and other people have a theory for that. One, is that Cobb is still in limbo to the point where he is dreaming inside his already limbo self (kind of an infinite loop type thing) and that's why his subconscious is attacking him. Or, that he is actually in Saito's dream and that Saito is actually pulling a 'Mr. Charles' on him to try and get information out of Cobb (extraction) or do perform inception onto him.
Anyway here's a link that has even more theories and explains it all better: http://www.cinematical.com/2010/07/19/dissecting-inception-six-interpretations-and-five-plot-holes/
So what do you guys think that saw the movie? Was the whole movie a dream and Cobb is in limbo? Were the parts leading up to Mombasa before he tries the sedative real and after he takes the sedative everything after that is his dream? Or that he really does wake up after trying the Sedative and at the end of the movie he really does come back to reality and is reunited with his family in USA and Christopher Nolan just edited the final scene with the spinning top to f*ck around with our heads (LOL)???
I personally think it's the latter...
~Ed
