During Inception 's heist scenes, nearly every member of Cobb's team functions as the dreamer, while Fischer Cillian Murphy remains the consistent subject.
Of course, there are other important roles in the dream heist. For example, there's Ariadne as the architect, someone who builds in dream layer mazes to make it more difficult for Fischer's subconscious to recognize the intruders. There's Yusuf Dileep Rao as the chemist, who's charged with creating a specific mixture of sedatives in order to keep Fischer unconscious long enough for the inception to work.
And finally, Eames Tom Hardy makes his paycheck as the forger, someone able to impersonate people within the dream world. So let's start our Inception analysis with the second dream sequence we see in the film we'll get to the first later. This one takes place in Saito's Ken Watanabe Japanese castle.
Cobb and Arthur have gone into Saito's subconscious in order to steal specific secrets hidden in Saito's mind on behalf of Cobol Engineering, a rival company to Saito's Proclus Global. In the castle, Saito keeps his most important secrets in a hidden safe.
Cobb finds his way in there, but during the heist, Arthur is captured by Cobb's wife, Mal Marion Cotillard. Okay, technically, she's a projection of Cobb's subconscious and a reflection of the guilt that Cobb feels for his part in his wife's death. Mal works with Saito, threatening to torture Arthur, but Cobb shoots his buddy in the head first, which begins to end the dream.
With Arthur dead i. Saito, the subject, is killed by falling rubble, causing him to wake up from the castle dream, while Cobb is pushed into a bathtub full of water in order to forcibly kick him out of the castle dream space. After Cobb, Arthur, and Saito wake up from their little castle adventure, they find themselves in Saito's secret apartment.
At first, we think they're back in the real world, but nope, this is the original dream. The castle was the second level of the dream, and Saito's apartment is the first level, where the architect Nash Lukas Haas has created a replica of Saito's real-life love nest.
So just like the castle dream, Saito remains the subject. But while Arthur was the dreamer of the castle which is destroyed after he wakes up , Nash is the dreamer of the apartment.
And things get pretty tense once Saito figures out he's being conned by a bunch of dream thieves. He attacks Arthur and Nash, but Cobb gets the drop on him, interrogating Saito for information. As it turns out, Saito's secrets in the second level of the dream weren't completely available to Cobb, so he threatens Saito, trying to get him to reveal the info by force.
However, that's when Saito realizes these dream thieves are really good at their jobs. Since Nash designed this apartment to mirror Saito's secret getaway, the businessman is totally fooled at first That's when he recognizes the carpeting is made of polyester instead of wool, like at his actual pad.
With the knowledge that he's still dreaming, Saito's subconscious projections flood the room as angry rioters, killing the dream thieves and waking them up for real. As it turns out, Saito was the mastermind behind the film's first dream heist. He secretly hired Cobb and his crew to infiltrate his own subconscious.
It was sort of a trial run. He wanted to see how good these guys were. And now that he's impressed, he offers Cobb a job, asking if his team will perform inception on Robert Fischer, the heir of a rival conglomerate. After accepting the job, Cobb meets up with Miles Michael Caine , his former teacher and father-in-law, to see if there's an architect talented enough to make it work.
Miles sends him Ariadne, who, after a brief maze-drawing test, meets Cobb's approval. At some point in their conversation, they wind up in a Parisian cafe, where Cobb shares an important aspect of dream sharing: When you're dreaming, you don't remember how you entered a location.
The subject starts the dream during the action, with no build-up to what's actually happening. Cobb reveals to Ariadne that she's dreaming in order to show how easy it is to trick the subject into believing that a dream is reality.
So if we want to get technical here, in the cafe, Ariadne is the subject, while Cobb is the dreamer. Once Ariadne realizes she's in a dream, she panics, and it starts to collapse, waking both of them up.
After their visit to the imaginary cafe, Cobb and Ariadne head back into the dream world, but this time, Cobb is the subject. As the dreamer, Ariadne has full control over the reality of the dream and impresses Cobb by constructing a replica of the last dream's location.
However, Cobb warns her that if his subconscious projections perceive her to be an intruder, they'll attack. Ariadne experiments with dream logic, folding over architecture and building the world of the dream around them as they walk. When Ariadne begins to construct actual architecture from real life, Cobb warns her away from the habit.
He tells her that if she consistently uses whole subjects directly from real life, it can complicate the relationship a dreamer has to reality. It becomes nearly impossible to tell what's real if your dreams look and feel just like reality. Luckily, there's a solution, which involves using a totem, a physical object that functions in a unique way that a dream thief wouldn't be able to replicate.
Cobb's totem is a top that stops spinning when he's in the real world, Arthur uses a weighted die, and Ariadne eventually builds a hollowed-out bishop chess piece.
Within the dream in Paris, Ariadne's physics-bending experiments lead to Cobb's subconscious attacking her. Imaginary Mal pops up once again and delivers the killing blow by stabbing Ariadne in the stomach, waking her up. Soon, Ariadne gets a crash course in building dream levels with Arthur, who takes her into a dream level of his own design. Here, Arthur is the dreamer while Ariadne is the subject, since Arthur's the one controlling the architecture.
Active Oldest Votes. Fischer is shot in the 3rd layer of the dream and enters the limbo. So there are 2 possibilities: Saito wakes from limbo directly to reality because they stay longer in limbo.
Improve this answer. Tobias Kienzler 8 8 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Dragos Dragos 2, 3 3 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. Don't you mean Saito was shot in the chest on level 1? Unfortunately I cannot answer this like the other questions on Inception in a positive manner. I believe the reason they did not want to go into limbo was because they mention it is filled with the only other person who has been down there's dreams i.
Cobb which in turn, means Mal and they had a fear of who knows what could happen at that point. Yes they do meantion that Cobb's dreams will be the only structure down there. However Ariadne and Arthur have seen that Cobb can project Mal into any dream - he could have brought her into any of the layers including the first.
So the argument that they are just avoiding Mal doesn't seem that strong. Besides Mal is no more dangerous than Fisher's own militarized projections. Ariadne seems to be able to wake up from falling off the building in limbo because she went there "manually" and conciously i. While this won't usually bring you back to life, together with the limbo kick the falling from the building it worked. That's why they needed to synchronize it with the defibrilator, as Ariadne does when seeing the lightings.
He wasn't necessarily affected physically in the following dream layers except for his body's reactions to the shot from the first layer, so they couldn't really heal something that happened in "reality" the first dream layer It's dreaming. We don't know much about it, so there aren't a lot of rules to it in Movie Land. RaysonK RaysonK 4 4 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. I dunno.
It seemed kinda vague with Limbo, despite Cobb exploring it. Sure, the movie explains a bit about dreaming e. This doesn't make as much sense to me as the reason why they cannot simply wake up from the dreams is because of Yusuf's concoction. Still think its a bit of a plot hole though.
Reviving people isn't the same as creating objects. If you can revive someone, then why not kill someone only by thinking? You can not have any influence on how people act or what they perceive.
Remember that they can not control the projections, so it is less possible to control a conscious dreamer. It is not because of the experience as a dreamer that people can't be revived. Mal is a Cobb's projection. John John 9, 13 13 gold badges 60 60 silver badges bronze badges. While that links seems to provide a possible explanation, your interpretation seems to impose more things than necessary, let alone evidenced. It doesn't really seem relevant into whose mind they go to limbo or whose mind shot whom.
Afterall limbo is the conjoined subconcious playground of all the people dreaming or having been there previously together. So it seems not important whose limbo you enter as there is only one. The only difference seems to be between entering limbo by dying and entering it conciously. No, Fischer is not yet in Limbo, he needs to be dead to get to Limbo. They are simply reaching out to the dying mind of Fischer using Cobb's mind.
This is important because only using Cobb's mind can they locate the dying mind of Fischer to kick it out. If Fischer were dead like Saito, then the only way to reach him would be by dying. When I say 'not in Limbo' I mean - dead and lost in the vast space of shared conscience. Also, in effect, Cobb's mind has hijacked Fisher's mind. They need to descend in to Cobb's mind to set Fisher's mind.
When they descend one level further they are in the area of Limbo because only 3 levels of dream is architected. Because of this the laws of Cobb projecting in the dream applies. Mal is Cobb's projection holding on to Fischer and they reach him. Had 4th level of dream been architected, they would have reached there and not Limbo. What I'm not sure of and what I don't see suggested anywhere is why they have to search him in Cobb's mind explicitly.
Afterall limbo is shared conciousness and everybody can bring every projection he likes. It just doesn't seem relevant that it was Mal who attacked him and that they therefore have to enter Cobb's mind to find Fisher.
It's limbo afterall, so wouldn't any other mind have done, too? With the warehouse in danger of being infiltrated, the team once again pressured Fischer into giving them the combination to the safe, demanding he give them the first six numbers that popped into his head.
He told them a series of random numbers that came to mind before they loaded him into a van and drugged him once again. The team got in and prepared to enter the second level of the dream while Yusuf stayed in level one and drove the van, swiftly evading the pursuing projections. The team then progressed on into the second level of the dream, constructed by Arthur and set in a hotel.
Cobb employed the Mr. Charles tactic , where he informs the subject that they are dreaming by pointing out the strangeness of their dream. He met Fischer at a bar and told him that he was there to protect him and someone was trying to access his mind.
He convinced Fischer that he was dreaming by pointing out the strangeness of their surroundings. He helped Fischer remember that he was kidnapped and led him to a hotel room where the rest of the team regrouped.
Fischer's projection of Browning arrived and he confessed that he was the one behind the kidnapping; he couldn't allow Fischer to access the safe and destroy everything that his father built. Cobb suggested to Fischer that they enter Browning's dreams to figure out what was really in the safe so that he could decide for himself.
Fischer agreed, unknowingly assisting in his own inception, and the team was hooked up to the PASIV device again, this time with Arthur remaining behind to watch over them and administer the synchronized kick. In level one, Yusuf was still evading Fischer's projections and momentarily lost control of the van, causing it to tumble down an incline; the tumbling effect affects Arthur's level two dream as he fights off Fischer's projections in the hotel, with the environment around him spinning as gravity reversed and then corrected itself.
While driving, Yusuf was cornered on an elevated bridge with one car full of projections stuck with him. He played music through Arthur's headphones to warn him of the incoming kick before driving backwards off the bridge. As a result of the van plummeting in mid air, there was a loss of gravity in Arthur's dream. The impact also affected the third level of the dream; Saito and Fischer looked up the mountainside and were forced to cut their lines as an avalanche swept down upon them.
Cobb realized they had missed the first kick, but still had time for the second one when the van hit the water off the bridge. With little time left, Cobb demanded to know if there was another way into the fort and Ariadne relented into telling him of a secret underground entrance that Saito and Fischer could access.
Cobb sent them there, all while Saito's condition worsened. They finally entered the main room where the safe was located, while Cobb and Ariadne covered them from a vantage point with a sniper rifle.
Succumbing to his injuries, Saito was left to lay down, coughing blood as Fischer continued forward. However, as Fischer came into Cobb's view, so did another person. Mal dropped in from the ceiling and shot Fischer down. Cobb eventually came to his senses and shoots her. Eames was ordered to the room as Cobb and Ariadne rushed to the site.
Finding Fischer dead, Cobb deems the mission a failure, since the only other place where Fischer had gone was limbo. Ariadne, however, convinced him that if they go into limbo, they'll have enough time to find Fischer and bring him back. Eames agreed to use a defibrillator to jump start Fischer's heart to assist while Cobb and Ariadne go deeper into the dream. In level two, Arthur devised a unique plan: He used phone wires to tie the team together and guided them into the elevator.
He flew back down the shaft to the top of the elevator, squeezed past the car to the bottom and started to set the explosive charges among the bottom of the car, with the intention of using explosive force to create gravity and, as a byproduct, a kick, on level two of the dream.
He then scrambled to arrange the sleepers on the floor of the car and stuck playing headphones on a sleeping Eames to warn him and the rest of the team that the kick was approaching.
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