INCEPTION BREAKDOWN! Ending Explained, Easter Eggs & Deeper Meaning!

hi i'm eric boss and christopher nolan's. inception boomed us into an existential. crisis that we may never wake up from. leaving us like ellen page in this movie. only able to speak in questions you're. not gonna tell me anything about this. question wait whose subconscious are we. going into exactly. inception explored the nature of reality. with a film structure that reflects the. surreal illusions of its subject matter. and after my recent rewatch and analysis. of the hidden clues to how the matrix. pulled off a similar feat and re-watches. of nolan's dark knight trilogy let us.

re-examine inception for all the secrets. that are only now being discovered so. let's strap in hit snooze and uh volume. warning because. you know it's coming. and actually it's appropriate to begin. with that wrong sound effect because. inception opens with hans zimmer's. thunderous score. [Music]. this music is actually a super slowed.

down version of edith pf's non-general. gretliane sorry for the bad french. pronunciation this is a song that they. use in the film as a musical countdown. to synchronize the kicks. [Music]. the time dilation of each successive. dream level stretches out the song's. tempo which zimmer reflects in his. orchestration. [Music].

nolan chose this song specifically. because its lyrics explore the effect of. memories on the psyche and how. destructive not letting go of painful. heartbreak can have on one subconscious. in the original french the lyric i. regret neither the good things done to. me nor the bad things is nila bien. komafei ni lamal and that last word maul. translates to some version of bad in.

several languages and of course it is. the name of marion cotillard's villain. character a painful memory who aims to. literally destroy this hero's. subconscious ironically before inception. kotiard played edith pioff in levien. rose singing this song in particular one. of the many crazy meta coincidences in. this movie as we'll see inception is. itself designed to feel like a dream. with nolan casting dreams and the dream. building process as an extended metaphor. for films in the filmmaking process.

there is actually neurological evidence. that brain activity when you're watching. a movie is very similar to that when. you're sleeping in both cases the visual. cortex is highly active and the. pre-frontal cortex which deals with. logic analysis and self-awareness is. inactive so we see a ton of crazy stuff. but we don't question it writers like. walter merch have explored how our love. of film comes from a natural acclamation. from our dreaming processes and to prove. inception the film is structured like. one of the dreams in the film nolan. actually timed the whole film at exactly.

two hours and 28 minutes a dilated. synchronization with the timing of pf's. song which is exactly two minutes and 28. seconds. the opening image shows cobb leonardo. dicaprio on the beach now the name cobb. is a nod to the thief in nolan's earlier. film following and to the american. architect henry encob a combination of. which gives you this cob an architect. building dreams in order to steal the. crashing wave imagery reflects. philosopher carl young's description of.

water as a symbol of the subconscious. water by nature deconstructs things yet. it also connects to other water in a. vast shared network the way our. subconscious is a collective ocean of. ideas water crashes in on cobb again and. again in this movie to represent his. collapsing mental state cobb sees these. children who are turned away from him. and we later learned that these are. projections of his children philippa and. james haunting his dreams now they begin. to turn but cobb doesn't see their faces. partly because he can't remember what.

they look like but also as we'll see. later he fears that looking at their. faces in his dreams will trap him in. this unreal place forever because. they'll never want to leave cobb gets. taken in to meet an elderly saito can. water who finds cobb's top this is a. totem that cobb uses to determine his. reality if the top spins and spins. forever he's in a dream if it topples. over he's in reality but we also learned. that this top wasn't cobb's totem. originally it was actually mauls cobb. carries it to represent his guilt over. maul and his guilt for how he used this. object to infect her mind also notice.

that cobb is wearing a wedding ring here. and we only ever see him wearing that. ring in his dreams and in his flashbacks. where maul is still with him but never. in reality where she's dead so it's. possible that cobb's wedding ring is. actually his original totem by the way. my totem is his dancing baby groot in. reality he gets tired and stops dancing. but in the dream he dances and dances. forever actually. [Music].

all right good we cut from sado to cobb. then back to sado from cobb's point of. view but zado's now decades younger this. transition seamlessly jumps back in time. without any clunky earlier title using. reverse shots to put us inside cobb's. point of view as he suddenly remembers. his earlier dream with sado it's subtle. disorienting the way dreams transition. from moment to moment you'll notice that. dicaprio as the younger cobb is really a. visual doppelganger for the director. christopher nolan probably not a. coincidence if inception the film is a.

story about a dream builder trying to. get back to his kids comparing this to. the filmmaking process suggests nolan. sees cobb as a version of himself a. homesick director losing himself in and. out of dream worlds that he creates gig. after gig of extracting riches from. audiences until he finds one last job to. artfully incept meaning into his. audience's minds that will allow him to. see his kids again whether or not you. buy this it's worth pointing out that. the younger version of cobb's son here. is played by magnus nolan christopher.

nolan's son cobb's right hand man is. arthur joseph gordon-levitt if cobb is. the writer director of this filmmaking. metaphor arthur is a producer of cobb's. art the one figuring out the nuts and. bolts of the idea to execute the vision. cyto represents the studio head the. financier or the executive producer and. their pitch to him is essentially a. movie pitch with cobb the creative. turning him off with a joke and arthur. the producer rephrasing things cobb. compares ideas to viruses idea resilient. highly contagious it's similar to agent.

smith's comparison of the human species. to a virus in the matrix a film that. nolan cited as one of his reference. points along with dark city in the 13th. floor all of which explored the idea of. the world around us not being real. sato's dining room was inspired by the. nijo castle in kyoto japan which is the. city cobb later says he's deboarding the. bullet train at at the head of this. table is the willow chair design of. charles renee mcintosh and the barrel. chair designs of frank lloyd wright. because the architect of this dream nash. probably saw these real-life architects.

as inspirations and then cobb finds maul. outside. if i jumped. would i survive. maul is actually taunting him. deliberately reminding cobb of her. suicide nolan designed maul to be the. essence of the femme fatale a character. trope from film noir with maul as a. female antagonist who's the. manifestation of the hero's own neurosis. and fear of how little he knows about. his lover inside maul compliments that. painting it's actually a real work by. francis bacon called study for head of.

george dyer bacon was also a huge. influence for nolan inspiring the look. of the joker's face paint in the dark. knight bacon's subject here was his late. lover whom he painted long after dyer's. death to perpetuate his memory just like. how cobb is perpetuating maul's memory. trying to use her in his heist did the. children miss me. i can't imagine cobb's response both. tells us that he has no idea what his. kids are thinking but also they can no. longer literally imagine what his kids. look like because they've aged and that.

he can't look at their faces in his. dreams so cobb shoots these guards and. he stealthily catches the bullet casings. before they hit the ground to avoid any. noises to disrupt the dream level and. then back in the dining room cobb opens. the safe which we learn that extractors. design into dreams so that the dreamer. will subconsciously fill it with their. secrets and then notice the last number. on the combination is 53. now repetition. of numbers is key in inception and 2053. is a recurring number for cobb you'll. notice later that it was on the taxi. that they used in the first stream level.

20 is also the first number on the. combination on maul's dream safe and. limbo now that number reversed is 3502. which also shows up throughout this. movie it was the room number of the. hotel suite where maul committed suicide. and it's on the train that crashes. through the dream with maul using the. same train from their double suicide in. limbo now destroying cobb's plan so cobb. reversed maul's perception of reality by. tampering with her totem so she gets. back at him by reversing his meaningful. number into a malevolent force now this. standoff and shootout drip with.

hollywood cliche guns tuxedos but it is. designed to lean into tropes like this. because every dream level and inception. is intended to feel like an action film. because often that's how we dream nolan. uses these basic common understandings. of dreams as the rules of his world. people typically describe dreams with. elements like waking up when you die in. a dream not knowing that you're dreaming. while you're in the dream experiencing. time more slowly physical forces like. pain gravity noises affecting you in the. dream experiencing dreams within dreams.

sensing the essence of people in places. despite them looking physically. different and of course the kick that. odd sensation of falling that muscle. spasms you awake but the one new fantasy. element that nolan introduces to this. world is the technology of shared. dreaming which he even justifies later. if you're listening closely so as the. dream collapses maul tells sado. now i always found this odd because maul. isn't working for sato she's cobb's. chaotic projection she just wants to.

screw everything up but then notice her. reaction when sado realized that cops. switched the envelopes she's smiling. maul feels victorious because cobb is. victorious by telling sado that cobb got. close she's bragging to sado talking up. cobb skills for cobb because cop knows. this extraction was a test by sato and. now maul senses that this next gig will. bring cobb even closer to losing himself. to her so nash gives gob the kick dunks. him and sato recognizes that the rug of. this love nest is off realizing that.

this is also a dream if you think about. it this rug functions as sado's totem. something that only he knows the precise. nature of to determine if he's dreaming. makes you wonder what he and his. mistress were doing all the time on that. rug attaboy sado so this stream also. collapses revealing that this was a. dream within a dream actually including. the prologue it's a flash forward within. a dream within a dream so that makes. three awakenings for cobb here similarly. the first act of the matrix features. three false awakenings to foreshadow the. hero's ultimate spiritual awakening and.

to make us reality paranoid the whole. time so cobb departs saying. i don't like trains another bit of. foreshadowing toward the way he and maul. kill themselves to escape limbo so later. cobb spins the top and lifts the gun. ready to shoot himself if it keeps. spinning showing his fragile mental. state and struggle with reality but you. can see here that cobb is no longer. wearing his wedding ring since in. reality his wife is dead sado asks cobb. and arthur about. deception which arthur says is. impossible giving sado the example don't. think about elephants it's actually a. nod to the title of a book about.

cognitive semantics george laykov's. don't think of an elephant which. describes conceptual framing using. specific words to discreetly insert. feelings and ideas into someone's mind. sato offers to clear cobb's criminal. charges so that he can return home to. his kids do you want to take a leap of. faith. or become an old man. filled with regret so these men will. later exchange these same words in limbo. to remember this arrangement but right. now this line jumps out to cobb because. it echoes maul right before her suicide. i'm asking you to take a leap of fame.

maybe cobb sees his coincidence as more. evidence that this reality could still. be a dream but either way he takes this. leap of faith with sado to wake himself. up from this nightmare which began when. he couldn't take the leap of faith with. maul in paris cobb meets his. father-in-law miles mike okay an. architecture professor who tells him. come back to reality tom ah just as. michael kaine did in the dark knight he. hints at the thematic lesson that the. hero must learn cobb still believes this. reality is controlled by external.

factors but the truth is our reality is. something we choose miles introduces. cobb to a new architect ariadne ellen. page now in the filmmaking metaphor. ariane is a production designer the. artist who conceives the visual. aesthetic and language of the movie the. name ariadne alludes to greek mythology. the princess daughter of king minos who. aided the hero theseus by helping him. navigate the labyrinth and avoid the. minotaur this ariane helps cobb navigate. the labyrinths to escape his maul notar. i'm sorry cobb tests ariana by telling. her to design a maze on the spot and she.

succeeds ultimately by ignoring the. graph paper grid thinking literally out. of the box designing this circular maze. which is actually a similar layout to. king minos's labyrinth and lots of. artwork so in various greek myths a maze. represents the journey of one's own. enlightenment and to navigate the maze. is to confront your darkness according. to psychologist marie louise von franz. mazes are symbols of the subconscious. mind with the winding paths and dead. ends reflecting our wandering thoughts. stanley kubrick who perhaps influenced.

nolan more than any other filmmaker. adopted this maze concept in his film. the shining in which the hedge maze and. the maze-like hallways of the overlook. hotel paralleled jack's mental state. with his disorientation in that maze. reflecting his insanity nolan's brother. and sister-in-law jonathan nolan and. lisa joy also used this maze conceit. with their show westworld in which mazes. represent an inward journey toward an. awakening into consciousness cobb. explains to ariadne how dream sharing. works the diagram of the cycle of. creation versus perception in our mind. and how they get in between that process.

visualized with a line extending this. filmmaking metaphor the line is like a. movie screen a literal projection of a. simulated reality for the mind to. perceive and cobb underlines this point. never really remember the beginning of a. dream do you you always wind up right in. the middle of what's going on similarly. film scenes begin in the middle of the. action or the greek term in medias race. ariana's awareness shatters a dream and. cinematographer wally feister used six. high-speed cameras to capture the. exploding debris at a thousand frames.

per second they also use vfx to help. accentuate all the debris and notice. this piece of paper as it gets pushed by. the geysers of the street as if it was. under water similar to the water. collapsing cob stream earlier ariade now. sees it's in slow motion because she's. still in the dream and now it explodes. to the speed of reality above which is. slower from her point of view above. arthur explains that's why the military. developed dream sharing it was a. training program for soldiers to shoot. and stab and strangle each other and. wake up ah so here nolan sticks to his.

insistence of real world practicality. like he used in the dark knight trilogy. like all of batman's technology no. fantasy tech exists just because they're. all justified in things like military. research they go back in the dream and. ariane folds paris on top of itself. creating this impossible architecture. inspired by m.c escher whom ariane also. references by using escher's druste. effect to create that bridge one reason. the visuals are so eye-popping was the. effort that the vfx artists put into the. geometry of shadows the surreal angles. of the bending skyline feel more vivid.

to us because of the perfect timing of. the shadow lines that spill over the. facades really proper lighting is the. key to good vfx arthur shows ariane has. totem which is a loaded die which always. lands on the number five similarly. arthur is the fifth member of the team. in terms of how deep they all go like. yusuf is the outermost dreamer at number. six arthur at number five and so on and. so on and when the hotel rolls arthur. tumbles like this loaded die does but he. always keeps his center of gravity this. whole totem character parallel also.

applies to eems tom hardy the forger of. this team it's implied his totem is his. poker chip you see him flipping around. on his fingers a lot the flaw of his. totem is that he misspelled mombasa with. two s's characterizing eems as a risk. taker and a mimic and he bets on unlucky. number 13 because he thrives under chaos. in this filmmaking metaphor eames is the. actor of the group the big ego smartass. but also the one with the sharpest. understanding of human psychology it's. eames who unpacks fisher's complex daddy. issues the way great actors can.

invigorate and find the truth of. otherwise hollow scenes and use props to. great effect hardy described eames as a. james bond wannabe which is why he's. first seen gambling and on his dream. level he reenacts on her majesty's. secret service cobb has chased through. mombasa by sado's rivals and notice how. this scene supposedly said in reality. doesn't all function realistically men. tackle cobb from out of nowhere an. overhead shot makes the alleys look like. a maze the walls literally close in on. cobb the way dreams can often feel.

claustrophobic sato randomly shows up in. a cartoonishly convenient moment at one. point one guy even tells cobb i'm not. dreaming now i am blue this whole foot. chase parallels the foot chase of the. matrix neo running from the agents in a. simulated reality as we'll find out. later nolan deliberately made this over. the top to further blur the distinction. between dreams and reality meanwhile. another mcesha reference comes up with. the penrose stairs an example of a. paradox that arthur uses to teach. ariadne how to use impossible. architecture to create closed loops.

arthur will actually use this exact. design later in his dream level and the. movie's best call back paradox. [Music]. and while the team recruits their. chemist yusuf philippe real yusuf is. actually the arabic form of joseph who. was a dream interpreter from the book of. genesis completing this filmmaking team. metaphor yusuf is a technician like the. director photography a lighting director. a vfx artist the one who applies science. to produce the most vivid imagery and. the widest bandwidth within which the. rest of the team operates yusuf shows.

them how his custom-made sedative is. used in the sleep chamber they come here. every day to sleep. no. they come to be woken up. the dream has become the reality who are. you to say otherwise so this man is. invoking the existential crisis at the. heart of this film and at the heart of. the matrix what is reality philosopher. renee descartes explored this in his. famous dream argument arguing that it's. possible that we can wake up but still. be dreaming so we cannot trust our. senses and perceptions this concept is.

also referred to as the zhuangzi paradox. really the matrix and inception led a. generation of basic nerds to assume. we've been red pilled sato briefs them. on the mark robert fisher killian murphy. who represents the audience in this. filmmaking metaphor he's the heir to an. australian-owned business empire which. sato wants fisher to dissolve nolan and. murphy based this family dynamic on. rupert murdoch and his fraught. relationships with his sons. interestingly enough murdock's empire is. starting to break up right now with. disney's recent buy out of fox huh.

iam spies on the fisher inner circle. noticing the pinwheel photo that robert. placed beside his father in that picture. killian murphy actually doubled for a. young maurice fisher with glasses and a. mustache so eems is following a key. process of an actor observation note. that this is the one scene in the movie. that the real browning appears from here. on after every time we see him he's. actually being impersonated by eames or. he's projected by robert based on eem's. caricature it's a reminder that fisher's. whole narrative and catharsis in this. movie was invented on the spot and.

carried out by the actor of the group so. it's easy for producers like arthur to. see actors as replaceable but it's. actors who bring all the humanity and. soul to the narrative the full team. gathers to strategize and summon pointed. out that if you take the first letters. the main character's names dom robert. eames arthur maul and sado you get. dreams but that leaves out aryane and. yusuf who are pretty important too so if. you add peter ariadne and yusuf you get. dreams pay you know what they also spell.

out dramas yup because anagrams are. random and stupid they're brainstorming. here of how to trigger catharsis in. fisher mirrors a hollywood writer's room. trying to break a story and as we'll see. each layer of the dream is a different. cinematic theme based on three of. nolan's biggest influences as mentioned. before the bottom layer instream is a. snow fortress with an elaborate ski. shootout and homage to one of nolan's. favorite 07 movies on her majesty's. secret service but the next layer up. arthur's dream is a hotel maze like the.

labyrinthian overlook hotel in stanley. kubrick's shining actually a shot of. cobb and fisher in the hotel bathroom is. framed a match kubrick shot of jack and. grady in the bathroom and this hotel. later rotates 360 degrees on a practical. custom-built set with nolan citing the. rotating set of kubrick's 2001 a space. odyssey is inspiration the top layer. yusuf stream is set in downtown los. angeles which devolves into a deadly. machine gun shootout inspired by michael. mann's heat which nolan used as a basis. for his story in the dark knight and.

you'll notice that several of the. group's brainstorming sessions take. place in these dream levels not just to. show us these like empty movie sets. before shooting begins but also when you. think about it to give this team more. time to think through their plan ariane. sneaks into one of cobb's late night. dream sessions finding that he can only. dream by revisiting memories maul's. childhood bedroom their first house. together the beach with the family the. train yard their house when they had. kids and maul's hotel suite where she. died all of these locations show up. later in the movie when cobb takes. ariana through limbo which was.

constructed from his and maul's memories. with all their favorite locations in a. neat little row now cobb has. reconstructed his limbo in a column that. he revisits every night where he tries. to keep maul buried on the airplane the. flight attendant is played by miranda. nolan chris nolan's cousin and daughter. of john nolan whom chris cast and batman. begins in the dark knight rises and they. descend to the first dream level. drenched in rain because yusuf's full. bladder notice that when arthur drives a. taxi he turns off this arabic music from. the radio the song is a boon saloon by.

yusuf el majad which likely would have. been a song that this yusef whose dream. this is chose so in addition to the 2053. and 3502 numbers that i mentioned before. the license plates on all these cars has. a state motto reading the alternate. state so after a shootout in a chase. cyto gets hit and they realize a major. communication error arthur didn't report. that fischer's subconscious would be. militarized and cobb didn't report that. their heavy sedation would drop them. into limbo if they die so yes the rules. do change in this moment here but it's.

also in a way that raises the stakes and. make things a lot harder for the heroes. so this isn't like convenient bad. writing every heist movie features this. kind of mid-heist crisis that changes. the game and make things harder eames. transforms into browning using an. actor's vanity mirror and one by one the. reflections change into browning every. time it cuts back to him with eems. reflecting little pieces of browning's. nature but not until he screams do we. objectively see him in browning form. because that scream is heard by fisher. who recognizes it as his uncle and thus.

from here forward we see him in. character cobb tells ariane about limbo. with flashbacks showing him with maul. using sand castles that they collapse. and in the background they crumble as. well we learned that they spent. something like 50 years together but to. get maul to leave this world cop broke. into her safe decided to spin her top. totem accepting the concept of this. world isn't real in her mind which. worked in the short term to get her out. of limbo but it worked too well and. ended up defining her so that she would. question every reality that she was in.

until she killed herself framing cobb. for murder hoping that he would join her. so they pressure fischer for a random. six-digit safe combination and he just. blurts out 528-491. totally random number that they use as a. macguffin in this sub-narrative a. seemingly all-too-important detail that. really only serves to drive the hero. fisher in this sub-narrative to his. deeper realization in level two they. reinforced this number for fisher the. phone number on the napkin and the hotel. room numbers so that in level three when.

he opens the safe with this code he. feels like he unlocked a puzzle feeling. a self-accomplishment that was actually. all manufactured to drive him toward his. emotional catharsis which again is what. movies do folks sorry your emotional. breakthrough while watching toy story. was designed for you all of your tears. have andy stamped on them so down in. level two the hotel eems poses as a. blonde woman to flirt with fisher a nod. to the woman in the red dress from the. matrix which is also a trick designed as. a distraction as cobb runs the mr. charles gambit on fisher turning him.

against his own subconscious he freezes. up when he hears the glass breaking he. sees his kids playing nearby the glass. break is the same sound from him. stepping on the glass back in the suite. and it represents maul breaking into his. operation just as she did with the train. so on the first two levels maul's. interference takes the form of tragic. memories for cobb setting her up to make. one final catastrophic interference in. person on the third level after leading. fischer to believe browning was working. against him they established a secret. about his father that fisher is.

naturally desperate to know so they say. they're going into browning's dream but. in reality it's eames dream the snow. fortress up above eustis crazy driving. sets up some really fun physics for. arthur to tumble around in like a. producer on any number of troubled film. productions arthur is left alone to. thanklessly wrestle with problem after. problem and when yusuf drives off the. cliff early and they miss the first kick. arthur has to quickly and ingeniously. apply newtonian physics to kick them all. without gravity that's a great producer.

ariane sharing eem's shortcut to the. hospital allows cobb and the small to. also know it so fischer gets shot and. drops in a limbo along with sado ariana. and cobb dropped down to retrieve them. now limbo was designed by visual effects. supervisor paul franklin to resemble a. massive glacier made up of stacked. modernist architecture with chunks of it. breaking off into the sea like icebergs. cobb finds them all in their old house. and they have one of the most important. exchanges of the film i know it's real. mo no creeping doubts.

not feeling persecuted dumb. chased around the globe by anonymous. corporations and police forces. where the projections persecute the. dreamer with this line nolan is. acknowledging the cliche and convenience. of moments like the mombasa chase. small's right they don't make sense. cobb's reality is as stylized and. cinematic as his michael mann stanley. kubrick and double-oh-seven dream. narratives were and then maul delivers. the ultimate theme of inception you. don't believe in one reality anymore.

so choose nolan is suggesting that the. human mind cannot rely on external. objectivity to determine our realities. but we can choose what world we want to. live in truth doesn't come from the. walls around you it comes from a loved. one in your arms inception itself is an. illusory magic trick we think it's about. fisher's catharsis with his father but. that catharsis is just manufactured. bullsh cobb confronting his demon maul. is the true catharsis of inception he.

apologizes for corrupting her and he. lets her go because her ghost is merely. his pathetic shade of his true soul mate. kind of like homer simpson's plant. version of march. for his guild cobb sentences himself to. what could be another lifetime in limbo. seriously he and sado grow pretty old. down there it could be another 50 years. or longer we'll never know ariane kicks. fisher back up to the hospital level and. he plays right into the constructed. catharsis with his father that aim set. up for him all from the photo the stupid.

pinwheel the daddy issues the word. disappointed things that he learned on. the first dream level so that fisher. will synthesize a new truth i know you. were disappointed. i couldn't be you. no no. i was disappointed. that she tries so they ride the kicks up. and cobb washes up on the beach full. circle to film's prologue which now in. this moment to us feels like a forgotten. dream that drifts into familiarity just.

as a dub for cobb and sato who repeat. their promises to each other and just. like the sudden dream like edit before. it happens again and cobb wakes up but. this awakening is the true awakening an. inception for cobb who was once defined. by his fear of the uncertainty of his. reality and now defined by control over. the reality that he chooses to live in. the knowing looks between characters in. these final minutes echoes the ending of. the wizard of oz in which the hero sees. that her friends have reverted from.

their fantastical forms to their real. faces and left wondering about the. difference between dream and reality and. that brings us to the famous closing. shot of this film cobb comes home he. spins his totem in disbelief but then he. finally lets himself look at his kid's. faces and he embraces them the camera. focuses on the top which continues to. spin and spin and spin and then. [Music]. yeah it's a deliberately ambiguous. ending a tease meant to leave us forever. in doubt of course if you look into it.

there is plenty of evidence that cobb's. world is indeed real now the top does. wobble about to fall over cobb is not. wearing his wedding ring and michael. caine said that nolan told him that. whenever his character is in the scene. it means it's real but this debate. doesn't matter because the final shot of. the top is another misdirect by nolan. leading her eye to an intriguing. distraction while allowing the deeper. catharsis that he incepted in our minds. to settle the secret truth of this. moment is that cobb isn't looking at the.

top he only cares about his kids and if. you follow his attention and pay. attention to the reality that cobb has. chosen his son james actually says. something amazing when cobb asks them. what they were up to. [Music]. a house on a cliff limbo yeah you could. argue that it doesn't totally make sense. for cobb to have woken up straight from. limbo to the airplane and for a man. wanted for murder to miraculously make. it through security just off of a phone. call so sure cobb could still be.

dreaming and maul was right this movie. had bizarre dreamlike elements and. descartes and zhuangzi were right our. whole lives could be a dream that we. haven't yet woken up from but is that. any way to live the incepted truth that. cobb learned from maul and perhaps that. christopher nolan realized himself as. the cob-like visionary of this dream. within a film within a dream and the. truth that we take away from it is that. we determine our realities and that. reality can be as simple as a loving. embrace really isn't that the dream you.

never want to wake up from now the dream. i never want to wake up from is the one. where me and thor team up to beat up my. ninth grade bully in front of his. weeping children do you think cobb is. still dreaming hop down in the comments. and let me have it i want to know your. take on this and let me know what film. you'd like to see me break down next in. the series follow me on instagram and. twitter eavos subscribe to new rockstars. and thank you for joining me in this. wonderful breakdown of inception a movie. i literally got a job at a movie theater. in the summer of 2010 so that i could. watch it over and over again ah now. those are great times.

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