[film] Inception

[GianniVacca]

Inception, anyone? I've just seen it and I think it's to soon to comment on it... Too much thought-provoking stuff. I still like the Dreamlands better though

[Guest Vile Traveller]

I thought it was pretty entertaining, but I don't understand why everyone is saying it's so complicated ...

[GianniVacca]

but I don't understand why everyone is saying it's so complicated ...

BEWARE MEGA-SPOILER!!!!!! Basically the big question is-- did the top fall at the end of the film? If yes, then the film is "as told"; if not, it means the film itself was a dream (thus moving all the other dreams one level deeper).

[Guest Vile Traveller]

Yes, but that's a simple cliff-hanger, a bit like the (more literal) cliff-hanger at the end of the Italian Job. It leaves the audience wondering, "will it fall/won't it fall?", but it's not a twist as such. I thought the sequence(s) of events in the film was easy to follow.

But I don't want to say it's a worse movie for all that, I think it's well worth seeing. I like open-ended films like this, because it means that in a way the film is never over in my mind. It felt a lot like anime in many ways.

[Rungard]

I liked it a lot but

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I didn't understand how do they save Fisher and Saito after they're shot.

[GianniVacca]

Fisher is not dead, and they manage to revive him. Saito OTOH dies in the deep level of the dream and is hence lost in Limbo -- where Cobb finds him later on.

[Rungard]

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Ok I'd forgotten that about Fisher, but how does

Cobb get into Limbo? Can you access limbo if you're not dead?

[soltakss]

He probably never left it - I thought he was dreaming all the while, he probably invented the whole thing in limbo.