QUOTE(gogo2 @ Jul 30 2010, 10:54 AM)
Really one ler. I think Inception got a lot of loopholes untied. I think Nolan is not fool proof.
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yeah, all that died in their dream at level 2 and below will go to limbo....
Another thing is, Mal died and goes to limbo. Does that means, Mal died in level 2 and below... so this
means that the whole movie start from Level 2 dream? OMG...
NO la. Its just that Nolan confuse himself. He wrote it and unable to tie those end.
Well, here's what I gather about Mal... and I felt this is truly what was interpreted in the film...
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Mal exist in Cobb's dream... but that is not Mal. That is actually his guilt. There was a scene that explains about dreams and sub-conscious minds. We do know we can never control our sub-conscious minds and from what the film was saying that it brings out our guilt that we can't control. Hence, Cobb was pretty much an emotional wreck after he did his 'first' Inception - which is to his wife. The guilt that carries in him is implanted in his sub-conscious and whenever he can't control these things (basically his sub-conscious), Mal appears.
Now the levels in the elevator I felt were memories he kept and the basement was his worst guilt memory of what he had done to his wife. That memory alone is what he felt for Mal, that the Inception he planted in her is what he knows the real truth that Mal became vengeful and hence, killing whoever and whatever that the sub-conscious knows about Cobb's work. In the dream sequence of each level, the children and Mal appears because after all, he was the architect before and that is what and how he can shape things but not realizing it was the guilt that does it that he can't control - hence the sub-conscious mind.
At first I did think Mal was in limbo but actually she is not. She died in the real world and of course, it does explain how Cobb became a fugitive and he had to run away because Mal was already unstable but manage to pull it off that she is sane.
But the limbo part... that still eludes me because if Saito...
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is in limbo, how the heck did Cobb find him even?!?
Added on July 30, 2010, 11:24 amQUOTE(Kyoyagami @ Jul 30 2010, 11:00 AM)
Time fold concept.
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When the van crashed down, it should have been 10 seconds. When Saito is dying, he should be transported to the next level to remain healthy (The heart doesn't stop, so the brain should still function). The same would go with Fischer (who would be dying in Cobb's dream). But if he's saved in time, he'll be alive.
Saito definitely died in Level 1 and was transported to Limbo (After he was finally dead in Level 3). I don't think Mal or anyone had anything to do. It was just their brain thinking that it should shut down.
Its a little confusing, btu I understood it this way.

Got the Limbo part... but how
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did Cobb find him in Limbo? To be in limbo, isn't that like completely unreachable... I mean, it's limbo. And how the heck did they get out? Didn't they say it could take days, years concept?
This post has been edited by hairyLGS: Jul 30 2010, 11:24 AM