haha... you ain't missing much. personally, that movie was average. once you'd watch [Memento], nothing beats it, that's how I see it.

apparently there are omitted few scenes from my watch at GSC, the scene at the end where the city is crumbling around is let out (friend said he rewatched it in sg, it was there. He first watch was at MV GSC.

Could anyone else verify this?

I'd like to ask, it was mentioned that 10 hours in real world would mean 10 years in the 3rd level; but they didn't spend 10 years in level 3, but woke up to be "twenty minutes before touch down", how does that explain?

About Inception, is it an action movie packed or it is heavy story-telling movie? I am asking this because I planning to watch with my friends but then, knowing that my friends don't like something like Watchmen, Dark Knight..

ok i just watched it. fukken fantastic movie made my mind = blown.

but some loose ends to tie

i dont really remember details from the 1st part. where cobb met old saito. was that the same scene from the end of the movie?

and a few things which didnt tie up for me (perhaps cos i missed some details):
1. how long was the sedative supposed to last? cos a person can wake up by dying after the effects of the sedative diminished right?

2. when cobb met his dad in the university. why was his dad there? cos in the end we saw his dad in america.

3. saito died in the snows. was he connected to cobb's dream after going into limbo, through the machine? if yes. it would work out to cobb being back in reality at last.

if not, it meant cobb was searching for his projection of saito, which killed him and sent him into limbo, and in the ending with the kids it was cobb in limbo (it didnt make sense that his dad was in america when he met cobb somewhere else at the uni)
but if the sedative was not in effect it would mean cobb wakes up but saito would have still been in limbo.

4. can u wake up by killing yourself in the state of limbo? cos that's what cobb n wife did right? which didnt really make sense as well cos didnt they grow old when in limbo? unless time as we know it is warped as well in limbo

if some of the loose ends dont tie up well it may very well mean that cobb was in limbo after all, in the end. the key is with saito

1. but u cant kill yourself in when ur in limbo when ur under sedation, so what gives? unless u'll still wake up after killing urself while ur still sedated which would well, wouldn't make sense medically speaking.

2. ah maybe i missed the part he asked his father in law to go to LA to get the toys to the kids

3. i would assume that in limbo, it would be a personal dream. cos u need the machine to connect dreams. and saito wasnt connected to cobb and ariadne in the snows was he. that's the key. was he connected or not. and i dont think fischer was in limbo. he was dying and they went a level deeper (cobb's house, level 4) to save him cos the effects of the injury was lesser 1 level down. this is cos he was dying in cobb's house/level 4 and when eames used the defribrillator in the snows/level 3 he was revived, jumped, connected the kick of jumping and the defribillator acting and woke up in level 3. when u go into limbo, ur injuries which led to your death in the dream will not show - proven when cobb and mal 1st went into limbo, they got to live to a ripe old age (or did they)

4. but it showed that to get out of limbo they put their heads on the train tracks - and when they did that. they looked nothing like old people.
yeah, not the whole movie, but the end may have been

I wanted to highlight that out actually.

So what is the point of showing the totem spinning at the end of the movie? Its kind of pointless to guess what will happen to the spinning top when we know at its going to stop spinning in his dream.

On top of that, no one else in the reality (except for the assassins) attacked Cobb, or even his partners.

Naomi Watts before she became a big star.

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Added on July 28, 2010, 11:49 pm

Also, the girl (Ellen Paige) didn't even have a totem of her own.

If the entire movie was a dream, she would have had a totem from the beginning, yes?

"dad, im sorry i couldn't be you"

"im disappointed you tried"

Fischer wasn't dead yet. He just got shot and he's pulling through.

I'm with ya on that.

but right after that they said that there's another way. the only way to save fischer is to go another level deeper. then ariadne and cobb connected to the machine (im not sure if they connected fischer's body as well i assume they did. they did not connect saito to the machine as far as i can remember) and then they went to sleep. that's y it's level 4 not limbo. cos the way they got there was by sleeping in level 3, not die.

If it were me, regardless of where we are, we would still be in Fischer's brain/dreams. I kind of think its like this.

At the very 1st,

Dreamer (The construction blocks): Yussef
Subject/Target (The land): Fischer (Meaning, if Yussef created a building with his blocks, we'd still be on Fischer's land).
Architect: I forgot.

But that's me lah. What do you think?

Owh boy. Here we go again.

dlct, then it'll lead us back to the idea of level 4/limbo then? I sudah pening again. haha.

I've read also. And I've read the theories you posed.

the danger about limbo is no physical but the mental one, your mind is the one trap in limbo for year and years until you become an old man in the a young man body and lost grasp of what is real and what is not.