Movies and TV Stack Exchange
Movies and TV Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [inception]

A 2010 British-American science fiction heist thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan.

A 2010 movie by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Inception tells the story of a team being paid to invade someone's dream to plant an idea.

95 questions
39
votes
5 answers

Can someone explain mirror scene with Ariadne in Inception?

The scene where Ariadne closes two mirror planes opposite each other and breaks one. Can someone explain what that meant?
bobbyalex
  • 4,931
  • 6
  • 43
  • 58
10
votes
3 answers

Why isn't Arthur woken up by the kick?

First the van rolls, then later the van falls off the bridge. Why doesn't this kick wake up Arthur? Related questions: Why do the kicks have to occur simultaneously?
Casebash
  • 2,521
  • 6
  • 24
  • 32
8
votes
1 answer

Was it impossible to go into same person's dream each level down, or did it serve a purpose?

Why did they have to choose a different person each time they went one level deeper in Inception? Couldn't they have kept going into Yusuf's dream all the way down?
laggingreflex
  • 565
  • 2
  • 5
  • 13
6
votes
2 answers

Why is Saito, a multi-billionaire, travelling all alone in a public train in Inception?

In Inception, Saito is supposedly a multi-billionaire who controls a big chunk of world's energy business, is able to buy entire airlines at a moment's notice and usually seen traveling in helicopters and cars with half a dozen bodyguards etc. But…
Achilles
  • 2,847
  • 7
  • 27
  • 36
6
votes
2 answers

What subject is partial to post-war British painters?

In Inception, in the beginning dream scene, Mal remarks that a painting looks like Arthur's taste. Cobb replies that, "Actually, the subject is partial to post-war British painters." What subject is that? Any other insight into the significance…
Walrus the Cat
  • 367
  • 1
  • 6
6
votes
3 answers

No Kick In Higher Level means they're stuck

How can the group exit out of the first level? Was there a sedative timer in the plane that wakes them up? If that's the case it ruins the point of the story: Eames says that "He's sitting this one out" because this is too dangerous. Then Cobb is…
Secret
  • 303
  • 1
  • 3
  • 8
6
votes
2 answers

Why would the characters in Inception reveal what their totems are?

In Inception, many of the main characters reveal what their totems are (not necessarily how they work) to their associates. For example, Ariadne is shown to have a weighted bishop and Arthur is shown to have a loaded die. While only they know…
Chris
  • 163
  • 5
6
votes
3 answers

Why doesn't Eames impersonate Robert Fischer's father to plant the idea in his mind?

In the third level of the dream in Inception, why doesn't Eames impersonate Robert Fischer's father to plant the idea in Robert's mind?
Gaurav Singh
  • 61
  • 2
5
votes
1 answer

Does everyone experience the same Limbo?

When both Cobb and Ariadne go down to Limbo near the end of Inception, it's essentially the same as Cobb had left it. But if Ariadne went herself and hadn't heard about Cobb's limbo (so her subconscious wouldn't build it), would it be an ultimately…
user64662
  • 362
  • 1
  • 2
  • 13
4
votes
2 answers

On which level does Cobb die?

We see Cobb being stabbed by Mal in 4th level of dream (which is presumably limbo); does that give him a shock to rise up to the third, then to the second, and ultimately to the first level (where he dies due to drowning)? Or does he die due to…
Aumkaar Pranav
  • 151
  • 1
  • 7
4
votes
2 answers

Can a person die of starvation in an Inception-like dream?

Is it possible that a person, dreaming at 2nd or 3rd level, can die of hunger? And, will that person wake up to reality? In case, the person is heavily sedated, will he wake up or go in a limbo?
Nicky
  • 96
  • 2
4
votes
2 answers

Who impersonated the Father in death bed in the movie Inception?

There were seven people on the plane in Inception: Cobb, Arthur, Saito, Ariadne, Eames, Yusuf and Robert Fischer. They all went into a road rage in the first level of the dream, and on the second level, leaving Yusuf behind, who was driving the…
Pavel Sayekat
  • 143
  • 7
2
votes
0 answers

Why didn't the characters wake up when the van went off the bridge in Inception?

In one of the early scenes it shows Cobb being pushed backwards off a chair to be woken up out of the dream. Considering the van crashing through a barrier and falling through the air (never mind the chase leading up to this) would produce a similar…
MeltingDog
  • 321
  • 2
  • 6
2
votes
0 answers

Why was the zero-gravity effect not transferred to the third level in Inception?

In Inception, near the end there are three dream levels. In Level 1, when the van enters freefall, there is zero gravity in level 2. This means that the members of level 2 experience no gravitational force. At one point in the movie you are shown…
Manishearth
  • 941
  • 1
  • 9
  • 12
0
votes
0 answers

Confusion Over Last Scene of Inception

Possible Duplicate: At which dream level did Inception end? Was Leonardo DiCaprio dreaming in the last scene of the movie Inception or was that happened in reality?
user1983