Actors/Actresses: Leonardo DiCaprio (Cobb), Joesph Gordon-Levitt (Arthur), Ellen Page (Ariadne), Tom Hardy (Eames), Ken Watanabe (Saito), Marion Cotillard (Mal), Dileep Rao (Yusuf), Cilian Murphy (Robert Fischer), Tom Berenger (Peter Browning), Michael Caine (Miles), Pete Postlethwaite (Maurice Fischer), Lukas Haas (Nash, architect)
[With this many characters, you'd expect more subconscious subjects turning up in the shared dreams. Nolan could do a series for the duration of when they were training for lucid dreaming. How many dark/bright events/memories would flash past and weird people they would meet...]
Movie website:
http://inceptionmovie.warnerbros.com/dvd/
The website is now more interactive and fun than when it was first put up in June 2010. There are more games and cool stuff to download that remind you 7 Dec is the day to head to the video store!
The prologue to the Inception movie is in pdf comic form called Prologue: The Cobol Job. Read it at the link above to get how Cobol Engineering is involved in Cobb's extraction case and why they are constantly on his tail.
Inception. Um, what can I say... it BLOWS your mind?! The show is loads of fun and is intellectually challenging, questioning the world around you and the world inside your head. The ending itself is a conundrum, and what many would suggest, was Christopher Nolan's idea of a horrible global prank. "The movie was made for the ending", hahax! I know Christian Bale wasn't too pleased about the ending though...
Btw, there are no spoilers in this one (for those who haven't watched the movie phenomenon, who are in other words, idiots) 'cos thr are too many things happening in each nanosecond, too many stories to factor in.
Ending Interpretations:
1) A 25-year old friend suggested Cobb didn't bother about the spinning top totem any longer because for him, it simply didn't matter. He was back with his loved ones, his dad and kids again, after so long and that was what was important. It didn't matter if he were in reality or dream state, he had what he wanted. Happiness. Right...
2) It was a dream from start to end. Cobb was trapped in limbo all along and is searching for a way back home in his subconscious. Ariadne was sent into his subconscious by Cobb's dad Miles, as a means to revive Cobb from dream state. She sits back and lets Cobb take care of it himself in the end, after the truck fell into the water with Cobb still inside. She must have thought he either needed to wake himself up when he finally found the need to as he was capable of doing so, or that he's better off in dream state.
3) Cobb is stuck in limbo with Saito from the attempted inception aboard the plane to US. He hasn't woken up. If Saito hasn't woken up also, he cannot have made that phone call to clear Cobb of all charges in US. So getting back to US safe and sound would have to be dreamed up by Cobb. [I hate this version...]
4) The totem will fall, if you give it 5 more seconds. This calls for a Sequel!!
Cobb is in reality and his family is back together at last. For real. Though I wouldn't bet on it, seeing that his children have the same clothes on as when he left them.
5) Cobb is trapped in his dad Miles' dream. Miles is in limbo and Cobb is a subject of his subconscious, and it may all be memories that Miles has of Cobb and his wife, and to some extent, traps them in his dreams, of which they are unaware of. He cannot let them go. His ideal reality may be to have the family back together again.
6) That's about it... Another friend could only conclude after watching it, tt we are all living in our own alternate reality, our own dream lands. Our life is nothing but a dream... and I smacked him.
Theories 2 and 5, on the whole story being a dream. While Cobb's time with Mal may have been real, that she was his wife, they went into limbo together and Mal died but he keeps her as a memory, while all that happened, the fact that Cobb had touched Mal's totem and planted it inside her head means the totem is screwed; he nor the audience can trust it to decipher if he were in dream state or reality any more. (Which brings up the issue why he knew inception was as possible as extraction, but more risky.)
Plus!! Some guy on Youtube actually bothered to watch the entire movie from lucid dream start to credits. Edith Piaf's Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien was playing (the song was used as a kicker to waken dreamers). He found out that while credits was rolling, her music suddenly slowed and started drawling! It then transformed into the Inception theme song, which was constantly playing throughout the movie. If Cobb was hearing it all along, it may add to the point that he was in limbo and someone in reality was trying to wake him. See Inception Ending music Comparison. Get the DVD and blow your mind away!
To bring science fiction to a higher level, I'm not sure how the dream machine works (given tt we only hv glimpses of it every now and then) but it seems one does not need a machine to share dreams. Lucid Dreaming connects one dreamer to another subconsciously by sharing dreams. According to Dorling Kindersley's Book of Dreams, you can control who you meet, what you talk about and if you can very consciously turn your hand around in your dream, you can do just about anything in it. Of course there are all the little symbols and feelings and insecurities in dreams that your brain needs to let loose of, 'cos you suppress it in reality or have that constant fear/longing (refer to ever famous behavioural theory on Id and primal instinct: sexuality needs).
Some form of deja vu also occur in dreams. It's usually my favourite part 'cos the dreams sorta warn or inform me of near or distant parts of my life. I brain spams dreams during exams, like the optimising period for crazy ideas. You can attempt stress to find out what creative ideas your brain can offer, but don't prolong the stress periods. 4 times a year is more than enough... not that i have a choice.
Did I mention the DVD comes out on 7 Dec?
