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Cobb: What's the most resilient parasite? An idea. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules. Which is why I have to steal it.

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In the movie, Cobb plays a thief who used to be an architect. In Christopher Nolan's first film, Following, Jeremy Theobold is introduced to a serial thief, whose name is Cobb. And the man who played Cobb, Alex Haw, is an architect in real life. See more...

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Inception (2010) - 26 corrections

Directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine, Tom Berenger, Tom Hardy (add more)

Genres: Mystery, Sci-fi

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Saito ages but Cobb doesn't. In level 3, Fisher dies before Saito. Cobb gets to level 4 while Fisher is still young, so, Saito must still be young as well. Yet in later scene, Saito is aged, but not Cobb. [This is deliberate. It represents Saito's previous allusion of becoming an old man filled with regret.]
Edit Corrected by Serious B
At the very end when Cobb finally gets home, Michael Caine goes outside to get the children and says, "Look who's here." When the children come in, Cobb pick ups up his daughter first and the son is on the ground. The camera then goes to Michael Caine for a second. When it goes back, Cobb's daughter is on the ground and Cobb's son is in his arms. [He put down his daughter and took his son with him on the way back to standing up straight. Quick and easy.]
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Towards the end of the movie Ariadne is riding the kicks through the dreams, while waking in dream 4 we can see in the wide shot that there are no gloves near her but in a close-up shot we can see gloves next to her head. [You can not see the gloves next to her but you can see them slide of the edge.]
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In the scene were Cobb is in the first dream level the train tears the ground behind it leaving tracks but as the scene continues the tracks disappear. [Cobb drives over the torn up tracks and onto another street. They don't disappear, he drives away from them. The train was only on that one street so there shouldn't be any damage on any other road.]
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In the dream level where they are in the snow after the forger fights the guard and shoots him he is seen sliding down the hill past the main building however in the next shot he is standing next to it planting the bomb on that same building he just slid past. [He obviously stopped himself and went over to the building to place the bomb.]
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In 1st layer of the dream, Cobb pulls over so Ariadne could leap into the car, then it gets slammed by the train. The car stops perpendicular to the street, but in next shot it gets slammed in its side. [That makes perfect sense. If the car is perpendicular to the road, its side would be facing the oncoming train which is running parallel to the road.]
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In the scene where the Van is rolling, whilst Arthur is about to fight the black security guard with the gun, he forces the gun out of his hand as he gets it out and it is left further down the corridor. Next when they slide into the room the gun slides in with them through the door even though it was dropped much further up the corridor. [Actually, there are two guns in the hallway; when Arthur goes to hide, he pulls out a gun but is disarmed, when he and the black guy are fighting you can actually see both guns for a brief second. Obviously the second gun is closer than it should be, but I think Arthur's gun is the one that enters the room with them.]
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When the team begins Inception, in the first level, Saito and Arthur pull over in a taxi to pick up Fischer, this is when Eames is seen running up to the taxi. But, half of Eames' suit shouldn't be soaked because he wasn't in the rain for very long. [The film already stated that when you first go into the dream it is somewhere in the middle and you are already doing someting as you enter it (as in the second level of dreaming where Fischer was sitting as a table talking to a girl (Eames).]
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When Cobb, Saito and Eames meet Yusuf, Cobb tells him that there are five of them who will be entering the shared dream, and Saito corrects him that there will be six. The only way that either number could have been reached is by including Ariadne, and it is subsequently made clear that she was never intended as a participant, and only enters the team when Cobb refuses to tell Arthur about his own subconscious. [There are five intended to go into the dream - Cobb, Arthur, Eames, Yusuf and their target, Fischer. Saito adds himself, making six. Ariadne is added at the last minute for a total of seven.]
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The music heard in the dream(s) played on characters' earphones, to give them a hint the jerk was coming, should be time-distorted. If 5 minutes of reality is much more minutes of dream-life then the time of music played in reality and the time of music played in dreams should differ likewise. The music in the dream would be heard at slower tempo, and the music in the dream within a dream (or the dream within a dream within a dream) would be distorted massively and perceived probably only as a widespread rumble. [You're assuming that things work that neatly. They don't. It's clear that outside stimuli are incorporated into the lower level dream, but there's no particular suggestion that the time distortion consistently comes into play. For example, Cobb being slapped in the face at one level sends him flying to the ground in a lower one. If the time distortion applied, that wouldn't happen - Cobb would feel pressure on his face drawn out over a period of time, not a sudden slap sending him to the ground. Some form of stimuli occurs at one level - the dreamer's brain picks it up and manifests it in the lower-level dream. How it manifests can vary. That's just how it works.]
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The scene when Arthur and the projection are fighting in the hallway and then in the hotel room is being called "zero gravity", when really, if there was absolutely no gravity, Arthur and the projection would be floating just as Arthur is doing when the van goes off the bridge in the first dream level. [The van wasn't in freefall at that moment. It was rolling sideways down a hill. The image of the dream "rolling" sideways as well is perfectly accurate.]
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In Arthur's dream, everyone keeps making the point that there's no gravity. This is false, as even if you were a million miles from the nearest particle, gravity would still be affecting you. Technically, they are not even in free-fall, since wind resistance is still applicable. On a non-anal note: When Arthur is fighting the projection in the hotel hallway, gravity appears to shift multiple times, throwing the two against the ceiling and wall. After Arthur defeats the projection, he enters the hotel room and he is again floating. [While it may not be technically accurate, saying "no gravity" works perfectly well for the characters to explain their situation and is a reasonable statement to make.]
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As Adriane is so sure they are still in a dream, why doesn't she simply kill Cobb with a gun or poison etc? [Question, not a mistake. Learn the difference.]
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The totems let you check if you are dreaming and if someone is constructing your dream, like the Fulham, that no one would construct like it really behaves. But how can you use a normal top as a totem then, which every constructor would construct toppling over. In every constructed dream it would topple over, except your own real dreams, which are not dangerous. [The Fulham, in dreams, never stops spinning. That's an strange behaviour, which proves that you're in a dream. The normal-top totems would act strangely too, not in the same way, but strangely. For example, a dice. If you threw a dice in a dream, it would never stop rolling, or something like that. It doesn't have to be a non-normal top to be a totem, it could be anything. You just have to prove that it doesn't behave normally.]
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In the scene within the "dream limbo", Cobb convinces his wife to kill themselves by lying down on the railway track and getting by a train. This would be impossible because they were in limbo, there should have been no one else there to drive the train. [It's a dream, where they've been creating entire elaborate buildings that simply spring into existence according to their whim. Creating a train that runs on automatic would be a simple task by comparison.]
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In the scene where Saito is shot and he is laying on the ground, his shirt is unbuttoned, and you can see the edges of the blood pack that is underneath his shirt. [This is not a bloodpack, it would be a form of plaster - you can hear Arthur ask for anyone on the team who has First Aid training, therefore they would not simply let Saito bleed out - they would try and help stem the flow of blood. Otherwise why would his shirt be unbuttoned?]
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In the scene towards the end of the movie as Cobb holds his just-shot wife, he yells at Ariadne, "That's the kicker, Ellen. You gotta go now!" (As in Ellen Page, the actress who portrays Ariadne). It can be hard to hear it, but read his lips. ["Ellen" is a single syllable word, and the way the line is spoken shows there is no way to determine he is saying any one word.]
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When the helicopter lands on the roof top and Cobb and Arthur leave, the rotors are still heard rotating, yet there is no wind blowing (Cobb's hair, clothes) on the outside of the helicopter. [When the helicopter's collector lever or "throttle" if you will is put at it's lowest power setting it will not produce any downdraft or "blowing" from the blades. It's not a mistake.]
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As the first layer dream was in zero-gravity (i.e: the van falling off the bridge), the second layer was also in zero-gravity (i.e: the hotel room). But the zero-gravity effect did not continue to the third layer dream (i.e: the snowy mountains). [They were not in zero-g in the first level. They were in normal gravity. That's why the van was falling. It was zero-g in the second level because their bodies felt zero-g as the van was falling. The third level was also not affected because the second level wasn't doing anything to make them feel like they were in zero-g. The van only looked like that because the filming was slowed down to remind people that dream time goes by much slower than real time. Basically, a dream level is only affected by the level directly above it.]
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The kick of the van going off the bridge should have woken up Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character in the hotel dream level since he was awake in that level and in the level above he was falling. [It has been explained that there are two ways of waking up from dreams: either by dying in the dream or through a kick on the previous level. You can see that during the first dream experience: Cobb shoots Arthur and he wakes up in the previous level; Cobb himself is pushed into the bathtub in the previous level and he wakes up. As we know, the rules change when you're using the special sedative, as it is much more powerful. We can therefore assume that a kick in the previous level isn't enough, there needs to be a kick in the level you're in as well. Think about it: why does Ariadne throw herself and Fischer off the balcony? If a kick in the previous level was enough, then they would have woken up when Eames used the defibrillator. Also, Eames didn't know that Cobb wouldn't come back, so we can assume that he used the defibrillator on him too, yet Cobb didn't come back because he did not have the kick on the level he was in. So, the fall from the balcony on the level Cobb, Ariadne and Fischer are in combined with the defibrillator on Level 3 [Eames's dream], brings Ariadne and Fischer back to Level 3; the explosion of the snow fortress on Level 3 combined with the elevator fall on Level 2 [Arthur's dream] brings Ariadne, Fischer and Eames back to Level 2; the elevator fall on Level 2 combined with the van hitting the water on Level 1 [Yusuf's dream] brings Ariadne, Fischer, Eames and Arthur back to Level 1. The kick in Level 1 isn't enough for Arthur to come back: he needs the kick on Level 2 as well. That's why he said "It's too soon!, because he didn't have that kick ready yet. It's also why Cobb says "We missed the first kick."]
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