Hello everyone, welcome back. On the occasion of the 10th year anniversary,
we dive into one of the most beautiful, well written,
spectacular fantasy thrillers called Inception.
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content. Directed by Christoper Nolan, Inception is a thrilling sci-fi heist
film. Inception demands and overly compensates
for your total attention. But, if you get so lost into Nolan’s
dream world, we wouldn’t blame you. So, let’s walk-through
this convoluted psychological brain twister
and we highly recommend that you watch till the very end
where the ending is explained. 
Let us lay out the basics:
Leonardo is Dom Cobb, a master thief-for-hire who infiltrates other people's
dreams to steal trade secrets. Cobb is accompanied by his longtime
right-hand man, Arthur (played  by Joseph Gordon), on top-level
missions for well-to-do clients. Saito (played by Ken Watanabe) hires Cobb
and Arthur to do Inception, indicating he wants them to plant an
idea in his dying competitor’s heir, instead of stealing one. Can steal an idea from
someone's mind, why can't you plant it?
This idea will cause Robert Fischer (played by Cillian Murphy) to dismantle
his father's multibillion-dollar empire. Cobb cannot return to America to
see his children because he's suspected of killing his
wife, Mal. Saito promises to get Cobb to his
children scot-free if he pulls off the job. Cobb assembles a
team which includes a “forger”, Eames, who can transform into another person's
identity
an “architect”, Ariadne, who designs the dreamscapes
and teaches the dreamer about the world.
To do inception, the team needs to go multi dream levels deep,
and require heavier sedatives which is provided by a “chemist,”
Yusuf.
Now, as the dreamers go into the inner levels of the dream,
time will stretch, and if they go too deeply,
they end up in limbo where people seem to forget reality.
So, the dreamers use a  privately held object,
a totem to distinguish dream from reality.
To wake the dreamer up by one level of dream, a kick is required.
Also, if a dreamer dies in a basic dream, he  wakes up by one level. However, in a
multilevel dream, under a powerful sedative, a synchronized
kick is required to wake the dreamer up, but if the dreamer dies, he or she ends
in limbo. The heist begins. In the first level of
the dream, The team is put to sleep inside Yusuf’s dream
and Saito is shot during an unintended attack on them.
The team kidnaps Fischer, while Eames morphs into Fischer’s father’s advisor
Browning. He tells Fischer that his father wanted
him to create a new business, instead of inheriting his father’s.
In the second level, Yusuf drives the team in a minivan and the team is put
to sleep again inside Arthur’s dream.
Cobb impersonates Fischer's security officer to tell him that he is dreaming
and he is there to protect him. He persuades Fischer to enter Browning’s
dream to extract his secrets. At this moment, Fischer thinks he is
entering Browning’s dream but Arthur puts the team to sleep into Eames’ dream
thus Fischer facilitates his own inception.
He's gonna help us break into his own
subconscious.
In the third level, when everyone except
Arthur goes into Eames' dream
Cobb instructs Fischer to breach into the fortress
and locate his dying father’s will. Cobb’s dead wife,
Mal, who is a part of his projection, appears in this dream and pulls the
trigger on Fischer. Meanwhile, Saito dies and falls into limbo. Cobb and
Ariadne think they can get Fischer back
by going down into Cobb's mind because Mal is projection of Cobb's mind.
Consequently, Cobb and Ariadne enter Cobb's mind to find Fischer.
At this level, as Mal stabs Cobb, Ariadne kills Mal’s projection
Thereafter, Ariadne pushes Fischer off the balcony which is timed perfectly
with the shock from the defibrillator in the third level
Fischer wakes up in the third level where his father
asks him to be his own man. Cobb stays back to find
Saito in limbo and get him back to reality.
Finally, there is a synchronized kick in every level of the dream.
Thus, everyone wakes up, except Cobb and Saito.
Eventually, Cobb finds Saito in limbo and reminds him that the world he's in
isn't real. They kill themselves and wake up in
reality.
Alright, the moment that you've all been waiting for.
Cobb uses a totem which if it keeps spinning, that means he is in a dream.
If it stops and falls over, that means he is back in reality.
At the end of the movie, Cobb spins the totem
to see if he is dreaming, but he walks away and the top keeps spinning.
So, is it all just a dream?
Michael Caine in one of his interviews revealed that Christopher Nolan
told him that any scenes his character was in, it is actually reality and the others
are dreams. Professor Miles is present in the final scene which confirms the final
scene is reality.
During his time in dreams, Cobb always has his wedding ring on.
However, in reality he never wears it. When Cobb arrives in the United States
to meet his kids, there is no ring. When he spins the totem,
there is no ring which confirms the final scene is reality.
To be fair,  the story is complete for Cobb, whether he's in a dream or not.
He doesn't care enough to find out if it was just a dream or reality,
because he gets his kids back which was his goal throughout the movie.
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