Indeed, that hallway fight was NOT CGI, Seb. They did it entirely practically by building a rotating hallway and spinning it while the camera remained stationary.
Anyone who liked that scene, go up there ^ and search for "Gravity fight scenes in inception filmed by Christopher Nolan" and you'll get a big breakdown of how it was done, including the construction of the centrifuge, as well as details of how JGL did most of his own stunts during the entire thing.
He is not "allergic" to CGI. He does use quite a lot of CGI. What he doesn't do is make entire scenes CGI - He uses CGI that adds to a practical shot instead of replacing the practical shot. But saying he is allergic to CGI or uses no CGI at all diminishes his work and his Visual Effects Team's Work.@@TahiriVeila13ABY
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy in this movie, and especially this line, are such a bisexual mood for me. They live rent free in my head to this day.
I love that tiny millisecond of wobbling from the pin in the final scene, making you think it’s going to topple over. If they didn’t add that little wobble, we’d all feel with certainty that Cobb is still dreaming in the end. It adds that level of ambiguity. Which is how we *should* feel, since it’s how Cobb feels - he doesn’t care whether or not it’s “real” anymore, as long as he gets to see his children’s faces. As long as he gets to be with them, on any level, he can live with that
The spinning pin isn’t Cobb’s totem, but his wife’s. He said it earlier. If you watch carefully each dream/reality sequence, Cobb’s totem is his wedding ring actually. Also Mickael Caine asked Nolan when he filmed when it was real (or not) and Nolan said that it’s simple : when Caine is in the scene, it’s real (meaning the end is real)
"Death of the author" and all that, but I figured the fact that he made a decision to brave his feelings and stick to his convictions was the entire point. He was terrified of what was real or not, unable to trust even himself, to the point that it ruined his life and the lives of everyone around him. At the end, he didn't even need to look at the totem because he felt himself a better person, ready to forgive, and that he deserved redemption; to see his children's faces again. It's not about whether he was right or wrong, or what was real or unreal. It was about accepting himself, admitting his mistakes, and working within the context of his own existence to the best of his ability, flaws and all.
@@skribblestyle exactly lol I’ve read multiple interviews wherein Nolan says almost exactly the same thing, so it’s weird when people are staunch on one side or the other when that’s really not how it’s meant to be received regardless. Like, yes, obviously we want it to be reality and Cobb lives to old age with his kids, but even if he’s still in a dream, he doesn’t look back at the pin. He doesn’t care anymore and I remember first seeing this movie and also not caring anymore lol so much of Inception’s message is also “perception is reality”
@@Max-cf8pftrue, the spinning top was originally Mal's totem, but it still functions as his own now since he's the only living person that's ever touched it and knows its exact feel, weight, structure etc.
When you're in a dream, you create characters around you based on faces you know. That's why Fischer doesn't question the fact that his dreams have been filled with the people around him on the plane: it makes sense. ;)
I've had a dream within a dream before. I thought I had woken up, got up from my bed and went downstairs to talk to my family, the giveaway should have been that we were living back at one of our old houses.
I've had Dreams within Dreams couple of times. Like once when I was around 4 I had Dream where I was on top of a really tall skyscraper and I fell asleep in the dream and in that Dream within a dream I was eaten by a T-rex right next to my home and I woke up back in the skyscraper. Once when I was around 11 I had a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream and from what I can remember in one of those dreams i was hanging on the edge of a building, in a nother I was in a building that resembled the Taj mahal and it was in the middle of a gigantic pool and in the next one I was alone in a spaceship and in the final dream I was at my home, in the bed then I got of the bed and told my parents about it and then I finally woke up for real.
@@carolinepaulsson7799 I've had very similar experiances like that with dreams, but thank God I've not had those kinds of dreams in a long time. Couple of times I've had some bad dreams that felt very real, like once Ichad a dream where I had crashed a cruise ship on a beach and when I got out of it I was taken to a bus by some soldiers (the military arrived at the scene). After I was in the bus the Doors where locked and poison gas started to come in from the vents and what happened next felt extremely horrifying. My eyes and lungs started to actually feel like they where burning from the poison gas and I wasn't able to breath or escape. It felt like it lasted for around 20 seconds and it really felt like I was actuqally dying before I woke up with my face on my pillow.
@@carolinepaulsson7799 once I had a dream where I was taken into a bus and then I was locked inside and they started to release poison gas that started to burn my eyes and lungs and I couldn't breathe for like 15 seconds (it felt comletely real). Then I woke up with my face on my pillow.
On your confusion about the inception of Mal. There is a scene of her locking away her totem (the top) in her mind-safe (her subconscious) in Limbo. The top was in the non-spinning state but, she was still in Limbo so, the non-spinning state of the top locked away in her subconscious was her accepting Limbo as her reality. Then Cobb breaks in and sets the top spinning endlessly. Now she knows Limbo isn't real however, even after waking up, the top was still spinning in her subconscious, causing those feelings of her world not being real to continue even after she awoke and even after she spun the top in the real world. She just didn't believe it because her subconscious was telling her otherwise. This is the main reason why telling others the secret to your totem is so dangerous and why Cobb stresses it so much. Keep in mind the top isn't his totem, it was Mal's, Cobb uses it as sort of a secondary confirmation.
I will never understand how Oppenheimer won Academy Awards for best picture, director and actor but not this. This was Nolan's superior film imo. Don't get me wrong, Oppenheimer was good, but I've watched this several times and it just keeps getting better. I love seeing people's first reaction to it as well.
The thing about the top at the end spinning, it was never his to begin with so how can that be his totem? He said in the movie that you have to make it up yourself and no one else can use it. An interesting theory I once heard from a friend was that you should pay attention to his wedding ring because it is on in some scenes and off in others, could that be his totem? This movie is so much fun to theorize about, you can watch it many times and see different details every time.
The point of making the totem yourself is that no one else can touch it, know what exactly it feels like so they can't use the knowledge against you in a dream, but since the only other person that had ever touched it (Mal) is dead, it can function as his own totem now
Haven‘t seen anyone mention it, but there is a theory that Leo‘s Totem is his wedding ring, since the spinning top was his wife‘s, not his. In scenes where he‘s in the reality he‘s not wearing it anymore but when he‘s dreaming he‘s still with her (that‘s something he even says when Ariadne confronts him). So: dreaming - ring. awake - no ring.
"That's reality surely" -at the end... But is it? Is the idea that the top falling over representing reality, potentially just a planted idea, an inception, too? Do you really trust your mind enough in dream states to rule out anything? That's the true depth of this movie, you really can't rule out anything as not being a dream, and when you realize that then you realize the dread of forever questioning if things truly are real or not. Is life around you real, or are you just dreaming? What's your point of reference? You just trust that whatever you tell yourself you're experiencing, is reality. But is that reality just because your own mind tells you it is? Was Mall actually in the right, did she actually die or did she in reality move on to truly waking up -and Cobb is left in the dream state still thinking he's made it out but in reality his mind is stuck in Limbo? If you flip the entire script on its head, this could simply be a story about Cobb doing everything in his might to convince himself that he has made it out of Limbo, as a way of mentally coping with the fact that he is never gonna leave that place.
Michael Caine was confused by the movie and Christopher Nolan explained that all scenes that featured MC were in the real world, so we know the ending is not in a dream.
It's just paying attention to detail. Mal could make the top spin endlessly in a dream was jist an anecdote but so many ppl got stuck on it. Seeing if the top cab topple that was never how they determined they were dreaming. It's by the feel, the weight, the way the top moves thats why he doesn't need to watch until the end in first place.
5:51 i‘ve always had a lot of lucid dreams (tho i had no idea they were a thing when i was younger) and sometimes it’s just a feeling of knowing you’re dreaming (and being able to control stuff since you know it’s a dream) while other times i genuinely think it’s reality, but i’m still “conscious” enough to be aware of what’s happening, and i do remember most of it after waking up, it’s so weird 😭 my best friend barely dreams at all (or at least she doesn’t remember dreaming when she wakes up) while there were times i could tell her in detail a whole day’s worth of what i dreamed the night before lol
I remember watching this movie on a school trip from Germany to England (about 14 hours of driving). The whole bus was silenced because we only had that tiny little tv at the top front of the bus. After the movie, the whole bus was QUIET. It made 40+ 14 year olds shut up for the rest of the drive. Such an incredible movie. And till this day, every time i watch it my brain gets fucked LMAO
The hallway gravity scene is practical. Rotating hallway with a locked camera! To clarify, the first hallway scene. The total zero gravity one I’m not sure how they did it but it’s got to involve some degree of CGI.
Wow that’s cool and interesting. Like in HSM 3, when Zac Efron is in the hallway and it’s spinning. He’s laying on his back on the side wall or walking upside with feet on the ceiling. Or even he falls backwards landing on his head and then into a push up because the cube is turning while the camera is stationary
Later in an interview Nolan hinted that the top actually does topple. But his main point for the ambiguity was to get the viewers to think about possible endings
Nominated for 8 Oscars including Best Picture, but won for: Best Cinematography Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing Best Visual Effects. Oppenheimer won 7 Oscars: Best Picture, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan Best Director, Christopher Nolan Best Actor, Cillian Murphy Best Supporting Actor, Robert Downey Jr Best Film Editing, Jennifer Lame Best Cinematography, Hoyte Van Hoytema Best Original Score, Ludwig Gorranson.
Oppenheimer was the worst movie ever made by Nolan. Literally jusy 30minutes of zoomed in fireball cinematics and the remaining 2.5hrs was just character actors talking gibberish. Such a borefest.
I heard that the trick to telling if you're in a dream is to look at your hands. Funny story: one time I was dreaming and thought I might be, so I looked at my hands, really close, and I could literally feel my brain filling in the details, I could see them being filled in, as high resolution as you can imagine being able to see your own fingerprints and stuff. I remember thinking "huh, this looks too vivid and real, I must be awake and behave accordingly just in case!" Another time, when I was a kid in the 90s, I realized I was in a dream and I got so excited! Do you know what the first thought I had to do was? Wake up. I wasted my one opportunity to do whatever I wanted with zero consequence on trying to wake up. I remember doing some kind of I Dream Of Jeanie thing, closing my eyes and nodding my head, to try to wake up, and suddenly I was in an attic with a single lightbulb hanging from the ceiling and it was night time. I immediately forgot that I was in a dream and just got sucked away into whatever happened after that. So stupid. :|
The rotating hallway fight scene was filmed in a constructed actual rotating hallway there's videos showing how that scene was filmed and its incredible
6:59 "I do feel a part of this is almost symbolizing cuz I know some people, whether you believe in what they do or not but they will they'll have like a sorcerer or something right and then who will then, I do- I dont know how much i even wanna say but like can ask like entities to do things. You know i don't wanna say too much but but like some seriously wealthy people do stuff like that and yeah again whether it works or not whether u want to believe it but like they attempt to do that so..." I had a stroke
The part where Fischer is sobbing over his father at the end after he saw the handheld pinwheel is that his father actually loved and cared for him and him sobbing over him is where the "Inception" sticks with him before the hospital is blown up.
42:43 I wouldn’t say it clears up after more watches per say, because unlike Tenant the initial concept of the movie is easy to grasp and understand, but i’d definitely say after 2-3 watches you start to notice so many little things each time you watch it that make the movie so much more enjoyable to watch and in a sense add more “layers” to it, like the fact the movie is quite literally pulling the concept of inception on the audience whilst you’re watching it and come the end of the movie like the dream, you’re question whether Cobb is in reality because you’ve been that far deep down the layers whilst watching. Another is that the spinning top at the end, it has been confirmed whether it’s a dream or not, but the fact Cobb leaves the top spinning and doesn’t ever look back shows he doesn’t actually care if it’s a dream or reality, he just gets to be with his kids
I remember people walking out of the theatre cause they thought it was stupid. They were actually too impatient to give it a go. It’s really good me and my family have loved this movie from day 1
And now you have to watch the film that this got most of its inspiration from, which is the absolute masterpiece _Paprika_ by Satoshi Kon. If you thought this was a mindfuck, just wait...
Lmao, I am literally watching this movie for the 20th time as I’m writing this comment😂 and here comes the notification for this! The timing is incredible.
This is like my “2nd” time watching it during this reaction and you explaining it like fully made it make sense. This feels like Tenet where you just have to double check certain things after the movie is over to realize how genius certain plot points were made
I trained myself to lucid dream as a teen. Ironically, the way I found out that it was even an option was from seeing the movie A Nightmare of Elm Street. As a kid that had very vivid nightmares quite regularly, finding out that I could possibly be aware and/or control my dreams was life changing. Now as an adult, I've mastered the art of lucid dreaming and while I mostly use it to steer bad dreams into another direction, I also use it to heighten certain types of dreams that are quite enjoyable 😎😜
I still believe they are dreaming at the end. Saito reached for the gun, where dying is not a kick, but rather will put you in another layer of dream. Cobb went down to Saito because without him, he will be arrested on landing. And since Saito will miss the final kick, he will die in the real world and won't be able to pull the strings for cobb. Saito reached for the gun because he knew they missed the final kick (it would've been dreamyears for Saito before cobb arrived). Cobb didn't wait for the spinner to stop because it doesn't matter anymore, if it's the reality, he's gonna live a lifetime with his kids, if it's not, he's still gonna live a lifetime with his "kids", decades worth of dream until his brain fries in the real world in a matter of minutes.
The thing about dreams within dreams is that it is possible, and waking up from one level is similar to what they say in the movie giving yourself a jolt. For me as a kid it will be jumping down an entire flight of steps and slowing down and waking up right before I hit the bottom.
Inception is a very good movie. The story, the characters, the music, it all creates something wonderful. If You liked Inception, You should definitely watch another Nolan film - Tenet. It can also blow Your mind, and just like Inception revolved around dreams, Tenet is tied to time. See for yourself.
I saw this movie Inception on a bus during a school field trip. Lol and on the way back I remember we watched The Tourist. Both of these films me and a friend watched with eyes glued to the screen in front of us while literally every other student fell asleep or started talking and forming little groups. 😂😂😂 good times. Mind bending for sure with both!
I have loved this film and rewatched it ever since I first watched it at the cinemas. It's just such a fascinating concept and I love how it includes familiar elements like the sense of falling that makes you wake up, how time moves much slower in dreams or how you rarely remember how you got to a place in your dream. 30:20 And you have a cat!
fischer DOES have a private plane, the team manufactured a sudden plane repair issue and that’s why he rides a plane w them w saito having bought the airplane (?) airport i forget
The spinning top is actually Mal's totem, Cobb's totem is the wedding ring. In the beginning/first dream you can see him wearing the wedding ring, but when they are awake in the real world he doesn't have a ring. 2nd time he wakes up om the beach(the ending) he doesn't have the ring anymore.
I suffer night terrors so vivid they feel real, I feel almost awake but trapped at the same time I can't wake up from it but I'm so aware its happening its like I'm actually going through it. I'm used to them now so I know I'm dreaming but they are still terrifying it's always the same type of nightmare just different scenarios and people involved but the outcome is always the same hopeless and yet because I can't wake from it I'm stuck having to go through the motions regardless. I also talk out loud and sometimes sleep walk
Fun fact all of their names spell out dream pay Dom Robert Eames Arther Mal Saito Peter Ariadne Yusuf - and to top it off the whole movie is basically an allegory of making movies each character represents a member of a film crew
I am so happy you're finally watching this! I've literally been waiting so long for you to react to this lmaoo. Inception has been one of my favorite movies of all time for years now and you're my favorite react channel, So I'm proper hyped for this.
Inception is a brilliantly crafted film. Christopher Nolan has a complex mind. Every film has substance. No delays in delivering the impactful messages we all need to hear more about.
No hate, I'm genuinely wondering; how has this guy not seen ANY movies, like at all? I see his vids on my recommended page all the time and it's always "watching *movie everyone has seen* for the first time". Either he must've actively avoided watching these films or he's just faking it. Has he ever explained this?
I had one of the most fun dreams I can remember last night! I was at a college party having fun, having drinks and dancing. Went on for some time. This girl flirted with me and we went to an elevator going up (who knows where) and this old guy in the elevator turned to the girl and said 3, 2, 1 and wake! And I was like 'no way!' Then he did the same to me. Turns out we were being hypnotized on a stage, just thinking we were at a party. The old guy said we looked funny going up the elevator, just trying to stand taller on the stage to simulate going up. I was amazed how real the hypnosis seemed when all along we were just on a stage acting things out. Then I woke up for real this morning, thinking "That was such a cool dream!"
Seb, it's the other wqy round - you can't make up a completely "new" face in dreams - you'll either see people you've only seen in passing, or an amalgamation of people you've seen before
9:36 Funny you should mention that. I had a dream last night of an ex. It was so vivid. I woke up and my heart ached. I never usually have dreams like that. The human mind is crazy.
ps that whole scene where Arthur fights upside down is all real set designed to rotate. Watch how they filmed & created the entire set just for that shot its insanity
40:32 Seb I've seen this movie hundreds of times and never understood why Saito was so much older than Leo until you said that. I've learned something today.
Fisher probably does have access to a private jet. But, private jets are smaller, and therefore can't hold as much fuel or fly as far. Thus, this trip from Sydney to LA, one of the longest flights in the world, and being almost completely over ocean with no spots to refuel, can only really be completed by the larger jumbo jets that hold a lot of fuel.
17:05 A normal amount of energy is used regardless of how many levels down you go. The perceived amount of time spent inside a dream is a mere illusion created by the mind.
7:28 - My Dad met Michael Caine once. My Dad was doing plumbing in London at the time, and installed a boiler or something at Michael Caine's house. Sir Caine offered Dad a Whisky. He of course accepted, it was the 70s. lol
10:28 When I first saw that shot, I assumed they'd maybe put a camera on the opposite side of the mirror, looking at Leo. Then had a green screen behind it, so it was easier to comp out. But no, they literally just built the real giant mirror. lol So they had the reflection of the cameraman and Director stood next to Leo, so they had to digitally remove them again. Obviously when the mirror exploded, that was just a CG comp, though.
The gravity hallway scene reminds me of the music video for "Dancing on the Ceiling" by Lionel Richie, which itself was inspired by the 1951 Fred Astaire vehicle "Royal Wedding" (both directed by Stanley Donen). Same idea for all three scenes: the set is designed to rotate, and the camera is fixed in place so that it rotates with the set. Meanwhile, the talent follows "normal" gravity, which, to the moving camera (and thus, the viewer) looks like they're moving in unnatural ways. So, no CGI whatsoever there: it's a practical (if expensive!) effect which actually dates back over half a century.
Hey seb you could watch: Maze Runner Death Cure, Land Of The Lost, Scouts guide trough zombie apocalyps, Journey to the center of the Earth (2008), Journey 2 The mysterious island, the new Dumb And Dumber, Ice Age 3, Flintstones (1994), Flintstones Viva rock vegas(2000), Gran Turismo, Gulliver's Travels, Pacific Rim 1 and 2, Little man, Super 8, Uncharted, The Tomorrow war, Sign (2002), Avatar 1, Avatar the way of water
A few months ago I actually astral projected for my first time ever. I haven't been able to do it again. I took a nap in the morning and entered the stage where you feel your energy body vibrating and I focused on that feeling and then shot out of my body at what felt like light speed. I heard a metallic voice as I left my body and it felt amazing then as I was about 300 feet above ground I got scared and shot back into my body and woke up. It was amazing
From the get-go, I suspected the entire story was Dom's dream. The circumstances were an unrealistic James Bond fairy tale, just like a fiction from a dream world. An infamous international criminal, jetting all over the world, facing mysterious, murderous men from "Cobol" engineering. Cobol (in our real world) is the programming language which has traditionally constructed the very nature of mainframe applications for business, finance, and governments around the world. Surely, that's a massive hint that the story is currently in the world "underneath" the real one. (Or it's a red herring.) Anyway, that early Paris scene sold it to me. The father-in-law (Michael Caine), after a long pause, says, almost whispering, "Come back to reality, Dom. ...Please." WOW, I thought. And I watched the rest of the film convinced it is the tragic story of Dom trying to "get back home," but not understanding he is still dreaming. In the end, however, there are just too many possibilities. I mean, what about Dom not having his own totem? He's using his wife's. Having one's own unique totem is essential, we're told, to be sure we're not in someone else's dream. But it's a bit of a pointless debate. The whole thing. We each see our own realities and dreams in this grand story, our own regrets and psychological walls. Maybe that's the point.
I sat back and enjoyed this film on first viewing.. it was amazing.. I went along for the ride.. took the info I was given and didn’t over think (and I didn’t have to speak as I wasn’t doing a reaction channel).
It’s been pointed out that Cobb’s totem isn’t the spinning top, but his wedding ring. In all the scenes that take place in a dream, he’s wearing a wedding ring. In reality, he isn’t. So the last scene is reality because he isn’t wearing it. Michael Caine has also said that Nolan told him every scene he was in took place in reality, so there’s another reason.
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I experienced 3 layers of dreams before. And the last layers I fully realize it was a dream but it's so hard to control my emotions to convince my self that nothing is real in that dream. Because I tried to drive a flying car 🤣 I had an accident on that dream and that was what woke me up
Indeed, that hallway fight was NOT CGI, Seb. They did it entirely practically by building a rotating hallway and spinning it while the camera remained stationary.
Anyone who liked that scene, go up there ^ and search for "Gravity fight scenes in inception filmed by Christopher Nolan" and you'll get a big breakdown of how it was done, including the construction of the centrifuge, as well as details of how JGL did most of his own stunts during the entire thing.
even knowing that statement is true, reading that sentence make it seem like a joke, like how can you think about building something like that
This is Nolan after all. The man is allergic to CGI. He loves the practical effects.
Same way with using explosives for Oppenheimer
He is not "allergic" to CGI. He does use quite a lot of CGI. What he doesn't do is make entire scenes CGI - He uses CGI that adds to a practical shot instead of replacing the practical shot. But saying he is allergic to CGI or uses no CGI at all diminishes his work and his Visual Effects Team's Work.@@TahiriVeila13ABY
"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, Dahling." ❤❤
Seb pulls out Chris Evans.
touche !!! 😂😂 @@radwolf76
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy in this movie, and especially this line, are such a bisexual mood for me. They live rent free in my head to this day.
@@librarianists Even Nolan admitted there was a tension between them
Nice timing, right after Nolan wins his Oscar
And Cillian Murphy - Best Actor
And RDJ - Best Supportive actor@@TheKayaklover
@@Sskull3031 rdj has nothing to do with inception.....
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@@Sskull3031 why stop at that??? U should also mention other oscar winners then like Emma Thomas, ludwig göransson, hoyte van hoytema etc
Time for interstellar! And Tenet of course. And memento..
He’s already reacted to Interstellar
tenet definitely!! so sick
@@alexo_pog Compared to Tenet, Inception is damn straightforward.
Ah, my bad! @@sivannatalie
@@SwayErBest Yeah he did interstellar around the very beginning of his channel. It was what turned me into a subscriber. Was a great reaction.
I love that tiny millisecond of wobbling from the pin in the final scene, making you think it’s going to topple over. If they didn’t add that little wobble, we’d all feel with certainty that Cobb is still dreaming in the end. It adds that level of ambiguity. Which is how we *should* feel, since it’s how Cobb feels - he doesn’t care whether or not it’s “real” anymore, as long as he gets to see his children’s faces. As long as he gets to be with them, on any level, he can live with that
The spinning pin isn’t Cobb’s totem, but his wife’s. He said it earlier. If you watch carefully each dream/reality sequence, Cobb’s totem is his wedding ring actually. Also Mickael Caine asked Nolan when he filmed when it was real (or not) and Nolan said that it’s simple : when Caine is in the scene, it’s real (meaning the end is real)
@@Max-cf8pf lol
"Death of the author" and all that, but I figured the fact that he made a decision to brave his feelings and stick to his convictions was the entire point. He was terrified of what was real or not, unable to trust even himself, to the point that it ruined his life and the lives of everyone around him. At the end, he didn't even need to look at the totem because he felt himself a better person, ready to forgive, and that he deserved redemption; to see his children's faces again.
It's not about whether he was right or wrong, or what was real or unreal. It was about accepting himself, admitting his mistakes, and working within the context of his own existence to the best of his ability, flaws and all.
@@skribblestyle exactly lol I’ve read multiple interviews wherein Nolan says almost exactly the same thing, so it’s weird when people are staunch on one side or the other when that’s really not how it’s meant to be received regardless. Like, yes, obviously we want it to be reality and Cobb lives to old age with his kids, but even if he’s still in a dream, he doesn’t look back at the pin. He doesn’t care anymore and I remember first seeing this movie and also not caring anymore lol so much of Inception’s message is also “perception is reality”
@@Max-cf8pftrue, the spinning top was originally Mal's totem, but it still functions as his own now since he's the only living person that's ever touched it and knows its exact feel, weight, structure etc.
This movie should have won Nolan an Oscar. It's so good, and the world building is amazing.
Certainly a better film than the one about the stuttering king.
When you're in a dream, you create characters around you based on faces you know. That's why Fischer doesn't question the fact that his dreams have been filled with the people around him on the plane: it makes sense. ;)
I've had a dream within a dream before. I thought I had woken up, got up from my bed and went downstairs to talk to my family, the giveaway should have been that we were living back at one of our old houses.
I've had Dreams within Dreams couple of times. Like once when I was around 4 I had Dream where I was on top of a really tall skyscraper and I fell asleep in the dream and in that Dream within a dream I was eaten by a T-rex right next to my home and I woke up back in the skyscraper.
Once when I was around 11 I had a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream and from what I can remember in one of those dreams i was hanging on the edge of a building, in a nother I was in a building that resembled the Taj mahal and it was in the middle of a gigantic pool and in the next one I was alone in a spaceship and in the final dream I was at my home, in the bed then I got of the bed and told my parents about it and then I finally woke up for real.
I had a dream within a dream (or several dreams) and sleep paralysis at the same time. Scariest shit I ever been through.
@@carolinepaulsson7799 I've had very similar experiances like that with dreams, but thank God I've not had those kinds of dreams in a long time.
Couple of times I've had some bad dreams that felt very real, like once Ichad a dream where I had crashed a cruise ship on a beach and when I got out of it I was taken to a bus by some soldiers (the military arrived at the scene). After I was in the bus the Doors where locked and poison gas started to come in from the vents and what happened next felt extremely horrifying.
My eyes and lungs started to actually feel like they where burning from the poison gas and I wasn't able to breath or escape. It felt like it lasted for around 20 seconds and it really felt like I was actuqally dying before I woke up with my face on my pillow.
@@carolinepaulsson7799 once I had a dream where I was taken into a bus and then I was locked inside and they started to release poison gas that started to burn my eyes and lungs and I couldn't breathe for like 15 seconds (it felt comletely real). Then I woke up with my face on my pillow.
@@carolinepaulsson7799holy hell, that sounds horrific😨
38:05 "I still wouldn't say its his fault"......... "WELLL" ..... 😂😂😂
Well men still wouldn't blame other men even if they do the crime infront of them.....
On your confusion about the inception of Mal.
There is a scene of her locking away her totem (the top) in her mind-safe (her subconscious) in Limbo. The top was in the non-spinning state but, she was still in Limbo so, the non-spinning state of the top locked away in her subconscious was her accepting Limbo as her reality.
Then Cobb breaks in and sets the top spinning endlessly. Now she knows Limbo isn't real however, even after waking up, the top was still spinning in her subconscious, causing those feelings of her world not being real to continue even after she awoke and even after she spun the top in the real world. She just didn't believe it because her subconscious was telling her otherwise.
This is the main reason why telling others the secret to your totem is so dangerous and why Cobb stresses it so much. Keep in mind the top isn't his totem, it was Mal's, Cobb uses it as sort of a secondary confirmation.
I will never understand how Oppenheimer won Academy Awards for best picture, director and actor but not this. This was Nolan's superior film imo. Don't get me wrong, Oppenheimer was good, but I've watched this several times and it just keeps getting better. I love seeing people's first reaction to it as well.
The part in the hotel room, the anniversary. That part always gets me.
the way his voice cracks on "Jesus Christ" makes me tear up - it's so well-done
The thing about the top at the end spinning, it was never his to begin with so how can that be his totem? He said in the movie that you have to make it up yourself and no one else can use it. An interesting theory I once heard from a friend was that you should pay attention to his wedding ring because it is on in some scenes and off in others, could that be his totem? This movie is so much fun to theorize about, you can watch it many times and see different details every time.
The point of making the totem yourself is that no one else can touch it, know what exactly it feels like so they can't use the knowledge against you in a dream, but since the only other person that had ever touched it (Mal) is dead, it can function as his own totem now
Haven‘t seen anyone mention it, but there is a theory that Leo‘s Totem is his wedding ring, since the spinning top was his wife‘s, not his.
In scenes where he‘s in the reality he‘s not wearing it anymore but when he‘s dreaming he‘s still with her (that‘s something he even says when Ariadne confronts him).
So: dreaming - ring. awake - no ring.
Omg that’s such a simple but important detail! How did i never see that?
This movie holds a very very special place in my heart. THIS was the film that really got me into movies, and I will forever love it for that
Seb at the start of the movie: This isn't too hard to understand
Seb at the end of the movie: My brain hurts
29:21 That scene was made by spinning the room. No CGI
If it saves money 🤷♂️
That's crazy skills regardless
23:18 your cat was like WTF goin on?? 😸
"That's reality surely" -at the end... But is it? Is the idea that the top falling over representing reality, potentially just a planted idea, an inception, too? Do you really trust your mind enough in dream states to rule out anything?
That's the true depth of this movie, you really can't rule out anything as not being a dream, and when you realize that then you realize the dread of forever questioning if things truly are real or not. Is life around you real, or are you just dreaming? What's your point of reference? You just trust that whatever you tell yourself you're experiencing, is reality. But is that reality just because your own mind tells you it is?
Was Mall actually in the right, did she actually die or did she in reality move on to truly waking up -and Cobb is left in the dream state still thinking he's made it out but in reality his mind is stuck in Limbo? If you flip the entire script on its head, this could simply be a story about Cobb doing everything in his might to convince himself that he has made it out of Limbo, as a way of mentally coping with the fact that he is never gonna leave that place.
But then we wouldn't see Michael Caine at the end.
Michael Caine was confused by the movie and Christopher Nolan explained that all scenes that featured MC were in the real world, so we know the ending is not in a dream.
@@notachance9457also the kids were older in the last scene
It's real because all the scenes Michael Caine is in is reality, he said it himself
It's just paying attention to detail. Mal could make the top spin endlessly in a dream was jist an anecdote but so many ppl got stuck on it.
Seeing if the top cab topple that was never how they determined they were dreaming. It's by the feel, the weight, the way the top moves thats why he doesn't need to watch until the end in first place.
5:51 i‘ve always had a lot of lucid dreams (tho i had no idea they were a thing when i was younger) and sometimes it’s just a feeling of knowing you’re dreaming (and being able to control stuff since you know it’s a dream) while other times i genuinely think it’s reality, but i’m still “conscious” enough to be aware of what’s happening, and i do remember most of it after waking up, it’s so weird 😭 my best friend barely dreams at all (or at least she doesn’t remember dreaming when she wakes up) while there were times i could tell her in detail a whole day’s worth of what i dreamed the night before lol
I remember watching this movie on a school trip from Germany to England (about 14 hours of driving). The whole bus was silenced because we only had that tiny little tv at the top front of the bus. After the movie, the whole bus was QUIET. It made 40+ 14 year olds shut up for the rest of the drive. Such an incredible movie. And till this day, every time i watch it my brain gets fucked LMAO
The hallway gravity scene is practical. Rotating hallway with a locked camera!
To clarify, the first hallway scene. The total zero gravity one I’m not sure how they did it but it’s got to involve some degree of CGI.
No CGI involved other than erasing the stunt wires.
Wow that’s cool and interesting. Like in HSM 3, when Zac Efron is in the hallway and it’s spinning. He’s laying on his back on the side wall or walking upside with feet on the ceiling. Or even he falls backwards landing on his head and then into a push up because the cube is turning while the camera is stationary
14 years later, and this is still my favorite movie. Complex, layered, beautiful, tragic, brilliant, emotional… it’s perfect.
same i watch movies that are subjectively better, but i always come back to this one
Nolan told Caine, that every scene, he is in, is the reality. So it will fall.
Later in an interview Nolan hinted that the top actually does topple. But his main point for the ambiguity was to get the viewers to think about possible endings
my fav Christopher Nolan’s movie along with Interstellar
Just one word. MASTERPIECE
Prestige and TENET next
Then Memento and Insomnia
_Paprika_ first.
Nominated for 8 Oscars including Best Picture, but won for:
Best Cinematography
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Visual Effects.
Oppenheimer won 7 Oscars:
Best Picture, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
Best Director, Christopher Nolan
Best Actor, Cillian Murphy
Best Supporting Actor, Robert Downey Jr
Best Film Editing, Jennifer Lame
Best Cinematography, Hoyte Van Hoytema
Best Original Score, Ludwig Gorranson.
Across the spider verse and the super Mario bros movie not winning a single nomination is a crime💀
Oppenheimer was the worst movie ever made by Nolan. Literally jusy 30minutes of zoomed in fireball cinematics and the remaining 2.5hrs was just character actors talking gibberish. Such a borefest.
@@magicwv buddy was too slow to understand it 💀
@@magicwvthe nuke looked so bad. They should have used CGI instead of that awful gasoline explosion.
People still believe Oscars have any meaning 💀
I heard that the trick to telling if you're in a dream is to look at your hands.
Funny story: one time I was dreaming and thought I might be, so I looked at my hands, really close, and I could literally feel my brain filling in the details, I could see them being filled in, as high resolution as you can imagine being able to see your own fingerprints and stuff. I remember thinking "huh, this looks too vivid and real, I must be awake and behave accordingly just in case!"
Another time, when I was a kid in the 90s, I realized I was in a dream and I got so excited! Do you know what the first thought I had to do was? Wake up. I wasted my one opportunity to do whatever I wanted with zero consequence on trying to wake up. I remember doing some kind of I Dream Of Jeanie thing, closing my eyes and nodding my head, to try to wake up, and suddenly I was in an attic with a single lightbulb hanging from the ceiling and it was night time. I immediately forgot that I was in a dream and just got sucked away into whatever happened after that. So stupid. :|
The rotating hallway fight scene was filmed in a constructed actual rotating hallway there's videos showing how that scene was filmed and its incredible
6:59 "I do feel a part of this is almost symbolizing cuz I know some people, whether you believe in what they do or not but they will they'll have like a sorcerer or something right and then who will then, I do- I dont know how much i even wanna say but like can ask like entities to do things. You know i don't wanna say too much but but like some seriously wealthy people do stuff like that and yeah again whether it works or not whether u want to believe it but like they attempt to do that so..." I had a stroke
I'm actually watching this film every year , and i cant explain how much i admire it. Tears hits every time, no chance...
Nolan such a GENIOUS!
This movie is so good and I still understand why people think about it because it’s the amount of creativity and filming to create this masterpiece ❤
No way this is bros first time seeing this movie
The part where Fischer is sobbing over his father at the end after he saw the handheld pinwheel is that his father actually loved and cared for him and him sobbing over him is where the "Inception" sticks with him before the hospital is blown up.
20:33 they explain that they get his private plane taken out of the air by mechanical problems so he’s forced to fly first class commercial.
42:43 I wouldn’t say it clears up after more watches per say, because unlike Tenant the initial concept of the movie is easy to grasp and understand, but i’d definitely say after 2-3 watches you start to notice so many little things each time you watch it that make the movie so much more enjoyable to watch and in a sense add more “layers” to it, like the fact the movie is quite literally pulling the concept of inception on the audience whilst you’re watching it and come the end of the movie like the dream, you’re question whether Cobb is in reality because you’ve been that far deep down the layers whilst watching. Another is that the spinning top at the end, it has been confirmed whether it’s a dream or not, but the fact Cobb leaves the top spinning and doesn’t ever look back shows he doesn’t actually care if it’s a dream or reality, he just gets to be with his kids
and it was mals totem so he also left her behind to live in the real world
20:05 famous last words lol
That comment and then what he was saying 10 minutes later was just hilarious.
I remember people walking out of the theatre cause they thought it was stupid. They were actually too impatient to give it a go. It’s really good me and my family have loved this movie from day 1
You should check out bullet train
Its so funny and just a great movie
And now you have to watch the film that this got most of its inspiration from, which is the absolute masterpiece _Paprika_ by Satoshi Kon. If you thought this was a mindfuck, just wait...
Exactly!!! Nolan is a genius but i can't stand that quite no one knows the inspiration for this movie
Lmao, I am literally watching this movie for the 20th time as I’m writing this comment😂 and here comes the notification for this!
The timing is incredible.
Right after Cillian and Christopher win their first Academy awards too!
This is like my “2nd” time watching it during this reaction and you explaining it like fully made it make sense. This feels like Tenet where you just have to double check certain things after the movie is over to realize how genius certain plot points were made
I trained myself to lucid dream as a teen. Ironically, the way I found out that it was even an option was from seeing the movie A Nightmare of Elm Street. As a kid that had very vivid nightmares quite regularly, finding out that I could possibly be aware and/or control my dreams was life changing. Now as an adult, I've mastered the art of lucid dreaming and while I mostly use it to steer bad dreams into another direction, I also use it to heighten certain types of dreams that are quite enjoyable 😎😜
I still believe they are dreaming at the end. Saito reached for the gun, where dying is not a kick, but rather will put you in another layer of dream. Cobb went down to Saito because without him, he will be arrested on landing. And since Saito will miss the final kick, he will die in the real world and won't be able to pull the strings for cobb. Saito reached for the gun because he knew they missed the final kick (it would've been dreamyears for Saito before cobb arrived).
Cobb didn't wait for the spinner to stop because it doesn't matter anymore, if it's the reality, he's gonna live a lifetime with his kids, if it's not, he's still gonna live a lifetime with his "kids", decades worth of dream until his brain fries in the real world in a matter of minutes.
The hallway scene was actually practical. They used a rotating room to shoot the scene
How do you go from recently watching all the trolls films to inception?!?!?
The thing about dreams within dreams is that it is possible, and waking up from one level is similar to what they say in the movie giving yourself a jolt. For me as a kid it will be jumping down an entire flight of steps and slowing down and waking up right before I hit the bottom.
Inception is a very good movie. The story, the characters, the music, it all creates something wonderful. If You liked Inception, You should definitely watch another Nolan film - Tenet. It can also blow Your mind, and just like Inception revolved around dreams, Tenet is tied to time. See for yourself.
Hey look! Another person who’s only now seeing this movie for the first time! Cool! (I saw it like a month ago lol)
I saw this movie Inception on a bus during a school field trip. Lol and on the way back I remember we watched The Tourist. Both of these films me and a friend watched with eyes glued to the screen in front of us while literally every other student fell asleep or started talking and forming little groups. 😂😂😂 good times. Mind bending for sure with both!
The top was Mal's totem, and he incepted her to ignore it, as though it couldn't be trusted anymore. That's the gist.
I have loved this film and rewatched it ever since I first watched it at the cinemas. It's just such a fascinating concept and I love how it includes familiar elements like the sense of falling that makes you wake up, how time moves much slower in dreams or how you rarely remember how you got to a place in your dream.
30:20 And you have a cat!
Always a good day when Seb uploads
Some more movie recommendations:
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
All quiet on the western front
The Dictator
Cast away
Oppenheimer (congrats to Cillian)
Oppenheimer is a horrible movie, just zoom in on fireballs for 30minutes and talk gibberish for the other 2.5hrs.
You have no media literacy@@magicwv
you clearly didn't understand a single thing this movie tried to tell you@@magicwv
fischer DOES have a private plane, the team manufactured a sudden plane repair issue and that’s why he rides a plane w them w saito having bought the airplane (?) airport i forget
The spinning top is actually Mal's totem, Cobb's totem is the wedding ring. In the beginning/first dream you can see him wearing the wedding ring, but when they are awake in the real world he doesn't have a ring. 2nd time he wakes up om the beach(the ending) he doesn't have the ring anymore.
I suffer night terrors so vivid they feel real, I feel almost awake but trapped at the same time I can't wake up from it but I'm so aware its happening its like I'm actually going through it. I'm used to them now so I know I'm dreaming but they are still terrifying it's always the same type of nightmare just different scenarios and people involved but the outcome is always the same hopeless and yet because I can't wake from it I'm stuck having to go through the motions regardless. I also talk out loud and sometimes sleep walk
Fun fact all of their names spell out dream pay
Dom
Robert
Eames
Arther
Mal
Saito
Peter
Ariadne
Yusuf
- and to top it off the whole movie is basically an allegory of making movies each character represents a member of a film crew
Cobb = director
Arthur = researcher
Saito = studio
Ariadne = set designer
Eames = actor
Yusuf = editor
Fisher = audience
I love all Nolan movies, but if I had to name the best one it would be this. I never get tired watching this.
I am so happy you're finally watching this! I've literally been waiting so long for you to react to this lmaoo. Inception has been one of my favorite movies of all time for years now and you're my favorite react channel, So I'm proper hyped for this.
Inception is a brilliantly crafted film. Christopher Nolan has a complex mind. Every film has substance. No delays in delivering the impactful messages we all need to hear more about.
No hate, I'm genuinely wondering; how has this guy not seen ANY movies, like at all? I see his vids on my recommended page all the time and it's always "watching *movie everyone has seen* for the first time". Either he must've actively avoided watching these films or he's just faking it. Has he ever explained this?
There are some amazing behind-the-scenes stuff of that rotating hallway scene. looks incredible to film - infinitely cooler than just a green screen.
“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling”
Best quote ever ❤
You should watch THE IRON CLAW.
Is this my favorite Nolan film or is Interstellar? Really tough to chose.
I had one of the most fun dreams I can remember last night! I was at a college party having fun, having drinks and dancing. Went on for some time. This girl flirted with me and we went to an elevator going up (who knows where) and this old guy in the elevator turned to the girl and said 3, 2, 1 and wake! And I was like 'no way!' Then he did the same to me. Turns out we were being hypnotized on a stage, just thinking we were at a party. The old guy said we looked funny going up the elevator, just trying to stand taller on the stage to simulate going up. I was amazed how real the hypnosis seemed when all along we were just on a stage acting things out. Then I woke up for real this morning, thinking "That was such a cool dream!"
Seb, it's the other wqy round - you can't make up a completely "new" face in dreams - you'll either see people you've only seen in passing, or an amalgamation of people you've seen before
Fischer was flying on thr airline because of the "unscheduled maintenence" that Saito ensured would be occurring to his private jet.
9:36 Funny you should mention that. I had a dream last night of an ex. It was so vivid. I woke up and my heart ached. I never usually have dreams like that. The human mind is crazy.
20:30 They literally explained that right before Seito bought the Airlines bro lol
ps that whole scene where Arthur fights upside down is all real set designed to rotate. Watch how they filmed & created the entire set just for that shot its insanity
40:32 Seb I've seen this movie hundreds of times and never understood why Saito was so much older than Leo until you said that. I've learned something today.
The fascination of something above our own is attractive ngl.
Yes, the whole room was moving practically. Actually insane behind the scenes.
Fisher probably does have access to a private jet. But, private jets are smaller, and therefore can't hold as much fuel or fly as far. Thus, this trip from Sydney to LA, one of the longest flights in the world, and being almost completely over ocean with no spots to refuel, can only really be completed by the larger jumbo jets that hold a lot of fuel.
SEB, this studd dies sort of exist. It's called remote viewing. The DoD (in the US) tried to recruit me, but my dad said no.
"So *this* is reality..." A minute in, and he nailed the central issue with the whole film!
@SebScreen, you'll be happy to know that the hallway scene is done practically. The whole set is built on a cylinder and rotated
I've seen it at least five times. It's still spectacular every time.
17:05 A normal amount of energy is used regardless of how many levels down you go. The perceived amount of time spent inside a dream is a mere illusion created by the mind.
14:38 bro i am literally playing WoW while he said this
love this movie so much! i remember watching it for a second time right after finishing it the first time!!!!! soooo good!!!!
"So this is reality-reality."
Oh Seb, you sweet summer child. 😉
If you love Nolan then you gotta watch Oppenheimer too
7:28 - My Dad met Michael Caine once.
My Dad was doing plumbing in London at the time, and installed a boiler or something at Michael Caine's house.
Sir Caine offered Dad a Whisky. He of course accepted, it was the 70s. lol
10:28 When I first saw that shot, I assumed they'd maybe put a camera on the opposite side of the mirror, looking at Leo.
Then had a green screen behind it, so it was easier to comp out.
But no, they literally just built the real giant mirror. lol
So they had the reflection of the cameraman and Director stood next to Leo, so they had to digitally remove them again.
Obviously when the mirror exploded, that was just a CG comp, though.
The gravity hallway scene reminds me of the music video for "Dancing on the Ceiling" by Lionel Richie, which itself was inspired by the 1951 Fred Astaire vehicle "Royal Wedding" (both directed by Stanley Donen).
Same idea for all three scenes: the set is designed to rotate, and the camera is fixed in place so that it rotates with the set. Meanwhile, the talent follows "normal" gravity, which, to the moving camera (and thus, the viewer) looks like they're moving in unnatural ways.
So, no CGI whatsoever there: it's a practical (if expensive!) effect which actually dates back over half a century.
Hey seb you could watch: Maze Runner Death Cure, Land Of The Lost, Scouts guide trough zombie apocalyps, Journey to the center of the Earth (2008), Journey 2 The mysterious island, the new Dumb And Dumber, Ice Age 3, Flintstones (1994), Flintstones Viva rock vegas(2000), Gran Turismo, Gulliver's Travels, Pacific Rim 1 and 2, Little man, Super 8, Uncharted, The Tomorrow war, Sign (2002), Avatar 1, Avatar the way of water
My favorite movie of all time ❤ It just gets better the more I rewatch it.
A few months ago I actually astral projected for my first time ever. I haven't been able to do it again. I took a nap in the morning and entered the stage where you feel your energy body vibrating and I focused on that feeling and then shot out of my body at what felt like light speed. I heard a metallic voice as I left my body and it felt amazing then as I was about 300 feet above ground I got scared and shot back into my body and woke up. It was amazing
From the get-go, I suspected the entire story was Dom's dream. The circumstances were an unrealistic James Bond fairy tale, just like a fiction from a dream world. An infamous international criminal, jetting all over the world, facing mysterious, murderous men from "Cobol" engineering. Cobol (in our real world) is the programming language which has traditionally constructed the very nature of mainframe applications for business, finance, and governments around the world. Surely, that's a massive hint that the story is currently in the world "underneath" the real one. (Or it's a red herring.) Anyway, that early Paris scene sold it to me. The father-in-law (Michael Caine), after a long pause, says, almost whispering, "Come back to reality, Dom. ...Please." WOW, I thought. And I watched the rest of the film convinced it is the tragic story of Dom trying to "get back home," but not understanding he is still dreaming. In the end, however, there are just too many possibilities. I mean, what about Dom not having his own totem? He's using his wife's. Having one's own unique totem is essential, we're told, to be sure we're not in someone else's dream. But it's a bit of a pointless debate. The whole thing. We each see our own realities and dreams in this grand story, our own regrets and psychological walls. Maybe that's the point.
Favourite movie line ever: "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger darling."
seb said early on when clocks don't look right when we're dreaming reminds me of when i prompt an ai image generator to draw basically anything.
I sat back and enjoyed this film on first viewing.. it was amazing.. I went along for the ride.. took the info I was given and didn’t over think (and I didn’t have to speak as I wasn’t doing a reaction channel).
It’s been pointed out that Cobb’s totem isn’t the spinning top, but his wedding ring. In all the scenes that take place in a dream, he’s wearing a wedding ring. In reality, he isn’t. So the last scene is reality because he isn’t wearing it.
Michael Caine has also said that Nolan told him every scene he was in took place in reality, so there’s another reason.
Top 10 Movies That Seb Has To Watch:
1) Batman vs The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2019)
2) Romeo and Juliet (1996)
3) Inkheart (2008)
4) Labyrinth
5) Tenet
6) Napoleon (2023)
7) Blade Runner (1982)
8) Poor Things (2024)
9) Power Rangers (2017)
10) 2012 (2009)
I experienced 3 layers of dreams before. And the last layers I fully realize it was a dream but it's so hard to control my emotions to convince my self that nothing is real in that dream. Because I tried to drive a flying car 🤣 I had an accident on that dream and that was what woke me up
the revenant another good one.