I will never get sick of inception, to me the most original idea for a movie. I kinda wish we had a prequel explaining how the technology came about but at the same time it might just be enough the way it is.
100%, worldbuilding is my fav element of cinema, and I love every moment of being within the world of inception. To think of a reality where such technolgoly and extractors exist is so enticing.
Finally, been waiting on a video on one of the best Sci-fi Action Adventure films ever made. Nominated for 8 Oscars including Best Picture. It won Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing.
A total masterpiece. The script was solid (they did their research on the stages of consciousness) and the cast jelled so well. Lastly (and obviously not leastly), solid directing. I really wished a few science were shot in IMAX (that would have benefited form).
My interpretation is that Cobb Inceptions himself and that everything from the failed Saito job onward is a dream. Throughout the levels he first has to confront his guilt step by step. Cobb gets a similar emotional build-up as Fisher but he can't accept a false reality with Mal in it. So he created a dream in which he confronts his guilt, accepts that he can't save Mal now and that his kids need him more. He was saving his kids faces to be that final catharsis (like the pinwheel for Fisher) that embedded the false reality. Add to that the convenience of Saito being able to take care of a murder charge as a businessman and the other clues pointed out by your video and it just doesn't seem possible any other way
That is a valid observation but he has seen their faces so he remembers how they look. This would lend to him projecting them in his dream from memory.
I always think of it as a Schrodingers cat ending. He is both in a dream, and awake, until the film states otherwise. He exists in between, existing in either possibility at once because it doesn't really matter which it is, the point is the uncertainty.
I just wish they had gone more crazy with the weirdness of dreams. The constant shifts in scenery from one moment to another that seem to be totally normal for anyone inside the dream but feel absolutely nonsensical in hindsight. The initial exploration with Ariadne had a tiny bit of that and the limbo scenes played with it here and there, but I would have loved much more of that. Yusuf's van driving into a tunnel and them coming out the other side sitting on a train, the hotel hallways turning into a system of underground tunnels or mines, and the inside of the mountain fortress being a hospital, with everyone suddenly wearing scrubs... But I can see why they didn't do that. It would have confused a significant part of the audience much more than they already were.
Ahh yes. I watched the South Park episode first and was totally lost. Then I watched the Inception and then rewatched the South Park episode just for closure.
Regarding the ending; I recently watched another video about movies in general and it mentioned that Michael Cain was informed that ALL scenes with him in it were in the real world. I can’t remember the name of the video but if that is to be believed, then Cobb DID wake up at the end.
you caught me so off guard with the fact of each character representing a filmmaker & producer etc. even now 10+ years later we still catching new facts of this incredible movie!
I wonder what is it in Nolan's psyche or past that gives him this ability to make such a wide genre of movies that are interesting and also box office hits.
I'm glad I can watch this before it gets taken down. Surely Ellen Paige is going to bring it down hard. Such a shame that they let her do that to herself. She was a beautiful woman.
If all of us as a species just chased our reality other than our dreams. We wouldn't have evolved this far socially, medically, mentally, or with wisdom. We need our dreams to help push forward.
The greatest acting performance in this movie has to be how Elliot Page portrayed a lady. It was flawless, even the interviews afterwards or beforehand he was in character.
Wow I never didn't notice the fact that seito touch kob totom and the fact that kob is sleep and it's like her wife trying to wake him up and hire seito and the team to try to wake him up.... And he will get to touch kob totom and kob wakes up... But take saito so much time and a great plan that he excited perfectly... Make some sense to me... Time to wake up this dream I'm seeing sucks..
Dear commenters: the ring is not his totem. The point of a totem isn’t to prove you’re not dreaming, but to prove you ARE dreaming, because the totem will behave differently in the dream than it would in reality-since you’re the only one who knows its behavior in reality and the architect of the dream does not, the architect therefore cannot reproduce its real behavior. If someone else uses the totem, they can come to know that unique behavior, and then recreate it if you should enter their dream, thereby defeating its purpose. Unless, of course, that other person isn’t around to serve as architect, which is why Cob can use Mal’s totem. This is also why his wedding ring is not his totem, since the film never shows him refer to its qualities in any way that would be irreproducible by an architect. You can argue that he checks it off-screen or something, but if that’s the case, then maybe his underwear is his totem. Based on what we see on-screen, the ring does not fit the standards of a totem, and the top does. Between these two options, the top is his totem. In my opinion, I think the twist on the totem is that Mal didn’t choose it in reality, she chose it in a dream, and she chose it not because of its unique qualities or behavior, but because she could manipulate its behavior when dreaming but not when awake. The object itself doesn’t prove anything, but rather your ability to manipulate the object and-this is the key part-to manipulate it without the architect knowing. Because Cob can manipulate the object to fall or to spin or to wobble, there’s really no way for anyone else to tell if he’s manipulating it. Thus, Cob knows he’s in someone else’s dream, but they don’t know he knows that, which perhaps reflects his fear of betrayal or his paranoia of being trapped in a dream. If anyone else truly understood how totems work, his own would be at risk, and therefore his sanity as well.
One thing really confused me about the movie. If you drink a lot of dream scotch, will you get drunk? The only real drugs the team took was the one in the plane but on the subsequent levels, they do the same thing when they go one level deeper- open the suitcase thing and inject the drugs on their arm. These drugs are make-believe so shouldn't they be able to manipulate its effects to give them more time? Yes, the writing makes it like everything was accomplished at the nick of time for dramatic purposes.
Great question, considering Yusuf's need to urinate in the real world led to his dream layer to begin raining, I'd imagine getting drunk would distory the dream even further in some kind of MC Esher madness lol
This film isn't as complex as people make it out to be. It's a great film to be sure, but it's caviar to the pretentious. I think the ending, after taking the totality of the film in consideration, makes it clear he is back in reality.
Love the movie, hate the ending. I hate endings that don't outright tell me what it all means. Because that means if everyone is correct, no one is. This movie effectively has no ending.
Elliot page? I distinctly remember interviews after the movie was completed when she referred to herself as her actual name, Ellen page. If you want to enter someone else's delusion I guess that's your prerogative but that tells us more about you, than about anyone else.
The kids looked aged to me in the final scene. Between that, the top wobbling and that Cane was quoted once saying he asked about how to know what parts of the script were dreams or reality he was told all parts with his character are in reality, so I see no reason to think the ending was a dream.
To determine if it was a dream or not is kind of missing the point. The ending signifies how Cobb doesn't care if he's in base reality or not; he just wants to be happy and what he's always wanted is right in front of him. It's real to him either way, so in the end does it really matter? Why verify with the totem when he can live blissfully ignorant for the rest of his life? As long as he doesn't have an answer, like the audience, he can have the perfect ending. And when a dream feels as real as your waking life, who in their right mind would rather be right than happy?
@@TheNightman. Again, you're missing the point and I don't think you comprehended my comment. I never said Cobb was or wasn't dreaming, but that he doesn't care: the ending's ambiguity is the point. People like you who think the ending is a mystery to solve have completely misunderstood it.
I will never get sick of inception, to me the most original idea for a movie. I kinda wish we had a prequel explaining how the technology came about but at the same time it might just be enough the way it is.
100%, worldbuilding is my fav element of cinema, and I love every moment of being within the world of inception. To think of a reality where such technolgoly and extractors exist is so enticing.
Inception and Tenet have one of the best lores ever written.
Tenet for me was bettwr
@@Randomthingsforyuomeh
This channel has had the best content on movies and lore since it's inception.💯💪
Thanks mate, you are far too kind.
Finally, been waiting on a video on one of the best Sci-fi Action Adventure films ever made.
Nominated for 8 Oscars including Best Picture.
It won Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing.
Cobb's name also plays with the idea of a cobweb, a net made of all the dreams interwoven together and the way moving something may affect the rest
Is that a fact or just your own idea?
A total masterpiece. The script was solid (they did their research on the stages of consciousness) and the cast jelled so well. Lastly (and obviously not leastly), solid directing. I really wished a few science were shot in IMAX (that would have benefited form).
Also, the soundtrack is awesome.
For what it's worth, Cobb's children in the final scene are played by kids a few years older than the kids in all the previous scenes.
My interpretation is that Cobb Inceptions himself and that everything from the failed Saito job onward is a dream.
Throughout the levels he first has to confront his guilt step by step. Cobb gets a similar emotional build-up as Fisher but he can't accept a false reality with Mal in it. So he created a dream in which he confronts his guilt, accepts that he can't save Mal now and that his kids need him more. He was saving his kids faces to be that final catharsis (like the pinwheel for Fisher) that embedded the false reality. Add to that the convenience of Saito being able to take care of a murder charge as a businessman and the other clues pointed out by your video and it just doesn't seem possible any other way
I believe the ending was real because in an earlier scene Cobb says that he never saw their faces before leaving, but in the ending, he does
That is a valid observation but he has seen their faces so he remembers how they look. This would lend to him projecting them in his dream from memory.
I also want to mention that Filmcomicsexplained really swung for the fences on the research for this one and knocked it out of the park.
I still can't get the whole film after watching it for like, 7 times. Enthralling.
My local theatre re-released this film on the big screen recently. It was incredible. Btw, could you cover Atlantis: The Lost Empire?
That is awesome. Would love to watch this in the cinema again! And yes, I can, adding it to the list. Thanks :)
I always think of it as a Schrodingers cat ending. He is both in a dream, and awake, until the film states otherwise. He exists in between, existing in either possibility at once because it doesn't really matter which it is, the point is the uncertainty.
Yes
I love how Rick and Morty parodied this in The Lawnmower Dog.
I just wish they had gone more crazy with the weirdness of dreams. The constant shifts in scenery from one moment to another that seem to be totally normal for anyone inside the dream but feel absolutely nonsensical in hindsight. The initial exploration with Ariadne had a tiny bit of that and the limbo scenes played with it here and there, but I would have loved much more of that. Yusuf's van driving into a tunnel and them coming out the other side sitting on a train, the hotel hallways turning into a system of underground tunnels or mines, and the inside of the mountain fortress being a hospital, with everyone suddenly wearing scrubs...
But I can see why they didn't do that. It would have confused a significant part of the audience much more than they already were.
The film is a masterpiece.
And so is this breakdown
Arguably one of the most surreal films of our time, since The Matrix.
I’ve been waiting for the day you covered inception.
Made my day Niyat 👌
Thanks for tuning in brother :)
3:17 "Time is fluid here" is the first and last sentence of the Neil Gaiman short story 'Other People'.
I urge everyone to read it!
Such great actors especially mr Oppenheimer
Imagine your dream security team consisted of different fictional characters.
I would pick Keanu Reeves. He's a one man team lol
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Good choice.
Magneto!!!
The batman who laughs as a guide for others and the Xenomorph as guardian for my deeper thoughts 🤔
Anime watchers would have the safest and most chaotic minds
Been waiting for this one
Lets go!!
One of my childhood favourites, made me wanna learn how to lucid dream when I was a kid
Excellent breakdown brother
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent breakdown of the film. Kudos.
Gotta say, it's either we're in a simulated universe or a happy accident brought out by the universe.
Ahh yes. I watched the South Park episode first and was totally lost. Then I watched the Inception and then rewatched the South Park episode just for closure.
I love sci-fi movies me and my dad watched them together. Your channel reminds me of that.
Regarding the ending; I recently watched another video about movies in general and it mentioned that Michael Cain was informed that ALL scenes with him in it were in the real world. I can’t remember the name of the video but if that is to be believed, then Cobb DID wake up at the end.
you caught me so off guard with the fact of each character representing a filmmaker & producer etc. even now 10+ years later we still catching new facts of this incredible movie!
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe and Happy Holidays 😊
Immediate like on this one...great content as always. Are there plans for a Primer explained video in the future?
Cobb’s ring isn’t just an indication of his sleep / waking state, it is HIS totem. The top is Mal’s totem.
I wonder what is it in Nolan's psyche or past that gives him this ability to make such a wide genre of movies that are interesting and also box office hits.
Hat off to your commentary!
1:13 where did they film this scene at? It’s sooooo cool
This movie is awesome!
Can you do an explanation video of Galactus history and power as featuring Marvel Comics
Want Cobb's totem his ring? The spinning top is just a memento of Mal
Can you cover Mr. Nobody next ?!
I made popcorn specifically to watch this video.
Awesome!
Great video Niyat! Sucks about all the bigoted losers in the comments salty that Elliot is living his best life now.
Please do an "Eyes Wide Shut" explained!!!
One of the last great, true, movies for me.
We need more movies like this tbh, confusing
Chris Nolan is soooo talented we need to give him a better budget
Nolam is one of a kind director, and maybe never be another like him again
Masterpiece.
It’s so crazy how people make movies less then a year. Like how
No Paprika mentioned big sad
I'm glad I can watch this before it gets taken down. Surely Ellen Paige is going to bring it down hard. Such a shame that they let her do that to herself. She was a beautiful woman.
Go back to sleep, Michael.
@@Fourthirteen82 I wish it was just a nightmare.
If all of us as a species just chased our reality other than our dreams. We wouldn't have evolved this far socially, medically, mentally, or with wisdom. We need our dreams to help push forward.
Can Inception be a follow-up film to Dreamscape 1984 film?
DiCaprio in this film is on his peak coolness and handsomeness
Fantastic movie, with a stellar cast. Pheew...Ellen Page used to be quite a treat.
Why is 1M so slowly creeping up 😢
I had lots of dreams of infinite staircases and infinite tower blocks as a kid.
Those suits look pretty snazzy
Very trippy spy movie 🎬
The greatest acting performance in this movie has to be how Elliot Page portrayed a lady. It was flawless, even the interviews afterwards or beforehand he was in character.
Kinda like she was born to be a woman.
The all man cast was a genius idea
Wow I never didn't notice the fact that seito touch kob totom and the fact that kob is sleep and it's like her wife trying to wake him up and hire seito and the team to try to wake him up.... And he will get to touch kob totom and kob wakes up... But take saito so much time and a great plan that he excited perfectly... Make some sense to me... Time to wake up this dream I'm seeing sucks..
Explore The Ancient Enemy from The Phantoms.
Its on the to-do list mate! Thanks :)
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Cheers.
Working on this movie completely broke Eliot Page's mind; it drove her into literal madness.
Physically I'm at work but mentally I am Hallway fight scene
Dear commenters: the ring is not his totem. The point of a totem isn’t to prove you’re not dreaming, but to prove you ARE dreaming, because the totem will behave differently in the dream than it would in reality-since you’re the only one who knows its behavior in reality and the architect of the dream does not, the architect therefore cannot reproduce its real behavior. If someone else uses the totem, they can come to know that unique behavior, and then recreate it if you should enter their dream, thereby defeating its purpose. Unless, of course, that other person isn’t around to serve as architect, which is why Cob can use Mal’s totem. This is also why his wedding ring is not his totem, since the film never shows him refer to its qualities in any way that would be irreproducible by an architect. You can argue that he checks it off-screen or something, but if that’s the case, then maybe his underwear is his totem. Based on what we see on-screen, the ring does not fit the standards of a totem, and the top does. Between these two options, the top is his totem.
In my opinion, I think the twist on the totem is that Mal didn’t choose it in reality, she chose it in a dream, and she chose it not because of its unique qualities or behavior, but because she could manipulate its behavior when dreaming but not when awake. The object itself doesn’t prove anything, but rather your ability to manipulate the object and-this is the key part-to manipulate it without the architect knowing. Because Cob can manipulate the object to fall or to spin or to wobble, there’s really no way for anyone else to tell if he’s manipulating it. Thus, Cob knows he’s in someone else’s dream, but they don’t know he knows that, which perhaps reflects his fear of betrayal or his paranoia of being trapped in a dream. If anyone else truly understood how totems work, his own would be at risk, and therefore his sanity as well.
I liked this movie, even thought it was good. Just never understood why people got so hyped about it, maybe I'm just getting old and boring.
If you say "my cocaine", you're saying Michael Caine as he says his own name.
6:39 - R.I.P :(
One thing really confused me about the movie. If you drink a lot of dream scotch, will you get drunk? The only real drugs the team took was the one in the plane but on the subsequent levels, they do the same thing when they go one level deeper- open the suitcase thing and inject the drugs on their arm. These drugs are make-believe so shouldn't they be able to manipulate its effects to give them more time? Yes, the writing makes it like everything was accomplished at the nick of time for dramatic purposes.
Great question, considering Yusuf's need to urinate in the real world led to his dream layer to begin raining, I'd imagine getting drunk would distory the dream even further in some kind of MC Esher madness lol
Haven’t seen it yet
Wait so if the spinning top was Mal’s totem, what was Cobb’s original?
His wedding ring.
Re-Ality & More-Ality & Id-Entities ☻️
Reality for the body,...
Something else for the soul,..
And the silver chords,...
This film isn't as complex as people make it out to be. It's a great film to be sure, but it's caviar to the pretentious. I think the ending, after taking the totality of the film in consideration, makes it clear he is back in reality.
Eliot Paige is not in this movie, Ellen Paige is
If the Michael Caine character is Mol's father, why doesnt he hate Cobb? He would surely blame him for what happened to her.
it’s genjutsu
So he’s inspired by HP Lovecraft Dream worlds?
Love the movie, hate the ending. I hate endings that don't outright tell me what it all means. Because that means if everyone is correct, no one is. This movie effectively has no ending.
The movie is good, but NOT THAT good! I mean somehting is missing, i don't know...
Good video!
I forgot it was Ellen Page in this.
RIP Ellen Page
She's still alive.
@@beckkavenia3769 no, Ellen Page is gone, now we have “Elliot” page…
Ellen page ***
This may be inception but don’t wrap reality.
Ellen is a woman and always will be.
Good analysis regardless.
Shut up, Josh.
Just so we're absolutely clear -- if I still don't understand, I'm officially dumb, right?
Elliot page? I distinctly remember interviews after the movie was completed when she referred to herself as her actual name, Ellen page. If you want to enter someone else's delusion I guess that's your prerogative but that tells us more about you, than about anyone else.
You're weird
Wake up.
Inception = film production simulation
I noticed you referred to Elliot page….but said she….the mental gymnastics one must do to remain on UA-cam ha
Hesitated watching this. I did not want him to ruin it. (The interesting thing is, i already watched it once. My statement still holds true.)
This video ruined the movie for you?
Not "Hindu", "Hindi"... the language.
Bro just called them Elliot and then called them Her in the video. Bruh you canceled
No if you listen carefully I called the actor Elliot, and reffered to the character Ariadne as her lol linguisticly safe
Lol. Joseph Gordon Levitt kissed a guy.
@@filmcomicsexplained damn I can’t argue with that logic. You safe
This movie was alright.
*Ellen Pagie
She is female
Xx chromosomes and all ya know
Ellen Page*
"Elen" Page!
*Ellen Page
South Park did it better. 🤷😂
The kids looked aged to me in the final scene. Between that, the top wobbling and that Cane was quoted once saying he asked about how to know what parts of the script were dreams or reality he was told all parts with his character are in reality, so I see no reason to think the ending was a dream.
To determine if it was a dream or not is kind of missing the point. The ending signifies how Cobb doesn't care if he's in base reality or not; he just wants to be happy and what he's always wanted is right in front of him. It's real to him either way, so in the end does it really matter? Why verify with the totem when he can live blissfully ignorant for the rest of his life? As long as he doesn't have an answer, like the audience, he can have the perfect ending. And when a dream feels as real as your waking life, who in their right mind would rather be right than happy?
@@brianlbeck it was already confirmed not a dream, it was reality
@@TheNightman. Again, you're missing the point and I don't think you comprehended my comment. I never said Cobb was or wasn't dreaming, but that he doesn't care: the ending's ambiguity is the point. People like you who think the ending is a mystery to solve have completely misunderstood it.
The top was Mal's totem, not Cobb's. What the top did or didn't do at the end of the film proves nothing.