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Happy Tuesday! We hope your week is going well so far ❤️❤️❤️This movie was so crazy good. It blew my fricken mind!! I had a feeling I would love it, because I loved Interstellar... and now it's become apparent that we must watch all of this directors work. I know he also made a Batman trilogy, so you bet I'll be watching those on my Thursday Comic movie days eventually! YouTube: https://youtu.be/6mYqGhLgu6k

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Inception (runtime 2:28:07) - Patreon Version

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Derwin Riley

Saw this in IMAX for its 10 year anniversary, it was great! Almost gave me an anxiety attack lol.. excited to watch along

OddThomas

Interstellar is my favourite Nolan but Inception is a very close second.

Flexwave

This and The Prestige are my favourite Nolan films, can't wait for that reaction

Joseph Olson

Wow, I didn’t know that you hadn’t watched Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. They’re all very good, but Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker in The Dark Knight is justifiably legendary. I’m really looking forward to those.

christopher b swanson

to be clear............he didnt direct a batman trilogy..............he directed THE BATMAN TRILOGY...........

pinkdino99

Uncle Peter was played by Tom Berenger... Barnes from Platoon. For more Marion Cotillard please consider Taxi from Luc Besson (Fifth Element/ Leon) which is adorably French. Someone online once asked me what Inception was about... There are two directions you can take… choose positive optimism, or negative nihilism. POSITIVE Cobb (and Arthur) were used as architects by the military to design virtual dream worlds for military personnel to practice killing each other in a safe environment. He, and a select few like minded souls also discovered that dreams could be used to infiltrate other people’s subconscious to steal information. This had become so widespread that wealthy and vulnerable targets would have training so that their subconscious minds could defend themselves against such thefts. One of the foundational rules explained about the conscious and shared dreaming in this movie is that five minutes in the “real” world mean an hour spent in the dream world. The movie then compounds upon this logic by stating that you can enter dreams within dreams, so the deeper that you go, the longer that time will slow in reality and the longer you will perceive of your time in the dream to occur. During the heist they talk about how 10 hours would equal about a week in the first dream level, 6 months in the second dream level, and 10 years in the third. Cobb and his wife Mol were experts at manipulating and understanding these virtual dream landscapes to the point that they accidentally discovered Limbo, an eternal dreamscape in which they spent over fifty years of their lives, becoming old together. Mol lost her mind in Limbo requiring Cobb to break into Mol’s mind and plant an idea… that this was not reality and that they needed to die to wake up. This was the first successful occurrence of inception. So what is inception ? Inception is an invader coming into your dreams to plant an idea which you see as true inspiration from your own subconscious, rather than being able to trace the source of that idea to an outside source or person. The example given is that if I want you to think about blue elephants, I tell you “do not think about blue elephants”. Yes you are now thinking about blue elephants, but you know that I was the one that gave you that idea to think about them. The problems arose once Mol was back in the “real” world, because inception had planted the idea that this world was not real, and the only escape was death so deeply, that this idea became Mol’s entire identity. No matter how sanely Cobb refuted Mol’s arguments, she was convinced that they were living inside a dream, and the only escape was death. Mol committed suicide and through her machinations in attempting to get Cobb to join her in death, blamed him legally for her demise. Cobb became an outlaw and was recruited by Saito to perform inception on a rival CEO from another company. Cobb’s reward would be to have all charges overturned so that he could finally return home to his two small children, and to escape this life forever. And that is how 80% of people view the ending. Cobb returns to his family and lives happily ever after. Negative “The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long…” Nolan (and his brother) write cautionary tales. Their stories are all like that of Icarus… the dangers of flying too close to the Sun. Cobb demonstrates continuously to Ariadne (and us the audience) that his time in Limbo, and the loss of his family have driven him insane. His subconscious mind summons his dead wife Mol, the phantoms of his children, and even the train that they used to commit suicide to escape Limbo into the various dream worlds as Cobb’s guilt over accidentally killing his wife drag him further and further down into despair. “She was lovely” was how Arthur described Mol, rather than the murderous, hateful, vengeful “shade” which Cobb conjures up each and every time that he dreams, locking her away in a prison of memories. Cobb and Mol were Icarus. They tried to cheat by stealing for themselves decades of life inside of the dream world where they acted like Gods. The most shocking, and tragic scene in the movie occurs in the basement of the chemist where dreamers spend hours of their lives so that they can steal an eternity of dream time. “They come to be woken up !” Because reality has no hold for these people any more. So it is my belief that the Nolans wish this to be a cautionary tale, that Cobb does not magically return home to his children that have not aged, that are wearing the exact same clothes and performing the exact same action that Cobb’s subconscious has been summoning when he saw them in his dreams. Rather he is left in a vegetative state as his mind is forever trapped in Limbo.

OddThomas

Prestige is definitely one of his best

Sam

I remember watching this when it came out in the theater, with my girlfriend and one of her friends, and I think we all came out with the negative opinion. This turned into a 4 or 5 hour discussion in the bar afterwards about optimistic and pessimistic personalities—we were all at university at the time and super fascinated with our own pontificating—good times. I know Nolan meant it to be ambiguous, but the ending (from the moment Cobb wakes to him seeing his children—who haven't aged, changed position in the garden, or changed their clothes) seems too unambiguous to ignore. The only reason I have a doubt is that Michael Caine said in an interview that whenever he was in a scene it was reality. Nolan has neither confirmed nor denied this accusation.

James M

This film is fantastic along with "Memento" and "The Prestige". All three are just unforgettable works of art. The Batman movies are very strong but for me they lack the originality of these films and I think that's partly because the Batman story and characters were already defined. "Oppenheimer" is a masterpiece. Of course he needed to keep close to history with this he also brought a person to life in a way that few movies succeed in doing and that person was extraordinary. I can recommend seeing all of those movies but if you absolutely had to only pick one, I'd suggest "The Prestige". Now the hard part: I don't think "Interstellar" is very good. It relies too much on magic-fiction and too little on science-fiction. Still you've already seen it so any suggestion you skip it is moot. Glad you enjoyed this one. If someone said "I need to see exactly one Nolan film." this is the one I'd propose.

James M

I've heard quite a few few people say you have to question if he's returned to reality all because of that one scene. This is funny to me because the first time I heard it I figured someone was just putting on a pose saying they thought that. I've heard it often enough that I guess some people think that or at lest that it's possible. Honestly I've never once finished the movie and thought he might not be awake. People have to remind me again and again. I never on my own doubt for a moment that he's now home with his kids. To me the outward return (in reality to his real) family is what has happened as a result of his forgiving himself for his wife's suicide and his acceptance that she has died. As a work of art to accept the reality of the situation in your mind but to see no manifestation of it in reality is to fail completely in the art of telling a story. A version where he is still asleep is a poorly written story and so I never wondered if that was the ending.

Jafe

While everything around the ending is designed to feel ambiguous as we cut to black, two things of note. The children in the final scene are different actors from all previous scenes about 18-24 months older (as listed in the credits) and the children have 3 distinct costumes; the primary from the last time cob saw them, one with Mal on the beach, and one for the final scene that echoes their primary.

pinkdino99

I initially went a step further thinking it was all a dream. The entire movie. What led me to this was the scene where he is being chased (common dream theme as Mol states later) and he goes down that impossibly thin gap between the two buildings. That always felt hokey to me. Because I've had that dream !

N.T. Stars

This might be the most obscure comment I've ever posted, but I noticed the guy at the end who stamps Cobb's passport also plays a character in "The Leftovers" who may or may not be real. And here he is in an ambiguous ending where he may or may not be real. The dude specializes in making people question their sanity!

Jeffrey Fisher

Just finished my watch-along and wow, I forgot just how incredible this movie is. I hadn't seen it since it first came out. I can't wait until you watch more of Nolan's movies. The Dark Knight is a masterpiece. Memento and The Prestige are both amazing films, as well. You will definitely see some of these actors again when you watch his other films. Speaking of actors in other films, Dileep Rao (the driver of the white van) has a fun role in another great Sam Raimi film, Drag Me to Hell. 😁

Darian Harman

People always talk about Zimmer's score for this film, but I feel like one thing that I always notice while watching it is not just the amazing music, itself, but when and where it is actually used. It's so interesting that a lot of the talk-y, expository scenes have a heavy-handed, thumping, undulating score, and then when we get to that massive scene in the first layer of the heist, the score disappears; and it's all shattered glass, rainfall, weapons fire, vehicular collisions, etc. Really cool choices. The amount of thought that went into a film which is essentially about a person grieving the death of his wife is honestly just incredible. This film gets better with every re-watch!

David Martin

The Prestige is a must watch. Christopher Nolan and the Coen Brothers consistently turn out excellent films.

penoyer79

My favorite Nolan film to date. also loved The Dark Knight Trilogy - especially the last 2 along with Interstellar and Momento.