Jul 28 2010'Inception' Infographic, In Case You Didn't Even Understand the Basic Plot of 'Inception'

It's because he has to use the bathroom, which was why it was raining in his dream world.

Possibly would have been smart to post a SPOILER ALERT. What's up slowmo?

@2, if you haven't seen Inception yet you're obviously not a member of movie going society, therefore your "spoiler alert convenience" is unnecessary.

Will: You win. I always forget a luminescent bladder is shorthand for that.

Yes it was all a dream and an amazing one at that!

too bad the infographic is incorrect.

cobbs dream and limbo are the same thing. cobb was the only one who had been to limbo before so it was filled with his creations.

they talk about this concept in the warehouse.

Any question anyone has about the movie because they, "didn't understand it", can be answered by re watching the movie. Everything is explained pretty solidly and all makes perfect sense if you actually pay attention. I'm sorry for those who cannot keep up with character conversations while things are moving on screen.

I wouldn't consider this very spoilery. If you haven't seen the movie, unless you've read about it in detail or are going to remember the name of everyone on the infographic before seeing the movie, there isn't much to spoil. I'd be completely lost if I hadn't seen it already. But I'm a member of the movie-going public as #2 said ahaha, so I've seen it, and therefore think it's neat. : )

I wouldn't consider this very spoilery. If you haven't seen the movie, unless you've read about it in detail or are going to remember the name of everyone on the infographic before seeing the movie, there isn't much to spoil. I'd be completely lost if I hadn't seen it already. But I'm a member of the movie-going public as #2 said ahaha, so I've seen it, and therefore think it's neat. : )

Didn't mean to double-post, sketchy internet at work, etc., apologies.

the world is filled with really dumb people, now i can see why movies are the way they are nowadays. if it doesnt have some kind of cg monster or explosion and less dialogue than a top 40 rap song than the person is lost. this movie was very straight forward with a little bit of hanger for the ending.

SPOILER ALERT for you jimmies that havent seen the movie.

it doesnt matter if he is dreaming or awake what matters is that he got over his guilt and moved on and left that thing behind. if its a dream or not he lives happily after. BOOM! how bout that for an explanation of the ending.

Actually the infograph is wrong again. They are not in Eames' dream in the snow setting, they are in Fischer's. They have to be because that is where the inception has to take place.

They definitely are in eame's dream. extraction and inception never involves the target's dream, only their subconscious. you build the dream and the safe and they will fill it with their subconscious.

That infographic is incorrect and harder to understand than the movie, which wasn't that hard to follow IMO. Great movie! I will see it again!

"Here is a movie immune to spoilers: If you knew how it ended, that would tell you nothing unless you knew how it got there. And telling you how it got there would produce bafflement. " - Roger Ebert

@Alfonso - Correct, you can't debate whether or not they are in Eames' dream based on the fact that if it were Fisher's dream it would have collapsed when he died. (Such as when Saito's dream in dream began collapsing when he was crushed in his dream).

This graphic however is very incorrect. Cobb's dream is the same as Limbo, which they do not kick out of. Ariadne kills Fisher and then kills herself by jumping from the building. Cobb does not leave Limbo and fails to kick from Snow->Hotel->Streets, drowning in the process (dying in Streets like Saito) and re-emerging in Limbo on the beach outside of Saito's place.

This does not cover the two most glaring mistakes in the movie.
1. Why did the van rolling not kick Arthur from the hotel? The remainder of the group was in level 3 during the crash and would not receive the kick. Just as they missed the first kick when the van backed off the bridge, which should have also kicked Arthur. Or...

2. Why did Eames destroy the building in snow-scape? Only 2 kicks are necessary to come out of 3 dreams. 1 kick is required to come out of 2 dreams. (see 1st Saito dream). Elevator explosion kicks from Snow to Hotel, once awake in Hotel, crashing van kicks from Hotel to streets. Sedation runs out and they wake up on the plane. I guess a big explosion was needed near the end

I still love this movie.

I don't like people who don't like Inception. Thats why i'll never be an organ donor, when i die i don't want my organs to possibly go to someone who stood up and yelled "I DON GET IT! THAT SUCKED!!11" and cackled with their ugly friends after the movie ended. I'd say 95% of the people who didn't like the movie didn't like it because they're fucking stupid.

@17
I have to say that I agree 100%.

@16: Wrong.
Ariadne doesn't kill Fischer or herself, she gives him a "kick" off the building while he's being defibrillated (lightning storm in limbo). That's the synchronized kick that takes him back to level 3.
She then jumps a bit after Fischer during the synchronized kicks and rides the kicks back to level 1. Remember when Cobb says "that's the kick Ariadne, you have to go now"

1: The key point here is *synchronized kicks* because of the heavy sedation. They needed a kick from the same level + the level above to get sent back. In the Saito dream, they didn't use the heavy sedation that they used for the Fischer job.

@17 haha i went with a group of friends three of whom have oxbridge places and most of us did not like the film at all. It doesn't take any higher level intellect to follow the film, but to truly get to the crux of the film, understand it and all the plotlines and look beyond all the complex and unnecessary devices used in the film is beyond me. The film is made this complex with intent to confuse, and anyone who says they werent confused at some point are lying. I disliked the film, and your generalization that all people who disliked the film are stupid amuses me mucho. It appears to me that very many 'dim' people like the film for no other reason than it they think complex = clever and intelligent and enjoyable while i doubt they feel the same about a complex mathematic problem that would have them think and use their brain more.

Arthur is shown with an AK. He used a SCAR-L in the movie.

@Sam,@Alfonso Sam's right, the third level(snow hospital) is not Eame's dream, it's Fishers. They even say it in the hotel room right before they go under, Ariadne asks Cobb whose dream they're entering.

And Limbo is a shared subconscious of all participating in the dream, because Cobb had been there before, it was still filled with his creation. So it's not specifically Cobb's or Saito's, it's shared.

All the people saying the movie was easy to follow are being douches, as evidenced by the amount of argumentation going on in the comments about which dream was whose. I payed pretty close attention and the only place I correctly identified was limbo; I thought all the others were dreams within dreams of Fischer, just like with Saito. And I honestly didn't get the ending at all. I'll probably be watching this one at least one more time to get the details sorted out.

I think we can all agree it was a pretty awesome movie though.

@23 The ending was an INCEPTION in itself for us the audience. It made the point of creating debate whether Cobb was still in a dream or in reality by cutting to black while the totem was spinning. Then when one debates his or her side and see's the film again to confirm it becomes evident that the entire film is a dream and furthermore if one dares to think outside of the box begins to realize that this dream was one Christopher Nolan created as a metaphor for film-making.

The best part of the final scene is that Cobb didnt wait to see if the totem fell, he accepted this reality whether it was a dream or not, and joined his children in a "leap of faith."

By the way they didnt go into Eames dream. They went into Fichers, they told Fischer they were going into his uncles dream (Eames) as a ruse to allow them to reconnect further into his subconscious.

This movie was painfully simply to sort out in your head?

Nothing was solidly explained either. I mean the Inception science is covered under "its a military thing." This movie is SOoooo overated its untrue.

The chemist wasn't even a fucking quack, he pulled a bottle at random from a shelf with no fucking label amongst a hundred others and said "this is the shit."

Who cares who was in who's dream?

The fact is when you left the cinema you had no idea of even the characters names because there was this nagging part of your brain that drove you to the cinema that said "THAT FILM WAS SHIT AND FUCKING BORING" and couldn't accept the 2 1/2 hrs of bullshit you just watched.

The ending was also a horrible horrible cliche? If you didn't see that then you don't know a good film if it hung your from a tree by your underwear.

it wasn't great and it wasn't bad.
the storyline was coherent but like with all movies of this genre it has plot holes and things that give people who supposedly understand every second and every detail perfectly enough to argue about on the internet... all while calling everyone else dumbasses and douchebags.

the fact of the matter is... the movie was too long.
When people in the cinema you don't even know shoot you a look that says 'oh god... ANOTHER fucking level?????' at 2 hours in.... you know its just about time to stand up and start swinging wild bombs at everyone.

And also my dreams wreck ALL your dreams.

Liked the movie but there is one MAJOR problem with the hole thing. They use this fancy science equipment to dive into one persons dream together.

The first piece of equipment is real world equipment. Then they dive into 1. level. But what then?
From here on and into deeper levels they use equipment MADE up from inside the dream? See the problem? It's no longer REAL equipment. But still it has this ability to dive everybody into next dream level. It still magically works like the real equipment. They plug into it again (in the dream) and it makes them all go into a deeper layer.

And the hole thing about dreaming happening on a faster tempo and therefor every layer speeds up, because every dream is another real dream inside the other. The mind doesn't work like that. If you follow the idea of the movie, it would mean that the mind of the first dreamer would have to be able to speed up thousand fold (because all the other dreams are STILL dreamed by that first guy) which of course is impossible.

They shouldn't call it a science fiction movie. The science part is stupid.

@Mohr - Great points man, but that just furthers the fact that most have failed to realize...the ENTIRE FILM was a dream because it used dream logic to explain:

the dream machine
the sedative with no label
the evil energy corporation wanting to kill Cobb
the simple Saito phone call that would allow Cobb getting home
etc

The point of this film was to spark debate with the ending and in seeing it a second time to clarify one may realize 2 things...the whole film was a dream and the film was the directors metaphor for film-making.

THE MOVIE IS BLOODY BRILIANT AND IM GLAD IT WASNT DUMBED DOWN FOR THE TARDS WHO CAN BARELY FOLLOW AN EPISODE OF JERSEY SHORE!

Well, I was just wondering why his kids never aged at the end of the movie? If he was in reality, wouldn't they have aged? They were wearing the same clothes, in the same position practically and all they did this time was turn around.

@ David that's because the whole thing was a dream. Remember he said not to use your own memories, well that was his last memory of his kids- what they were wearing, what they looked like...he filled in anything else with that memory.

this movie made no sense at all... the rules of the inception were being laid out from the beginning half then Fischer dies in Eames dream, shouldn't that have made Fischer stuck in an eternity in the dream world just like Saito? Instead when Fischer died he was some how magically brought back to life as if nothing happened when he got double tapped to the chest. First off, when you get shot in the chest up close like that there is no way in hell you cannot die, when he woke up magically he got up as if nothing happened. This is the point in the movie when it just made no sense. If you die in your dreams you wake up or get stuck in between for an unknown amount of time just like what the movie narrated in the beginning.

@32

Don't know if this really helps your plot hole, but I've been shot in dreams before, and not died. In my dreams I even walked off being shot like it was nothing. That might not work with some of the rules set down in the movie but that's just my experience.

I agree with you though that was the point in the movie for me when it seemed like they were breaking their own rules a bit.

THE INFOGRAPH IS WRONG.
There was no "Cobb's Dream" it was all limbo, and the falling was NOT a kick, it was the death required to get out of limbo.

What doesn't make any sense is the rules they have for dreams, they are way to logical, especially the parts about getting shot etc... and the fact that his wife killed herself instead of using a kick to try and wake up, or at least him suggesting it. Otherwise it was pretty consistent in it's internal logic.

@34 Nona

They even referred to the falling as a kick... pay attention dammit.

@28 Mohr

The equipment only allowed them to be in the same dream together... the levels where accessed simply by convincing the dreaming brains to go into a deeper dream state...

@32 Amaranth

He woke up because they rescued him from Limbo, the paddles to the chest where probably symbolic, being a dream and all.

@29 MASTERLESS

The ending was so predictable that it was annoying... would have been better if he just looked at the spinning top and decide not to even use it. And you're probably reading too much into it with the metaphor for film-making.

@31 Chris

Of course we're not given any timeline for how long he was gone, so we have no idea if they would have aged in any noticeable way or not.

@16 Robert

The kicks have to happen in the dream you are in in order for you to wake up to the next level... so Arthur not waking up makes sense (by the rules of the film).

The real question, for me, is, at the very very beginning of the movie-- Phillipa sounds suddenly older on the phone. And--how exactly did Cobb get to that hotel room? Considering the rules as they are laid out in the film it doesn't seem like such a leap that Cobb is dreaming the entire time after the failure in Saito's mind because it's always his subconscious fucking things up, it's him that's barred from going home and persecuted.