This guy is a nut. A movie shouldn't require you to read the script and constantly pause the Blu-Ray version with subtitles on to understand. Was not the best movie.
I think there is a much better clue that he didn't touch on. When Mal becomes crazy, doctors can't prove she is crazy. Why not? That makes no sense. Also, if she did jump from the other building it would be impossible to conclude she jumped from Cobb's side, forensics aren't total retards. Cobb couldn't have been Mal's killer. The whole story with Mal is riddled with holes. The only explanation could be that it was a dream.
I wonder what he thinks about Cracked's theory that Inception is the second installment in the trilogy started by The Prestige, with The Prestige being the pledge and Inception being the turn. It might explain why the ending of The Prestige was quite unprestigious.
This guy is very passionate about something that doesn't actually exist anyway. Hmmmm, I wonder if he thinks he is dreaming when he gives this talk but then, the book is purely for cash. Have you ever needed cash in your dreams?
OK, so quite clearly - this is the real world.
That talk was in the real world
His book makes him real money
about something that no one even cares if its real or not.
He should start a church and make even more money.
@x1n30Parente He says that Cobb's is backward compared to all the other totems. Cobb's behaves just as any top would behave in reality. In dreams, it keeps spinning forever. With everyone else's totem, they behave normally in the dream, but in reality they're unique for some reason.
@LithiumLogica I'm quite partial to the theory (stated at the end, in the questions) that the top isn't a totem for Cobb at all - nowhere in the film does say it's now HIS, and he's quite casually giving away its details - and that his is the wedding ring etc.
@x1n30Parente Absolutely. And the comment that the guy makes about the totem possibly not even existing in reality anymore makes a lot of sense, too. It would benefit Cobb to not actually have a totem in reality, but have one in dreams, because if there's one at all, it's a dream. His totem could have been whether or not what -would have- used as a totem is even there. That could explain why his behaved so different compared to all the others. It's misdirection.
@fstathes Minutiae is often disregarded as being insignificant, but is just as often key to a complete understanding of the topic at hand. If you don't like thinking about things like this, or dislike things like this being presented to you, no one is forcing you. Just don't come to a place like this and a video like this and act as though it wasn't worth the time. You're just projecting your own anti-intellectualism onto others to validate your own feelings of inadequacy.
I feel like all his points are interesting, but he's presenting them like we're too dumb to understand anything without his godlike wisdom. I couldn't make it all the way through.
@NavyBlueZ Uh, maybe because he and the many other people who watched the film many times could have noticed things we didn't. Also, he has enthusiasm; he loves the subject, so I can't blame him for being overly enthusiastic. It's like sharing a secret that no one else knows about something you love, not unlike inside jokes, little things you and your partner do that might seem weird, but is unique to the two of you. Stuff like that.
So this guy thinks that Inception should of won best picture, because there are hundreds of "clues". What are clues when clues are going for both sides, PLOT HOLES. Nolan hired this guy to cover up the plot holes and turn them into "clues". After watching Inception, I did not notice any of this and thought the movie was amazing, was one of my favorite movies.. Probably not anymore. Maybe the Academy figured it were plot holes as well.
Your rational faculty in your dreams does not work properly, so you can't be held responsible for a lot of it. I heard from an old psychology teacher once (haven't cross referenced yet) that your MORAL faculty does work, however, and that you would never do anything in your dreams that you would not ethically do in real life. I think this is interesting, because I've killed people without justification in dreams, and, for a while after I started philosophizing, began waiting for justification.
@SculptedThoughts sounds like bullshit. rationality and morality are not always or even commonly distinguishable. those bounded rational cognitive algorithms we all have, and that sense of moral indignation and, occasionally, moral self-hatred, are both basically unavailable in dreams unless they are activated either by chance or through techniques such as lucid dreaming.
His argument is flawed. Fischer and Ariadne didn't exit Limbo by dieing, they exited Limbo by falling off the building synchronizing the kick. Fischer's fall was synchronized with the defibrillator while Ariadne's was synchronized with the snow fortress falling. This is why they only went 1 layer up.
@cKeii Yup. And if you kill yourself in any dream level, you wake up in reality, UNLESS you are using that special sleeping shit they get from that arab dude. So Mal and Cobb, when they were hit by the train in limbo, would wake up in reality.
@Calgan360 She was really surprised and knew that, wearing a red shirt, she would be the first to die, if the elephant(that might or might not have been there) were to attack.
@st00pidity It wasn't Cobb's dream when they were practicing, it was Ariadne's dream filled with cobbs sub conscience which includes his deceased wife
if the whole movie is a dream, it would go Real world -> Cobb's dream -> Mal's dream, mal's dream being the utopia that they created, then they wake up from Mal's dream layer by killing themselves, Then they would wake up in Cobb's dream layer and Mal commits suicide, So mal will then go back to the Real world, so the whole movie takes place in Cobb's dream layer.
@bloodrocker2 correct, and it makes sense if you then that if Cobb's dream was the utopia and when they kill themselves on the track they would wake up in mal's dream and when mal jumps off the building ending her dream, they both would have waken up in the real world, but going by this sequence, cobb never woke up from a dream, once mal killed herself, indicating that mal's dream layer was actually the utopia and the movie toke place in cobbs dream.
@st00pidity But there is a plot hole, when ariadne and cobb are in cobb's dream practicing, mal kills ariadne and both ariadne and cobb wake up, now if mal did kill herself in cobbs dream when she jumped off the building, would that mean they would both wake up?
ALSO, he lists all those clues that suggest the whole movie is a dream, and yet he doesn't mention that the very idea of inception -- hijacking other people's dreams -- is so illogical that it only makes sense in a dreamworld anyway? That was my favorite "clue" in the whole movie, wish he woulda mentioned it.
Didn't people "figure out" all the stuff he discusses here within about a week of the movie's release? Why is he making money off of these ideas now?
Also, The King's Speech was an amazing movie in a different way -- I don't get why he had to poke fun at it the whole time. It made the tone of his talk much more negative, imo (and it made him come off as someone who is incapable of appreciating a non-action film).
Yeah, I think the approach to your interpretation isn't accurate. The problem with the most charitable interpretation is that it depends on the director. The scientific approach would have too many variables to consider. And since this is fictional, the best you could do is find what was more probable.
The other approach is that "weather cobb is still dreaming or not isn't important. Its that he doesn't care. He's not looking at the top".
Why is it sad? Clearly he's passionate enough about something to write a book about it. Not to mention he's probably selling lots of copies. What's sad is assholes like you spewing bullshit judgement on your computer.
saying that everyone in the Academy didn't understand things like the alegorical nature of the story is just completely arrogant to say. Of course they understood it - but the Best Picture of the year isn't given the best story, it's given to the best EVERYTHING. The acting wasn't the best out of all the choices, and nor was the sound mixing, editing, or the ensemble of actors themselves.
@LostCallProductions Honestly I think it doesn't matter at all (at least to me) whether or not it won best picture. What really matters is if you enjoyed it or not.
@LostCallProductions I don't think he actually gives a shit about the best picture thing. He just mentions it for the sake of constructing his analysis in the context of a sort of playful argument about why the movie is good.
Also, I think the sound mixing and sound editing was probably the best out of any 2011 film, and they did win Oscars for those two categories. But I still get what you're saying.
For all of you think he's thinking and looking way to hard as it suppose to be. Think how much it makes you think and how well this movie makes you involved then any other movie. I mean this is literally the only movie I spent so much time on looking up on Youtube. So next time you think about inception, man, my thinking skills increased, and so has my IQ.
Putting cool stuff into a bad movie just makes it a bad movie with cool stuff in it, Inception was B level trash edited to make the audience feel smart, no better than any mediocre action film, Inception was nominated because The Dark Knight was brilliant and they had to make up for not nominating The Dark Knight, Inception didn't win because it's a bad movie
@VKrycha I don't know how much deeper the term Fuck You is, but if it's anything deeper than the rest of a limp bizkit song then I think I outgrew inception by freshman year
Arthur and Ariadne's totem had special properties in REALITY.
Which ends with that the special property of the top helped Cobb "keep track of reality" in Limbo, and remember why he was at Saito. And from then on Cobb reminded Saito, and they gave each other the best Deja Vu ever and escaped Limbo after realizing it was not real.
It didn't win best picture because best picture because best movie is not about having the most complicated story/script/world/idea but conveying what ever your story idea was to the viewer as effectively as possible and brining the biggest impact to the viewer. The very human and wonderful story of the kings speech is far more fitting and makes a better movie than all the subjects of inception compressed together to a couple of hours long movie.
@niceautoattackon1 You're assuming that Cobb and Mal came back to the "real world" and that Cobb and Saito came back to the "real world".
All we know is that, in Limbo, death is a kick. What that kick does isn't even alluded to in the film. This is why it makes sense that Cobb and Mal may have never come out of their layers of dreams when they first went in to limbo. After decades of living in limbo do you really think they knew how far it was back to reality?
This guy messed up in his argument that the whole movie was a dream...He states thats Eames loses his "last two chips" and then magically has 2 stacks of them...well the fact is he DID lose his last two chips, the two stacks he pulls out are FORGED thats why when he goes to cash them in Cobb picks up one and says something like "your spelling has not improved". Thats because on all his forged chips "Mombasa" is spelled wrong.
Hm, for me the spinning to is actually the spin in the movie itself. We can argue with Kant, who said that everything we see is not the thing itself, but what we expect it to be. (Like a flask that also could be used as a hammer, but we see it as a flask).
As Mr. Johnson said, the spinning top is totally useless as a totem. His reality is actually a layer of the dream of his wife. He invented a totem, the ring, within this dream. His wife realized it so her suicide was the right decision.
@tykjenffs when are those ever established as the "Limbo rules"? Cobb was obviously familiar with how deep Limbo was from whatever state "the real world" is. He never said or implied that them dying in Limbo kicked them all the way back out.
@LordBrizz The powerful sedative had worn out, and the only way to escape Limbo is by realizing it as a dream. Cobb knew what was real, Mal did not. When Mal finally was incepted with the truth, she could break free as well. And they escaped Limbo back to reality. Ariadne asked Cobb what happened when they came back. Mal was forever defined.
Wow this was useless, everything he said is in the Inception FAQ and even made obvious in the film. Also Eame's totem 'breeds' when it's in a dream. It was stated in the film but in a subtle way. I don't think this guy saw the film at all.
The numbers thing means nothing. They knew the numbers Fischer gave would then appear later on in the dream as his subconscious filled in the dreams the other dreamers were having. They explained all of that quite sufficiently in the film.
@pretzelzetzel The numbers wasn't the important part. He was just illustrating how certain details will keep coming back later, and the importance of the children mentioning they are building a "house on a cliff" or whatever they said.
Also how comes at the end fischer is the only one that doesnt remember the dream at the airport as he is the only one that doesnt recognise cobb otherwise he would be suspicious
@joeb242 He never realized they had infiltrated his dreams, so he probably dismissed their familiarity as his mind using faces of his fellow passengers on aspects of his subconscious. You often see strangers you met during the day in your dreams, because your mind merely uses their images as faces for dream characters. Fischer probably though it was just that, and since he was clearly buried in thought during the airport checkout scene, he didn't pay much attention to Cobb anyway.
If Mal and Cobb were in a layered dream when Mal committed suicide, couldn't he just wake Cobb up when she awoke in the layer above? Splash some water on him or something..
@sprkng I suppose she could have, if it were a dream and she woke up to the next layer. However if we are following cob and he is in a dream, it would take ten or however many years for him to wake. So for Mal it would be instant, but for Cob and thus the audience, because time is different, it would take a much longer time.
@killermicrobe if none of the events in the movie never really happened, then there is no real story, everything is a dream, it could be someone elses dream, we don't know who the dreamer is, there is no story, the movie is a paradox, no matter how anyone looks at it, there is no way to be prove it right, even the creator cannot explain it. Like going up the never ending stairs from the movie, in real life, it's impossible, it can never be proven right, just like the movie, hence it is a paradox
and the window ledge thing.. thats so stupid!! ur telling me she couldnt of planned getting another hotel room right across from thers? so when leo directly at her??comes into the room he cant stop her just look ? this guy is an idiot lol and omg its two hrs and exactly 28 mins.. shut up!
27:52 is the best LOL but on a seriously note this guy is full of crap .. hes one of those guys who would see jesus in a sandwich.. kinda disagree on his points where he gives clues to think the whole movie is a dream.. like the pick pocketing .. thers professional people out ther that are that good and i bet eves or whatever is that good ..
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This guy is a nut. A movie shouldn't require you to read the script and constantly pause the Blu-Ray version with subtitles on to understand. Was not the best movie.
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@lm1111able why the fuck not?
OtaconF 4 days ago
(if u r reading.. Sorry.. To the girl from Hyderabad.)
ahsanahd 5 days ago
@ahsanahd what the hell is Hyderabad????!
SuperTreasureTroll 2 days ago
he is the king of yelling not about jung
egoistorms 6 days ago
My mind... Blown!
ChalksChannel 6 days ago
I think there is a much better clue that he didn't touch on. When Mal becomes crazy, doctors can't prove she is crazy. Why not? That makes no sense. Also, if she did jump from the other building it would be impossible to conclude she jumped from Cobb's side, forensics aren't total retards. Cobb couldn't have been Mal's killer. The whole story with Mal is riddled with holes. The only explanation could be that it was a dream.
RevolutionaryLoser 1 week ago
You cannot actually have faith that there's an elephant behind you.
lm1111able 1 week ago
Now... try this with Memento.
projectfinale 1 week ago
I wonder what he thinks about Cracked's theory that Inception is the second installment in the trilogy started by The Prestige, with The Prestige being the pledge and Inception being the turn. It might explain why the ending of The Prestige was quite unprestigious.
theoriginal72 1 week ago
This guy is very passionate about something that doesn't actually exist anyway. Hmmmm, I wonder if he thinks he is dreaming when he gives this talk but then, the book is purely for cash. Have you ever needed cash in your dreams?
OK, so quite clearly - this is the real world.
That talk was in the real world
His book makes him real money
about something that no one even cares if its real or not.
He should start a church and make even more money.
:P
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theworkshop0 1 week ago
If it's all a dream, wouldn't they have traveled 3 levels beyond limbo?
godsofwarmaycry 1 week ago
This guys is so butthurt
AdaptEngageSurvive 1 week ago
This guy whines so much.
MLGLastLevel 1 week ago
Furthermore, the question is about whether or not he's in his own dream (at the end).
x1n30Parente 1 week ago
@x1n30Parente Well, whether or not he's in a dream, then, if he is in a dream, whether or not he's in his own dream or someone else's dream.
LithiumLogica 1 week ago
No, he's wrong.
If Cobb's top falls, then he's awake. Go back and watch the movie.
After the first scene, in the hotel, he spins it, and it falls, indicating he's awake.
When he's talking to Ariadne, he says that if it kept spinning, Mal knew she was dreaming.
x1n30Parente 1 week ago
@x1n30Parente
I pretty damn sure that some random jackass on youtube is not smarter than a guy that went to google talks.
DrSmokeTrees 1 week ago 2
@DrSmokeTrees YOU'RE a yackass on Joutube.
x1n30Parente 1 week ago
@x1n30Parente He says that Cobb's is backward compared to all the other totems. Cobb's behaves just as any top would behave in reality. In dreams, it keeps spinning forever. With everyone else's totem, they behave normally in the dream, but in reality they're unique for some reason.
LithiumLogica 1 week ago
@LithiumLogica I'm quite partial to the theory (stated at the end, in the questions) that the top isn't a totem for Cobb at all - nowhere in the film does say it's now HIS, and he's quite casually giving away its details - and that his is the wedding ring etc.
x1n30Parente 1 week ago
@x1n30Parente Absolutely. And the comment that the guy makes about the totem possibly not even existing in reality anymore makes a lot of sense, too. It would benefit Cobb to not actually have a totem in reality, but have one in dreams, because if there's one at all, it's a dream. His totem could have been whether or not what -would have- used as a totem is even there. That could explain why his behaved so different compared to all the others. It's misdirection.
LithiumLogica 1 week ago
i don't think the point of the film is whether or not cobb is dreaming...but it's the inception itself...
it was never meant for fisher but for cobb to make him let go of his guilt
Smataba 1 week ago
This is why philosophy is not taken seriously anymore
ryanzumu 1 week ago
@ryanzumu
No, the reason philosophy is not taken seriously, is that 90% of the population are fucking idiots.
DrSmokeTrees 1 week ago
Excelerated?
cutswift 1 week ago 6
this is so painful to listen to. one of the worst lecturers i've heard. needs to take a deep breath and stop yelling at his audience.
FuzzTony 1 week ago
@FuzzTony
Being smarter that everyone around you tends to piss us off.
DrSmokeTrees 1 week ago
YOU~! are fucking backwards
Agapid 2 weeks ago
Kyle seems to be really, really excited today. Lol
curtisludlow 2 weeks ago
why is he yelling at me? :(
kevinkantouth 2 weeks ago 42
@kevinkantouth He's angry cause he thinks he's the only person who understands the movie.
TheDhezballah 1 week ago 3
@kevinkantouth
He's excited about all the stuff he figured out. I would be too, if I could make a cool presentation out of being a fanboy.
ChocolateFlux 1 week ago
it took 43 minutes for him to explain a 2 hour movie
fstathes 2 weeks ago
@fstathes Minutiae is often disregarded as being insignificant, but is just as often key to a complete understanding of the topic at hand. If you don't like thinking about things like this, or dislike things like this being presented to you, no one is forcing you. Just don't come to a place like this and a video like this and act as though it wasn't worth the time. You're just projecting your own anti-intellectualism onto others to validate your own feelings of inadequacy.
lolumad?
LithiumLogica 1 week ago
@LithiumLogica i aint even mad tho. I wasn't giving my opinion on what was presented, I was simply stating a fact. Good day, sir.
fstathes 1 week ago
This guy thinks he's pretty smart...
dmgpunk 2 weeks ago
@dmgpunk
He is.
ulktz 1 week ago
It's a shame that there are so few people.. :(
mrnolan91 3 weeks ago
I feel like all his points are interesting, but he's presenting them like we're too dumb to understand anything without his godlike wisdom. I couldn't make it all the way through.
NavyBlueZ 3 weeks ago
@NavyBlueZ Uh, maybe because he and the many other people who watched the film many times could have noticed things we didn't. Also, he has enthusiasm; he loves the subject, so I can't blame him for being overly enthusiastic. It's like sharing a secret that no one else knows about something you love, not unlike inside jokes, little things you and your partner do that might seem weird, but is unique to the two of you. Stuff like that.
LithiumLogica 1 week ago
That shit's hilarious. We get it grandpa you really liked the movie now please keep your pants on
MKallleet 3 weeks ago
So this guy thinks that Inception should of won best picture, because there are hundreds of "clues". What are clues when clues are going for both sides, PLOT HOLES. Nolan hired this guy to cover up the plot holes and turn them into "clues". After watching Inception, I did not notice any of this and thought the movie was amazing, was one of my favorite movies.. Probably not anymore. Maybe the Academy figured it were plot holes as well.
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leGitlikewhaa 3 weeks ago
I hope Nolan is watching this, lol.
Sergeantspoon 1 month ago
Your rational faculty in your dreams does not work properly, so you can't be held responsible for a lot of it. I heard from an old psychology teacher once (haven't cross referenced yet) that your MORAL faculty does work, however, and that you would never do anything in your dreams that you would not ethically do in real life. I think this is interesting, because I've killed people without justification in dreams, and, for a while after I started philosophizing, began waiting for justification.
SculptedThoughts 1 month ago
@SculptedThoughts sounds like bullshit. rationality and morality are not always or even commonly distinguishable. those bounded rational cognitive algorithms we all have, and that sense of moral indignation and, occasionally, moral self-hatred, are both basically unavailable in dreams unless they are activated either by chance or through techniques such as lucid dreaming.
KurosenvsGrither 1 month ago
It's not so much faith that the world is real as it is rejecting arbitrary theories. If there's no reason to believe something, you don't believe it.
SculptedThoughts 1 month ago
Somewhere in the subtitles, there is a grammatical flaw. "Then" in place of "than." Can you find it?
SculptedThoughts 1 month ago
If the team is a movie-team.. who does the soundtrack?
mehblahmehblah 1 month ago
What if we're in God's dream? What if he can create miracles because he can manipulate his dream.
airforcebitty 1 month ago
Honestly? The fandom got this about one month after the movie came out. Just saying.
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When he says "There could be an elephant behind me," the girl in red walking by looks behind him expecting to see an elephant! lol at 34:47
aarondfilms 1 month ago
Fucking Nolanfags, I swear.
afterNoonem 1 month ago
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TikTikBOOMBOX 1 month ago
@afterNoonem You're an idiot.
razorath92 1 month ago
His argument is flawed. Fischer and Ariadne didn't exit Limbo by dieing, they exited Limbo by falling off the building synchronizing the kick. Fischer's fall was synchronized with the defibrillator while Ariadne's was synchronized with the snow fortress falling. This is why they only went 1 layer up.
cKeii 1 month ago
@cKeii Yup. And if you kill yourself in any dream level, you wake up in reality, UNLESS you are using that special sleeping shit they get from that arab dude. So Mal and Cobb, when they were hit by the train in limbo, would wake up in reality.
christ153 1 month ago
@cKeii That doesn't invalidate his entire argument, only one aspect of it, if it even invalidates that part.
LithiumLogica 1 week ago
34:46 "elephant? .. what? where?" - Asian lady
Calgan360 1 month ago 38
@Calgan360 you stole my comment
aarondfilms 1 month ago
@Calgan360 She was really surprised and knew that, wearing a red shirt, she would be the first to die, if the elephant(that might or might not have been there) were to attack.
LithiumLogica 1 week ago
Why would Saito go down to limbo when he died at the snow fortress, but goes up a level when he died at limbo?
JRWO88 1 month ago
*accelerated dream
pcarlet22 1 month ago
@st00pidity It wasn't Cobb's dream when they were practicing, it was Ariadne's dream filled with cobbs sub conscience which includes his deceased wife
PARKCiTY599 1 month ago
Favorite part 34:44 , lady in red looks for the elephant behind him. Looks like she has faith.
BackwordsBooksProduc 1 month ago
@BackwordsBooksProduc haha, nice one man, that's quite observant of you
Andyattube 1 month ago
just realized... wouldnt this video be an inception so we dont discover the true meaning of inception?
Th3Bak3dNinja 1 month ago
I was down with this until he started pimping his book... INCEPTION indeed. Still, valid insight.. interesting.
TheCarlyJ 1 month ago
Cobb's totem is his wedding ring.
Notice how in dream scenes he's wearing it, but in a real world scene, he is not. Plus, the top was Mal's, which means its no good for Cobb.
l33tpete 1 month ago in playlist Liked videos
His totem isn't the top, it's his wedding ring. Jaysus...
EyeAmAhab 1 month ago
@EyeAmAhab He says that later in the video.
SuperFanofall 1 month ago
Questions aside, I just watched "Inception and Philosophy" and got 30 minutes of movie and fewer than 30 seconds of philosophy. Pretty disappointing.
As for captions, the video doesn't require them, since he basically recites the slides that are shown.
radadam 1 month ago
this is a lot of words for some stupid shit
toobian2 1 month ago
Why isn't this captioned?
WickedKeres 1 month ago 6
@WickedKeres use the CC closed caption beta... it works perfectly
G2nelson 1 month ago
if the whole movie is a dream, it would go Real world -> Cobb's dream -> Mal's dream, mal's dream being the utopia that they created, then they wake up from Mal's dream layer by killing themselves, Then they would wake up in Cobb's dream layer and Mal commits suicide, So mal will then go back to the Real world, so the whole movie takes place in Cobb's dream layer.
st00pidity 1 month ago
@st00pidity wait what?!? so mal wasn't insane huh
bloodrocker2 1 month ago
@bloodrocker2 correct, and it makes sense if you then that if Cobb's dream was the utopia and when they kill themselves on the track they would wake up in mal's dream and when mal jumps off the building ending her dream, they both would have waken up in the real world, but going by this sequence, cobb never woke up from a dream, once mal killed herself, indicating that mal's dream layer was actually the utopia and the movie toke place in cobbs dream.
st00pidity 1 month ago
@st00pidity But there is a plot hole, when ariadne and cobb are in cobb's dream practicing, mal kills ariadne and both ariadne and cobb wake up, now if mal did kill herself in cobbs dream when she jumped off the building, would that mean they would both wake up?
st00pidity 1 month ago
Or maybe he tells everyone how his totem works so that they will dream that his top will never fall, since that can only work in a dream
sciz 1 month ago
ALSO, he lists all those clues that suggest the whole movie is a dream, and yet he doesn't mention that the very idea of inception -- hijacking other people's dreams -- is so illogical that it only makes sense in a dreamworld anyway? That was my favorite "clue" in the whole movie, wish he woulda mentioned it.
daviepoo 1 month ago
Didn't people "figure out" all the stuff he discusses here within about a week of the movie's release? Why is he making money off of these ideas now?
Also, The King's Speech was an amazing movie in a different way -- I don't get why he had to poke fun at it the whole time. It made the tone of his talk much more negative, imo (and it made him come off as someone who is incapable of appreciating a non-action film).
daviepoo 1 month ago
Yeah, I think the approach to your interpretation isn't accurate. The problem with the most charitable interpretation is that it depends on the director. The scientific approach would have too many variables to consider. And since this is fictional, the best you could do is find what was more probable.
The other approach is that "weather cobb is still dreaming or not isn't important. Its that he doesn't care. He's not looking at the top".
allthatizationable 1 month ago
When he says "There could be an elephant behind me," the girl in red walking by looks behind him expecting to see an elephant! lol at 34:47
aarondfilms 1 month ago
Its a good lecture but I think this guy does obviously come from a different background and this is his first time doing serious film analysis.
Mantis42 1 month ago
Best movie of 2010 tied with Toy Story 3. >.>
ziljin 1 month ago
The fact about Hans using Edit Piaf's song in the film entirely is wrong he just made that little kick note and there was nothing after it.
Sanaa2k 1 month ago
Director said after the press was wondering whether the top stopped or not, and he said yes, it did, he's not dreaming anymore. Blunt kill.
Kakashinoor 1 month ago
It's pretty sad that someone can make a living doing crap like this...
mathewrphillips 1 month ago
@mathewrphillips
Why is it sad? Clearly he's passionate enough about something to write a book about it. Not to mention he's probably selling lots of copies. What's sad is assholes like you spewing bullshit judgement on your computer.
chingisxani 1 month ago
saying that everyone in the Academy didn't understand things like the alegorical nature of the story is just completely arrogant to say. Of course they understood it - but the Best Picture of the year isn't given the best story, it's given to the best EVERYTHING. The acting wasn't the best out of all the choices, and nor was the sound mixing, editing, or the ensemble of actors themselves.
Was it an awesome movie? Absolutely, I loved it.
Should it have won best picture? Nah.
LostCallProductions 1 month ago
@LostCallProductions Honestly I think it doesn't matter at all (at least to me) whether or not it won best picture. What really matters is if you enjoyed it or not.
SilentEcho8 1 month ago
@LostCallProductions I don't think he actually gives a shit about the best picture thing. He just mentions it for the sake of constructing his analysis in the context of a sort of playful argument about why the movie is good.
Also, I think the sound mixing and sound editing was probably the best out of any 2011 film, and they did win Oscars for those two categories. But I still get what you're saying.
BrighamHB 1 month ago
INCEPTION'S WHOLE POINT IS TO ASK HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS REAL
cheatdath 1 month ago
For all of you think he's thinking and looking way to hard as it suppose to be. Think how much it makes you think and how well this movie makes you involved then any other movie. I mean this is literally the only movie I spent so much time on looking up on Youtube. So next time you think about inception, man, my thinking skills increased, and so has my IQ.
KidRehab 1 month ago
It doesn't matter if he's dreaming at the end, that's the point of the movie.
Cobb's resolution isn't 'getting back to reality', so much as it is 'finding closure'.
He walks away from the top because he doesn't care it falls or not.
DamnFineCupOfCoffee 1 month ago
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gerarddanford 1 month ago
Putting cool stuff into a bad movie just makes it a bad movie with cool stuff in it, Inception was B level trash edited to make the audience feel smart, no better than any mediocre action film, Inception was nominated because The Dark Knight was brilliant and they had to make up for not nominating The Dark Knight, Inception didn't win because it's a bad movie
DamienTorrence 1 month ago
@DamienTorrence Fuck your opinnion
VKrycha 1 month ago
@VKrycha Very deep, about as deep as Inception
DamienTorrence 1 month ago
@DamienTorrence Deeper than you think.
VKrycha 1 month ago
@VKrycha I don't know how much deeper the term Fuck You is, but if it's anything deeper than the rest of a limp bizkit song then I think I outgrew inception by freshman year
DamienTorrence 1 month ago
@DamienTorrence Cool story but you suck.
VKrycha 1 month ago
@VKrycha I see you enjoy anime, suddenly it all makes sense
DamienTorrence 1 month ago
@DamienTorrence Yeah i knew you would point that out fucking douche so predictable...
VKrycha 1 month ago
@VKrycha much like inception?
DamienTorrence 1 month ago
@DamienTorrence Try harder
VKrycha 1 month ago
@Emberstrife oh yer thanks mate easily the best film ive watched films that get you to think and analyse different posiblities are winners for me
joeb242 1 month ago
Mal's totem had a special property in the DREAM.
Arthur and Ariadne's totem had special properties in REALITY.
Which ends with that the special property of the top helped Cobb "keep track of reality" in Limbo, and remember why he was at Saito. And from then on Cobb reminded Saito, and they gave each other the best Deja Vu ever and escaped Limbo after realizing it was not real.
tykjenffs 1 month ago
It didn't win best picture because best picture because best movie is not about having the most complicated story/script/world/idea but conveying what ever your story idea was to the viewer as effectively as possible and brining the biggest impact to the viewer. The very human and wonderful story of the kings speech is far more fitting and makes a better movie than all the subjects of inception compressed together to a couple of hours long movie.
agtheking 1 month ago
@niceautoattackon1 You're assuming that Cobb and Mal came back to the "real world" and that Cobb and Saito came back to the "real world".
All we know is that, in Limbo, death is a kick. What that kick does isn't even alluded to in the film. This is why it makes sense that Cobb and Mal may have never come out of their layers of dreams when they first went in to limbo. After decades of living in limbo do you really think they knew how far it was back to reality?
LordBrizz 1 month ago
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disarmsmile 1 month ago
This guy messed up in his argument that the whole movie was a dream...He states thats Eames loses his "last two chips" and then magically has 2 stacks of them...well the fact is he DID lose his last two chips, the two stacks he pulls out are FORGED thats why when he goes to cash them in Cobb picks up one and says something like "your spelling has not improved". Thats because on all his forged chips "Mombasa" is spelled wrong.
et4lyf3 1 month ago
Hm, for me the spinning to is actually the spin in the movie itself. We can argue with Kant, who said that everything we see is not the thing itself, but what we expect it to be. (Like a flask that also could be used as a hammer, but we see it as a flask).
As Mr. Johnson said, the spinning top is totally useless as a totem. His reality is actually a layer of the dream of his wife. He invented a totem, the ring, within this dream. His wife realized it so her suicide was the right decision.
xtraa 1 month ago
he had some good points at the beginning but his thesis begins t show his flaws towards the end.
KriegerGeist117 1 month ago
@niceautoattackon1 Yay someone else got the Limbo rules. Kudos.
tykjenffs 1 month ago
@tykjenffs when are those ever established as the "Limbo rules"? Cobb was obviously familiar with how deep Limbo was from whatever state "the real world" is. He never said or implied that them dying in Limbo kicked them all the way back out.
LordBrizz 1 month ago
@LordBrizz The powerful sedative had worn out, and the only way to escape Limbo is by realizing it as a dream. Cobb knew what was real, Mal did not. When Mal finally was incepted with the truth, she could break free as well. And they escaped Limbo back to reality. Ariadne asked Cobb what happened when they came back. Mal was forever defined.
tykjenffs 1 month ago
This guy needs to shout less. There's being passionate and then there's just plain creepy.
eug1488 1 month ago
@niceautoattackon1 I agree, His way of thinking means that cob has gone down a hell of alot of layers.
Allergic142 1 month ago
How to explain Inception to people who went through shitty education all of their lives.
Conibeer 1 month ago
@Conibeer I just lol at people who dont understand it they dont know what their missing.
Darkseeker109 1 month ago
27:50 LOL
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teresalfahs 1 month ago
awfully lot of Mac users in Google...
unitman88 1 month ago
@unitman88 What are you talking about, I haven't seen a single Mac product anywhere yet and I'm over half way through.
DrRasheverakShemp 1 month ago
This is so much more epic when you play the inception soundtrack with this!
antonjiracek 1 month ago
Except Cobb's totem is his wedding ring.
Kyrax1 1 month ago
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Wow this was useless, everything he said is in the Inception FAQ and even made obvious in the film. Also Eame's totem 'breeds' when it's in a dream. It was stated in the film but in a subtle way. I don't think this guy saw the film at all.
SWIFTpr0 1 month ago
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SWIFTpr0 1 month ago
Wow. Those questions were terrible.
ArchiPepper 1 month ago 15
OH MY GOD! THERE ARE GIRLS AT GOOGLE? WOW! There are no girls in my computer science classes........
Oblisk47 1 month ago
The numbers thing means nothing. They knew the numbers Fischer gave would then appear later on in the dream as his subconscious filled in the dreams the other dreamers were having. They explained all of that quite sufficiently in the film.
pretzelzetzel 1 month ago
@pretzelzetzel The numbers wasn't the important part. He was just illustrating how certain details will keep coming back later, and the importance of the children mentioning they are building a "house on a cliff" or whatever they said.
WhoahCanada 1 month ago
Also how comes at the end fischer is the only one that doesnt remember the dream at the airport as he is the only one that doesnt recognise cobb otherwise he would be suspicious
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@joeb242 He never realized they had infiltrated his dreams, so he probably dismissed their familiarity as his mind using faces of his fellow passengers on aspects of his subconscious. You often see strangers you met during the day in your dreams, because your mind merely uses their images as faces for dream characters. Fischer probably though it was just that, and since he was clearly buried in thought during the airport checkout scene, he didn't pay much attention to Cobb anyway.
Emberstrife 1 month ago
A bit overboard in many respects after some mark in this talk, but it was a good talk nonetheless.
Joymax 1 month ago
Why can't he spell "accelerated" correctly?
He might be reading a bit too into the movie but it was an entertaining bit anyway.
drumguy2007 1 month ago
@cmfdavies Yes. I am, in fact, a mega genius.
cpc5000 1 month ago
The argument about Mal trashing the hotel room and that she's supposed to be in the same room is BS, watch the movie again and stop trolling dude.
Level3Dispenser 1 month ago
it'll be funny if Noland didn't intend for all this and hes reading to much into it.
whattokingu 1 month ago
@whattokingu Nolan dreamt the whole movie and didn't even understand it either lol! Jk
akazombie 1 month ago
If Mal and Cobb were in a layered dream when Mal committed suicide, couldn't he just wake Cobb up when she awoke in the layer above? Splash some water on him or something..
sprkng 1 month ago
@sprkng I suppose she could have, if it were a dream and she woke up to the next layer. However if we are following cob and he is in a dream, it would take ten or however many years for him to wake. So for Mal it would be instant, but for Cob and thus the audience, because time is different, it would take a much longer time.
ApsidalWolf 1 month ago
We all got mind fucked by Nolan. End of story.
sgdevilzz 1 month ago
@sgdevilzz This movie is kinda lsd / shrooms trip.
kafka27 1 month ago
Too Long; Didn't Watch.... naw I did..
jjpyae 1 month ago
In the end they mentioned The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo, does anyone have a link for the video where that movie is discussed?
SparkySubie 1 month ago 2
Make a movie so clever no-one gets it, call them stupid for not making it movie of the year. ok.
Temperative 1 month ago
Check out Wired Magazine's 50 minute interview with Chris Nolan on Inception. It's in my channel.
VastedCouth 1 month ago
He said everything I was thinking.
cpc5000 1 month ago
@cpc5000 really!? no way!! you must be a fucking genius or something!
cmfdavies 1 month ago
Why didn't it win best picture? Because you need a book to explain it.
kylejack2 1 month ago 19
@kylejack2 so...a movie being in-depth, intelligent, and ambiguous enough to be interpreted by philosophers and made into a book isn't a good movie?
EkoToyKite 1 month ago
@EkoToyKite It is a good movie. I loved it.
kylejack2 1 month ago
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razorath92 1 month ago
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@kylejack2 Then how did the author understand the film?
razorath92 1 month ago
@kylejack2 That's what he's saying. The Academy didn't understand it, so it didn't win.
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@duddy74 great minds think alike
p1ckersgill 1 month ago
this white man is crazy
YUZO2kxx 1 month ago
@killermicrobe if none of the events in the movie never really happened, then there is no real story, everything is a dream, it could be someone elses dream, we don't know who the dreamer is, there is no story, the movie is a paradox, no matter how anyone looks at it, there is no way to be prove it right, even the creator cannot explain it. Like going up the never ending stairs from the movie, in real life, it's impossible, it can never be proven right, just like the movie, hence it is a paradox
MrMusicalbumuploader 1 month ago
and the window ledge thing.. thats so stupid!! ur telling me she couldnt of planned getting another hotel room right across from thers? so when leo directly at her??comes into the room he cant stop her just look ? this guy is an idiot lol and omg its two hrs and exactly 28 mins.. shut up!
rupman27isback 1 month ago
@rupman27isback Because it makes so much sense that a couple on their anniversary would get two separate rooms in two separate hotels
ChesterStone 1 month ago
@ChesterStone hello.. the wife was all out of it.. she obviously planned it out wisely so he couldnt do anything about it
rupman27isback 1 month ago
27:52 is the best LOL but on a seriously note this guy is full of crap .. hes one of those guys who would see jesus in a sandwich.. kinda disagree on his points where he gives clues to think the whole movie is a dream.. like the pick pocketing .. thers professional people out ther that are that good and i bet eves or whatever is that good ..
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downyourtube 1 month ago
3:39-4:49 is what blew me away
redcups21 1 month ago
This was pretty dang awesome.
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