The story of inception follows the main character of Dom Cobb and the lengths he will go to to get home to his family.
We then jump back in time to the younger versions of the two men in the very same room. They have a short conversation about extracting ideas and again refering to 'dreams'. When Saito (The old man who is now young again) leaves the room, what appears to be an earthquake happens and we are in a different room now however the same characters are still there. The difference this time is not in their ages and physical appearance but that they are asleep. A man walks over to check on things and we can see see needles sticking out of the sleeping men. A disturbance is happening outside this appartment that we are now in.
We are then taken back to the first location yet the disturbance that is happening in the second location appears to be affecting the first. Dom's business partner poses the question 'What's she doing here? We're here to work.' and we meet an attarctive young woman who seems to have a past with Dom. Dom referes to her as 'Mal' and although he tells her he misses her, he also adds that he doesn't trust her. When she asks 'Do the children miss me' we automatically assume that these two are romantically involved. Dom completes his mission by taking files from the safe but he is caught by Mal and Saito. Saito tells Dom that is aware they are dreaming and by doing so tells the audience that the first location is actually a dream. Mal informs us that killing people in a dream in fact wakes them up. The dream quickly begins to collapse as the people dreaming try and wake up and Dom tries to read the information that he stole from the safe however bits of it are blacked out and missing.
From the second location one of the men from inside the dream and the origional man attempt to wake dom by pushing him into a tub full of water. All the men are then woken including Saito. The men attempt to interigate Saito and find out the hidden information until he reveals that he knows this is also a dream. We learn that they can achieve things such as a 'dream within a dream'. Saito congratulates the men and tells them he was auditioning them for a job he wants doing and they passed.
Saito tells them that he wants to end the company competeing against him by planting an idea inside the deceaded owner's son's head. He doesn't have to continue his fathers legacy. At first they decline but when Saito provides a barganing tool aimed directly at Dom, Dom assembles his team and they agree to the work. Saito tells Dom if he completes the task,he will be allowed to fly home to the U.S to his children, we arre not yet sure why Dom can't go home but it's clear there's a serious reason why he's in hiding.
Dom and his partner Arthur go to Paris to find a new architect called Ariadne. It becomes clear that Dom can't be the architect anymore as Mal, Dom's deceased ex wife, attempts to defeat him every time he creates the dream as it's his own subconcious. It'll be Ariadne's job to create the dream and design it.
Dom explains more about how parts of the dream work but this is also for the viewers benifit so we don't get too lost. It's explained that 5 minutes in normal time can be up to an hour in dream time. Dom explains that the people in the dream are populated by his subconcious, you can extract information from the dreamer by talking to these people or by creating a safe place such as a bank vault where the dreamer automatically store their secrets. As Ariadne starts experimenting witht he dream world the subconcious projections begin to notice it's a dream and become violent until Mal appears as part of Dom's subconcious and wakes them up by killing them. Dom explains to Ariadne that she must have a totem to tell her whether or not she is dreaming, his is a spinning top, if it keeps spinning he is dreaming, if it stops and falls over he knows he's awake.
Ariadne shouldn't have to come into the dreams at any point but after learning that the reason Dom can't go home to his family is because he was accused of killing his wife and the reason he can't be an architect is because his guilt causes projections of her that cause the mission to fail, Ariadne has to come along to protect the others and make sure Dom doesn't know too many details about the dream.
When the owner of the company that Saito wants bought down the team board an airoplane and drug his son, Robert Fisher and go to level one of the dream. Level one is set in the back of a taxi where Fisher is kidnapped and lead to believe he is being held hostage with his dad's business partner and best friend. 'Uncle Peter'. However in the chase Saito is shot and they find out if they die in this dream they do not wake as there are too many levels and they are too heavily sedated, instead they would actually die. To relieve Saito's pain they quickly put everyone into a deep sleep and proceed to the second level.
The second level is set in a hotel, Dom tells Fisher he is dreaming so as to earn his trust and they manage to pin point the blame on Uncle Peter, they say he is behind the extraction and is trying to get him to collapse his fathers company. To get to the third level of the dream they disguise a member of the team as Uncle Peter and pretend to go inside his subconcious to find out why.
The third level of the dream is set on a mountain in the snow but as Saito is quickly losing his life Ariadne is forced to reveal the short cut of the maze and let Dom in on the secrets of the level. Mal quickly shows up and caused trouble by killing Fisher. Dom takes Ariadne and follows him down into limbo, the place they go when they die.
Ariadne manages to save Fisher however Mal says they can can only take him back if Dom agrees to stay there with her. Here the twist in the story is revealed. Although Dom never actually killed his wife we are convinced of his innocence throughout the whole film. When talking to Mal however he reveals it was him in fact who planted the idea in her head that the real world was a dream, the idea that ultimately made her kill herself.
Ariadne takes Fisher back up to the third level by riding the 'kick' and Dom kills his projection of Mal and goes to find Saito who has died so that he can bring him back to honour his promise to send Dom home.
Back on the third level Fisher goes into the vault and it's a hospital room with his father in. His father tells him that he is disappointed he tried t be like him and when opening the safe Fisher finds a picture and a windmill he made for his father as a child. Fisher, Ariadne, Arthur and the rest of the crew try and find their way back up and out of the dream.
We then return to the first ever scene we saw with Dom being washed up on the beach however this time the conversation about dreams, regrets and things that happened a long time ago make sense. Dom asks Saito to go back with him.
All the characters wake up on the plane. Fisher is deep in thought contemplating breaking down his fathers company unaware that the idea was given to him by the inception team. The team look around smiling at each other proud of their accomplishment and Saito makes a call and gives Dom the nod. When they arrive in the U.S Dom gets through customs with no problem and goes back to his house.
He spins his totem to check it's not a dream however his children run towards him before he has a chance and he forgets about it to be reunited with them. The film ends on the wobbling slightly, but still spinning, totem so we don't know if Dom has really been reunited with his family or if it's all just a dream.
This film is an excellent phycological thriller, it poses thousands of questions to the audience and even after you've watched it, possible endings because of the cliff hanger have been debated and still are two year after it's release.
The rating I would give this film is 4.5/5 Stars.
Ariadne manages to save Fisher however Mal says they can can only take him back if Dom agrees to stay there with her. Here the twist in the story is revealed. Although Dom never actually killed his wife we are convinced of his innocence throughout the whole film. When talking to Mal however he reveals it was him in fact who planted the idea in her head that the real world was a dream, the idea that ultimately made her kill herself.
Ariadne takes Fisher back up to the third level by riding the 'kick' and Dom kills his projection of Mal and goes to find Saito who has died so that he can bring him back to honour his promise to send Dom home.Back on the third level Fisher goes into the vault and it's a hospital room with his father in. His father tells him that he is disappointed he tried t be like him and when opening the safe Fisher finds a picture and a windmill he made for his father as a child. Fisher, Ariadne, Arthur and the rest of the crew try and find their way back up and out of the dream.
We then return to the first ever scene we saw with Dom being washed up on the beach however this time the conversation about dreams, regrets and things that happened a long time ago make sense. Dom asks Saito to go back with him.
All the characters wake up on the plane. Fisher is deep in thought contemplating breaking down his fathers company unaware that the idea was given to him by the inception team. The team look around smiling at each other proud of their accomplishment and Saito makes a call and gives Dom the nod. When they arrive in the U.S Dom gets through customs with no problem and goes back to his house.He spins his totem to check it's not a dream however his children run towards him before he has a chance and he forgets about it to be reunited with them. The film ends on the wobbling slightly, but still spinning, totem so we don't know if Dom has really been reunited with his family or if it's all just a dream.
This film is an excellent phycological thriller, it poses thousands of questions to the audience and even after you've watched it, possible endings because of the cliff hanger have been debated and still are two year after it's release.
The rating I would give this film is 4.5/5 Stars.
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