Inception - Explaining the dream world

Inception scene...

[@temperspace]

It's funny how Cobb basically says, "we're gonna do crime," and Ariadne nonchalantly goes along with it.

[@davecrupel2817]

Well, it's not.....strictly speaking, legal. (;

[@indigosun6561]

😂😂😂😂

[@indigosun6561]

😂😂😂

[@theprogram863]

No. She takes a moment and thinks about it. There's a clear reaction shot and a beat before she decides to go ahead. Her curiosity overrides her qualms. And it has to, right? I mean, what kind of "not strictly speaking legal" job requires an architecture student? And the brilliant old architecture professor introduced them, so it kind of has his stamp of approval. I'D be curious. Wouldn't you?

[@JohnSmith-ix5gx]

+The Program I don't think you'd break the law even if you were under this kind of delicious temptation. you're strictly a 9 to 5 kind of person living the same cookie cutter existence as everybody you know. I'm not trying to put you down the world needs people like you so the fearless have a place to come home and crash after another of their countless exhausting exciting quasi legal adventures .you just be you kid. nice and safe

[@Olzme]

For those confused with the maze drawing scene: Ariadne drew Cobb a standard rectangular maze her first 2 attempts, where she tries to create dead ends for Cobb. She realizes on her 3rd attempt as she's flipping over the notebook, Cobb wouldn't get fooled by dead ends. Cobb asked her to draw, within 2 minutes, a maze that takes more than a minute to solve. She ends up drawing a circular labyrinth where there is a single path from start to finish, but ends up twisting and spiraling towards the center. Because labyrinths emphasize the time it takes to navigate them rather than confusing branching paths, Cobb realizes even without attempting it that he would not be able to navigate it within a minute. The name Ariadne is also a reference to Greek mythology: Ariadne was the daughter of the Minos, King of Crete. She helped Theseus solve the labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur.

[@TwinAero]

Olzme So the key point here is that a rectangular maze won't work because its linear structure will make the dead end easy to spot? Otherwise what is stopping Cobb from trying to brute force the circular maze? Will a square maze work equally as good then?

[@brucewayneisdeadpool830]

Actually if you had seen the everything wrong with video for inception, you' d see that maze has no solution. It's impossible to get out. They thought we wouldn't notice. They were wrong

[@juanmacedo8816]

No actually I was confused because Cobb is wasting paper. Every paper he rips was only used on one side or at least that’s what the movie suggests. Jk i was confused and the op actually cleared the scene up for me.

[@lumossk3657]

Rectangular would also work, I think it's circular to illustrate her changing of strategies. She doesn't stop him from using brute force. She _uses_ brute force, without any dead ends just a long path that takes longer than 1 min to walk through. I always that's obvious.

[@adarozer]

Wow

[@dominicancash]

This is the only movie i seen over and over again. A masterpiece

[@MuhammadAmir-rb3rg]

inception,interstellar these 2 i never get bored of regardless how many time i watch it

[@eLmasten1991]

Shutter Island too imo

[@AverageAlien]

what about the matrix? That's better

[@AverageAlien]

interstellar is crap

[@istoleurfaceha3527]

Lmao when you're a kid that goes on heaps of roadtrips you have no choice but to watch what you bring with you

[@richardkusimenkah]

I shake my head when people say that this movie is hard to follow. Sit down watch the movie, PAY ATTENTION and think! Its not a difficult movie...

[@swiftlylovestruck]

Agreed... I hate people that talk towards the movie or think of other irrelevant things and then after a while they say: "Stupid movie, I can't even understand what's happening... boriiiiing" -No you piece of shit you're stupid coz you can't even understand the beginning of a movie and YOU are boring me rightt now... -_-

[@richardkusimenkah]

***** EXACTLY! DRIVES ME CRAZY! People to lazy to use their brains and think... If it requires mental power then "it" is automatically stupid. *sigh* smh

[@westside786asy]

KaL Rynzler But he spun the spinner and it never fell. Which suggests it is a dream.

[@Joshcoshbagosh]

richard kusi-menkah I remember when this movie came out and everyone was making a huge deal about it. People were saying it was complex and mindblowing. I finally watched several years later and found myself slightly disappointed by the fact that it really WASNT very hard to follow at all. Just pay attention and you will be fine.

[@davecrupel2817]

Most people have a hard time with the third one. Thinking. They are close minded. Not open to interesting concepts like Inception or The Matrix.

[@Copemaxx]

Hands down to Nolan, masterpiece, must be one of the best movies ever created and probably the most original plot one.

[@feerfeerw]

nope, the film was actually inspired by the 1996 anime film "paprika".

[@Arthur-rb3vy]

feerfeerw You mean 2006.

[@nicolaslabra2225]

Arthur Koh not entirely inspired by it but by many visual concepts

[@Nothing_serious]

+feerfeerw Paprika is a 2006 film but Nolan originally conceived Inception already back in 1999. And no it wasn't inspired by Paprika. It was inspired by The Matrix

[@Vapor817]

+Your Waifu Sucks (Get a life) It was inspired by movies like the Matrix that came around at the turn of the millennium.

[@hottakes5294]

3:13 I just realised that when all those objects started to erupt into the air, it’s because Ariadne’s mind was blown when she realised they were in a dream, so that’s how the environment around her reacted as well lol

[@jeffriediazramos6616]

Good observation, but watching the film for the first time, you wouldn't even notice the slightest detail unless you have a very good eye.

[@el-uk1zp]

yes immediately you realize that you are in a dream you start to wake up,so the moment you realize that what we call reality is actually a dream you're going to wake up, first you start seeing things differently,and you start seeing how stupid humans are, I don't mean stupid in the sense of stupid!

[@tasinal-hassan8268]

She?

[@SSS20025]

I don't think it's because of that. Cobb was teaching her what she can do in a dreamspace

[@cubul32]

@@el-uk1zp Yes we are "stupid" like you're saying. You might wanna start researching what is called "the prayer", the noetic prayer in Orthodox Christianity (for eg: like in this autobiography: jbburnett.com/resources/french_way_of_a_pilgrim.pdf ). And then go around to study the lives of Christian Orthodox saints and get your mind bent a little more. Then try to find a person like that alive to witness it yourself. I had the slight fortune a few times in my life - one of the few reasons I know the subject. But your observation is deep: people are stupid - and it's not even an insult. The worst part of it all is that the system is designed unanimously as a machine for breathing, growing and keeping people stupid like that. And it spans thousands of years. And one has to wonder: who does that. More specifically in this paramount example. Who takes Christianity and transforms its image from what it actually is into the perception that it is today. Massive negative marketing if you will. People accept and truly believe that heresies - which do nothing for themselves - are Christianity. Whereas, as you'll discover, actual Christianity is a mind bending experience and has got nothing to do with what the west knows as such (ie talking heads with nothing to show for it). It goes further, and more complex. Those mind bending people above that I mention - they generally advise to disregard dreams because most of them are demonic attacks - ways to influence perception, opinion etc. Then again, throughout everyday life perception is under assault. Not everything we identify as us is actually us or ours from ourselves. See St Theophan the Recluse on spiritual warfare - on this subject.

[@MC-pd9xo]

If Tenet had been this effective at explaining its concepts it would’ve been regarded as one of Nolan’s best works

[@billballinger3131]

in a decade people will view Tenet as one of the best. Especially when Looking Glass technology is exposed to the public

[@benminer4714]

Tenet wasn’t designed to be completely understood. Its meant to be confusing, just as it is to the protagonist. Nolan deliberately crafted this movie on the notion of belief. “Don’t try to understand it, feel it.” Or, “Ignorance is our ammunition.”

[@PautinoPR]

But It is one of his best tho

[@chrisdawson1776]

I understood perfectly fine how the machine works in Tenet, what I didn’t understand was why they had to use it, like the McGuffins. I still don’t understand what it was, you collect all the parts and you destroy the world? idk

[@LetsbeHonest97]

True. Inception worked not only because of the idea but the dialogue. TENET's dialogue was very bad and muffled for some reason. It was not great. But the visuals are super

[@Peter_1986]

I am a lucid dreamer and a lot of what Cobbs says in this scene is actually true. In dreams we are constructing a model of our feelings, memories and impressions, and this combined with our associations and expectations can create a vivid world that seems very realistic. If you think about a person, you expect that person to stand on the ground, and therefore you expect gravity, and you also expect to see houses and trees around you. All these habitual expectations make dreamworlds feel completely real, and in order to become lucid you need to constantly question your current situation so you start doing it in your dreams as well - from there, you may realize that you are actually in a dream.

[@jasonwalker234]

So true

[@jeenyus720]

Same, and thats why this is my favorite scene of all time of any movie

[@kairi3177]

Damn....lucky I can barely remember my dreams

[@danielmoorefield4891]

I can remember mine for about a day or so. There are some I still remember vividly.

[@rehakhushaldasani2608]

Love how you explained it! May this mean that even now as I am awake, I am in a dream. That this is all a dream of exploration and there is no beginning or end to the dream. So the dream does not exist as a separate manifestation from the dreamer

[@_LilRascal_]

What I like about the movie is that it’s a megabudget, star-studded, Hollywood blockbuster, yet it doesn’t infantilize the audience. It trusts us to simultaneously follow the narrative, connect with the characters, and absorb the world-building. I really appreciate that aspect of Nolan’s filmmaking.

[@anurodhpathak9725]

Not just "that" aspect. It is THE aspect of Nolan's filmmaking. That is his standard.

[@rustincohle2135]

"connect with the characters" Nolan's movies don't have characters. They're just plot devices.

[@irlfc9]

I wish real life job interviews let you correct your mistakes like that.

[@brandondaniels9471]

+irlfc9 Perhaps illegal jobs allow you to do so when the employers are really, really desperate to see their family?

[@DewTime]

That's literally the exact same thing I was thinking. Are you in tech?

[@machr293]

Tech Support!

[@RobertMorgan]

Sometimes making a mistake in an interview, but handling it well and not panicking or falling apart is actually a better demonstration of skills and abilities. Sometimes you're posed with a question or task that is impossible, deliberately, just to see how you react and deal with failure.

[@jayanthveeru1000]

@@kevinspacey6090 rude, but funny.

[@shialabeouf606]

Don't let your dreams be dreams.

[@TheoZaHero]

So, basically, what you're saying is that I should get to the point where everyone else would quit and I won't even stop there?

[@Arnaldojc90]

JUST DO IT!

[@allenharper2928]

Don't let your memes be dreams!

[@charmainebalzan1857]

Snake 🐍 dreams

[@charmainebalzan1857]

U WOT M8 t3

[@shekarachina2685]

Inception Interstellar Dunkirk In these three films one thing is similar which is time function

[@tareknasser8565]

@Mia Baker i use to think that too but apparently time is a physical thing

[@jjmadrid23]

Another similarity, they didn’t win an Oscar for best director nor motion picture! Smh.

[@ramesh1383]

Dunkirk? What's time gotta do with that

[@ramesh1383]

@Mia Baker don't say wow it's so banal

[@oliverhann6815]

Similar with memento

[@XGreenBayPackerfanX]

This is why I can't stand movie critics who hate this movie. The film establishes the reason for everything that happens in the dream world, which is rare in today's films. Most films do all the explaining for you (they hold your hand to sort of say), while Inception dared you to think. It's why it's my favorite movie. When Cobb said "well in a dream world, nothing makes any sense anyway, it's only when you wake do you realize something was actually strange". That statement ALONE blew my mind!

[@shadw4701]

Well allot of the stuff said is true and you can actually become aware within your own dreams with practice

[@kami_1789]

Never had a lucid dream?

[@vitojohn8168]

The critics must love watching movies when the beginning and ending full of action scene😆

[@spencermorgan1939]

constantly asking yourself how you got here in a dream is a perfect way to induce lucid dreaming

[@pcheber]

I look at a clock. It's always effed up lol

[@alexc119]

so does Michael Caine have a life contract with Christopher Nolan, or...

[@somnathmandal7912]

And also that scarecrow dude Cillian Murphy

[@hunterrosen8157]

Tom hardy too

[@A-Dubs398]

If someone does a good job when you hire them the first time, why not hire them again?

[@davecrupel2817]

@@therealestg9 😂😂😂😂

[@ricky93100]

It's the Nolan squad

[@RobertSarlijaGaming]

Cristopher Nolan, what a genius he is..

[@EnriqueVivancoH]

Everything is from Japan, Hollywood only steals ideas. This is paprika

[@seanwilson531]

DrSarac i kept thinking this was Wachowski's... 😕

[@MachineFuckingHate]

Enrique Vivanco, the first draft of this movie's script is been around since 2001. It's documented. Paprika came out in 2006. And unless Nolan knows how to read in Japanese (which I don't think he does), I don't think he read the original book either.

[@stephaneconstant1302]

i'm in love of his movies! some of these i found in moods when started to use boxxy software... i love to watch movie for free :P

[@DreamBeatsBakery]

@@EnriqueVivancoH Yet everyone wants to see Hollywood and not Japanese movies I wonder why

[@SJMJ91]

I don't understand why people say that Inception is confusing. It does have a lot of terminology and concepts about dreams that we need to understand but as a film, the plot was actually quite straightforward. It's mainly thoughts outside of watching the film that make it complicating. This is what makes it such a masterpiece and a fantastic script. Nolan is a genius!

[@HLGCeltic24]

I think what makes it so confusing, but in my opinion amazing and a beautiful work of art, is that this is a movie that you quite literally have to watch from beginning to end. No bathroom breaks, no skipping parts. I would argue that most movies you can jump halfway through and get a good idea of where you are and how you got there. Not this movie. You start watching it halfway through, and youre most likely going to miss so many small but key details that allow the movie to make sense. Thats why I'm such a huge Christopher Nolan fan is that he's one of the few who still makes the small details the most important ones. The only movie I like more than Inception is Memento, which to this day is on my top 5 favorite movies of all time. And thats another one of those movies where you have to pay attention to everything thats happening.

[@juanmacedo8816]

Nolan isn’t a genius. I don’t mean this in a negative way. I just think he himself wouldn’t agree. He took just over 15 years writing this movie out. 15 years.

[@markcalderwood3948]

@@juanmacedo8816 Wow he took 15 years to do it! That's extreme dedication and perseverance! I can't imagine someone ridiculing someone for putting there life and sole in to an amazing product.

[@nicholas4727]

It is confusing the first time but after a rewatch it is not confusing at all.

[@usharanich4091]

@@juanmacedo8816 he didn’t took 15 years. He conceived the idea in 2001 but was not confident that he was experienced to direct this movie. So he choose to direct it later. Hence it was released in 2010. Nolan is a genius. Otherwise i haven’t seen a director who can make movies like tenet and inception.

[@joshgray3888]

Nolan is low key either a alien in disguise or a time traveler... How he comes up with these ideas is insane.

[@joncisaunders2240]

I totally agree. It's incredible what he is doing with time in his movies.

[@sirinhamza3659]

Saito: "Have you come to kill me? ...I've been waiting for someone." Cobb : "Someone from a half-remembered dream." Saito: "Cobb? Impossible... We were young men together. I'm an old man." Cobb: "Filled with regret..." Saito: "Waiting to die alone?" Cobb: "I've come back for you, to remind you of something. Something you once knew. That this world is not real." Saito: "To convince me to honor our arrangement." Cobb: "To take a leap of faith, yes. Come back, so we can be young men together again. Come back with me. Come back..." "Dare you take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone?"

[@syahmiyusop]

sirin hamza what saito did to get out from limbo? did he shoot cobb and himself with pistol so they died?

[@davecrupel2817]

@@syahmiyusop thats what i concluded

[@readyg]

*grab a pistol*

[@josephmulvihill9898]

"Dreams feel real while were in them. Its only when we wake up that we realize somthing was actually strange." Such an awesome explanation. I love it.

[@joshberry777]

The mind of Mr. Nolan is an amazing thing. I mean, who comes up with these concepts?!

[@oolongz7]

he got the basic idea from an anime called Paprika

[@FinanceAcademy7799]

x

[@windosa2006]

+NocTheDoc I've heard that it comes from personal experience with dreaming himself too. OR that's how he got some of the ideas for the movie if I remember right.

[@stefos6431]

Actually, there is a form of Dream Yoga called Milam.............toodles This guy is not original but he did a bit of a service in presenting this.

[@maujo2009]

Isn't he a psychology major too?

[@vipersuphere]

see how she flipped that notepad around and just started writing outside on the back of it, rather than inside.... she was thinking outside of the box........ we create and perceive

[@shamanizing]

Good observation :)

[@itskelvinn]

I think she did that so she could write on blank paper instead of lined paper

[@vipersuphere]

either way. same idea

[@MikeMessiah]

+PapaKay lol u just love spoiling the party huh, lol

[@caldwell477]

+westathan Starting (2amcafelegendary) I'd let her blow me in a dream for eternity!!!

[@davecrupel2817]

its super difficult breaking this movie up into cuts for specific segments. So much detail, so finely and complexely connected, like DNA. you miss one part, it could throw you off in many regards for the rest of the movie. I love it. You dont often run into a movie of this grade.

[@unsubscribe6455]

The art of editing.

[@davecrupel2817]

Morethanmeetstheeye no amount of editing can make you fully understand this movie if you don't watch it beginning to end. No handfull of scenes can encapsulate it. Can't say the same from other movies.

[@Cankersoar]

I love how she is drawing with a Staedtler pigment liner. When I was in architecture school, my pockets where always full of those. Somebody on Nolan's production design team went to achitecture school.

[@Morcap]

Nolan is well known for attention to detail to the last degree. There is not one single ''misplacement'' in his films.

[@Papi_chulo1993]

I used to think she was really pretty, but hey, he is really pretty.

[@alisher592]

oh yeah, this gi......this guy, Elliot

[@lesliemarks5625]

This movie is a masterpiece!

[@EnriqueVivancoH]

Paprika or this copy?

[@felipesen5879]

+Enrique Vivanco Copy? I watched both and you clearly don't know what you're talking about. You couldn't even tell me a single big plot point that the movies share because there isn't one. They both take place in the dream world and Inception recreated a very short visual scene from Paprika that had nothing to do with it's plot. Noone copied anything. Paprika is an adaptation of a 1993 novel and Inception was made from scratch by Nolan, years before the anime. They are nothing alike.

[@lisacheney4763]

It's how it really works.

[@zerostrike3889]

“If it’s just a dream then why’re you....” “Because it’s never just a dream is it, and a face full of glass hurts like hell, when you’re in it..feels real” loved that line

[@charlieedwards2262]

I fucking love Inception. One of my favorite moves of all TIME

[@ashifmohammed6677]

We should be proud of being in Nolan's generation of movies.

[@frenchify7506]

This movie is pure perfection. Plain and simple. I remember when my father came up to me and told me: "Son, you need to watch this. I don't care if you don't understand cause I'll explain it to you. You *need* to watch this." So we watched it together. Back then, my English wasn't as good as it is now, so I didn't fully understand everything but as he said, he explained it to me. So I watched it a second time, then a third and fourth. I've seen this movie so many freaking times and every time, it's always amazing. The soundtrack, the actors, the frames, the story. Everything about this movie is amazing.

[@SJMJ91]

This is so much better than Interstellar!

[@stayfrosty97]

Agreed

[@Joshcoshbagosh]

SJMJ91 well, a lot of people found both movies to fantastic

[@joesomerville3232]

It might be technically better, but I'm the kind of person who loves Interstellar, so...no.

[@boydrewl]

Who cares which one is better? How about we just say Nolan is the best!?

[@mccrispysparks]

omg...sooo true...the ending of interstellar could b better

[@timidequinox1789]

Life itself is a dream. We don't really remember how we got here , we're just being told . What if when we finally die we wake up somewhere and we realize it only lasted 5 minutes there but it seemed like a lifetime in here .

[@pf210]

Hope so...

[@phoenixrising164]

This movie is so intellectually stimulating. Everything has come together so well , Hans zimmers background , Leos acting and Nolans direction. Cant get better.

[@emmanuelagudo4918]

'now in a dream, our mind continuously does this.' a very brilliant script.

[@raccoonmoustache]

My favourite movie of all time, totally mind blowing

[@dmr0718able]

There was a time when I was in high school I dreamt that I went through a whole day of school. Went to each class got on bus went home only to wake up and realise that the day never started. I woke up so upset because my mind put me through a 8 day week.

[@g-fanmax1838]

Man that had to suck.

[@JA-ru3il]

I've done this as well, Ive woken up about 3-4 times before finally really waking up and realizing I still had a whole day ahead of me.

[@jingerstorm]

ive actually experienced dreams within dreams in real life, where i realized i was dreaming woke up from that dream adn then realized that i was still dreaming. was really weird, all this before i even watched inception

[@boyblue80]

same. Had one where I had a nightmare and woke from the nightmare. Went into my mum and dad's bedroom to tell them and my mum turned over in bed with a zombie face grinning at me. Then I really woke up.

[@sagnictarat9160]

Same hee

[@21wonker]

Sorry that's not a dream within a dream. You are in one dream and have just continued that dream. Same dream being a nightmare. A dream within a dream is where you go to sleep in your dream. Then start a new dream. New world new scenario but that one same person is in it. You see I had one about a girl. We were friends and we had a good day then both went to bed to sleep. Now in new dream same girl but I am protecting from many threats. Now I get her to safety and that dream is over. I wake up in bed next to her. We both have breakfast and she goes home. I wake up for real. That is a dream within a dream. Your dream just broke but continued to be a nightmare. But you didn't know you was having a dream. Within a dream. You see if you are in control which you would have been it was your dream. You would have known you were in a dream within a dream. While it was happening. Not after you had woken up. Hope that explains it

[@fbeast1995]

@@boyblue80 that's some traumatizing shit right there holy damn

[@user-ee7gg5pe8d]

I've actually had a dream within a dream within a dream Short but very freaky and don't want it to happen agaun

[@alizulqarnain5346]

Inception is about shiva conciousness about waking up from identity.. matrix of the mind God bless

[@YangBalanceYin]

Ugh this movie was such a love letter to good sound design.

[@cats3xxx]

Hans Zimmer and Nolan. Unreal combo

[@Potrimpo]

Screw the Matrix, THIS is a dream world.

[@Peter_1986]

+Potrimpto Actually, "The Matrix" is slightly more accurate when it comes to lucid dreaming. When people in that movie are plugged into the Matrix they are essentially "asleep", and the Matrix is the "dreamworld". The only things that aren't true about lucid dreaming in that movie are the idea that injury and death in a dream would mean injuries and death to your real-life body (which is NOT true - if that were true then people could die by daydreaming about dying) - and of course, a dream would only take place inside your own head. But apart from this, "The Matrix" is fairly accurate most of the time. "Inception" may be more direct about the dreaming part, but it isn't really that accurate. For example, the definition of a "lucid dream" is that you _know_ that you are dreaming, but in "Inception" people eventually start mistaking their dreams for reality, which is essentially just an ordinary type of dream that most people experience every night. Also, you cannot "get struck in dream limbo" in lucid dreams, you can only jump between different dream scenes, and you will always wake up like normal because your actual sleep stages haven't changed. Moreover, time does not slow down in dreams - there actually exists scientific research on this where lucid dreamers have been asked to count the seconds in their dreams and communicate the beginning and end of their counting with very specific eye signals (which were read on an EEG scanner) and it turned out that 10 seconds to them did indeed correspond to 10 "real" seconds. But yes, "Inception" is a great movie, and a few parts are quite close to "real" lucid dreaming.

[@jasperleung5702]

Time does not slow down in dreams, not does it slow down anywhere. Time cannot be slowed or hastened, it is not absolute. However, time can be perceived differently by different people. In essence, it is not possible to slow down time in your dreams, but it is possible to perceive time slower or quicker in your dreams.

[@jameswilliams-of3mv]

,,freddy krueger disagreas lol

[@MaxCE]

@@Peter_1986 if you die in your dream you die in reality, that because you dying get represented as death in the matrix or the dream

[@AverageAlien]

Actually the matrix is way better than inception

[@ttmusicchannel013]

The music, the script, everything about it... It's perfect, at least for me. Will always be my favourite movie.

[@psyskeptic9979]

It is just an utter masterpiece.

[@sylvestorstyllstoned488]

Happy Birthday to the legend Leonardo DiCaprio! Truly one of the greatest actors of our time.

[@harrystory6811]

1:03 The way that she turns over the page from a checkered page to a plain page is genius. It shows her thinking outside the box, literally and figuratively. Literally, she turned to a plain page and drew a circle maze, figuratively it shows she is unique and different from others, boasting her intellectual mind, hence why she is perfect for the job. Amazing script 😍

[@Toph.Beifong.]

Love this movie.

[@Ruciful]

But you can't watch it!

[@5nefarious]

Ruciful Hehe. Blind earthbender is blind. Actually, now I feel really bad for blind people...

[@Toph.Beifong.]

+aismartie14 But even listening to this movie is fun :)

[@user-vc5rp7nf8f]

"not exactly", "that's more like it" - signature nolan writing

[@juniwilliams]

The music really amplifies the tension. No one appreciates it

[@LifeForUndead]

Navy

[@LifeForUndead]

Inception

[@BreezyBulldog]

I get kinda mad when people say this movie is “bad” just because they couldn’t understand it the first time but honestly if you just pay close enough attention it’s pretty simple to follow

[@joeyjerry1586]

Christian C, even when I watched it the first time, I honestly understood it pretty well. I was confused at time but I managed to understand. This movie is just a masterpiece,

[@g-fanmax1838]

I feel like this is the kind of film you need to watch more than once to understand, at least for me, because the first TIME I was pretty confused, but the second TIME I saw it it was easier to understand.

[@davd1986]

Anyone notice how in virtually all of Nolan's films at least one character (in this scene it's Cobb) says 'that's more like it)? Cilian Murphy's character in The Dark Knight says this as well when Batman shows up for the first time in the film to break up the meeting in the garage. Morgan Freeman's character say it as well when talking to Bruce Wayne in I believe the Dark Knight...'now that's more like it Mr. Wayne...'

[@arieltraasdahl-xh6ri]

This lady is pretty amazing.

[@varmamaharaj2241]

This is a movie u can watch everyday and not get bored THATS HOW GREAT IT IS

[@ilyaalsyariefhussein1219]

i can watch this movie,over and over..

[@FromHyrule]

I lucid dream all the time, it’s amazing. The places I’m in always seem mystical and, well, dreamlike.

[@ericsong5155]

I could watch this scene over and over and I still won't get tired of it

[@AmericanGraffiti1962]

I feel they reversed the time for the movie. An hour in the dream is 5 minutes in real life? I think it's way different, I remember dreaming for like 10 minutes and when I woke up it was 8 hours later.

[@AmericanGraffiti1962]

When did I call you that?

[@AmericanGraffiti1962]

I don't remember calling you that because I've been heavily medicated lately due to a back injury but if I did I'm sorry.

[@AmericanGraffiti1962]

I know MrRock pretty well, as a KZbinr and a person and he knows I would never call someone a terrorist, I'm a better person than that, and I don't even know how to delete messages, hell I can't even block you.

[@WalterWoshid]

AmericanGraffiti Begins What's the reason you dont remember some of your dreams after waking up? Google it up and you see why...

[@AmericanGraffiti1962]

Alrighty

[@megandunklin6147]

This movie helped me survive. Christopher Nolan has been robbed so many times!

[@biltriz]

A kiss between two guys. Did Joseph Gordon Levit knew that?

[@nickpednekar5312]

Haha I bet he didn't

[@anandbk9310]

The sound design of this scene is beyond appreciation

[@shamanizing]

This scene reminds me Of Lucid Dreaming, or Tibetan Dream yoga where the more you train being mindful during your waking hours, the More mindful you are during sleeping-(Lucid dreaming). The intent of Dream Yoga, is the more time you spend practising being mindful, the more cognition you develop, in practice one can be mindful 24 hours a day, towards developing eventual Awakening ( Enlightenment) in the context of spiritual Awakening. i do this practice--a work in progress! --When we are not mindful, life is as if it is a dream, regardless if we are in the dreaming state or not, there is no difference ;)

[@DonKarp]

"Inception": great movie, but a little hard to follow.

[@shamanizing]

Yansa, Its a good place to learn :)

[@Peter_1986]

***** Lucid dreaming is actually a scientifically proven phenomenon, so it is considered a real scientific topic nowadays. Both The Matrix and Inception are heavily inspired by lucid dreaming, but I personally think that The Matrix is slightly more accurate. The only things that are not true in The Matrix when it comes to lucid dreaming are the use of machines and the idea that your physical body is harmed by events inside The Matrix, but except for that, The Matrix is an excellent metaphor for lucid dreaming. The scene when Neo tries to jump between two buildings is probably the most accurate "lucid dream scene" - he knows that he is in a "virtual reality" (which is kind of the same thing as a dream, in some sense), and he finds out that he needs to trust his supernatural skills in order to actually be able to perform them. That's what a lot of lucid dreamers go through in their first lucid dreams. One fantastic thing about lucid dreaming is that it can have a dramatic effect on your waking life. Lucid dreaming can feel so vivid that it gives the exactly same convincing experience as waking life itself, and you can use lucid dreams to experiment with all kinds of things and live out all kinds of fantasies; I usually find myself feeling extremely happy for a whole day when I wake up from a great lucid dream. It seems like the media is starting to discover lucid dreaming more and more, which has resulted in movies like The Matrix, Inception, A Nightmare On Elm Street etc.

[@MariusIhlar]

***** But if you stay in REM-sleep all night you will not get the rest you need during night, it is not possible. You have several REM periods during one night. But the last one may feel like about 5 hours, just as they explained in this movie.

[@RobinK]

I've been doing this for a couple of years now. It mostly happens after I wake up and fall asleep again shortly after. The feeling of knowing that you're dreaming is amazing. And while everything feels so real, you can do the craziest things that you aren't able to do in real life.

[@JABBAR.H]

I just love the background music its epic

[@realSimoneCherie]

Anyone ever tried to maintain a lucid dream and “stay cam” knows how hard it is

[@sparda9060]

I watched this movie a few times every year since it came out. I saw it in theaters like 4 or 5 times. I've must have watched it over 30 times now. Each time I rewatch it find some new detail I never notice before. I get scared of watching it again as I would find another detail I never saw before thinking that I've seen them all. One of the few solid ass totally original script I've ever seen for a movie.

[@Zoza15]

Owh my god, the memories of how fucking good this movie is!.. I want to watch it again now.

[@Dobbla1]

Great movie, excellent story, i and i like when i see something that i 've never seen before....

[@raings5511]

Elliot paige is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen...

[@lordabhijith]

One of the iconic moments in cinematic history.

[@Generationsoundtrack]

0:28 - 1:16 That's an perfect example of the use of time in a scene! For all who are interested in moviemaking! It's 10 minutes put in 45 seconds of film! It's important to stretch and squeeze time - AMAZING!

[@sharanshetty7957]

If there was a visual representation of MIND BLOWN. 🤯

[@mohammadsaadsheikh8343]

The reason she draws a spiral maze is because if you drew a maze you would need an inside wall and an outside wall. You draw a spiral that take takes one minute to draw, and a line identical but adjacent which woud also take one minute. Those are the inside and outside walls. Now if you dont put dead ends(except for a tiny wall that joins the two walls at the center), the answer would be a direct line that starts at the center and follows the walls until it gets out. Since the answer is only as long as either wall, and both walls took one minute each to draw, the answer would only take one minute. Follows all requirements

[@-bookish]

Thanks for your comment. I understood better with your comment.

[@Empressoftheflames]

Been looking for this scene where he makes her draw the maze everywhere! Thanks for uploading!!

[@robinfuijk]

The music in this movie is just so fucking amazing. I just can't get over how amazing this movie is.

[@dusken2550]

Imagine if this technology was real, and we could have wars not in real life but through our brains.

[@yashwanthcb]

like PUBG

[@JoeFresi]

“I’ve got someone better” Ooh get rekt lmao

[@adamgardiner5869]

Nolans films don't work being viewed only once. They need to viewed again and again, slowly making u fall in love, admire and revel in his vision.

[@TheJereld]

"And a face full of glass hurts like hell." I know that feeling.

[@blockstudiosufozeon]

This movie made me mind blown

[@meganluminais3586]

He is such a talented actor ❤️

[@NamiNade-kz7ew]

Who the long hair or the sort one??

[@ripleyjlawman.3162]

@@NamiNade-kz7ew I know you didn’t ask me, but I’d say both of them.

[@joachimfoerster2592]

still the greatest movie on this category

[@bunglesocks]

christopher nolan ladies and gentlemen!.....the only man on the planet that can make a van falling into a river for 40 minutes the most tense shit ever

[@A-Dubs398]

I've sometimes had dreams where I realized it was a dream. I didn't get scared and nothing exploded.

[@hareeshkumar2789]

That's lucid dreaming...if u realising that u r dreaming..then u can control that dream

[@fidelio76]

Peopel say interstaller is best decade movie Me: inception

[@samarvora7185]

Interstellar

[@punnaroothsrimongkolsilp1543]

One of the best of all time!

[@illezable]

Soundtrack is amazing.

[@mqtchairman123]

I think Nolan recognizes talent. These guys are a hell of powerful cast so why change it?

[@thewatchfather]

I feel sorry for those who have not seen this movie.

[@ddman31]

Every time I see this movie, I learn something more about it. It's such an incredible experience.

[@NameNik223]

It's cool that Nolan didn't change music when the cafe scene started so we don't understand that they are already dreaming

[@alx5904]

This movie raises my iq

[@antic4mper819]

Ariadne: the greek god associated with mazes O_O

[@createplanwithelle]

The one who helped to escape Labyrinth and to escape the Minotaur.

[@antic4mper819]

Indeed

[@CraftyScotty99]

Is there any other names to state the characters' traits in the film?

[@theprogram863]

"Cob" is an old english word for spider (a surviving word in English that uses this root is "cobweb"). In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins uses the original obsolete word, "attercop" (literally "poison-head"), to insult and distract the giant spiders of Mirkwood; late middle English abbreviates this to "cob". So Inception uses the word to show a kinship between Ariadne and Cobb. Ariadne's origin in Classical mythology (as a creator AND solver of labyrinths) probably references her more cerebral approach. whereas Cobb comes from a darker, more druidic place. Cob-webs are old spiderwebs, abandoned and covered in dust. That and "poison-head" are pretty good descriptions of Cobb's mental problems. "Dom", Cobb's first name, can be used as either a title of nobility or a rank in a monastic order; again it's appropriate in both senses. It's worth pointing out that the original Ariadne sacrifices her own royal position to save Theseus, who then abandons her later, but I don't see a parallel in this story. Yusuf jumps out at me. It's a variation on Joseph, who in the Bible rises to his position of prominence via his interpretations of the Pharaoh's dreams. His wise counsel saves Egypt and the Pharaoh, and his own family (who had rejected him). However, his political policies were SO smart that the Pharaoh ended up owning nearly everything in Egypt and reducing the people to servitude. Similarly, Yusuf is so faithful to his employer (Cobb) that he helps trick them into the mission without knowing the dangers. Mal obviously literally means "bad / wrong", which is Cobb's big epiphany at the end; that she's just a projection and not his real dead wife. Also a reference to her breakdown. In german, though, I found Mal means a time or occurrence-- which also describes her, an echo or remembrance of a particular time in Cobb's life that is now over. I'm sure we can figure out sources for Saito, Eames, and Arthur. (Arthur might be a corruption of "author" or a reference to Camelot. Eames is a modernist furniture style, comfortable and stylish in its time but now a little shabby and dated, which matches Tom Hardy's description of the character he was aiming for. But these could also be just happenstance, whereas the ones above seem very obviously intended to me.)

[@SecondQuantisation]

It's both cool and kinda terrifying we all experience the same phenomenon of 'dreams'. Vivid hallucinations and amnesia brought about by unconciousness. They're all totally personal to each of us, existing only within our own heads, and yet so many people have common themes in dreams. Seeing all these aspects recognised and explored in a film is just Nolan's genius.

[@AbeetSekharV]

I started thinking about my dreams after seeing this movie. Thinking 💭 level ultimate. What a masterpiece 😎

[@higtv1]

1:24

[@reunited258]

sto s time?

[@ProHigherYT]

Guys Im not dreaming anymore

[@reunited258]

@@ProHigherYT 😂

[@visualsforyou7120]

I don't understand the original comment or the replies...

[@walterwhite4699]

what...?

[@Johnboy59918]

When cobb is dreaming he always has his wedding ring on in each dream, at the end when he wakes up and see's his kids that is real as no wedding ring on his hand, the totem is irrelevant at the end. :) hope this helps some of the confused people watching this.

[@afgrulez345]

OMFGG I believed you for a second but remember cobbs said that your totem has to be touched by you and only you (I'm paraphrasing I don't exactly remember word for word) and his wedding ring had been touched by who knows who and that makes it irrelevant.

[@Johnboy59918]

Yes good reminder on that, but I'm still going with the wedding ring answer. It clears everything up perfectly in the film. Maybe we will never know for sure :)

[@xMarc97]

@@Johnboy59918 we do now😇

[@rohiteerabattini1312]

This scene gives me goose bumps everytime I see it.

[@aaronkenyon7112]

The first time I saw this movie, I didn't get it probably because I wasn't paying attention but the second time I did and I wanted to watch it again. Mr Nolan, what a mind you have

[@julioobregon]

did you know tha the maze used in this scene is actually impossible to solve

[@abdullahx4908]

Why do i feel like Cobb recruiting Ariadne is exactly how Nolan hires actors in his movies

[@captainavery2091]

I dont know why 1:15 to 1:40 is my favorite part. The film lets you take a break and soak in the soundtrack and the dialog, and then Cobb's quote "they say we only use a fraction of our brains true potential" as the soundtrack begins to pick up, god thats so good

[@goodkrypollo1706]

I was lucky as hell to see this movie in Imax. The soundtrack is mindblowing