The Hidden Meaning in Inception - Earthling Cinema

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What if an alien in the future stumbled upon Inception? Welcome to Earthling Cinema, where we examine the last remaining artifacts of a once-proud culture and try to understand what human lives were like before their planet was destroyed. I'm your host, Garyx Wormuloid.
This week's film:
Inception (2010)
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page
Production Co: Warner Bros., Legendary Pictures, Syncopy
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Written by: Ben Steiner
Analysis & Directed by: Jared Bauer
Starring: Mark Schroeder ( / mark_schroeder )
Edited by: Ryan Hailey
Original Music by: David Krystal (www.davidkrystalmusic.com)
Opening Animation by: Danny Rapaport
Producer & Additional Artwork by: Jacob S. Salamon
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[@Excelsoft]

The whole life is a dream, you start from the middle of something, and don't remember the beginnings, you were just told about them.

[@BILBOBAGGERSON]

Holy shit

[@AnonymousAnonymous-tu7jd]

The part that fucks me up most about what you said is how I can't remember being born...

[@michaelredman408]

Like how the big bang just happened, and we don't know what happened before it.

[@corpseopera]

you don't remember,but your mom and dad do.

[@CptRastapopulos]

They may yet just be projections of your own mind

[@RammsteinFan1122]

You're sitting in a chair? I always thought you are floating...

[@user-lm2yg8sk5g]

+Thenoon he is floating and no one dare say otherwise!

[@Atypical-Abbie]

+Thenoon Actually the chair itself is floating, so in some way, you can say that he's floating too!

[@user-mx6cr7wt5d]

+Thenoon he's floating in a space chair

[@yoda969]

He's sitting in a chair...from a certain point of view

[@picklerick98]

+Thenoon i always thought he was standing

[@MonsterTeegs]

Him seeing his kids faces at the end is him accepting that moment as reality, regardless if it really is.

[@bohemiangrove]

all these years on youtube and never knew this guy existed

[@MM-vs2et]

lol same

[@what_the_feek5568]

bohemiangrove I just found him today 😂

[@ryancardenas3237]

This is great high lol

[@triceratops7084]

bohemiangrove same man :D

[@WavestormOfPower]

Wait... I thought you were standing the whole time oO

[@lenichimer]

haha, yeah. so did I :-)

[@fernandotario8819]

Me to

[@heptide1]

+WavestormOfPower I just assumed that his species only had a torso, arms, and head.

[@notmyrealID]

+WavestormOfPower hashtæg team standing!

[@TheBlackLantern34]

+WavestormOfPower If he was standing we would have heard his tentacles idly moving around, so he's *obviously* sitting on a high chair.

[@politure]

Seriously I fucking love the deadpan humour here, the way you coolly say "inception explores the labyrinthian world of the human mind, so naturally it is very simplistic and easy to unpack", you play the character brilliantly.

[@haltopen12]

His kids are clearly older in the final scene. The kids in the dream always appear to be around 2-4 years old respectively, but in the final scene the girl looks around 7-8 and the boy looks to be around 3-4 years old. There's also the fact that they cast an older pair of child actors for the final scene so.

[@joeri2027]

Yea. They look about a few years older.

[@JosoLifts]

+haltopen12 bro your profile pic is trippy as fuck

[@SinFulxxNaTure]

I believe he's in reality , if you notice, while he dreams he has his wedding ring on, but when he's awake he has it off.

[@Kelvin-ht2vh]

DREAMER did u not understand what the totems were? in the last scene he was in a dream bc the totem never stopped spinning

[@maltheaugust8416]

you don't see whether it stops spinning or no, though. That's kinda the point.

[@kevinvo619]

She killed herself because she thought she was still in limbo not to bring them there. SMH

[@edhopurnama]

both actually. SMH

[@Gigaheart]

+Kevin Vo SATIRE smh

[@IanSumallo]

+Kevin Vo Summaries of movies on Earthling Cinema assumes that you know the real story and just plays with it. The actual analysis of plot devices used usually comes at around the 2nd half.

[@errwhattheflip]

Pretty sure that isn't true. What I remember is that she believed that their world was a dream, so she wanted to "wake them up" by killing herself, much like what they did in Limbo. However, Cobb kept shade of her, a memory of her in Limbo to remember. Hence why he calls her just a shade. She got out of Limbo, she didn't want to back in Limbo, but rather her idea of a reality more "real"

[@Gallzatron]

"Inception explores the labyrinthine world of the human mind, so naturally it is very simplistic and easy to unpack" haha I love this show

[@ruthielalastor2209]

"The jock, the nerd, the nerd and the nerd." That's my circle of friends, too!

[@ruthielalastor2209]

Iamyouonlydifferent Man, i realize I'm a bit of many kinds: movies, TV, music... My two best friends are an anime and TV nerd and a comic book nerd. We get to teach each other what we know.

[@tj-co9go]

Yeah except my circle is Nerd Nerd Nerd Nerd Nerd Nerd Nerd and Nerd

[@ScreenRant]

Great collaboration with a great channel and great video as well!

[@michaeljohn1462]

Screen Rant ffhjbfftuijdssdxhjihfvv

[@paulplath8242]

Garrex were you recently in a commercial for a hotel chain?

[@WisecrackEDU]

+Paul Plath Glad you noticed. They made me shave my eyebrows down. :(

[@ankurama42]

+Wisecrack You came to the human world??? SELLOUT!!!!!!!

[@TooTsaka]

+Wisecrack The reason why you had to shave them is probably because the rest of the world is not ready to behold your glory... yet. One day, Garrex... one day.

[@MrBeastknows]

+Wisecrack *gasp* so you're the next Doctor!

[@evolvedediting9844]

+Paul Plath Which hotel?

[@JasonXBeats]

When he says you never really remember the beginning of a dream really, you always just remember where your going. Doesn't this remind you of being born - you can't remember being born you just know......hey I'm here. Folks you are in a dream lol don't let science fool you into saying oh your frontal cortex lobe has not formed etc blah blah. Lol wake up!

[@SoFancySoFetusy]

The hidden meaning in the Machinist!

[@gameoverwehaveeverypixelco1258]

+naumsNquiters Hollow lol.

[@mladjireferent9625]

+Batman 1964 Here...It's a thinly veiled Fight Club rip-off.

[@mikeyproctor5670]

Bleach is better than soap?

[@mladjireferent9625]

Mikey Proctor The yardstick of civilization, my friend.

[@Keyser666]

This one was rather scant on actual analysis.

[@peeterbleh]

+Keyser Soze Yeah, they only grazed the dream/cinema parallels. That's the main thing!

[@mrmovieguy1000]

Yeah I think pretty much all he said was that there are parallels between dreams and cinema and we never really know if we are awake or not, like how they do in the film..

[@Wegotthiscovered]

Great video, will definitely be checking out other vids from your channel!

[@soren7550]

Care to do Spirited Away (or any Studio Ghibli film for that matter)?

[@TheGrapeinc]

Please do Blade Runner.

[@raymondburton4451]

yeah

[@MatiasAlric]

+TheGrapeinc yes... yes... YES

[@roosaylonen1768]

YESYESYES!!!

[@oscarzafra7597]

+TheGrapeinc why? blade runner is just a carbon copy of ghost in the shell but just not a philosophically rich. He might as well do ghost in the shell if that's the case.

[@TheGrapeinc]

oscar zafra Blade Runner was realised in 1982, Ghost in the Shell was realised in 1995, even the manga was realised seven years after the first cut of Blade Runner.

[@3leggedkitten]

You're my favorite youtube show I've found in a long time. Thank you for every amazing episode!!!

[@Turosarous]

I don't leave many comments on KZbin, but this is a MUST. This show (together with everything Wisecrack) is just THE BEST. Keep up the great work.

[@etorres2013]

Omg, do Jurassic Park!

[@WisecrackEDU]

Which one?

[@etorres2013]

The original of course! :)

[@theleanbusinessman5431]

Yo, wisecrack? Limbo isn't the 4th level, it's a state or place that u go to if u die if in a dream within a dream, within a dream, or something like that, I don't remember

[@theleanbusinessman5431]

Btw, it's a dream

[@ilia7083]

Is it just me who sometimes wakes up without remembering a thing from my dream, and yet feels so helpless and awful from being back in this reality?? Makes me wonder if the dream was really good I wanted to stay or the dream I am waking up into is so bad that I don't wanna stay...

[@osamabinsaucin929]

You're not alone man, that stuff happens regularly to me sometimes, I'll be having such a nice & vivid dream, just to quickly wake up laying on my back in my bed, then the heavy,sinking feeling on my chest quickly follows as reality sets in that it was all a dream,

[@charlesspencer3853]

Aaaahhhh, wow, you are brilliant. The content, humor, and intelligence of this piece of work, an doubtless of your other ones as well, is absolutely brilliant.

[@javigalindo8560]

I LOVED all the little sound effects in this one, like the squishing sounds when Mal and Cobb are lying on the train tracks round 1:55, and when she tosses herself out the window. Obviously those scenes in-movie are full of gravitas, but here with those absurd sound effects I can't help but cackle.

[@crozraven]

next please do Predestination!

[@yushatak]

Chair? I always thought you were standing up and the case with the artifact was just tall... *mind blown*

[@App-bj6kz]

just tumbled upon to check your videos! Great, love it, subed and liked! :D

[@proverbial4252]

I liked your approach. Many intend to explain "inception" and don't achieve it. You didn't try that. Instead you brought something to think about regarding the film.

[@exertoins7084]

Most funny Earthling Cinema episode yet. I wish you would do something really hard and difficult though.

[@JordanWindhamBenford]

do the hidden meaning of 'Clerks'. I love that movie and would love for you to do a comedy.

[@donnakelly653]

This is the best thing on KZbin. Thanks Swirmy!

[@MrTube7776]

I just started watching these and i love them! please keep making more.

[@latieraeve]

This is the second time Garrex dint bow at the end of the video. Highly offended!

[@tombrady1927]

the place where he is in the end is probably reality because if the reality would be a level above then his wife could visit him in her dreams but she didn't so she is probably actually dead

[@hemjoshi7619]

Inception's plot is actually straight-forward and doesn't "lie" about when they are dreaming vs. the real world. What's brilliant about it is that, it incepts the idea that he isn't in reality at the end (even though he is), by planting the seed of the idea with the spinning top, JUST AS COBB DID WITH HIS WIFE. The audience ends up with the same affliction as she does-questioning the reality of the film, and coming up with elaborate and convoluted theories to support the idea that he's still in a dream. But there is no logical reason to believe he's still dreaming; the spinning top is the only reason we start doubting (if he hasn't spun the top and just went straight outside to see his kids, we wouldn't wonder if it's still a dream). Just like Cobb's wife had no logical reasons to doubt reality, only the nagging idea left behind from the spinning top in their dream. Also the totem at the end was wobbling alot more, it was just about to fall down. This is the best thing about Inception; Nolan pulled off an inception on the audience, just as Cobb pulled it off on his wife.

[@dunnowy123]

WHOA. That was brilliant. I love the parallel between dreams and cinema.

[@RockWarlordJock]

Okay, I always questioned my reality, whether if this life is a dream or not and what he said about wiping that weird gunk on the corner of my eye at 4:07 didn't help at all, since that's exactly what I was doing just a second before he said that. I would have been fully convinced that this is the real world if I did that exact thing he said AFTER he said it. Someone give me a kick or something, cause I don't believe a totem works since if I'm convinced with how physics works, then every totem I would have tried to create would just go on with the law of physics even if it's on a dream.

[@robertflores1544]

Sheesh

[@taylorbeckett9686]

He's in a chair?!!

[@Jaydoggy531]

Always a thrill to see new videos.

[@michael2351]

That popping sound effect that was added to Leo's alley escape made me laugh

[@aaronasbury2848]

So what was the "hidden" meaning? I don't believe you told us anything we didn't know.

[@kalvinhobbes5879]

Aaron Asbury Live in the moment and stop worrying.

[@DanRaidersWarriorsSharksGiants]

Kalvin the title is click bait glad u cool with it many are not

[@mrmovieguy1000]

Yeah I think pretty much all he said was that there are parallels between dreams and cinema and we never really know if we are awake or not, like how they do in the film..

[@TheBlueJamie]

I was under the impression Mal killed herself because Cobb planted the spin top in her mind to give her the idea that she was still dreaming. Hence, she killed herself because she thought the real world was still a dream, not because she wanted to frame Cobb.

[@ilia7083]

I think that makes more sense. The inception that Cobb did was so powerful even after waking up it still had it's root planted in Mal. I also think the hotel scene was just Mal framing Cobb to say hey, there is no life here left for you, I will jump and if you don't you will have no life here, just jump with me... It was merely the extent that Cobb went to get Mal out of dream, that Mal went to get Cobb out of reality...

[@TheBlueJamie]

@@ilia7083 That's just it, I think it was the opposite. She didn't want to go back to the dream/limbo, she actually wanted to go back to reality - the whole point of incepting is that you place an idea in someone's mind so that they think they came up with it themselves once awake in the real world. The eternally spinning top, inside the safe of her mind makes her believe she is still dreaming. The framing scene was about forcing Cobb to jump, to go back to reality with her. I don't see how the framing has anything to do with going back to limbo, as mentioned in the video.

[@Katosepe]

That was a great analysis of the movie. Thanks, Garrex!

[@leeoughton7551]

There are not nearly enough of these!!! love soooooo much

[@Emanon009]

Do one on Memento or Prestige.

[@theplaguedoctor773]

wait wait wait. He's sitting in a chair? I always thought he was standing...

[@Ch3mG33k]

I was literally wiping the gunk out of my eyes while watching this video! Great way to start the day.

[@tupera1]

4:06 - Good point! Incidentally, I have had dreams where, in my dream, said to myself, "I'm dreaming!"

[@DRSDavidSoft]

1:53 and 1:56.... These Sound Effects are killing me :))))))

[@edu-kt]

4:48

[@mitraa9]

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[@otakutaka817]

yeah! I had to watch that part like three times! I was laughing so hard lol

[@MrBX5]

You should have done some more research, the ring was his real charm, everytime he was wearing the ring on his hand meant he was in a dream. At the end he wasn't wearing the ring, meaning that it was reality.

[@DerKlownstein]

Not necessarily. Did you ever take into consideration that maybe his ring was a symbol of his inability to let go of his wife? The ring is his totem. And throughout the movie, when we see him wear it, he is always in a dream. However, at the end, this is after he has let his wife go. So maybe he is still in a dream, just not wearing the ring because he finally let go.

[@cjua2803]

+The Klown but he wasnt wearing it at the beginning of the movie whilst in the real world either so him letting go is irrelevant

[@UltimateKyuubiFox]

If what you're saying is true, Klown, he would've been wearing the ring on the plane then removed it when he exited after the inception mission. Instead, in times when he isn't dreaming, the ring isn't on his finger. This is observable throughout the film.

[@brettito]

+The Klown, I thought that his wife's totem was the top and they never explicitly tell you that the top is his totem. So I agree, the ring is his totem.

[@purplepineapple117]

+The Klown No because he only checks his ring when he wants to check where he is. They made a character with a repeatable behavior they wouldn't do something as odd as that.

[@elementsofsciencefictionmo4450]

You guys are so great for doing these!

[@fireprince688]

This is fast becoming my favorite channel on KZbin

[@benaaronmusic]

Can't wait until Breaking Bad. Thanks, Wisecrack.

[@notmyrealID]

+Ben Aaron have they done series?

[@benaaronmusic]

+Bramble knight they said they are going to cover it soon.

[@notmyrealID]

Ben Aaron ah cool, thanks.

[@googlmeshy7290]

Do Donnie Darko next please.

[@SamRykerTV]

I love this video!! Awesome as always!!! Woohooooo

[@jV-xz6su]

"I saw inception or at least I dreamt I did"-Michael Scott

[@RicardoGarcia-md3rs]

please please please do PROMETHEUS

[@raymondburton4451]

yes

[@yuray888]

+Ricardo Garcia Very underrated.

[@RicardoGarcia-md3rs]

Yuray888 why?

[@yuray888]

Ricardo Garcia Why what? I just think it's an underrated movie, everyone is bashing on it for not answering a lot of questions.

[@raymondburton4451]

I like the movie

[@imreadydoctor]

Edward Scissorhands, please!

[@Spleknik]

I can't get enough of these!!

[@zmail8566]

The space bites almost got me this time, thanks for the warning Garex :)

[@gypsymelon]

Oh come on! If you're going to do Breaking Bad, you're going to HAVE to do Game of Thrones!!!

[@WisecrackEDU]

+gypsymelon Checked out the Thug Notes on Game of Thrones yet? kzbin.info/www/bejne/onvWpGqubtZ4q8U

[@leejunki1997]

The hidden meaning in Watchmen, please?

[@WisecrackEDU]

+Ezio Auditore noted, thanks for the suggestion. We did do the book recently on Thug Notes. Check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/emS0l6Bnr55neKM

[@sqjpure]

This is kinda awesome. I'm subscribing!

[@Aeihd]

(in talking on cobbs totem)"yea, there was this whole thing." lol brilliant.

[@whitetuxmafiaandfilms5042]

Seven samurai and I say this kiddingly but if you do it, it will be badass, a Serbian film

[@Fpsmexicanninja]

+WhiteTuxMafiaAndFilms xD

[@nelsonariza4075]

Heck no!

[@whitetuxmafiaandfilms5042]

Nelson Ariza I mean a Serbian Film has kinda been beaten to death when it comes to analysis but I would love to see what Aliens think of the movie XD

[@ericad8412]

+WhiteTuxMafiaAndFilms HELL YEAH

[@user-ed7gm7ol8k]

do donnie darko pls

[@joshwilkins9138]

Awesome video!!

[@Lonelyedits4138]

Very well! You are the First Video that I watch that has it right! I came out with the same conclusion when I watched this movie... I've seen a couple of other videos that get a few things wrong about this vision, but you are the first that I watched that has it right! so I liked this video... and watched it

[@Yatsura2]

So, whats the Hidden Meaning again?

[@hayatonorayato5453]

Any One here know Paprika the move ? :3

[@hayatonorayato5453]

I think inception is really good remake :3

[@brianlinville439]

it is. What I think the deep meaning may be, who remembers being born? or the day you came into this world? Do you remember how you got here? row row your boat, life is but a dream.

[@daddyskaddy94]

This is the best series on KZbin, Bravo.

[@aroccoification]

These videos are so great

[@kght222]

garyx, you better be a puppet, otherwise last night would be pretty awkward.

[@amalia7513]

Hey, uh, can you do the hidden meaning of Donnie Darko? Please?

[@ericragnar3069]

I like your sense of humor. Good job

[@toufexiselias]

Man, I love this channel.

[@carlossegura9527]

omg do a Serbian film. favorite family movie

[@pojot]

yeah, it's my fave family movie too!! it's such a cute, feel-good film

[@BestragaGdeSi]

absurd is how someone portrayed sebrs in that manner. disgusting is how some fucked minds can do that

[@carlossegura9527]

Absurd indeed

[@canibaloxide]

Most over rated film ever.

[@hafaskater]

+Dead as Dreams Why?

[@canibaloxide]

Terrell Taylor It's one big plot hole.

[@Ben-fx9kx]

+Dead as Dreams overrated yes but not bad

[@canibaloxide]

ben zhong Agreed

[@Drudenfusz]

+Dead as Dreams Almost every film has plot holes. Really, if you think that plot is the only thing that matters, then you have very little understanding of what makes great films, and by the way, some plot holes are intentional, but I guess that thought never occured to you.

[@vabradobro]

great video guys

[@christopherdibiase3066]

Awesome vid! Love hidden meanings in movies!

[@Dousch]

You did not provide what the title promised. All you did was prove you did not understand the film. Immediate dislike.

[@thegoat593]

Its comedy bud

[@anikmirza2430]

*_+Adam_* ikr. And I came here for answer. After 2 minutes I realized I understood the movie better than this guy. Hey u know what happened in the end ? Was he still dreaming ?

[@rolf778]

Always happy to see dumb kids.

[@anikmirza2430]

***** says the dumb kid

[@rolf778]

Anik Mirza Sure if you want to know what happened in the end and if he is still dreaming, I can tell you. In the end all audience leave the cinema perplexed, however they conclude that it's such a good movie because it leaves space for them audience to have their own version of the final ending. In short, there is no 'actual' ending since its ultimate purpose has been achieved, which is to intrigue the audience, getting them to wonder. Therefore your questions are in fact the exact result the movie is expecting to create. There is no 'answer' because it's meant that way.

[@joshweickum]

You sir, have made me LOL more than anyone on this planet.

[@7ito1990]

Those eyebrows... he must have put me in the dream world and I haven't noticed yet. Good work!

[@99bit]

I had a dream once that I remembered from the beginning. The only reason I thought it notable was because Inception made a big deal about dreams never having a beginning.

[@ArlekinVergeltungswaffe]

LOL Those sound effects XD This is pure KZbin gold right here

[@clostridiumbotulinum5693]

I was brought here by School of Life on Woolf. this channel is cool! thanks to the both of you!

[@hellraiser2345]

Do anything next....ANYTHING. JUST KEEP DOING THESE

[@SeriouslyNotNormal]

So glad you did this one I loved Paprika

[@solio9471]

"The Joc, The Nerd, The Nerd & The Nerd" That made me chuckle lol

[@Yazzaroo22]

I love these videos ❤️

[@Havoid]

I love when he says "fair enough", because we are sitting here in between the videos too ;)

[@PatrickHuang777]

In the beginning of the movie, the music track is a super slowed down of the kick-trigger. This signifies that the entire movie started at one of his internal mental dream levels. The entire movie occurred in his limbo state. He is fucked. But the movie is also indicating that all us movie viewers are also in a dream state...

[@alamerri1]

ok gotta admit this is very clever and witty also funny this is the first video ive seen of this guy and i am impressed

[@mikesholler27]

never EVER EVER chang the format of this show it is perfect and funny

[@dannyjohnsonsgarage]

Mal was across the street so Cobb could do nothing to stop her and would have to follow her. It also adds into the feeling of helplessness and separation in dreams and in real life

[@thomaster8870]

I was just wiping weird gunk out of the corner of my eye. Perfect timing! Almost as if it had been planned....

[@GMCiaramella]

You're a puppet, a PUPPET!!!!! ARRRRRGH!!!! :) Good video series, Garax Wormuloid.

[@hdschaubey2148]

That "plup" and the message with it was good

[@chuckwagonstudios3782]

So if inception is Christopher Nolan's way of talking about movies, that means that director is Leonardo, the girl is set designer, etc. So if the woman that Leonardo used to marry is an actor, that means that this movie is much deeper than we expected. The actor is Heath ledger, and the director is Christopher Nolan. This is his apology. Mind blown. Btw, I do not take credit for this theory, Reddit.com/r/fantheroies does.

[@willyoung859]

This is amazing