07-18-2010, 10:56 AM
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... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Spoiler: I don't think it's entirely clear, and that is intentional I think. I don't think we can ever know for certain. I could be wrong. I might need a second or third viewing to be sure of that. I'm not sure if Cobb is the subject or if what happens to him is merely collateral damage. *shrug* There's a lot to keep track of the first time watching it.
Maybe you caught something I missed?
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Spoiler: Imagine that your best extractor, one of the only people in the world capable of inception, breaks down after the suicide of his wife. Now imagine the ultimate inception job comes your way and you find yourself in a pickle. We can't do inception without our extractor, Cobb, but he's too distracted by his wife to be an effective member of the team.
Spoiler: An idea: double-inception. If a clever enough person, Ariadne, can convince Cobb that he never stopped, and can arrange an inception for him, too, they might be able to pull it off. At the beginning of the story, they're already in a dream. Ariadne has Cobb and the rest of his old team under with the second mark, Robert Fischer, Jr. Notice how Cobb and his cohorts are being pursued by every government? It's a 'Mr. Charles' on Cobb so he can protect the rest of his team from his own dream agents. Then, inside the first dream, Ariadne convinces Cobb to take this one last job, giving him the ultimate incentive: seeing his kids again. He takes the job, verifying that his kids are the tool they need, so step one is in place.
Spoiler: Still, they need to set up inception for Cobb to get over his wife, so they arrange for, during his inception mission, a situation in which Cobb must decide between holding on to his dead wife or seeing his kids again. This is the sniper situation in the ice base. Cobb, seeing his phantasm wife about to kill his chances of being with his kids again, makes the choice to let her go. Then, they have Cobb join her in the place where she's been holding on to, their shared limbo. Once Cobb is able to finally let go of his dead wife in their limbo, his own inception is complete and they're able to pull out. Simultaneously, the inception created by Cobb for Robert Fischer, Jr. plays out, so they're able to finish both missions successfully.
The only question mark I had left at the end was this: Spoiler: Could Ariadne be Cobb's daughter? How long was Cobb separated from his kids? It's quite a trip. |
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