SPOILER ALERT: INCEPTION

Just a warning, I would really not recommend you read this if you haven't seen Inception.  Obviously I can't stop you but this would defiantly ruin the movie for you.

If you have seen the movie, after reading comment and tell me what you thought!

But 1st... the quote :)

Arthur: Quick, give me a kiss! 
[She kisses him and then looks around] 
Ariadne: They're still looking at us. 
Arthur: Yeah, it was worth a shot. 


First off you should know, I have seen this movie twice.  What kind of surprises me is that everyone I know who has seen it once has said that they don't understand it.  That surprises me because (and I'm not bragging- I'm just telling it like it is) for the most part I understood it.  I left the theater in what I can only describe as a state of awe.  Basically, what was running through my head was the average teen girl reaction: "I'm not dreaming, am I?" and "Joseph Gordon-Levitt is SOOOOOO cute!!" 


Then I thought about it some more.  Mainly I thought about Mal (the wife), and why she was convinced that 'reality' was just another level of limbo.  Also, how was Cobb so sure of what was reality and what was a dream?  Well, think of it this way.  Are you dreaming right now?  Are you sure?  There's your answer.  Have you ever asked yourself that in a dream?  I'm thinking the answer is no.  You see, Mal was just as sure of reality as Cob was when they both lived in it.  Her grasp on reality only changed because Cob preformed inception on her while they were in limbo together.

Another thing I realized the second time through was the elevators, which were a visual metaphor for the levels of dreams.  (I know I know, over-analyzation much?  But I'm really proud of that one!)  I realized this when, in the fourth level of the dream that Cobb and Ariadne entered, they went up an elevator to get to Mel.  There's also the elevator in the zero-gravity hotel in level two, and the one in Cobb's dream about Mel.  The elevators were illustrating the minds of the dreamers as they descended into the different levels of the dreams the created.  Impressed, Christopher Nolan?

Remember Cobb's two kids, James and Phillipa?  I recently read an interview with the costume designer from the movie, and he said that the kids outfits are different than the in the beginning of the movie and the last scene.  Does that change anything?  Since I just found that out I'm still trying to figure it out. Any ideas?

I've decided to end this post sort of the same way Inception ended- giving you something kind of deep to think about.  Think back to the scene where Cobb takes Ariadne into a dream for the first time.  They're sitting in a cafe and Cobb explains to her that they're in a dream, and they know this because they can't remember how they got there.  Now I throw you this curveball: how did you get here?  By that I don't mean, how did you get in front of the computer where your reading this now. But think back to your earliest memory of life.  How did you get there?  Since it's your earliest memory, you don't remember...