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Why does Saito say “Have you come to kill me” in the first sequence?
By this point Saito has been stuck in Limbo for long enough to have lived out an entire fantasy life in his palace. He no longer remembers his original life.
Given the violence of his earlier dreams ...
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Why didn't Fischer recognise Saito?
Because he didn't realize that he is dreaming
Fischer boards a plane to LA to join his family for his father's funeral. In the exact same plane, Cobb, Ariadne, Arthur, Saito, Eames and Yusuf are ...
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Interpreting the end of Inception
There is an important clue in the final scene that is easy to miss, and
David Kyle Johnson, author of Inception and Philosophy: Because
It’s Never Just a Dream, believes that Christopher Nolan
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Why does Saito say “Have you come to kill me” in the first sequence?
He has remembered that he is dreaming, and is asking Cobb if he has come to awaken him from that dream.
Look at what immediately follows that line; Saito takes Cobb's totem and states that he knows ...
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Why did Cobb ask Ariadne for the secret passage in the third-level dream?
After rewatching the scene (again), it basically boiled down to running out of time.
The first level kick is already happening, they hadn't got Fischer in the room by the locked gate. Cobb forces ...
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Who was the captured member of Cobb's team in Inception?
Nash was the architect who designed the two dream environments we see at the start of the film; Saito's Castle/Dining Room and Saito's Apartment. It was his failure to correctly research the layout of ...
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Why does Cobb and Ariadne remember their mission once they drop into limbo to fischer?
The very short answer is that dropping into limbo doesn't immediately affect your memory but that the time-differential ultimately results in you accepting limbo as the sum total of your reality.
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Is Cobb always wearing his wedding ring when he's in a dream?
In answer to your specific questions:
Are there known dream scenes where he has no wedding ring?
No. In every dream sequence (with a single exception where his hands are in his pockets throughout ...
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Who was Maurice Fischer in the third-level dream?
I think we can be reasonably certain that the elder Fischer was simply a construct of the third-level dream maze created by Ariadne, essentially the prize at the centre. None of the other character ...
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Why didn't Fischer recognise Saito?
It's not certain that Fischer knows Saito by sight.
Fischer Morrow is the largest competitor to Saito's company (Proclus Global), but perhaps there are many companies about the same size as Proclus ...
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Why does the dream continue in Inception after Dom shoots Arthur?
It starts to collapse immediately, it takes some seconds for Arthur to wake up which in the dream is 20 times longer so it's a number of minutes in the dream. Cobb is stuck there so they quickly wake ...
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Why does the dream continue in Inception after Dom shoots Arthur?
I don't think it collapses immediately because all the subjects are still dreaming, and sharing said dream regardless of level, even after Arthur is extracted.
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