Re: Inception
Someone provided this rep in response to
my last Inception post in the movies thread.
he has spent countless years in dreams, which could only be a couple days in the real world, so the kids could easily not have aged at all
For reasons that would probably take several paragraphs to explain properly, I'm not sure about this.
This assumes that Cobb has been in limbo (thus the kids are in real life, not aging), and the entirety of the film takes place in dreamspace until some point in between the airplane and the final scene. This involves some sort of transition from dreamspace to reality that we don't see or have any hint of, unless there's something about the airport scenes that I am missing. Honestly, that would be a huge cheat. On that not even M. Night Shyamalan would do.
Before we go into this further, maybe it would be easier to try to break this down further: Accept the movie at face value and try to categorize what "dream level" we are in the whole time.
N: The airplane, Mombasa, the warehouse/training facility, all of the "planning the heist" scenese every scene involving Michael Caine.
N+1: The rainy city, the city with the fiery explosions, all of Ellen Paige's training dreams, the dreams Cobb goes to to revisit memories of Mal
N+2: The hotel, the Saito's elegant party where we first see Mal,
N+3: The snow fortress
N+4 (or is it in limbo?): The city that Cobb and Mal built, Cobb meets Old Saito
Who knows?/In Limbo: Most of the Cobb/Mal memories that happened in dreamspace.
Reality could be N. Or it could be N-1, N-2 or N-178, etc.
