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Inception
Inception is the kind of movie where I can't tell if some things are plot holes or were meant to be that way.
- If you can be in a dream for 6 months or 10 years, do you sleep/eat in it? According to Dom's recollections of limbo (and Saito at the beginning of the movie), you age. And I'm sure you don't have to sleep. But if you can mistake that for reality, as the subject is supposed, that would imply that you can sleep, and if that is true, do you dream? And if you can get away without sleeping/eating, doesn't that mean that you could always figure out if you were in a dream, if you could stop eating and never get hungry?
- The kicks make no sense to me. The way it is explained, and the way it works int he first part of the movie, is that if the sleeper feels himself falling, he wakes up. Which would imply that he doesn't actually have to do anything to aid that in the dream--he'll just wake up. But in the inception heist, they have to, in the dream, fall at the same time. Or something. It doesn't make sense to me. There's the whole montage of Arthur being knocked over showing that that always wakes you up, even under sedation, and then when they get in the dream, they can "miss" the kick. I'm just going to handwave and say it only works that way in that particular dream cause otherwise...I don't know. It makes more sense to me that the music is a warning to you to finish up, not that it's a signal you have to go fling yourself off a building.
- Once the team gets back up to the first level of the inception dream, in the van, don't they still have to wait out the nine days until the PASIV is turned off? They can't kick themselves awake out of that level--that was the original premise of continuing on. And aren't the militarized projections still trying to kill them? It seems like an enormous handwave that succeeding at inception somehow gets them out of the dream entirely. The only it makes sense to me is if they didn't and this is all in Arthur's head, but that feels like a cheat.
I refuse to believe it's possible to overthink this movie.
- If you can be in a dream for 6 months or 10 years, do you sleep/eat in it? According to Dom's recollections of limbo (and Saito at the beginning of the movie), you age. And I'm sure you don't have to sleep. But if you can mistake that for reality, as the subject is supposed, that would imply that you can sleep, and if that is true, do you dream? And if you can get away without sleeping/eating, doesn't that mean that you could always figure out if you were in a dream, if you could stop eating and never get hungry?
- The kicks make no sense to me. The way it is explained, and the way it works int he first part of the movie, is that if the sleeper feels himself falling, he wakes up. Which would imply that he doesn't actually have to do anything to aid that in the dream--he'll just wake up. But in the inception heist, they have to, in the dream, fall at the same time. Or something. It doesn't make sense to me. There's the whole montage of Arthur being knocked over showing that that always wakes you up, even under sedation, and then when they get in the dream, they can "miss" the kick. I'm just going to handwave and say it only works that way in that particular dream cause otherwise...I don't know. It makes more sense to me that the music is a warning to you to finish up, not that it's a signal you have to go fling yourself off a building.
- Once the team gets back up to the first level of the inception dream, in the van, don't they still have to wait out the nine days until the PASIV is turned off? They can't kick themselves awake out of that level--that was the original premise of continuing on. And aren't the militarized projections still trying to kill them? It seems like an enormous handwave that succeeding at inception somehow gets them out of the dream entirely. The only it makes sense to me is if they didn't and this is all in Arthur's head, but that feels like a cheat.
I refuse to believe it's possible to overthink this movie.