Reality?

The practice of entering dreams within dreams to plant an idea in someone’s mind

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SaitoTourist
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CobbExtractor
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EamesForger
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YusufChemist
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ArthurPointman
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FischerMark
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AriadneArchitect
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AIR HOSTESS

On a 10 hour flight, Cobb (the extractor) and his team drug Fischer (the mark).

An air hostess connects the group to a machine which administers a heavy sedative and puts them all to sleep inside Yusuf (the chemist's) dream.

They all wake up on the plane in reality and Cobb goes home to his children...

...but was it reality?

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Level one
Yusuf's dream
skull(in limbo)
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SaitoTourist
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CobbExtractor
Browning (fake)
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EamesForger
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YusufChemist
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ArthurPointman
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FischerMark
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AriadneArchitect

Ariadne (the architect) has designed the layout of the dream and taught it to Yusuf.

The team kidnap Fischer - the heir to his father's business empire.

Eames (the Forger) impersonates Fischer's father's advisor, Browning, and tells Fischer that his father wanted him to build something of his own, and left a will in a safe that would dissolve the empire if he wanted to.

Saito (the Tourist), the CEO of Fischer's father's rival company who commissioned the job, is shot and seriously injured.

Yusuf drives the team in a minibus whilst they're sedated and go to sleep again, this time inside Arthur (the Pointman's) dream.

They wait in Level one until the sedative wears off and they awaken in reality.

Level two
Arthur's dream within Yusuf's dream
skull(in limbo)
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SaitoTourist
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CobbExtractor
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EamesForger
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ArthurPointman
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FischerMark
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AriadneArchitect
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Browning(projection)

Cobb convinces Fischer that he is dreaming and that someone is trying to access his mind and that Cobb is his security officer there to protect him.

Fischer's own subconscious projects Browning as the man behind his kidnapping, saying he can't let Fischer destroy his father's empire.

Cobb tells Fischer he should enter Browning's dream and extract his secrets, and Fischer is now unknowingly assisting in his own inception.

Arthur takes care of the team whilst they go down another level, into Eames' dream (not Browning's).

At the same time, Yusuf's mini van in Level one plunges into a river after being driven off a bridge. The kick of hitting the water awakens everyone except for Cobb and Saito.

Level three
Eames' dream within Arthur's dream within Yusuf's dream
skull(in limbo)
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SaitoTourist
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CobbExtractor
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EamesForger
skull(in limbo)
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FischerMark
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AriadneArchitect
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Mal(Projection)

Cobb tells Fischer to break into a fortress to find his father's will.

Saito dies from his wounds and falls into limbo (as does anyone who dies in a dream under such a heavy sedative).

Cobb's subconscious projection of his dead wife Mal shoots and kills Fischer before he can reach the safe, pushing him into limbo too. More on Mal later.

Cobb and Ariadne use the sedative to follow Fischer into limbo. 3 levels is as deep as you can go without falling into limbo.

The next level down is a shared dream state called Limbo, it hasn't been designed and there is no dreamer, but it is filled by Cobb's subconscious as he's been there before.

Fischer finds the Will and his projection of his father tells him he is disappointed that Fischer tried to be like him. He wants him to be his own person.

Eames sets off explosives to collapse the fort in Level three, creating a free-falling sensation called a 'Kick'. If your body experiences a kick whilst asleep, you wake up.

As the fort collapses Arthur simulates free-fall in a lift shaft on Level two providing the kick to bring Eames, Ariadne & Fischer back up to Level two.

Limbo
Unconstructed dream space
skull(in limbo)
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SaitoTourist
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Mal(Projection)
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FischerMark
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CobbExtractor
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AriadneArchitect

Cobb and Ariadne find Cobb's projection of his dead wife Mal who has Fischer tied up.

Cobb explains that he'd previously performed inception on Mal. They experimented with dreams within dreams and ended up in limbo. At that depth the mind is so far removed from reality that for decades in limbo they both believed limbo was the real world.

Cobb finally realised it wasn't and planted that idea in Mal's mind. They killed themselves in Limbo, and awoke in the real world. But the idea had been planted and Mal was convinced that reality was a dream too, so she killed herself again, this time for real.

Cobb refuses to stay in limbo with his projection of Mal, so she stabs him.

Ariadne shoots Mal dead. She's only a projection, so stays dead.

Cobb does not appear seriously injured and tells Ariadne he will find Saito in limbo.

Ariadne pushes Fischer off the balcony, his death in limbo combined with a defibrillator reviving his body in Level three awakens him in Level three.

Ariadne feels the explosion in limbo and jumps off the balcony herself. The combination of the jump in limbo and the exploding fort awaken her in Level three.

Back in limbo Cobb finds Saito. The minutes in Level three between Saito and Cobb entering Limbo have felt like decades in limbo and Saito is an elderly man. Cobb reminds him that they're in limbo and Saito picks up a gun, presumably to kill them both.

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