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<blockquote data-quote="wolff96" data-source="post: 5259363" data-attributes="member: 342"><p>My theory, which I really enjoy is [spoiler]that it was all just a dream until Cobb left the plane. The mind-suitcase technology, Extraction/Inception, Cobb's murder charges -- all just a dream.</p><p></p><p>Cobb was a man depressed after his wife's suicide, and so lived abroad for a while, but then was persuaded to come home and be with his kids. On the flight, he fell asleep, and the whole film is his dream- all of characters who were the "partners in the scheme" were just other passengers on the plane. </p><p></p><p>There were no murder charges. Mal hung a big fat lampshade on "A bunch of people chasing you around the world" when he was in "limbo" -- that feeling of massive persecution by faceless individuals and mega-corporations. She might not even be dead, just on the other side of a messy divorce or something like that. All we saw was a long, long dream from a guy who inserted the people around him into it, including an Asian man who had a propensity for making phone calls during the flight, a friendly man who bumped into the guy in front of Cobb's seat, an attractive young woman across from him...</p><p></p><p>Yeah, it's kind of out there compared to the simpler "all a dream" or "not a dream and he woke up at the end", but I really like it and it's pretty elegant. Looked at from this perspective, it's not even really a Sci-Fi film... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[/spoiler]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wolff96, post: 5259363, member: 342"] My theory, which I really enjoy is [spoiler]that it was all just a dream until Cobb left the plane. The mind-suitcase technology, Extraction/Inception, Cobb's murder charges -- all just a dream. Cobb was a man depressed after his wife's suicide, and so lived abroad for a while, but then was persuaded to come home and be with his kids. On the flight, he fell asleep, and the whole film is his dream- all of characters who were the "partners in the scheme" were just other passengers on the plane. There were no murder charges. Mal hung a big fat lampshade on "A bunch of people chasing you around the world" when he was in "limbo" -- that feeling of massive persecution by faceless individuals and mega-corporations. She might not even be dead, just on the other side of a messy divorce or something like that. All we saw was a long, long dream from a guy who inserted the people around him into it, including an Asian man who had a propensity for making phone calls during the flight, a friendly man who bumped into the guy in front of Cobb's seat, an attractive young woman across from him... Yeah, it's kind of out there compared to the simpler "all a dream" or "not a dream and he woke up at the end", but I really like it and it's pretty elegant. Looked at from this perspective, it's not even really a Sci-Fi film... :)[/spoiler] [/QUOTE]
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