Inception is one of my fav movies
I'm an insomniac so when I take something and get that good sleep I wake up with the
Just yesterday I had it while watching the pacers / warriors game alone in the crib.
We are our brains own worst enemy
Here's my break down of inception. A lot of this is based on other sources with a few inputs of my own.
Cobb is none other than a Christ figure.
Saito is lucifer aka the bringer of light/enlightenment
The plot is centered around gnostic themes and Kabbalah's tree of life.
Gnostic in the sense that you have what is called the archons/demiurges that create dream world realities. In this sense, it's what the movie refers to as architects.
The Kabbalah tree of life is introduced with the layers of the dream. Earth known as malkouth on the tree of life represents the fourth layer of the dream.
One thing that's important to understand about this movie is that even though they're individual characters, they are all just projections of cobbs' consciousness.
Ariadne is the architect Cobb uses to penetrate Fischers subconscious. Two things to note when he meets her that are of big importance.
1. He asks her to draw a maize that he's not able to figure out. The first few maizes that she draws are rectangular and he figures them out quickly. She draws one that's circular and it stomps him. This is a reference to time/clocks. This is a parameter that makes this dream so easy to get lost in.
2. When Cobb introduced her to his dream, he asked her "how did we get here" and she quickly realized that they were in a dream because she couldn't remember how it started. Think about our lives, do we really remember how we got here?
Moving through the movie plot, saito asks Cobb to take a leap of faith and he can deliver him home aka get him out of this dream world. Aka lucifer take a bite out of this forbidden fruit from this tree of life and I can make you a god.
Notice how the kick is always associated with music? Everything in life is built around frequencies. If you ever wanna get home just follow the music.
In the movie they discuss how killing someone can wake them up from the dream. In saitos case they won't wake him up because he's fallen so far in the dream he won't remember who he is.
This part is really deep. It reflec how in our reality most people have no knowledge of self, so suicide or death would just put you back in the reincarnation cycle. This cycle effectively leaves you trapped in limbo/earth/malkouth for eternity.
This is why saito is so important to Cobb. Jesus and lucifer are the same person. Moving along.
Cobb struggles to get out of the dream because his wife. His wife represents Mother Nature aka Earth aka Malkouth. Hence her name being Mal. He doesn't want to let her go from the dream world, and often contemplates living there with here for ever. You see this crap around us now with people talking about save the earth, save the trees etc. This is nothing worth saving cause it isn't real.
Cobb finally has the epiphany that he needs to **** limbo and says to his wife/earth "you're not real, you're just a shade of my wife. I can not remember you in your beauty and entirety."
The story progresses which essentially represents Cobb moving through his chakras and the dream world. Everyone making it out of the dream essentially represents all of his consciousness detaching from the matrix and him waking up.
In the end when he returns to get saito out of limbo, that is the last component of his conscious. It's his pineal gland/3rd eye/6th chakra. Notice how they always show water for limbo? saito has become old wrinkled or calcified much like our pineal glands because of our stay in limbo.
Cobb returns to close his consciousness off from the dream. Asking saito to now take the leap off the faith.
Two things i also wanted to point out is that the devices they used keep track of what is real usually spins. For Cobb his keeps spinning in the dream if it's not real, much like
How our earth spins on a continual basis.
Also, they never show his kids face until he makes it home. This shows the androgynous characteristics of god that we arent able to understand because of how far we've fallen from the heavens.
So yea in closing I think it's important to point out that although Cobb was the Christ figure, no one came back to save him. It was him self.
For us it's important to know no man is coming back on a cloud to be our messiah. It is our consciousness that is Christ like and will save us from this hell.
Sorry for the lack of cohesion.
