Something I noticed about Inception.

[Varanfan9]

Warning contains spoilers
So I'm sure many of you have seen the movie Inception. I was watching for the second time and noticed something. All of the protagonists and villains in a way. They are changing how a man thinks and his future actions. And its not like the man is bad or evil he is just a guy who inherited his father's company.Sure the main hero may have a tragic back story but he is still doing something bad.

 

[Teh_Lemon]

Warning contains spoilers
So I'm sure many of you have seen the movie Inception. I was watching for the second time and noticed something. All of the protagonists and villains in a way. They are changing how a man thinks and his future actions. And its not like the man is bad or evil he is just a guy who inherited his father's company.Sure the main hero may have a tragic back story but he is still doing something bad.

Wait, it took you the second time to watch that to notice it?

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Think of it this way:

They changed what the subject thought about his father and fixed up some emotional baggage.

How is that a bad thing?

 

[Teh_Lemon]

Um, they indirectly forced a man to do their will/bidding by convincing him that it was his idea in the first place. The only difference is it was in an action movie with a bunch of awesome technology and backstory. I'm pretty sure breaking into someone's subconscious without their permission, at least, would be considered illegal by most U.S. courts.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Warning contains spoilers
So I'm sure many of you have seen the movie Inception. I was watching for the second time and noticed something. All of the protagonists and villains in a way. They are changing how a man thinks and his future actions. And its not like the man is bad or evil he is just a guy who inherited his father's company.Sure the main hero may have a tragic back story but he is still doing something bad.

Wait, it took you the second time to watch that to notice it?

Yeah, I'm with this guy. I pretty sure there's at least one scene where the characters actually DISCUSS the moral ambiguity of their actions. I think it's implied towards the end that...you know...the guy they're Inceptionizing or whatever(can't remember his name) is changed for the better by the end of it all, because he's not so consumed by what his father thought of him.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

:/ you... didn't notice that the first time? Seriously... that was the least confusing part of that movie for sure(not that it really was at all confusing, just good)

 

[Agent Cross]

I'm pretty sure there's at least one scene where the characters actually DISCUSS the moral ambiguity of their actions. I think it's implied towards the end that...you know...the guy they're Inceptionizing or whatever(can't remember his name) is changed for the better by the end of it all, because he's not so consumed by what his father thought of him.

You're right. They say that the guy may never be the same person again. That he will be forever changed by them planting an idea in his head.

 

[Moeez]

Isn't the more horrifying part that Cobb incepted his wife so hard that she deemed RL too hard and killed herself?

I mean, that's like the whole meaning of the movie right there. He wants redemption, and get Mal the fuck out of his damn head. Now he can jerk off to supermodels without her face replacing the model mid-way, and ending up with blue balls.

 

[Humble85]

Saito wants them to inceptionize Fischers mind because his fathers company is going to become the worlds largest supplier of energy and growing to be a superpower on its own, having no competition, which would be a bad thing. Plus that Fischer guy had some serious issues with his father. So what they did isnt exactly morally ok, but i guess the end pretty much justifies the means in this one. I wouldnt call them villains, to me they are more on the line of the guys in Oceans Eleven.

 

[SquirrelPants]

That was...part of the theme of the movie, up until we got to the parts about the main character's baggage.

 

[Blemontea]

They didn't change who he was they just planted an idea. Not in the same way Leo did with his wife that cuased her to change. But unlike that idea they made sure the idea was planted by the user himslef equally into just an idea and not a change in person. Plus they solved his daddy issues.

I wouldn't say that's evil.

 

[Varanfan9]

For people acting aghast that I didn't notice it the first time. I knew what they where doing but I didn't really think of it as being evil yet until the second time cause I was focused more on the characters rather the situation around them. I just happened to realize it the second time.

 

[Trivun]

Isn't the more horrifying part that Cobb incepted his wife so hard that she deemed RL too hard and killed herself?

I mean, that's like the whole meaning of the movie right there. He wants redemption, and get Mal the fuck out of his damn head. Now he can jerk off to supermodels without her face replacing the model mid-way, and ending up with blue balls.

Ummmm, she was the one who did it to herself, the film explicitly shows that. She kept pushing for them to spend so long in the dream, and to keep exploring deeper levels so they could do that. He was being fairly cautious, Mal was the real pusher there. So her insanity when Cobb finally convinced her to mentally return to the real world was her own fault. That part of the film is based on Cobb's guilt and the fact that he actually has nothing to feel guilty about, that it wasn't his fault, and how over time he gradually comes to realise that, but only after facing her memory himself (with Ariadne's help, of course).

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

A tale destined to be repeated for centuries to come.

The setting: Fair Inception.

Dramatis personae: The Escapist community.

Poster #1: Didst thou not comprehend the people in the dreams that they did wrong? Intended not,
they are yet villains to my eye.

Poster #2: Good sir, didst thou just notice this at present time?
Forsooth that is remarkable.

Poster #3: Yea verily, but 'twas with noblest intent.
They are no villains.

Poster #4: In agreement with poster the first stand I. The sweetest aim is bittered by the execution
and law proclaims the guilt thereby.

 

[Berethond]

A tale destined to be repeated for centuries to come.

The setting: Fair Inception.

Dramatis personae: The Escapist community.

Poster #1: Didst thou not comprehend the people in the dreams that they did wrong? Intended not,
they are yet villains to my eye.

Poster #2: Good sir, didst thou just notice this at present time?
Forsooth that is remarkable.

Poster #3: Yea verily, but 'twas with noblest intent.
They are no villains.

Poster #4: In agreement with poster the first stand I. The sweetest aim is bittered by the execution
and law proclaims the guilt thereby.

Well said, sir. Thine tongue is as sweet as thy wit is keen.

 

[Moeez]

Isn't the more horrifying part that Cobb incepted his wife so hard that she deemed RL too hard and killed herself?

I mean, that's like the whole meaning of the movie right there. He wants redemption, and get Mal the fuck out of his damn head. Now he can jerk off to supermodels without her face replacing the model mid-way, and ending up with blue balls.

Ummmm, she was the one who did it to herself, the film explicitly shows that. She kept pushing for them to spend so long in the dream, and to keep exploring deeper levels so they could do that. He was being fairly cautious, Mal was the real pusher there. So her insanity when Cobb finally convinced her to mentally return to the real world was her own fault. That part of the film is based on Cobb's guilt and the fact that he actually has nothing to feel guilty about, that it wasn't his fault, and how over time he gradually comes to realise that, but only after facing her memory himself (with Ariadne's help, of course).

Nah, Cobb feels guilty for even planting the idea into her head in the first place. Which then leads to her dream addiction, and unwillingness to leave. She was a n00b to the dream world, and it took over.

 

[blankedboy]

Well yeah, the storyline is pretty much nonexistent. Also it's VERY inaccurate, by my calculations the guy should've had 20 seconds to tie up all the people and get them into the elevator, but it took WAY longer than that.