was inception really hard too understand?

[Liudeius]

No,

I don't want to say anymore because it is undeserving, that movies was excessively easy to understand. They had very clear separations for each level of consciousness.
The only thing that at all has potential for being hard to understand is

Spoiler

What actually happened in the end. That is only questionable because they choose to make it questionable by trapping the one guy in the dream world so you can't know what happened to everyone else.
Although I also have heard that the top stops spinning at the end of the credits, but I didn't watch that far.

Otherwise, the film is very clear cut.
And I wasn't even paying close attention, I was playing some video game while watching it.

 

[monkey_man]

nah nor really. I got it almost instantly, I mean, they all got out safely from the dream within the dream within the dream within the dream in the end. (is that enough? i'm not sure)And isn't that all that matters? Mission accomplished?

 

[khoax123]

The only thing that confused me was when they went to the limbo world why didn't they change the world as much as possible to their advantage. Seriously there was only 1 person to retaliate so changing the world isn't going make much difference.

 

[The Last Nomad]

When I saw it the first time in the cinema, I was high as a muthafucka (On a then legal drug called king BBB, which really messed with your head). It was probably the single most confusing movie I had ever seen. Although I think the confusion only really came up in the end, during the bit in the snow, I began to forget what was actually going on. And then the very last scene confused me because I wasn't sure if I was supposed to be confused or not. I was really fuckin high you see. But then I saw it again, slightly more sober, and it made perfect sense. Maybe it was because I wasn't as stoned, or because I had already seen it, but I didn't think it was all that confusing, I thought it was just really clever.

 

[APSunder]

The first time I saw it I understood everything except whether or not he was in a dream or not. I had to watch the movie 4 more times to figure out when he was in a dream and when he wasn't in a dream because of the detail that says it (which I won't give away). But that said, I understand if people didn't get it, like, didn't know what part of the dream they were in when or something like that, because I do think it's a little confusing, even though there are clear indicators that show what level of dream the characters are in, or even what country they're in in the real world.

...Also, try watching Primer, that thing is confusing as hell. I think XKCD explained it best: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=47683

 

[Roserari]

All you needed to do was pay attention and you'd be doing A-ok in the understanding part. Not like it was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or something. Understood it on my first viewing and hasn't confused me since.

 

[skywalkerlion]

Ehh, I thought it was a little confusing. But normally with every movie I watch I read the wikipedia summary or IMDB to make sure I understood everything. I guess I don't focus enough on the movie. It was still comprehendable enough to understand for the most part. Some parts though confused me.

 

[ultimateownage]

No, it was just convoluted and poorly written.
No one called them out on it because they didn't want to sound stupid.

 

[thecoreyhlltt]

i was high as balls, so idk if i got what everyone else got when they'd "get it" but it super awesome!!!

 

[MurderousToaster]

It wasn't confusing at all. So long as you paid attention and bothered to listen to their explanations of what was happening, the only thing that could be interpreted as confusing was the semi-cliffhanger ending and the fact that stuff maybe wasn't explained as clearly as it could have been.

 

[Lilani]

People are just stupid. Inception was very simple.

That about sums it up. A "person" is a free-thinking individual capable of using critical thinking skills and deduction, and able to follow trails of logic to lead to a simple answer. "People," on the other hand, are simple and ignorant creatures who cannot pay attention to a movie unless someone gets punched every five minutes, and are not capable of following storylines unless it is clearly and linearly layed out, and summarized every 10 minutes.

Unfortunately, for the sake of trying to appeal to the largest audiences, mainstream movies these days are made for people, not persons.

 

[Ubermetalhed]

If you say you understood the film then you really didn't.

The film is extremely ambiguous, there is no one correct explanation. Most likely because Nolan couldn't think of a genuinely good plot and tried to pull a Donnie Darko in order for the idiots to think to hard about it and call it a masterpiece.

But specifically back to the topic, most of the people in here saying: 'it was really simple to understand blah blah' are the real idiots. This film is too ambiguous to have a definitive plot and explanation.

 

[Woodsey]

It was not complicated. Go watch Memento and try and figure that out.

Its told backwards, not exactly complicated.

OT: Not really, if you're capable of paying attention. It was fairly complex, but its so well told it never gets overwhelming. There are certainly parts open to interpretation though.

 

[flaviok79]

Well, your answer is very kind, but it seems to me that many people that say they understand did not submerged in the movie as much as people who did not understood it all.

The 2 couple of children are even listed as having different ages in the credits. Many scenes are shot in a way to make us confused in Cobb's status. Is he awake when he "appears" in a French classroom and talks to his in-law (Michael Kane), who openly tells him to wake up? Didn't Cobb himself told Ariadne that you can never remember how a dreaming begins, only being there?

My point is that Nolan took 10 years polishing and perfecting that script, and he received carte blanche from the studio, so I suppose the movie is a perfect rendition of what he whants to convey. No plot holes, just intentional misleading scenes and concepts.

Having said that, I believe he is trying to confuse us in layers of complexity. In short, if the movie is straight foward to you, maybe you didn't see all the layers and how they are misleadingly overlapped.

I didn't think so. Sure it takes a minute to understand the mechanics and wrap your head around dream within a dream concept, but it is straight forward.

Here's a message to the ever-modest (lol) population of the escapist:

NO ONE THOUGHT INCEPTION WAS CONFUSING. People were annoyed at it because it was trying really, really hard to SEEM confusing, which many people took as an insult.

I'm expecting someone to quote me and post some passive-aggressive anecdotal claim like "Well everyone That I know who saw the movie thought it was confusing..."

Come at me, bruh

I don't think anyone says "bruh". They say "bro" or "bra".

Anyway, only two people I know said "it takes a few watches to fully get it". Everyone else heard the same thing and watched it twice and thought "yeah, I got nothing new out of that". I don't know if they mean "it takes a few watches to catch everything" or "dammit, this plot is confusing as shit, I need to watch that again". There are many media that are the former (I have seen Ocean's 11, 12, and 13 dozens of times and I am still catching things) and very few that are the latter.

Its not complicated. People just don't like thinking during movies.

Or ever....

 

[XHolySmokesX]

If you watch and pay attention to it from the beggining it's simple, if you start watching it in the middle or are simple then it's confusing.

I didn't have a problem with it myself.

 

[Woodsey]

If you say you understood the film then you really didn't.

The film is extremely ambiguous, there is no one correct explanation. Most likely because Nolan couldn't think of a genuinely good plot and tried to pull a Donnie Darko in order for the idiots to think to hard about it and call it a masterpiece.

But specifically back to the topic, most of the people in here saying: 'it was really simple to understand blah blah' are the real idiots. This film is too ambiguous to have a definitive plot and explanation.

Err... no. The whole concept of how the dreams and such work is understandable, their objective is understandable, the manifestation of Cobb's wife is understandable, what dream layer they're in is understandable, the basic concepts of dreaming/being asleep in relation to real life are understandable, the nature of limbo is understandable, the characters' motivations are understandable. If someone was asked to recount the plot of the film, they could.

There's certainly a case to be made for certain parts of it about if they're actually dreaming and the film doesn't let on, but that doesn't mean you can't understand it. Ambiguity does not mean something is impossible to understand. It has a plot, it has characters, it has in-universe rules, it has themes; it is understandable.

 

[mikey7339]

It was deeper than a lot of movies that have come out lately, but hard to follow, no. If it was you were either not paying attention or not too intelligent.

 

[ADeskofRichMahogany]

It's not that the plot of Inception is "hard to understand," it's that the audience has to keep track of a lot of things in order to understand the flow of the plot. And that can get confusing.

 

[Neyon]

Inception was simple, much of the logic was just severely flawed.

 

[crudus]

Is he awake when he "appears" in a French classroom and talks to his in-law (Michael Kane), who openly tells him to wake up?

No plot holes, just intentional misleading scenes and concepts.

Cobb has delusions about going back home and trying to still raise his kids while on the run. That is what the "wake up" is. In fact, here is Micheal Kane's quote about the ending: "If I'm there it's real, because I'm never in the dream. I'm the guy who invented the dream."

Actually there are quite a few plot holes.