Corrected entry: When Eames clings to the back of the snowmobile, he knocks out the driver by smacking his head on the handlebars. But the driver is wearing a helmet, which smashes on the handlebars with a very distinct clunk, this wouldn't harm him in any way.
Tailkinker
29th Jan 2013
Inception (2010)
31st Dec 2010
Inception (2010)
Corrected entry: The music heard in the dream(s) played on characters' earphones, to give them a hint the jerk was coming, should be time-distorted. If 5 minutes of reality is much more minutes of dream-life then the time of music played in reality and the time of music played in dreams should differ likewise. The music in the dream would be heard at slower tempo, and the music in the dream within a dream (or the dream within a dream within a dream) would be distorted massively and perceived probably only as a widespread rumble.
Correction: You're assuming that things work that neatly. They don't. It's clear that outside stimuli are incorporated into the lower level dream, but there's no particular suggestion that the time distortion consistently comes into play. For example, Cobb being slapped in the face at one level sends him flying to the ground in a lower one. If the time distortion applied, that wouldn't happen - Cobb would feel pressure on his face drawn out over a period of time, not a sudden slap sending him to the ground. Some form of stimuli occurs at one level - the dreamer's brain picks it up and manifests it in the lower-level dream. How it manifests can vary. That's just how it works.
15th Sep 2010
Inception (2010)
Corrected entry: In the scene within the "dream limbo", Cobb convinces his wife to kill themselves by lying down on the railway track and getting by a train. This would be impossible because they were in limbo, there should have been no one else there to drive the train.
Correction: It's a dream, where they've been creating entire elaborate buildings that simply spring into existence according to their whim. Creating a train that runs on automatic would be a simple task by comparison.
2nd Sep 2010
Inception (2010)
Corrected entry: When first talking about totems, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) shows Ariadne his totem, but won't let her touch it, saying that defeats the purpose of the totem. Later Cobb reveals that his totem used to be Maul's.
Correction: The point is that the owner should be the only one who knows the precise physical characteristics of the totem. As Mal is dead, she's out of the equation, so there's nothing to stop Dom from using it.
3rd Aug 2010
Inception (2010)
Corrected entry: In the first layer of the dream, you have the car flipping repeatedly. In the second layer, the whole world is also spinning. But in the third layer, they are not spinning, even though they would also be spinning in the second layer. To be put briefly, the effects from the first layer carry on to the second layer, but not the third.
Correction: Now explain why that's a mistake. As far as can be told from observing the film, that's simply how things happen, that events occurring in one level can be felt on the level immediately below it, but the effect doesn't continue further down (potentially due to the time distortion, but that's conjecture, and the cause is irrelevant anyway). If you feel that that's incorrect, then I suggest that you resubmit, with evidence taken from the film rather than your own opinion.
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Correction: While the helmet would protect the driver from any significant damage, the impact force is still considerable and could easily stun the driver for long enough for Eames to push him off the snowmobile.
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