There are no alternate universes in this film. Although "Everything that can happen, happens" is a mantra of multiverse theory. Maybe the tesseract doesn't just contain Murph's room throughout time, but also through all possible universes. All possible Murph's are there, and Coop is able to experim...

That's a good angle. It's interesting that the top never spins in a dream. Supports the possible explanation put forward by some that the top does actually work as a totem because it might behave differently if someone else is dreaming it. And the rules in limbo are different - time isn't just slowe...

I think the theory is viable, and there's no such thing as giving Nolan too much credit for giving us material to hypothesise upon. As a general rule the explanation should be no more complicated than the thing it seeks to explain. Given this is Inception we're talking about I think that means virtu...

Nash? The architect? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nash_(architect) - architect of cities and park landscapes And also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash,_Jr. - differential geometry. And maybe: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/wars_conflict/art/art_frontline_03.shtml - "We are mak...

I think it was a reference to the Murdoch's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Murdoch

I think the best explanation, or the simplest (which is arguably the same thing) of Inception is as an exercise in demonstrating that "it was all a dream" ("or was it?") isn't a cop out ending. Necessarily. In fact the ending is the opposite: "it was all a dream, and now it's over. Or is it?" But al...

I totally agree. I think the logic of Inception is consistent and robust enough to stand up to scrutiny, but the trick it pulls off is to get everyone to see it in it's own terms, which are nothing to do with how real dreams work. Hence we spend weeks after viewing rethinking every detail but that i...

The kids are in the same place, in almost the same pose, in almost the same clothes as he has repeatedly dreamt them. They also look younger than they should be. Miles is there. Wasn't he in Paris? The whole scene is shot in a dream-like way. There is nothing from when Cobb wakes on the plane to the...

Watched The Prestige with someone who hadn't seen it before the other day and realised that on first viewing Angier is the hero up to the point when he sends Olivia to Borden. Up till then he's by far the more attactive character, and Borden is the villain who seems to be responsible for killing Ang...

Here's another thing that just occurred to me. I thought as I was watching that the minibus seemed like a strange choice of location to have a sleepover. I figured maybe it was better to be mobile to escape the hostile projections. But I've had another idea. Of the 6 locations in which we see people...