When Michael Caine's character welcomes Cobb back at the airport it sounds like he says "Welcome."
However, on my second watch of the movie it is clear that he says "You're Welcome". The you're is very very faint, but it is definitely there.
I think this solidifies the idea that Michael Caine all along hired Ariadne to perform an inception on Cobb while he performed the inception on Fisher. (Obviously her inception being that Mol was not real anymore and that he could let her go).
In addition to this, we see every person involved in the situation look at Cobb and sort of smile. But they say nothing to him. People may think that they all know they did a good job on Fisher, but I truly think it is because they all know they were successful with Cobb.
Now whether or not the top fell or not, is a completely different subject. But the bottom line is that in the end he was able to see his kid's faces again, which doesn't really matter when it comes down to reality vs. dream. That was all he needed.
In my opinion though, there is no doubt in my mind that Caine's character hired Ariadne to perform an inception on Cobb.
While I don't think there's enough evidence to support this, I really like it. Maybe on my rewatch (today most likely) I'll pick up a couple things to reinforce this idea.
xSeanZx wrote:When Michael Caine's character welcomes Cobb back at the airport it sounds like he says "Welcome."
However, on my second watch of the movie it is clear that he says "You're Welcome". The you're is very very faint, but it is definitely there.
I think this solidifies the idea that Michael Caine all along hired Ariadne to perform an inception on Cobb while he performed the inception on Fisher. (Obviously her inception being that Mol was not real anymore and that he could let her go).
In addition to this, we see every person involved in the situation look at Cobb and sort of smile. But they say nothing to him. People may think that they all know they did a good job on Fisher, but I truly think it is because they all know they were successful with Cobb.
Now whether or not the top fell or not, is a completely different subject. But the bottom line is that in the end he was able to see his kid's faces again, which doesn't really matter when it comes down to reality vs. dream. That was all he needed.
In my opinion though, there is no doubt in my mind that Caine's character hired Ariadne to perform an inception on Cobb.
its entirely plausible, 2 inceptions in 1 job (actually is 3, the 3rd is for us, the audience :JGLface: )
however first we must confirm that Caine did said "you're welcome" :mrgreen:
As much as I like the idea, I don't think what Ariadne did was technically inception. The whole point of inception is to plant an idea so subtly that the target thinks he thought of the idea by himself.
For example in Fischer's case the team showed him that his father loved him and wanted for him to be his own person; this led to Fischer having the idea of breaking up his father's business empire. For Ariadne however, she basically forced Cobbs to confront his guilt and let it go. She bluntly tells him that it was never his fault and he should stop obsessing over Mal. It wasn't really an "idea" or anything, more of Ariadne being a concerned friend.
That's because Miles didn't say "you're welcome"