I think Bobby Fischer is one big key to the movie. There are many hints.
In the movie Robert Fischer is the mark of the inception. This name is obviously linked to the real "Bobby" Fisher, famous chess master, who became world champion and then drifted into madness and paranoia. His american passport was cancelled on 13 july 2004 after controversial declarations about 9/11... just like Dom Cobb... Bobby Fischer was born in 1943, and his father left him, his mother and sister when he was two... just like in the movie... And Fischer full name is Robert James Fischer name of Dom Cobb's boy in the movie.
However the best evidence for this interpretation is Ariane's totem. Her totem is a chess piece: a white bishop... Bobby Fisher favourite strategy was a gambit aiming to keep his pair of Bishops (for instance: http://www.bobby-fischer.net/game_of_th ... _chess.htm )
In this perspective it's possible to think that all characters in the inceptions are Cobb's projections. Cobb is the only real character. All the others are projections. That would explain why Dom Cobb shares some characteristics with the real Bobby Fischer and theses characteristics are disseminated through his subconscious to the other characters which are merely projections.
Ariadne is the white (positive) Bishop who leads him out of madness. The name Ariane hints to Ariane in the Greek mythology who leads Theseus out of the minotaur's maze. Mall is the Black (negative) Bishop who drags him into madness. And by the way Mall is very similar to "evil" in french (le Mal). Another pair would be the Good Father/Bad Father couple between Maurice Fischer and the godfather of Robert Fischer. Another pair would be the opposition between Arthur (logical mind) and Eames (creative mind).
So what I think is that all the movie is just a projection of Dom Cobb guilt, trying to heal from something he did.
The whole movie can be seen as a psychoanalysis of one mind. It's all a nightmarish dream or obsession. A pathological mind who invents projections to materialize his guilt and force his way to healing. As Eames say: you have to come down to the basic of the psyche: the father/son relationship.
If we accept that in the end it's all a dream, a question remain though... why is Dom Cobb so fucked up?? What did he do? As he killed his wife? I don't think so... I reckon it's more a symbolic killing. In the light of Bobby Fisher biography, I assume that Dom Cobb ran away from his wife and children when they were two, just as Bobby Fisher's father, and he is consumed by guilt. He has killed the promise he made to "grow old" together with Mall. That's how he killed her. He killed her in himself.
The thing is we never see the reality in the movie. What a beautiful metaphor! As Dom Cobb says: you can tell it's a dream when you don't know how you get there... In the movie the action is always cut... we are always projected in the middle of the scene having to admit that what we see is real... Isn't that precisely what cinema is about?? This movie is also a beautiful metaphore of cinéma: you assume what you see is real but you can never tell how you get there... Just like Memento, excellent movie of Christopher Nolan....
So in my opinion, the inception of Robert Fischer is in fact a mirror, a subconscious projection of the real inception: the one Dom Cobb as to do in the deepest regions of his mind. He has to forgive himself. But in fact, he chose another way. He planted in himself the idea that what he did was not real, and drifted into madness, projections, trying to believe that he didn't do what he did: ran away from his daughter, son and wife. He invents characters who share common characteristics with him to avoid looking at the fact that he did it all himself. It's a psychosis.
I still can't figure out what the numbers are for (528 941) someone an idea??
In the movie Robert Fischer is the mark of the inception. This name is obviously linked to the real "Bobby" Fisher, famous chess master, who became world champion and then drifted into madness and paranoia. His american passport was cancelled on 13 july 2004 after controversial declarations about 9/11... just like Dom Cobb... Bobby Fischer was born in 1943, and his father left him, his mother and sister when he was two... just like in the movie... And Fischer full name is Robert James Fischer name of Dom Cobb's boy in the movie.
However the best evidence for this interpretation is Ariane's totem. Her totem is a chess piece: a white bishop... Bobby Fisher favourite strategy was a gambit aiming to keep his pair of Bishops (for instance: http://www.bobby-fischer.net/game_of_th ... _chess.htm )
In this perspective it's possible to think that all characters in the inceptions are Cobb's projections. Cobb is the only real character. All the others are projections. That would explain why Dom Cobb shares some characteristics with the real Bobby Fischer and theses characteristics are disseminated through his subconscious to the other characters which are merely projections.
Ariadne is the white (positive) Bishop who leads him out of madness. The name Ariane hints to Ariane in the Greek mythology who leads Theseus out of the minotaur's maze. Mall is the Black (negative) Bishop who drags him into madness. And by the way Mall is very similar to "evil" in french (le Mal). Another pair would be the Good Father/Bad Father couple between Maurice Fischer and the godfather of Robert Fischer. Another pair would be the opposition between Arthur (logical mind) and Eames (creative mind).
So what I think is that all the movie is just a projection of Dom Cobb guilt, trying to heal from something he did.
The whole movie can be seen as a psychoanalysis of one mind. It's all a nightmarish dream or obsession. A pathological mind who invents projections to materialize his guilt and force his way to healing. As Eames say: you have to come down to the basic of the psyche: the father/son relationship.
If we accept that in the end it's all a dream, a question remain though... why is Dom Cobb so fucked up?? What did he do? As he killed his wife? I don't think so... I reckon it's more a symbolic killing. In the light of Bobby Fisher biography, I assume that Dom Cobb ran away from his wife and children when they were two, just as Bobby Fisher's father, and he is consumed by guilt. He has killed the promise he made to "grow old" together with Mall. That's how he killed her. He killed her in himself.
The thing is we never see the reality in the movie. What a beautiful metaphor! As Dom Cobb says: you can tell it's a dream when you don't know how you get there... In the movie the action is always cut... we are always projected in the middle of the scene having to admit that what we see is real... Isn't that precisely what cinema is about?? This movie is also a beautiful metaphore of cinéma: you assume what you see is real but you can never tell how you get there... Just like Memento, excellent movie of Christopher Nolan....
So in my opinion, the inception of Robert Fischer is in fact a mirror, a subconscious projection of the real inception: the one Dom Cobb as to do in the deepest regions of his mind. He has to forgive himself. But in fact, he chose another way. He planted in himself the idea that what he did was not real, and drifted into madness, projections, trying to believe that he didn't do what he did: ran away from his daughter, son and wife. He invents characters who share common characteristics with him to avoid looking at the fact that he did it all himself. It's a psychosis.
I still can't figure out what the numbers are for (528 941) someone an idea??