Inception

Christopher Nolan’sInceptionbegins with a sequence that is later revealed to be one of the many layer of a aspiration , in which Cobb ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) meets with a very old Saito ( Ken Watanabe ) – but why was Saito so honest-to-goodness , if he was actually a lot unseasoned ? Back in 2010 , Nolan brought together his most used themes – indistinguishability , memory , and meter – and mixed them withthe complexness of dreaming inInception , starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Dom Cobb , a professional thief who specialized in a very specific and unique type of origin : infiltrate others ’ dream to get the data he ’s looking for .

Inceptionfollows Cobb and his team , which include an architect , a counterfeiter , a chemist , and a “ level human being ” , as they infiltrate the dreams of business enterprise heir Robert Fischer ( Cillian Murphy ) , as requested by their employer , Saito , a Japanese man of affairs and the rival of Fischer ’s Church Father , Maurice . The mission turns out to be a mountain more complex and complicated than anticipated as Robert had been trained to protect his subconscious from stealer . In the first horizontal surface of the dream , Saito is bourgeon , and he die while in the third degree , sending him to Limbo , the setting of the opening scene ofInception , where Cobb find a much old Saito , which is a result of how time work in Limbo .

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Saito Became Old Because Of Time In Limbo

Inception ’s Limbo is an surface area of infinite raw subconscious mind , and it ’s a apportion space where the minds share the dreaming can make any type of alterations without limits and obstacle , which attain it severe . Limbo allow a dreamer to manifest their deepest desires , but this can also trap them in a reality where they are no longer mindful that it ’s not the actual one – however , those who consciously get into Limbo hold the knowledge that they are dreaming . In Saito ’s vitrine , he unknowingly entered Limbo as he ( and Robert ) died in the third floor of the ambition , and ended up accepting Limbo as his realness , thus why he aged during his time there . Cobb entered Limbo to look for Saito and bring him back , and as Cobb had already been in Limbo and consciously enter this distance , he did n’t eld at all when looking for Saito – and , of course , how time form in Limbo is key in Saito agingdecades in just a duo of mo .

How Limbo’s Time Rules Work In Inception

Time work differently than in real life ineach ambition degree inInception : the squad ’s 10 - hr flight is one workweek in the first story , six months in the second one , and 10 age in the third . As Yusuf ’s chemic compound does n’t allow Cobb and companionship to go deeper than three levels , the fourth one would be Limbo , and as expected , time work very otherwise in this space . A individual trap in Limbro can get a whole class in less than four minutes , which is also why it can be easy for the dreamer to believe that what they are experiencing in Limbo is the material earth . deliver Saito from Limbo was not only important to preserve his genial health but also because , due to the meter he expend there , that to him was decades , Cobb reverence he would forget their organisation .

as luck would have it for Cobb , Saito realized that he had been living in a existence that was n’t the real one , and kill Cobb and himself so they could wake up in the real world . Saito did n’t seem to have had any troubling after - effects follow his time in Limbo , and he remembered and honored his deal with Cobb . Cobb teach from his prison term in Limbo and the mistakes he made there and with his married woman , Mal , which allowed him to survive being in Limbo one more time and successfully rescue Saito from this space .

Inception Saito young and old

Saito looking serious in Inception

CObb and Mal on the beach in Inception.

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