Continuity mistake: When they escape from the building in the first dream, the right-hand mirror of the van is broken by the narrow gate. In the following shot when they are driving, the other mirror is broken and the right mirror is suddenly undamaged.
Inception (2010)
Plot summary
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Michael Caine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Berenger, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe
Dom Cobb and his wife Mal created their own dream world for themselves. Until Mal began to believe that the dream world was real. Cobb performed the art of inception on her to make her realize that it was a dream. What Cobb didn't anticipate was that Mal would think the real world was a dream too. Mal kills herself to "wake up". Framed for her death, Cobb is on the run. When he fails to extract key information from the mind of businessman Saito, Saito strikes a deal with him: If Cobb can successfully incept an idea in the mind of Fischer, heir to a multibillion dollar empire, Saito will clear Cobb's name.
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Cobb: We need the heir of a major corporation to dissolve his father's empire.
Eames: Well, you see, right there you have various political motivations and anti-monopolistic sentiment and so forth, but all that stuff is at the mercy of your subjects own prejudice. What you have to do is start at the absolute basic.
Cobb: Which is what?
Eames: The relationship with the father.
Trivia: Joseph Gordon-Levitt performed all his own stunts during the fight scene in the spinning hallway.
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Chosen answer: The details are never explained in the depth, but all the dreamers are connected via the briefcase, so it seems likely that the briefcase acts in some way as a networking hub for them to share the dreamspace.
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