Inception - Quick query

mercAMG

I was watching Inception last night (for the second time) and noted something I hadn't first time round, as you do! When Cobb goes into the hotel room to see his wife, Mal, he sees the curtains blowing in the wind and goes over to the window. Here he sees her sitting on a window ledge but it's across the way from his hotel room, almost looking like a separate building. How is this possible?

Wossack

she rented opposite rooms in seperate hotels deliberately facing eachother, so he wouldnt be able to stop her (?)

sockpuppets

Some have called into question the strange way in which Mal commits suicide, but it’s hardly proof that Dom is dreaming the entire time. Yes, instead of a tear-filled scene in a hotel room, there’s a tear-filled scene on the ledge of a hotel room where Mal has seemingly rented a second room from which to jump. While it’s odd, it’s also explained in the film.

Mal tells Dom her plan to incriminate him in her death if he won’t jump with her. She rents a second hotel room across the way in order to be a safe distance from the man who might physically stop her from jumping and leaves him with the ultimatum of joining her or facing criminal charges of the most severe kind. She’s staged an elaborate set for him to be caught in (or for investigators to find later), and she’s made sure that he can’t stop her from going through with what she feels she has to do.



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mercAMG

sockpuppets wrote: »

She’s staged an elaborate set for him to be caught in (or for investigators to find later), and she’s made sure that he can’t stop her from going through with what she feels she has to do.



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How is her jumping from another room staging her death. The room Cobb was in was ransacked but surely investigators would know she jumped from the other room??

Wossack

mercAMG wrote: »

How is her jumping from another room staging her death. The room Cobb was in was ransacked but surely investigators would know she jumped from the other room??

dunno about that! comparing the 2 scenarios, I reckon would be alot easier to prove a conviction then an acquittal

Rabidlamb

I took it to be a large suite that was c-shaped, not a separate room.

Spunge

mercAMG wrote: »

How is her jumping from another room staging her death. The room Cobb was in was ransacked but surely investigators would know she jumped from the other room??

Its a room within a room

Inception

Penn

mercAMG wrote: »

How is her jumping from another room staging her death. The room Cobb was in was ransacked but surely investigators would know she jumped from the other room??

I doubt she was thinking that far ahead, considering she thought they were in a dream. Likely Cobb's own guilt made him more of a suspect.

That being said, I always thought it was a C-Shaped room too.

Mickeroo

I thought it was a C shaped room or building and she just shimmied around the ledge.

Theboinkmaster

Mickeroo wrote: »

I thought it was a C shaped room or building and she just shimmied around the ledge.

yeah me too, sure who cares anyway?

jaykhunter

mercAMG wrote: »

How is her jumping from another room staging her death. The room Cobb was in was ransacked but surely investigators would know she jumped from the other room??

Very good! When I read the OP this is the first thing I thought of. Surely there'd be a money trail of the room rental.

Also, I'm suspicious of a woman who deeply believes that she's in the Matrix but was able to get certified by three different psychatrickerists that she's sane - one of them wasn't able to find something a bit odd?

Wouldn't the investigators be a little suspicious that a woman who died, just beforehand she got three different "I'm totally sane" bills of health.

One more thing : Yes, architects can design rooms etc to a minute detail....but how is that projected into someone's dream? What is the room/world made in? Adobe CS4? Photoshop? What resolution is it! lol....

That said, with everything in this film, a lot of suspension of disbelief is required and should be employed. Still a fantastic film I love discussing

indough

every film requires a lot of suspension of disbelief. all that matters is that the story obeys its own internal logic

senordingdong

Mickeroo wrote: »

I thought it was a C shaped room or building and she just shimmied around the ledge.

Yeah, what's what I thought.

Sad Professor

It's not a c-shaped room. You guys are thinking about this too much. She's on the opposite ledge because Nolan wanted it that way. He probably thought it was better to shoot them both looking at each other face-to-face across a chasm. But in terms of the story, if she was on the opposite ledge he wouldn't be able to stop her, so she got a room in the other building. The detectives or whoever didn't notice this because it's a movie.

senordingdong

Sad Professor wrote: »

It's not a c-shaped room. You guys are thinking about this too much. She's on the opposite ledge because Nolan wanted it that way. He probably thought it was better to shoot them both looking at each other face-to-face across a chasm. But in terms of the story, if she was on the opposite ledge he wouldn't be able to stop her, so she got a room in the other building. The detectives or whoever didn't notice this because it's a movie.

Yeah I guess in a film about dream infiltration, I guess we can let the poor police work slide.

stevenmu

jaykhunter wrote: »

One more thing : Yes, architects can design rooms etc to a minute detail....but how is that projected into someone's dream? What is the room/world made in? Adobe CS4? Photoshop? What resolution is it! lol....

You do understand the difference between dreams and computers, right?

They explain in the film that the dreamer adds in the fine detail to make it a believable world themselves automatically.

jaykhunter

kayfabe me on this, lol. How can the architect create a world in general? like i'm fine with the mark adding their own fine detail to make it believable, but how would u project a structured world in there to begin with? Would the architect just draw out a plan and memorize it over and over and then everyone else comes in?