Recent content by mappo

There is no need for a totem to do this. If you think you're in your own dream, just try to fly away. Try the rectal unicorn extraction. Magic totems are completely unnecessary.

How so?

I think you're still not seeing it.

But isn't your explanation essentially "sure it doesn't make sense, it's just prettier that way."? If you're not supposed to think about this movie, not supposed to reason it out based on it's own rules and figure out what's going on, but just sit back and look at all the pretty pictures, then...

I don't see anything in that post that explains the inherent flaw with Cobb's totem. Let me spell it out explicitly:

I could be, but I hope not because if I am then this movie is crap. You can't make a movie with this much internal logical structure and then completely disregard your own logic when constructing the most important object in the movie. Why should viewers bother trying to follow and decipher...

Soulreaver! Thank god somebody else in the world noticed this!