Ok, after thinking on it for a day and reading around, I have some questions that I think would make for interesting discussion, along with this which has one of the actors answering some questions (obviously spoilers):
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/inceptions_dileep_rao_answers.html
1) If the final dream sequence (to extract info from Fischer) is the dream of Yusaf (Van), then Arthurs (Hotel),
then Fischer's (Snow fortress), why are they all populated by Fischer's subconscious (his agents and such)?
2) How do some people know they are in a dream immediately, and others don't? Why does Ariadne not
know the scene outside the European cafe where Cobb is explaining things to her is a
dream, even though it's clear that she just voluntarily entered it? But then everyone involved in the
final operation instantly knows that they are in a dream and what they are there for?
3) What happens to everyone within a dream if the dreamer wakes up? Do they all wake up? If so, why not
just wake up the dreamer and forget about everyone else? If not, how can everyone else be stuck in
someone else's dream that no longer exists?
4) How does Cobb arrive in Limbo (at the end and first scene) the moment he needs to in order to
inform Saito that he's in a dream? And he hasn't aged at all but Saito has aged 30+ years?
5) If Limbo is a "shared consciousness", why can't you interact with other people stuck there,
except in certain circumstances (ie: Cobb confronting Saito, Mal and Cobb growing old together)?
6) How does Cobb know that he's entered Limbo (at the end/first scene) instantly, when Saito
doesn't know for the 30+ years he's stuck there?
7) If Cobb and Mal grew old together, why does it show themselves killing themselves by the train when they are young?
8) If Ariadne is the architect of all of the final sequences of dreams, and knew that they would
be going in to extract valuable information, why would she construct a heavily guarded snowy
fortress rather than something much easier to access?
9) If the van sequence only took a few hours of dream time, why when they woke back up in the plane
were they almost at their destination 10 hours later? Shouldn't it have only taken a few minutes of real time?
