Inception
Movie • 2010 • Sci-Fi
ReportCobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
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LafayetteinaHat
Clicking yes simply because of characters being kept in realistic dream states, occasionally without knowing, and everyone with dp/dr knows the “waking dream.”
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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It's a major part of the plot. The main character was forced to abandon his kids and is trying to complete this mission so he can see them again
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
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GingerThree
In several scenes characters are followed or watched by either individual people or large groups. Additionally, one character continues to show up, follow and act obsessive and threatening towards another even when he doesn’t want her there
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Anonymous
The suicide of the main character's wife is caused by a plot-point/sci-fi related type of Gaslighting.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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LafayetteinaHat
Are we forgetting the wife’s suicide for shock value and character development?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone gaslighted?
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yaya1711
Running theme of planting ideas in people's minds
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THnCMFan
No, however there are mild themes of parental abandonment
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Addiction
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THnCMFan
Mixed bag on this, there is abuse of the compound utilized in the technology that the movie is based upon. They also sedate the marks of jobs before utilizing the technology through inexplicit means. Sedatives are a key component in the film.
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Is there addiction?
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Pantalones
There is a scene that shows people who have become so addicted to their dream worlds that they don't want to wake up.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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They put sedative in his drink so they can perform inception
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Is someone held under water?
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Vio
A man is pushed into a tub of water to wake him up but he isn’t held under
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Is someone restrained?
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wallflowers
During an interrogation scene someone is handcuffed
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Bodily Harm
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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GingerThree
It’s never focused on, but characters are underwater in some scenes and have to use an oxygen mask to breathe
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Is someone crushed to death?
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two characters get their heads crushed under a train, but it’s not shown and it’s not real
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Is someone choked?
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A projection is choked to death by Arthur
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Does a head get squashed?
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finnybug
Same circumstances as the ‘Is someone crushed to death’ category. It happens, but you don’t see it
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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A projection is choked to death
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Is someone tortured?
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eminemily
One character is hurt briefly to convince his friend to give up information. Additionally, another character is heard pretending to be tortured but is completely fine
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Jadespade
An enemy is tossed off a staircase.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Anonymous
In a flashback scene, Cobb's wife Mal jumps to her death from a high window. We see her jump and a few seconds of her falling, but her actual death is not shown on screen.
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Children
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Death
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at the end someone stays behind in a collapsing dream to rescue someone else, it's ambiguous whether he escaped
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Does someone die?
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A lot of people die on screen. Some from far away and a couple up close.
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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Anonymous
A character mentions that his father has died, and later visits his deathbed in a dream.
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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Anonymous
A character is stabbed suddenly in the films climax and earlier in the film a woman suddenly looks toward a character who is eavesdropping on her. Both of these are accompanied by sudden loud music but they are more startling than a frightening jump scare.
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Are there ghosts?
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THnCMFan
No, however there is what is described as a Shade in the film, a twisted version of a known person projected by the subconscious. It is more psychological than supernatural in nature
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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finnybug
There are multiple scenes on a beach
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Gross
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Does someone vomit?
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somebodyoncetoldme
No, but someone during the snow scene repeatedly coughs. We see blood droplets hit the ground once, and another time the character pulls their cap down to cough into it.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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jdpamv
Not in the traditional sense but a man portrays a woman in one of the dream worlds and flirts with someone for an ulterior motive. There’s a “shocking gender reveal” after this when one of their reflections shows this character as a man instead.
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Loss
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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martina509schs
Characters use IVs throughout the movie, but the process of injecting themselves is never actually shown onscreen; it's always kept a bit out of frame.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Anonymous
Though atypical, the final level of the dream does take place in a military protected hospital," and the one of the final scenes is a death bed scene at a hospital bed.
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Does someone have cancer?
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THnCMFan
No, or at least not explicitly, however, a character's parent is dying of ambiguous causes in the film.
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Jadespade
The main character struggles with this throughout the film, it is a plot conflict.
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Anonymous
The main character's wife has a fixation with suicide/self-harm before she succeeds in killing herself. She plays with knives a lot.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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TLDR: a woman is convinced the world isn't real so she tries to get her husband to join her in a double suicide. There's also a dream version of her that attacks other characters
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Pantalones
That's the point of the whole film. For the characters and the audience, lines blur between what is a dream and what is reality.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Anonymous
Several times, multiple characters (if I remember correctly). Suicide is a main component of this film.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Anonymous
During the planning stage of the heist a character wakes up from a dream and rushes to a bathroom panicked and disorientated but no major anxiety or panic attacks
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Anonymous
Very briefly. While being chased in Mombasa, Cobb squeezes through an alleyway and almost gets stuck. The shot is angled so that it looks as if the walls are closing in on him.
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Crow75
Though the character, who other comments mention commiting suicide, did not plan to die. She believed she was in a dream, and in this story if you die in a dream, you wake up. She tried to wake up. (On the same note, many characters kill each other or themselves in dream scenarios to wake up, but those deaths are not actual deaths.)
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Are there underwater scenes?
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pedanther
There is an underwater sequence where some of the characters have to escape from a submerged vehicle. They all escape unharmed.
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Is there shakey cam?
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THnCMFan
No, however, there are various camera angles and stylings that may cause discomfort or nausea in some people, especially during a zero-gravity scene
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Cursing but little else
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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wallflowers
No, but a male character does disguise himself as a woman in order to flirt with and get information out of men, which is framed somewhat comically
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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A character dies of an illness but it's ambiguous what illness it was
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Is someone terminally ill?
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finnybug
One minor character is shown to be on his deathbed
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Social
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Is existentialism debated?
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LafayetteinaHat
It’s like, half the movie, debating if this is a dream or not.
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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minecrafttorturer
your kid will die of confusion anyway
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Ieatrocks
I don’t understand why this needs a trigger warning, can someone please explain.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Loulou
ambigious ending
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Vehicular
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Yes. A lot in the first dream level
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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A lot of regular explosions but no nuclear
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Is there blood/gore?
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Jadespade
We see blood sometimes. The worst of it is when one of the characters is shot in the chest and we see them gradually bleeding out throughout the movie.
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Does someone drown?
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Anonymous
However, the threat of drowning is present in quite a few scenes.
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