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The ideas presented in the film I found acceptable and compelling...I understood the talk of the subconscious very well...But where I thought the most confusion came from, is how they brought about levels of the subconscious...They switched too fluently from who was dreaming, and what was possible in the dream...And when the added the fact that there were ways to prevent inception, it got iffy...

If we want to explore Subject A's subconscious, we need at least 3 people, right..? The subject, an architect, and a foreign entity to navigate the subconscious...Now, in many instances, the subject was already under or put under first...Then the architect is to get in, design levels of the subconscious, and provide a way for the entity to get inside...Fair enough, but when you go into the other levels, it gets tricky...Entities bring with them their own conscious and subconscious clutter, which seems to contradict the initial idea of subconscious behavior...On top of that, within subconscious levels, you can dive deeper by going under yet again...A dream, within a dream, within a dream...

Sounds simple enough, but when you take the time to explain so much of what's going on, you instantly create your own connections...You ask your own questions, and immediately, I started to find faults or questions that left me feeling incomplete, rather than, "Oh wow, I wonder if he died," type question that gives you an exciting sort of feeling...I was stuck more or less with the, "WTF" feeling, especially at the end...And once that sets in, there is no "Oh I get it!" moment that will make me feel good about the film...

Take for instance the idea of the Totem...It was presented very, very clearly, and then demonstrated...And then it got inconsistent...For instance, the question, "Does the totem only work when you're dreaming in YOUR dream, or dreaming period..?" The ending, which I think was meant to invoke the reaction of "Is he dreaming?" Should not have, and you can tell that's the intent by the way the movie ended...If he was dreaming, then the totem would have fell over immediately...No architect knows of the totem enough to replicate it, and nobody touched Leo's totem...