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runner928
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Can someone try to explain it to me.

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Koru7
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sorry, it confused me too at first. and i don't like leonardo decaprio in that movie. It's basically this guy that can go into people's dreams and control them. kinda like a lucid dream if you know what that is.

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The movie is about a guy who asked another guy to plant a idea in another guys brain.
To do this, the guy must put the guy into a sleep, plug himself in, and wonder around in his dreams, he also must go into multiple layers of these dreams, and to get out, they must have a "kick."

Storyline is pretty much: The movie is about a guy who asked another guy to plant a idea in another guys brain.

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Spoilerific:

Cobb, the main protagonist, is a wanted criminal in several countries, due to being the suspected murder of his wife, after she deliberately made sure he would be the only logical suspect. It was actually suicide.

Cobb agrees to help Saito, a rich businessman, with incepting Fischer, another rich businessman with severe daddy issues. I Cobb succeeds, Saito's connections will allow Cobb to once again enter the United States and see his children, clearing him of all charges.
However, inception is a difficult matter that no one officially has succeeded at. However, Cobb states he has done it. This inception was what lead to his wife's suicide, it is why he is feeling guilty, and why she is haunting his dreams (which will soon be everyone else's nightmare).

Now, to properly incept Fischer, Cobb and his crew needs to work with several layers of dreaming. It would have given them several months or even years in the deeper layers of the dream, however a miscalculation from Arthur, the point man and researcher of the team, leads to this time being severely brought down, as well as Saito being shot. Cobb states that everyone who dies in this heavily sedated dream, would not wake up, but enter Limbo, a state of deep dreaming with in dream time would last for centuries, and would scramble your mind up to the point where you are no longer you, when you wake up.

The first layer of the dream is used on imprinting a number in Fischer mind, as well as starting a feeling of insecurity towards his godfather.
The second layer is used for furthering this feeling of insecurity, give Fischer a more secure feeling towards his father, and making the inception team look like friends to him.
The third and final layer is used for actually resolving the issues.

However, when both Saito and Fischer dies, Coob and Ariadne, the architect, needs to enter Limbo to save them.
Here Cobb resolves his own issues with guilt over his wife's suicide and the implication this gave, as well as letting her go.
He then lets Ariadne and Fischer go back, while he looks for Saito, a scene that is shown in the beginning of the film.

At the end of the film, Cobb is allowed into the US to once again live with his children.
He spins his totem, and walks out to see his children, leaving the viewer to watch the top spin, before the movie cuts to black, leaving the viewer wondering whether this was still a dream, or reality.

Or, well, tl;dr: A guy is hired to plant an idea in another guy's mind, while also trying to better his own guilt and obstructive mental projection of his dead wife.

I am not sure what else to explain, though.
There are five layers in the movie, reality, first dream, second dream, third dream and Limbo. The way the movie is cut reminds one of a dream, or perhaps dreaming is like a movie.
There are several theories that there is an extra layer in there, as we never find out whether Cobb waking from Yusuf's (chemist) drug induced dreaming actually happened or not, which means Cobb seeing his children might actually be a dream as well.

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