Inception: What Happened To The First Architect
Dom Cobb’s team in Inception is formed by talented people who Cobb also trusts, except for Nash, the team’s first architect – but what happened to him after he betrayed Cobb? Christopher Nolan has become known for the complex themes he tends to address in his movies, such as identity, time, and memory, and in 2010, he took all these one step further by mixing them with the complexity of dreams in Inception.
Inception follows Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), a professional thief whose specialty is stealing information by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets through their dreams, extracting and implanting ideas in the process and as needed. When Cobb is offered to have his criminal history erased so he can go back to his family after years of being on the run due to his “crimes”, he takes on a complex mission that requires the help of his team, formed by architects, chemists, and more. Cobb and company build dream scenarios with different layers so they can extract the information they need from business heir Robert Michael Fischer (Cillian Murphy), but their mission gets more and more complicated in each layer.
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The man responsible for such a complex and even dangerous mission (as they could end up trapped in limbo) is Mr. Saito (Ken Watanabe), a businessman who hires Cobb and his team to implant an idea into Fischer’s subconscious as his father was Saito’s biggest competitor. Inception wastes no time in showing how Cobb works, and it opens with them infiltrating Saito’s subconscious, but he quickly notices a mistake that gave it all away. This flaw in the design of the dream was blamed on Nash (Lukas Haas), the team’s first architect, who after that failed
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