To Precarious: explain the plot of inception
Precarious: Dom Cobb is a fugitive because his wife, who believed reality was still a dream layer, framed him for murder to force him to join her.  (reply)
Precarious: as a result, he cannot return to the US, where his children are  (reply)
Precarious: he is offered an opportunity by the powerful energy exec Saito to have the legal consequences brushed aside if he can perform Inception on Cillian Murphy's character  (reply)
Precarious: because inception externally imposes an idea, it is necessary to bury it deep within the subconscious so the target does not realize it was externally imposed  (reply)
Precarious: Cobb gathered a team capable of circumventing the dream defenses and plunging several layers deep  (reply)
Precarious: however, his own unaddressed trauma introduced the memory of his wife as a dangerous saboteur into all dream layers in which he is present  (reply)
Precarious: His wife killed Saito, and because the sleep was artificially super deep, he fell into limbo rather than waking up  (reply)
Precarious: therefore, Cobb was compelled to go to limbo himself, to recover Saito from the same confusion that overcame his wife  (reply)
Precarious: at the end, he sees his children and does not bother to check if his totem continues spinning. It seems to wobble just a bit before the credits  (reply)
Precarious: the implication being that he may or may not still actually be in a dream, but he has moved on emotionally and whether he is or is not is irrelevant  (reply)
Precarious: there you go  (reply)